Country singer Alexis Wilkins’ rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” hit an unexpected snag when audio issues disrupted her performance at a Brussels Freedom 250 event. Wilkins, who is dating FBI Director Kash Patel, took the stage Sunday to perform the national anthem at the U.S. Embassy’s Independence Day celebration in Brussels ahead of the United […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey weighed into the Minnesota Senate race with an endorsement for the Democratic primary‘s more centrist candidate, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), ahead of the state’s Aug. 11 primaries. “Angie is relentless,” Frey wrote in his endorsement statement. “She’s tough, she’s tested, and she is exactly who we need in Washington. I met […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team says the demands being placed on him for his yearslong corruption case are comparable to Israel’s treatment of a Nazi war criminal. Defense attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing the prime minister as he continues to navigate a corruption trial that began in 2019, said at the Jerusalem […]
President Donald Trump pledged to “continue the fight” in his appeal of a New York jury’s unanimous ruling that he defamed and sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll and owes her $5 million in damages, despite the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case. Trump previously asked the Supreme Court to overturn the case, […]
President Donald Trump embraced the Supreme Court‘s decision in Trump v. Slaughter that expands his executive power to fire members of some independent federal bodies. “BIG WIN just moments ago at the Supreme Court, in the Slaughter Case, confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or Representatives, under […]
President Donald Trump reacted to a major Supreme Court loss Monday by pressuring five Republican senators to flip their positions and vote to pass the SAVE America Act. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration and upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day […]
A federal judge presiding over the case for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting suspect delayed the start of the trial on Monday. Both parties and the court agreed to toll the speedy trial clock by 45 days, meaning the countdown timer within which federal prosecutors must bring Cole Allen to trial is paused. […]
Democrat Amy Acton narrowly surpassed her Republican competitor, Vivek Ramaswamy, on the fundraising front in the Ohio gubernatorial race, as some polls show the former state health director with a slight edge over the billionaire entrepreneur. Ramaswamy hit the ground running with a massive fundraising lead over Acton, but campaign finance reports documenting donations through […]
Welcome to a new week with Washington Secrets. Visitors are descending on the nation’s capital for the semiquincentennial, we’re getting to the business end of the World Cup, and there’s an end-of-term feeling in the air. Today, we bring you a fascinating new poll that dives into the core groups inside the Trump coalition, and […]
Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) organized a private delegation to represent Pennsylvania at Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair, overruling Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) claims that no businesses were interested in sponsoring the festivities. The bipartisan duo announced over the weekend that they secured private-industry sponsors to host the state’s booth at […]
