Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) jumped into a crowded congressional primary late Sunday, endorsing firefighter union boss Bob Brooks in a race Democrats are targeting as a key midterm elections pickup. Shapiro, who is rumored to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run, has been getting increasingly involved in his state’s congressional races, attempting to shape their outcome. There […]
The FBI untangled the mysterious Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bombs case by relying on a “new computer program,” which deciphered cellphone data that the agency had held for years. Earlier this month, the government charged Brian Cole Jr. with planting the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees on the eve of Jan. […]
The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will take up a death row inmate’s challenge over allegations that the dismissal of four black jurors during his trial was unlawful, adding to the justices’ caseload for the current term. The high court said it will hear arguments in Pitchford v. Cain later this term, limited to […]
Family and friends of the two students who were killed in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday have released the names of their lost loved ones. Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Birmingham, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman who graduated in May from Midlothian High School in Virginia, were identified as […]
The news of the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, resulted in messages of condolences from celebrities and politicians on social media. A subsequent investigation into the Reiners’ deaths is ongoing. Los Angeles police officers arrived at the Reiner home in the Brentwood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon to find the […]
The Trump slump appears to be easing, raising hopes in the White House that the president and Republicans could be poised for springtime political pop. Indications since Thanksgiving that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming off their polling lows were confirmed in a new Cygnal survey shared with Washington Secrets on Monday. “Right […]
Federal authorities disrupted what the Justice Department described as a “massive and horrific” terrorist plot targeting Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve, arresting multiple alleged members of a left-wing extremist group accused of planning coordinated bombings across Southern California. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday that the DOJ, working with the FBI, prevented a […]
Chinese authorities on Monday convicted a leading pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong on charges of publishing “seditious” material and colluding with foreign entities. Jimmy Lai’s conviction marks Beijing’s intensifying crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997. The Chinese territory had maintained a semblance of Western-style liberties and was noted […]
Film director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their California home this weekend, sparking many questions. Nick Reiner, the couple’s 32-year-old son, was arrested on Sunday and is being held on a felony charge with a $4 million bail, according to LAPD jail records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. […]
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that film director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, died because of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The couple were found dead on Sunday in what police are calling an “apparent homicide.” “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday […]
