Welcome to Washington Secrets, which this week comes to you from Kansas. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. SALINA, Kansas — Kansas holds the record for the longest continuous streak of single-party control of both Senate seats in a state. Republicans have held them since 1939. Could […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed a Vanity Fair article in which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he’s a “disruptor at heart.” “I’ve been at this awhile. To the extent I’m established, in that context — but I’m notoriously a disruptor at heart. I’ve never been for the status quo. Quite the contrary. I have […]
The family of Renee Good filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday against the Trump administration and the immigration officer who fatally shot her during a January enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The complaints accused federal officials of wrongful death and civil rights violations stemming from the Jan. 7 encounter, which was captured on cellphone video. The […]
A Flydubai flight carrying 174 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after the copilot stabbed the captain and attempted to take control of the aircraft. The wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and other crew members to restrain the […]
Singapore is launching a government-run online matchmaking program to address its declining birth rate. The service, called FirstDate, is launching as a pilot program, accepting applications from single public employees aged 21 to 35 years old. The matchmaking system uses the Gale-Shapley algorithm, a Nobel Prize-winning method in economic sciences that matches people based on […]
The Trump administration has spent millions over the past 12 months on food costs for National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C. Thousands of military members have been deployed to D.C. since August 2025 as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative targeting crime and public disorder. Roughly 3,000 troops were quartered in the city as […]
The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will take up a challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of mandatory detention for illegal immigrants, setting up one of the biggest tests yet for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda at the high court. The justices approved the petition to hear oral arguments in Rhoney v. Barbosa da […]
Democrats are spending $7 million on television ads focused on tying Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) to data centers, the latest effort by the party to hurt Republicans by linking them to the controversial issue. After data centers emerged as an increasingly unpopular issue at the beginning of the year, Democrats were first to pin the […]
Washington Secrets is on a road trip through Kansas, investigating the issues that will decide whether Democrats can claim their first Senate seat there in almost a century. We start close to the border with Oklahoma, in the far southeast, with ranchers who are increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump. COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS – Chuck Madron […]
Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than 200 years on Wednesday, but she survived the execution attempt, which was delayed by nine hours, even after officials administered two doses of pentobarbital. Pike was alive as of Thursday morning and was transported to an off-site medical facility, according […]
