Washington Examiner National Politics Correspondent Mabinty Quarshie joins Deep Dive Host Natasha Sweatte to discuss the Virginia governor candidates Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears for the 2025 election.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine safety panel on Friday morning agreed to postpone a decision to no longer recommend the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

The vote from all but one of the 12 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices comes as a de-escalation in the mounting tensions over vaccine policy under the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime skeptic of the status quo on childhood vaccines.

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As President Donald Trump begins his takeover of Washington by federalizing the local police and activating the National Guard to combat the crime rate, it appears Mayor Muriel Bowser does not want to test her limits with the administration.

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Washington Examiner foreign affairs reporter Timothy Nerozzi discusses the Alaska Summit of President Trump meeting Russian President Putin. The progression of the peace deal between Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

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After months, the massive GOP tax cuts and spending bill is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk to become law. Republicans pushed the bill through the House in a 218-214 vote on Thursday, a day ahead of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Fourth of July deadline.

The megabill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, makes permanent several existing tax provisions and implements new ones.

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The efforts to reopen one of Three Mile Island’s nuclear reactors accelerated by an entire year last week, less than 50 years after the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history happened at the Pennsylvania plant.

The Washington Examiner recently got a look inside unit one of the facility, which was not damaged during the 1979 incident and shut down in 2019, and toured its turbine service building, control room, turbine deck, and cooling towers.

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The Trump administration‘s sweeping proposals for deporting illegal immigrants and limiting U.S. citizenship would affect a significant number of people, if the actions can survive legal challenges.

Similar to much of President Donald Trump’s agenda, his deportation and citizenship efforts have been thwarted by various court challenges. These challenges have complicated who would lose legal status if and when the orders take effect.

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A website purporting to be a local news outlet operating out of a Long Island village has been taken over by anonymous actors pushing puff pieces about China, and Google promoted its work to users before removing it from its news platform, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The Farmingdale Observer’s website claims that it has been providing local news coverage out of its eponymous New York township since 1963. A glance at the outlet’s webpage, however, reveals no local news coverage and a flood of clickbait content. Nestled among the miscellaneous clickbait are several articles advancing narratives similar to those published by outlets run by the Chinese Communist Party.

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