The National Trust for Historic Preservation refused to drop its lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, even after calls to end the legal dispute following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner over the weekend. Trump on Sunday said the dinner shooting would have “never” happened if it were held […]
The Supreme Court allowed Texas’s redrawn Republican-friendly congressional map to stand on Monday, formally reversing a lower court’s ruling striking down the map as an unlawful racial gerrymander. The high court allowed the Texas congressional map, passed by the state legislature last summer, to be used for the November elections in an emergency docket ruling […]
Canada is opening the country’s first sovereign wealth fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday. The “Canada Strong Fund” will invest in Canada’s various nation-building projects, including in trade, energy and critical minerals, transportation, and data industries, according to Carney. The fund will begin with an initial 25 billion Canadian dollar federal contribution over […]
A highly anticipated lawsuit filed by billionaire Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to go to trial this week, starting with jury selection on Monday, as the artificial intelligence firm’s future hangs in the balance. Regardless of who wins the four-week trial, the outcome could very well upend the technology industry’s AI […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press conference Monday at 1:30 p.m. and is likely to give an update on the Saturday night shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. SUSIE WILES TO HOLD MEETING ABOUT SECRET SERVICE PROTOCOLS AT TRUMP EVENTS Leavitt is expected to face questions about the security […]
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered a grim assessment of American diplomacy’s effectiveness with Tehran, asserting that “an entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” Merz made the comments to students while visiting Carolus-Magnus-Gymnasium, a school in Marsberg in the German leader’s home region of Sauerland. “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, […]
First lady Melania Trump called on ABC to remove late-night host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, after a controversial monologue delivered on the network before a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner occured Saturday. “Enough is enough,” Trump said in a statement posted to X. “It is time for ABC to take a […]
Attorneys defending the Virginia voter-approved redistricting ballot amendment faced sustained — and, at times, skeptical — questioning Monday from the Supreme Court of Virginia, as justices weighed whether to invalidate the measure over alleged procedural violations. The case centers on a Republican-led challenge arguing that the Democrat-controlled General Assembly failed to follow the strict constitutional […]
Welcome to Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent the weekend at the parties, receptions and after-parties that come with the White House correspondents’ dinner, in between an interlude under a table. Today we bring you details of how it all went down, including one official who won praise for his calmness in a crisis, […]
The National Republican Congressional Committee on Monday announced eight additional candidates to its target list as Republicans seek to defend their House majority ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The candidate program, recently rebranded from the Young Guns initiative to the MAGA Majority, aims at boosting contenders in battleground districts who align themselves with President […]
