Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, with your guide to who is up and who is down this week. Your usual scribe, Rob Crilly, is traversing the plains of Kansas today, so this is Chris Irvine pinch-hitting. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. As usual, we run […]
Former Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s bodyguard and former partner was arrested again this week for violating the terms of his pretrial release after law enforcement officials pinged him at a gun shop in Phoenix, Arizona. Officials say Matthew Ammel, Sinema’s former bodyguard with whom she had an affair, was allegedly trying to obtain a gun, […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha blasted Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s debate performance against Republican Steve Hilton. “Becerra had no answers whatsoever because Steve Hilton was dealing in facts,” Concha said on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit on Thursday. “When you look at this debate, it was absolutely a Mike Tyson in the ’80s […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said she was “deeply disturbed” by how Cornell University police and the Tompkins County district attorney’s office handled allegations of a 2024 sexual assault at the university. Hochul announced she was appointing New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor for the case Thursday, just days after Tompkins […]
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who served under President Joe Biden, argued that the messaging problems currently facing President Donald Trump’s White House are similar to those the Biden administration White House endured. Jean-Pierre wrote a guest essay in the New York Times on Friday, arguing that the Trump administration is facing affordability […]
President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans early Friday to pass legislation ending the nation’s twice yearly clock changes before lawmakers leave Washington for recess. Trump again called on the Senate to advance the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, in a lengthy post on social media. “Republicans in the Senate […]
Friday’s jobs report for September was a disappointment, showing the economy adding just 29,000 new payroll jobs and the unemployment rate ticking up to 4.2%. But the details of the report suggest that the underlying health of commerce is better than it would seem at first glance. Read on to learn about what the new […]
Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar recounted the moments he fought to escape the cockpit after being stabbed, in his first public comments since the attempted hijacking on the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. “I was lying on the floor injured, but I told myself to go for one last push to open the door […]
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are hopeful that a 417-page bill introduced this week will be exactly what the country needs to build power lines, pipelines, highways, and other essential infrastructure faster than ever before. The legislation, dubbed the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, was introduced on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of […]
WICHITA, Kansas — When President Donald Trump slammed Bombardier and urged a boycott of the Canadian company’s planes, it threw the 1,500 people working at its American headquarters into uproar. “It was all anyone could think about for days,” said one employee in the parking lot outside its Wichita hangars. “There isn’t a person in […]
