Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Who says August has to be dull in politics? We bring you our regular look at the White House week, plus more evidence of Abdul el Sayed’s links to the Democratic Socialists of America. This week brought a new Iran strategy, a catering truck ruse, and signs that […]
Former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is maintaining his lead over incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) as cost of living and inflation take center stage for voters in Ohio, according to a new poll. Brown has held onto his 8-point advantage over Husted, with a new Fox News poll finding that 53% of voters prefer the […]
Luigi Mangione said Friday he is pleading guilty to both counts of federal stalking charges connected to the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a major development that could complicate New York prosecutors’ separate murder case against him. Mangione, 28, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to two stalking charges resulting in Thompson’s death. […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Native American heritage claim after Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan announced she is running as the “first Native American woman” senator if elected to the United States Senate. “I mean, Peggy Flanagan, she better break out that old peace pipe and get […]
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., publicly identified and charged a woman with vandalizing the National World War II Memorial in the district. The nation’s foremost monument honoring U.S. service members’ sacrifices in World War II was vandalized with graffiti and bubble soap in its fountain on Thursday, setting off a brief manhunt […]
White House deputy national security advisor Andy Baker is exiting the Trump administration after playing a central role in peace negotiations with Iran. Baker is set to part ways with President Donald Trump in the coming weeks, Axios reported on Friday, marking the second high-profile departure from the White House this week. Press secretary Karoline […]
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow construction on the White House ballroom to continue, after a federal appeals court said the construction must be halted until the federal government gets approval from Congress. The East Wing of the White House was demolished last year to make way for a new […]
President Donald Trump condemned the graffiti vandalism of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., as a particularly grievous insult and said those responsible were being hunted down. After the preeminent memorial to U.S. sacrifices in World War II was spray-painted with graffiti and its fountain filled with bubbly soap, the Department of the […]
The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees on Thursday voted to put President Donald Trump’s name on the institution’s facade in Washington, D.C., testing the limits of a judge’s order on the matter. The board voted to add the inscription “Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump” below the Kennedy Center sign, according to Rep. […]
A judge in Nevada on Thursday dismissed for the second time a case involving six defendants who faced charges of illegally claiming they were the state’s electors after President Donald Trump was declared the loser in the 2020 presidential election. In her ruling, Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus tossed out forgery charges against […]
