The Islamic Republic of Iran is casting itself as an unwilling martyr against the “chaos of power” playing out in the Middle East, warning President Donald Trump that it will “never bend the knee.” President Masoud Pezeshkian opened his address at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday with a series of photos […]
A local Atlanta news station canceled a Georgia gubernatorial debate scheduled for Tuesday after Republican nominee Rick Jackson’s campaign skipped the debate in favor of an October match-up. Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominee for governor, hit Jackson hard over his refusal to agree to more debates throughout the campaign, dubbing him […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. Today, we bring out the rarely used “good news for Republicans” midterm klaxon. Plus, we ask which luxury-loving politician was spotted slumming it in economy on the way back from the United Nations. And […]
Activists in Missouri asked the Supreme Court to end the messy legal saga over which congressional map the Show-Me State will use in November, with the high court being asked to weigh in on the redistricting fight for the third time this month. The current confusion began late last month when the Missouri Supreme Court […]
President Donald Trump found a new way to bash CNN after he banned the outlet from the White House, reposting a video parodying a day in the life of a generic CNN reporter. “My life as someone who tells lies all day long,” the video starts. The video is captioned, “Day in the Life of […]
A federal watchdog agency warned Tuesday that immigration judges increasingly face doxing attacks under President Donald Trump. Bad actors are spreading “sensitive” material about judges in ways that could intimidate them as officials struggle to address the growing problem, according to a Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report. The investigation adds the […]
Election forecaster Cook Political Report moved the Georgia, Kansas, and South Carolina Senate races in favor of Democrats on Wednesday, pointing to what it called a “very blue environment forming” nationally. “We have entered the most consequential part of the cycle, and it’s now incumbent on Republicans to prove they can withstand the political winds, […]
Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa used his time at the United Nations General Assembly to criticize Israel over its airstrikes against his country. Most of Sharaa’s speech focused on the progress Syria had made since his forces took Damascus, ending the rule of the Assad regime after over half a century in power. He concluded […]
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was reportedly blocked from entering her homeland three separate times over 24 hours, according to her team. Machado has been in exile in Panama since being smuggled out of the country in December 2025 to accept her Nobel Peace Prize. Despite the rapid liberalization of the country under interim […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not yet handed over information about several controversial fatal shootings in Minnesota involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement in January. Paul, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the DHS has not shared the findings from its […]
