A suspected top leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was extradited from Colombia to the United States on Thursday, marking the first known transfer of a TdA member from Colombia to face terrorism-related charges in federal court. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, a 24-year-old Venezuelan national known as “Chuqui,” was set to appear Friday […]
Vice President JD Vance underscored the Trump administration’s record of supporting law enforcement on Friday during an address at the Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service. “We can’t ever forget that a single officer lost in the line of duty is too much, but just as we mourn the officers we lost, we celebrate the […]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Thursday announced that Medicaid fraud plunged by sweeping margins in the state following a three-year crackdown on crime. In May 2023, Mayes and Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) began aggressively targeting fraud in the American Indian Health Plan, which is funded and administered by Arizona’s Medicaid program, AHCCCS. Mayes said […]
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he wouldn’t recommend his children work in the United States due to its “social climate,” a comment which risks further angering President Donald Trump. Merz has drawn the wrath of Trump over the past few weeks over several negative remarks he’s made about the U.S., including that Iran was “humiliating” […]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fired back at mayoral candidate and reality TV star Spencer Pratt over campaign ads that she said are ”taking on a violent trend.” Bass responded to attacks in Pratt’s campaign ads made with artificial intelligence during a CNN interview with anchor Elex Michaelson on Wednesday. “It is absolutely 150% fiction, […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $10 million settlement from Texas Children’s Hospital that legally requires the medical institution to create the nation’s first-ever “detransition clinic.” Paxton announced the news on Friday, about three years after he started investigating the Houston-based pediatric hospital over transgender procedures and treatments for minors. The detransition clinic […]
The White House is holding a historic prayer gathering in Washington, D.C., this weekend, as part of an initiative to mark the United States’s 250th anniversary. The event will take place on the National Mall from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. It will feature faith leaders and top officials, including a video address […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Which means it is time for our regular rundown of Donald Trump’s week, and whether he won it or lost it. Roughly, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, China, China. President Donald Trump left on his postponed trip to meet Xi Jinping this week, but without any resolution to the […]
Eighty House Republicans voted on Friday for a measure to cut nearly 482 million from the military budget for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and put the money into American military bases. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) offered the measure as an amendment to a war department appropriations bill. If passed, it would have shifted “$481,832,000 […]
The government of Latvia, a NATO and European Union member, collapsed over the fallout of two stray Ukrainian drones crashing in its territory. Prime Minister Evika Silina assumed office in September 2023, leading a coalition government of center-right parties. Her tenure saw Latvia fully in line with its hawkish Baltic neighbors, who have played an […]
