The Chinese Communist Party has chalked up a major win for its Belt and Road Initiative, opening a massive shipping canal that will connect swaths of the country to trade routes in Southeast Asia. Beijing announced the official opening of the Pinglu Canal on Wednesday, connecting the Xijiang River with the Gulf of Tonkin in […]
The Trump administration paid nearly $7 billion as part of an effort to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office said the government spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave, including $6.7 billion spent on the Department of Government Efficiency’s initiative to incentivize federal […]
Democrat Amy Acton is leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the latest poll for the Ohio gubernatorial general election. Acton is ahead of Ramaswamy by 3 percentage points, according to a Bowling Green State University/YouGov poll released Wednesday. Acton sits at 48% support, while Ramaswamy is at 45%. The remaining 7% of voters who participated in […]
The House Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of centrist Democrats and Republicans, unveiled its agenda to combat mid-decade redistricting, which has been adopted by red states and blue states alike to gain an advantage in the 2026 midterm elections. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY), the group’s co-chairs, said during a Wednesday press conference the […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. We spent yesterday at the big AI summit in Washington. We listened to Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders find common ground, and then asked key players what they thought. We also parsed the very […]
Vice President JD Vance has added a campaign stop in Iowa this week as Republicans try to shore up a toss-up Senate race and three competitive House contests in the Hawkeye State before November’s midterm elections. Vance’s rally on Friday, organized by the Republican National Committee, comes after two battleground Republican incumbents, Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks […]
The Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in the court case challenging the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the states suing to block the transaction should post a “proper bond” if they’re confident in their antitrust lawsuit. Paramount is asking a federal judge in California to require the plaintiffs […]
Ohio officials this week goaded President Donald Trump with a snarky name change to a portion of Lake Erie, after the president sought to rename another one of the Great Lakes. The Cleveland City Council renamed a section of Lake Erie as the “Gulf of Cleveland,” in a jab at Trump’s recent executive order declaring […]
Former President Barack Obama shared that the family’s beloved Portuguese Water Dog, Sunny, died on Tuesday. “Yesterday, we lost a cherished member of our family,” Obama wrote on X on Wednesday. “We got Sunny at the start of our second term in the White House, and all of us – including our first dog, Bo […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) poured $3.6 million from his campaign war chest into the Democratic Party of Georgia as he seeks to build a broader political operation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The spending, disclosed Wednesday, represents contributions made over the past two years and is part of Ossoff’s effort to bolster Democratic candidates […]
