Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. Today, we bring you the usual roundup of the White House week, plus we get the lowdown on who was present and who was missing from the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal ceremony. Have a great holiday […]
Lawyers for the Federal Communications Commission are asking a federal judge to throw out Disney and ABC’s lawsuit seeking to block the agency from continuing its early review of the network’s broadcast licenses. In a filing Thursday, FCC lawyers argued that Disney’s lawsuit is premature because the agency has not yet decided whether to take […]
DORCHESTER COUNTY, South Carolina — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first stops in South Carolina on Thursday had gone largely according to plan. In Hardeeville, the Democratic governor was welcomed warmly with a standing ovation. The reception remained friendly in Beaufort, where another enthusiastic crowd sweated it out at the former Penn School, one of the […]
Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan has sent the jury in the Lindsay Clancy case back for another round of deliberations on the 28th day of the murder trial. Clancy, the woman accused of murdering her three children, has argued through her defense team that she strangled them in a state of postpartum psychosis as she […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha compared Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) to former President Joe Biden, after Dingell’s reaction to President Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. “To semiquote President Trump, during that 2024 debate between Biden and him, when Joe gave this incoherent answer around the border, I feel the same way Trump […]
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off trade to countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit if the Federal Reserve doesn’t lower interest rates, a major escalation of his pressure campaign on the central bank. Trump made the announcement on Friday after the release of employment numbers that showed that the economy […]
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested on contempt-of-court charges in central Kentucky and booked into Louisville’s Jefferson County jail on Thursday evening. Bevin had a live bench warrant against him after a Jefferson County judge found him in contempt of court for failing to turn over his financial records in his divorce and child support proceedings. Bourbon County law enforcement arrested […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is facing criticism after a report accused the senator of repeatedly avoiding his job responsibilities, including constituent meetings and public appearances. Fetterman reportedly declined to meet with three wheelchair-bound veterans who had traveled to his office, telling staffers that he was sick after the veterans arrived. He later told staffers that […]
Argentine President Javier Milei escalated his rhetoric over the Falkland Islands overnight after President Donald Trump appeared to question whether the United States would support the United Kingdom in a future conflict with Argentina over the disputed territory. The Falkland Islands, known as the Islas Malvinas in Argentina, are a resource-rich self-governing archipelago in the […]
Election forecaster Inside Elections shifted the New Hampshire Senate race from “tilts Democrat” to a “toss-up” rating on Wednesday, following the momentum behind GOP candidate and former Sen. John Sununu in his bid to reclaim his seat. The rating shift comes just days before New Hampshire’s Senate primary on Tuesday, Sept. 8, in which Sununu […]
