Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) asked Smithsonian National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig to explain a past LGBT exhibit with a “crotch harness” in a tense Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill. Miller chimed in with other GOP lawmakers criticizing the Smithsonian museums’ administration by displaying images of sexually explicit exhibits, including “Illegal to be […]
Zendaya, one of the stars of The Odyssey, is facing backlash for a recent fashion choice. The 29-year-old, who plays the Greek goddess Athena in Christopher Nolan’s IMAX epic, was pictured wearing 3,000-year-old Iranian gold artifacts while at a London photocall promoting the blockbuster. The gold medallions were obtained from Barron London, a jewelry dealer […]
The Trump administration is seeking to use New Jersey’s disclosure that a software error improperly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote as fresh support for its lawsuit demanding access to the state’s unredacted voter rolls. In reaction to the groundbreaking development in the Garden State on Tuesday, the Justice Department‘s Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon […]
President Donald Trump is set to give remarks in Marietta, Georgia, at around 3 p.m. Wednesday. Trump is headed to Marietta to promote Trump Accounts, his championed investment accounts for American youths, at a local high school. WHITE HOUSE TAKES VICTORY LAP OVER DISCOVERY OF 6,600 NONCITIZENS ON NEW JERSEY VOTER ROLLS Trump is also […]
EXCLUSIVE — Advancing American Freedom Foundation, a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is lobbying Republicans to include a ban on Planned Parenthood funding and election security measures in their third party-line spending bill. The foundation originally outlined 21 policies it would like to see in a third reconciliation bill earlier […]
Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Troy Jackson has raised $1 million in the two weeks since launching his campaign, underscoring the rapid consolidation of support behind his bid to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Jackson brought in $613,000 since Sunday after securing the backing of 601 state delegates ahead of this weekend’s Democratic convention, which will […]
Former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) is making her return to the Virginia public policy scene following her 2025 gubernatorial election loss with a statewide tour campaigning against constitutional amendments related to abortion and gay marriage. Earle-Sears, who fell to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) by over a 15-point margin in the gubernatorial election, has been […]
A federal appeals court declined to strike down Massachusetts’s “assault weapons” ban, months before the Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the hotly contested Second Amendment issue. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit denied an effort by a trio of gun stores to revive a lawsuit […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we have been eating pastries with the future of election forecasting as Kalshi launches its midterm elections hub. Plus, we remind you that Secrets subscribers were the first to read about Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine and Russia. The prediction market Kalshi took another step today from […]
President Donald Trump was adamant that the public supports his war against Iran as he traveled Wednesday to receive the remains of U.S. service members who died last week in the Middle East. Trump made the comments to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before flying to Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base, where the […]
