The Department of Justice has charged eight Tren de Aragua members for kidnapping and murdering American citizens, including children, in Texas and Illinois. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, joined by FBI Director Kash Patel and two U.S. attorneys from the respective states, announced the indictments during a press conference on Wednesday. Five of the eight […]
Vice President JD Vance took a shot at critics of the White House’s peace negotiations with Iran, saying many of those objecting are the same people who pushed the United States to “just drop a few more bombs in places like Afghanistan” during the global war on terror. Vance made the remarks while addressing U.S. […]
Two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York and unveiled a flag. The flag, consisting of white text against a black background, reads, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.” The building is about 1,454 feet tall and is the fourth-tallest building […]
Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday asked a federal judge in New York to order President Donald Trump to pay nearly $5 million in damages for a defamation case she won in 2023. Until earlier this month, Trump was waiting to release the money to see whether the Supreme Court would take up his […]
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) says he thinks President Donald Trump has dementia, declaring, “I really think that there’s something genuinely wrong with him.” “I think if you look at any of the videos from 2015 or 2016 and look at how he responded to questions and how he was at press conferences, and then you […]
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Virginia on Wednesday over a proposed “assault weapons” ban signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) that was previously meant to take effect the same day. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon filed the lawsuit against the commonwealth and the Virginia State Police, alleging Virginia “besmirched” the Second Amendment […]
President Donald Trump is using the new Air Force One plane, gifted by Qatar, for the first time as he travels to North Dakota ahead of America’s 250th birthday. The inaugural flight means the old Air Force One is retired. Trump wanted the new plane to reflect the nation’s flag more accurately. Air Force One […]
New York City is suspending eviction enforcement for two days as the city prepares for an intense heat wave. A memo from the city’s Department of Investigation instructs all city marshals to suspend scheduled evictions Wednesday and Thursday in anticipation of risks to public health and safety posed by extreme heat. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are trying to finish up early so we can sneak off for a huge World Cup afternoon. But first, we talk to a tech insider who tells us that Anthropic’s doom-mongering about AI is actually a hype machine designed to help it corner the market. Plus, […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) says socialists believe classic children’s figures such as Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head are racist. “Sen. Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Mayor Mamdani, the mayor of New York, Mr. Graham Platner running for senate in Maine, they are socialist,” Kennedy said on the This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von podcast Tuesday. […]
