Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we hear from Rep. Erin Houchin about why it is so hard to protect children when they are online (spoiler alert: it’s Big Tech billionaires). And there’s good news (sort of) for Donald Trump: Voters don’t care much about the changes he is making to the White […]
Less than one week from when voters will cast their ballots in the Washington, D.C., mayoral race, last-minute endorsements have shored up the Democratic Party establishment’s support of Kenyan McDuffie, while Janeese Lewis George has maintained her backing from union powerhouses. The mayoral contest between the more centrist McDuffie and socialist Lewis George has brought […]
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, fired back at critics, saying, “They continue to try to make this race about me, and what they fail to understand is, it’s not about me at all. It’s about us. It’s about Maine.” Platner won the Democratic primary Tuesday night, obtaining 72% of the vote […]
Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson scrutinized the Washington Post for its noticeable shift in tone on articles about President Donald Trump. “I think there was a leadership decision at the top saying a resistance newspaper is not the path forward any further,” Benson said on Fox Business’s Varney & Company on Tuesday. Benson called it […]
EXCLUSIVE — A District of Columbia Bar official who quietly withdrew from an ethics investigation into President Donald Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin last month is now facing a new disciplinary complaint of his own. The Center to Advance Security in America, a conservative watchdog group, filed a complaint against D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel […]
Major races across the country were called on Tuesday, as the 2026 elections move into full swing. From South Carolina to Nevada, voters picked candidates for governor and the House, though some races remain undecided and are headed to runoffs. South Carolina In South Carolina, the Republican gubernatorial primary is headed to a runoff on […]
LOS ANGELES — Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA), whose Sacramento-area district was reshaped by California’s voter-approved redistricting overhaul last year, and Richard Pan, known nationally for spearheading the state’s push to eliminate religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements, will square off against each other this November in California’s 6th Congressional District. Kiley waited several days to […]
President Donald Trump is signing a bill on Wednesday to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The House passed the Secure America Act in a party-line vote on Tuesday after the Senate approved the measure last week. HOUSE REPUBLICANS PASS IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT FUNDING BILL IN PARTY-LINE VOTE The $70 billion reconciliation […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party announced he would run for reelection, after President Donald Trump publicly questioned whether he would. Speculation about Netanyahu’s political future increased after Trump, the prime minister’s closest international ally, voiced uncertainty, citing the Israeli prime minister’s long career. The Likud party shut down any speculation in a brief […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said voters in Maine are giving Graham Platner, who won the Democratic Senate nomination, a chance to rebuild credibility as a candidate after a series of controversies about his past have surfaced. “He understands he needs to do work; he understands they’re giving him a chance at redemption,” Khanna said on […]
