Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison remains under scrutiny for his past interaction with individuals tied to the Feeding Our Future scheme, a sprawling pandemic-era scam that stole more than $250 million in federal child nutrition funds. Members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee continued to examine Ellison’s entanglement […]
China on Friday agreed to send two giant pandas to the United States in a renewed display of “panda diplomacy,” a move that comes weeks before a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The announcement comes less than a month before Trump is expected to travel to Beijing for high-level […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mass round-ups of illegal immigrant workers at job sites have not made headlines for months, and immigration groups who want President Donald Trump to do more blame Republicans’ ties to Big Business for the hold-up on enforcement. Trump promised to carry out the “largest-ever” deportation operation in history, while simultaneously […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Friday that President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are headed to Islamabad, Pakistan, for a second round of peace talks to end the Iran war. Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation during the first round of talks, will not […]
The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases. The department directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to broaden its execution protocols to include additional methods beyond lethal injection, such as […]
Allies of the United States are responding to an internal Pentagon email that allegedly floated several ideas for punishing uncooperative members of NATO. Top Pentagon policy adviser Elbridge Colby allegedly wrote in an email that compliance with U.S. requests to access foreign bases is “just the absolute baseline for NATO” — a standard that multiple […]
Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said Europeans are not surprised by the latest record-high number of immigrants residing in the European Union, but it does “shock” them. “They don’t surprise because Europeans have felt that their governments and essentially the power establishments have been ignoring their concerns about this for years,” Gurdon said on […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. As usual we have our weekly White House report cards FROM a Democratic pollster and a Republican strategist, plus we have the inside details on where Donald Trump will host King Charles for his state banquet NEXT week, and why there is no comedian at the White House […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said House oversight and government reform committee Republicans are not supporting a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Luna made the comments in a NewsNation interview days after Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chairman of the oversight committee, told reporters the […]
President Donald Trump blasted the Southern Poverty Law Center over its fraud charges, and called for the 2020 election to be erased if they are convicted. The Department of Justice charged the SPLC with fraud Tuesday. Trump called it “one of the greatest political scams in American History” and a “Democrat hoax.” “If it is true, […]
