Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Sometimes Donald Trump just can’t get out of his own way, particularly if there is a chance to get a laugh out of a rally crowd, which is what happened in Texas last night. Plus, we look at the MAGA Right’s read on the Brazilian election, and why […]
A strategist for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) called upon James Fishback to leave politics entirely on Wednesday after the former Florida gubernatorial candidate admitted to lying about federal investigations into Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Mills. Less than two weeks before the Aug. 18 Republican primary, Fishback claimed he had obtained whistleblower information that suggested […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said President Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in deep red districts is to energize “low-propensity voters.” “[Midterm elections] are normally sleepy, but the one thing we do know is that President Trump has a tremendous power to fire up people,” York said Tuesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. On […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon after she declined to directly call Cuba a dictatorship. “The fact that she couldn’t even answer that question and then puts out a statement later that was written for her, again, she’s not winning this election,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & […]
DETROIT — Inside the historic buildings that give Detroit its character, pressure on the city’s businesses is becoming harder to ignore. At Pure Detroit, where Brandon Haugabook works part-time in the landmark Fisher Building, he sees rising costs squeezing businesses and leaving customers with less money to spend. His work teaching drama to children through […]
Political streamer Hasan Piker is suing conservative commentator Scott Jennings for $72.5 million, alleging Jennings used a manipulated video and fabricated quotation to falsely accuse him of advocating the lynching of black Americans. Piker filed the defamation lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking at least $27.5 million in compensatory damages and $45 […]
The November 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in two days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. If the first day falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the payment is sent on the last business day of the previous month […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot both spun the parliamentary results as a victory for their respective sides on election night, despite full results not yet being confirmed. As of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday local time, 84.5% of the vote had been counted, with the Central Elections Committee giving Netanyahu’s bloc 54 […]
Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) is locked in a close contest with Democrat nominee Annie Andrews in South Carolina’s Senate race, according to a new poll that points to vulnerabilities for Graham as the midterm elections approach. Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, was appointed to the Senate in July after her brother’s […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars and killing at least 30 people on Wednesday in central Spain, authorities said. The regional president of Castilla La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, said at least 30 people died in the crash and warned that the […]
