Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) blasted President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members: White House Deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying he “would fire them.” “He [Trump] just needs to get some of these people out of there and we will […]
Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton has become the second-highest fundraiser on the Democrat-aligned platform ActBlue this week, as controversy over a campaign advertisement featuring her estranged mother draws national attention to the race. Acton is challenging Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the contest to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH). The race made headlines this […]
Calley Means, a senior White House adviser affiliated with the Make America Healthy Again movement, is departing the Trump administration after clashing with the White House over food policy. Means, a key ally to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quit his role in the Trump White House on Thursday. “I am […]
ELON, North Carolina — Democrat Richard Ojeda is hoping that the public’s discontent with the Trump administration can provide enough of a blue wave to unseat Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Ojeda is running in the Tar Heel State‘s 9th Congressional District against Hudson, but election forecasters such […]
Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Rick Jackson, expressed worry about the possibility of rural Republican voters in the Peach State becoming complacent and opting out of showing up to the polls on Election Day. “I am concerned that rural Georgia still thinks we’re red and therefore they look at somebody like myself and my opponent and […]
French President Emmanuel Macron returned from his visit to the Gulf states this week triumphant, having secured a deal that would provide his country with an additional 200,000 metric tons of diesel per month. But the timing of his trip — right in the middle of violent and destructive riots that have thrust France into […]
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, after the broadcaster accused him of repeatedly delaying questioning in the case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett issued the order after BBC attorneys earlier this week asked a […]
The Department of Justice is sending election monitors to Utah ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, state officials said Thursday. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson announced on social media that the Justice Department had notified the state of its plans to deploy monitors, though she did not specify how many would be sent or […]
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If you thought you were hearing a lot about the Trump administration’s efforts to tackle fraud in government programs, then get set: You’re going to be hearing a lot more about it in the next week and a half. We talk to a top Trump strategist about why […]
Vice President JD Vance is holding a rally in North Platte, Nebraska, around 1 p.m. Thursday, just under two weeks out from the midterm elections. WITHOUT DON BACON, CAN REPUBLICANS WIN NEBRASKA’S ‘BLUE DOT’? Vance’s rally in a state that voted for President Donald Trump by over 20 percentage points in 2024 comes as Republicans […]
