Bob Iger, the former chief executive of Disney, and Joshua Kushner, the younger brother of Jared Kushner, are moving to buy the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team for $12 billion. The NBA franchise was last bought by billionaire businessman Mark Walter for $10 billion last year. He now wishes to relinquish his majority stake in […]
Republicans are questioning socialist candidate Francesca Hong‘s Tuesday night loss in Wisconsin‘s Democratic gubernatorial primary, with one GOP congressman labeling the election stolen. Milwaukee Election Commission executive director Paulina Gutierrez said that a “human error” occurred during the downloading of absentee ballots, which delayed the official results until well into Wednesday morning. Gutierrez said at […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s Washington Secrets. No, we don’t know what last night’s election results mean either. Today, we focus on Hunter Biden and his media blitz. If you are wondering what his strategy is, well, he said it all out loud to Tucker Carlson. Plus, we have polling that suggests Republicans are going to have […]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) for her late brother’s open seat on Wednesday after she secured the top spot in the special Senate primary election. Graham Nordone, the younger sister of Lindsey Graham, will now face Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) one-on-one in the primary runoff election on Aug. 25. She […]
The New York City Council has opened an investigation into four major prediction market platforms, alleging they may be using false, deceptive, or abusive marketing tactics to target young people. City Council Speaker Julie Menin sent letters to Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase, and Gemini notifying the companies of the investigation and requesting information about their marketing […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has reportedly split from her longtime fiance, Riley Roberts, ending their relationship of more than 10 years and their 2022 engagement. Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts broke up roughly two years ago and called off their engagement, according to Puck chief Washington correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell. “Perhaps that’s why she’s freezing her eggs,” […]
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has reached a new low, sitting at 33% approval and 62% disapproval, according to the latest YouGov/Economist poll. The one-third approval standing in early August is the lowest net job approval Trump has seen across his two terms as president, per the pollster. In the wake of the Trump administration’s […]
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in California, urged the state attorney general to settle its antitrust lawsuit with Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery before the case is set to go to trial next year. His plea comes after California Attorney General Rob Bonta suggested he does not want to pursue settlement talks to […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) surpassed her Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman by a 10-point margin in the first poll matching up the gubernatorial candidates since the primary election in June. According to a new poll conducted by Siena University, Hochul led with 49% of likely voters, and Blakeman trailed at 39%. Likely voters also favored Hochul’s […]
A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to pay over $250,000 in legal fees to jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled his Christmas concert in protest of President Donald Trump. Redd canceled the annual Christmas Eve performance he hosted at the cultural center in December after nearly 20 years, after Trump added his name to […]
