A House committee voted along party lines to advance a bill that would repeal Washington, D.C.’s authority to use traffic cameras and prohibit right turns at red lights. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform advanced the “Stop DC CAMERA Act” by a vote of 21 to 19, with all Republicans voting in favor and […]
President Donald Trump bragged that the military might of the United States against Iran had led to members of the Middle Eastern nation’s military abandoning it during a Thursday bilateral in the Oval Office. “There’s a lot of military defections. You have a lot of military defections in Iran,” Trump said while seated next to […]
President Donald Trump claimed he did not tell Japan and other U.S. allies about the joint operation to launch strikes against Iran because he wanted the element of surprise akin to the attack on Pearl Harbor. “We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Trump joked […]
President Donald Trump pledged not to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in the Middle East, despite speculation he may need to order a special mission to secure Iran’s enriched uranium almost three weeks into the war. “No, I’m not putting troops anywhere,” Trump said Thursday at the White House. “If I were, I certainly […]
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands voiced their joint readiness to contribute to an effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The United States’s European allies have given a lukewarm response to the war with Iran, with several condemning it as outside international law, and others openly questioning what the objective […]
A protest outside a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Utah on Wednesday ended with tensions high, after a handful of demonstrators committed vandalism. Hundreds gathered for the protest against ICE’s newly purchased detention center in Salt Lake City. The demonstration during the day was largely peaceful. But as the evening wound down, several […]
House Republican leaders are lining up behind an 18-month extension of FISA Section 702, placing the GOP behind President Donald Trump’s push to renew the surveillance authority before it expires next month, even as many conservatives remain wary of the intelligence community’s history of abuse. The effort was laid out on Thursday by House Permanent […]
An Israeli airstrike on the world’s largest natural gas field in South Pars, Iran, has raised fears of escalatory attacks on energy infrastructure across the Middle East. The Wednesday strike on South Pars marked the first U.S.-Israeli attack on Iranian energy production infrastructure of the war, and triggered a series of retaliatory strikes on Gulf […]
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are looking ahead to a big summer wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. Also, we were at the Trump-Kennedy Center last night for a reception and dance performance ahead of the Japanese prime minister’s visit today (and a reminder that even the best-laid plans can get […]
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Senate Democrats “don’t really have a cohesive argument” against the SAVE America Act. Senate Democrats are speaking against the voter identification legislation that President Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing. Prominent senators, such as Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), have previously opposed the […]
