White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is playing defense to explain her legal background with multiple appearances on Fox News, during which hosts grilled her on her resume and first press briefing. Zacharia has come under fire in recent days over her legal credentials, as she refers to herself as a lawyer despite not having […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We bring you our usual rundown of the president’s week, with help from our two political strategists. A press secretary facing scrutiny for her qualifications. The knives are out for Donald Trump’s chief of staff. And a key ambassador is fired after a string of damaging headlines connected […]
The New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America is signaling plans to “stop” overseas arms shipments from John F. Kennedy International Airport. A new DSA “Break the Chain” campaign is having its first mass meeting on Saturday to discuss achieving “a people’s arms embargo” against Israel, according to the campaign’s website. The DSA […]
Projections for 11 more House seats have shifted in favor of the Democratic Party, as talks of a blue wave in the 2026 midterm elections have reached a crescendo. The Cook Political Report shifted 11 races nationwide, including three traditionally GOP seats that went from solid Republican to likely Republican. Five more GOP seats went […]
Russia fired airstrikes in about a third of Ukraine’s regions on Friday, as the two countries continue to exchange attacks on energy infrastructure following a week of tensions over the slowdown of Ukraine’s Starshield systems and President Donald Trump‘s declared energy ceasefire. Following Trump’s announcement of an energy infrastructure ceasefire on Sunday, both Ukrainian President […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) may be seeking reelection as the governor of Pennsylvania next month, but he may be setting his eyes on higher ambitions by starting a federal political action committee. Shapiro’s establishment of the New Path PAC is the loudest indication yet that he is considering a run for the 2028 Democratic presidential […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticized Kamala Harris’s expanded campaign tour, saying Democrats don’t want a “human Chernobyl.” “Will it help or hurt? I’m going to go with juror number two on that,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First Friday. Harris added several stops on her midterm campaign tour, including New Hampshire, […]
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and former Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, exchanged jabs in the final televised debate between the top two Senate candidates in the 2026 cycle, with two weeks until the general election. The debate touched on topics from Iran and affordability to President Donald Trump and attacks on character. While neither landed […]
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) has made scattered public appearances since her hairbreadth loss in the August Senate Democratic primary. In each one, Stevens has endorsed former rival Abdul el Sayed in his Nov. 3 race against Republican Mike Rogers for the Michigan seat held by retiring 12-year Sen. Gary Peters (D). Some of Stevens’s comments […]
Intensifying efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to end 67 years of communist rule in Cuba are drawing fierce criticism from many congressional Democrats. But not all. Since Fidel Castro seized power in the 1959 Cuban revolution, the country has been a preeminent cause célèbre for the global Left. In this view, the island nation […]
