New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, will skip this year’s Met Gala, breaking tradition with predecessors who accepted invitations to fashion’s biggest night. In an interview with Hell Gate newsletter in April, Mamdani confirmed reports that he would not attend the event, saying, “That’s true” about the couple’s impending absence. […]
Welcome to a new week of Washington Secrets. The midterm elections are six months away, but today, we bring you another worry for Republicans in toss-up races: the prospect of a vote on funding ICE. It’s not popular with voters, which means moderate Republicans or candidates in blue states don’t want to go on the […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he is confident the global energy markets will soon stabilize, citing President Donald Trump’s latest operation to divest the Strait of Hormuz of Iranian influence, among other initiatives. Bessent said Trump’s Project Freedom operation in the strategic waterway, which launched on Monday, alongside the United Arab Emirates’ decision to […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked on Monday an appeals court’s ruling that barred abortion pills from being sold online and transported to patients via mail. A pair of drugmakers who offer mifepristone, the abortion pill at the center of the litigation, urged the Supreme Court to halt the Friday ruling from the U.S. […]
Iranian executions picked up over the weekend, despite President Donald Trump’s plea for the regime to stop killing protesters. Tehran executed at least six protesters amid the country’s dispute with the United States, particularly over the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM DENIES IRAN’S CLAIM IT DAMAGED US WARSHIP IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ Iranian media announced on […]
A protester who has been atop the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge for four days said he will descend “soon” after his presence led to traffic delays, with one lane each way closed. Guido Reichstadter, an activist from Florida, scaled the 168-foot arch on Friday and said he was protesting the war in Iran, President Donald […]
Conservative activist Scott Presler is escalating his campaign to pressure Senate Republicans to advance the SAVE America Act, targeting key allies of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to force action on the legislation. “I kind of have already waged a war very peacefully on Senator Cornyn,” Presler told the Washington Examiner. “I have led […]
Arizona is gearing up for its first election with a lieutenant governor candidate on the ballot, after voters established the office a few years ago. The state is one of only a handful across the country that does not have a lieutenant governor. But in 2022, residents approved a proposition to create the office and […]
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) sent a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Monday, urging the panel’s leadership to film and publicly release former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony on the release of the Epstein files slated for May 29. Garcia, the investigative committee’s top Democrat, has caused a […]
Russia has significantly increased security measures around President Vladimir Putin amid growing fears of assassination attempts and possible coup plots, according to a European intelligence assessment reported by CNN. The report, based on intelligence reviewed by Western officials, described heightened concern inside the Kremlin over threats to Putin’s safety, including the possibility of drone-based attacks and […]
