Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz will be the latest Trump administration official to fill in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt while she is away on maternity leave. Oz’s appearance follows stand-in briefings given by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Oz is […]
President Donald Trump tapped Bill Pulte to be the next acting director of national intelligence on Tuesday, replacing Tulsi Gabbard with the current director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Pulte, the latest White House official to wear multiple leadership hats, has been the face of several […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we wonder whether the Founding Fathers would have been Milli Vanilli fans (originalists are welcome to weigh in on what the text tells us) in light of a new poll that suggests all is not well with their legacy. (The Founding Fathers’ legacy, not Milli Vanilli’s). And […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the destruction of Iran’s military has prevented the country from using a “conventional shield” to protect its nuclear program in the future. Rubio suggested that if the United States had not launched Operation Epic Fury earlier this year, Iran would have produced “so many missiles, so many […]
The bus driver responsible for a crash that killed five people on a Virginia highway late last week has been indicted on four more charges. Jing Sheng Dong, 48, faces three more felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and one misdemeanor charge for reckless driving. He was previously charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. If […]
Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson criticized Los Angeles and expressed cautious optimism about independent candidate Spencer Pratt’s mayoral bid. “Not to douse the hope with cold water, the two remaining candidates are both left and lefter,” Benson said on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit Monday. Pratt is facing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appear on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 10 a.m. and a House appropriations subcommittee at 2 p.m. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE US-IRAN PEACE DEAL BEING NEGOTIATED Rubio is on the Hill to testify about the State Department‘s budget request, which […]
Former first lady Jill Biden defended her husband, former President Joe Biden, as a presidential candidate on Tuesday, saying she believes he would have defeated President Donald Trump if he were the final nominee in 2024. “I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election,” Jill Biden said in a Tuesday morning interview […]
President Donald Trump has appointed Bill Pulte, Federal Housing Finance Agency director and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to replace Tulsi Gabbard as acting director of national intelligence. “I am appointing the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as Acting Director […]
LOS ANGELES — Republican Steve Hilton has been near the top of virtually every statewide poll since entering California’s crowded and unpredictable gubernatorial race a year ago. But he isn’t acting like a front-runner. “We can’t take anything for granted,” he told the Washington Examiner just hours before polls opened Tuesday morning. “We have to act like […]
