Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) on Friday launched a website for Pennsylvania residents to provide his office with feedback about data centers. The governor said the website would provide a mechanism to help him “stop bad-faith developers who try to bully their way into our communities with no regulation or oversight,” by giving residents a place […]
A Texas appeals court has reduced a $50 million judgment against Alex Jones for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a staged hoax to $1.5 million. The ruling stems from a 2022 trial in which Jones, a Texas-based right-wing political commentator and conspiracy theorist, was found liable by default for defamation […]
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed another emergency motion regarding the Trump administration’s proposed signage on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts overnight, arguing their new plan crosses a boundary as well. In a series of back-to-back overnight filings, representatives for the Kennedy Center told the court that they would not be renaming […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford endorsed Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) ahead of President Donald Trump‘s Friday campaign stop for Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), Norman’s opponent in the special primary election runoff to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. “Are there things on which I disagree with Ralph, absolutely,” Sanford wrote in a statement […]
The Spanish territory of Ceuta in northern Africa is in chaos as thousands of illegal immigrants linger on its shores and the government is reneging on its promise not to transfer migrants to the continent. Thousands of migrants are defying Spanish orders to return to Morocco and are setting up makeshift shelters across Ceuta. The […]
ARLINGTON, Virginia — The Virginia Court of Appeals has overturned an Arlington County judge’s decision to dismiss the loitering charges against registered child sex offender Richard Cox, sending the case back to Arlington County Circuit Court. An Arlington County judge had dismissed the case earlier this year, but an appeal from state prosecutors revived the […]
Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who lost Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in Florida, pledged to donate money remaining from his campaign to help elect Sunshine State Democrats. Vindman, a former director of European affairs for the National Security Council, lost in an upset to socialist state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won the primary by […]
Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon is distancing herself from the Democratic Socialists of America platform ahead of her general election matchup against Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL). Nixon, who defeated centrist Democrat Alex Vindman in a major upset victory this week, is ditching the socialist label that she ran on in the Democratic primary, saying she […]
Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets. If anyone has a spare ticket for this weekend’s grand prix, then you know where we are! Today, we bring you the winners and losers from days of speculation about who will be the next White House press secretary. But first, we run the rule over the White House week […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed former Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell for his ties to suspected Chinese intelligence operative Christine Fang, also known as “Fang Fang,” and said the latest FBI raid of Swalwell’s devices came as no surprise. “This is the least surprising development that we’re seeing as far as these charges since […]
