The World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are partnering to launch a $518 million emergency response to the Ebola outbreak. Though the WHO had estimated that there were fewer cases than previously thought, the new joint plan acknowledges that efforts to stop the outbreak are accelerating, as the number […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) acknowledged on Tuesday that California must improve the speed of its vote-counting process, breaking with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who has defended the state’s process of counting ballots from Republicans and repeated attacks from President Donald Trump. Khanna said he spoke with a “close friend” who was convinced that former Los […]
A Change.org petition to charge the police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding university student Henry Nowak’s death surpassed 200,000 signatures. Nowak, 18, was murdered last year by Vickrum Digwa, 23, who fatally stabbed him in the legs and heart with an 8-inch blade he claimed he carried as part of his Sikh […]
A federal judge has found that the suspect who allegedly murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska last year on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, is incompetent to stand trial for the time being. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson confirmed the news on Tuesday, telling reporters that Decarlos Brown Jr. will be hospitalized for treatment […]
Minnesota has terminated the billing privileges of thousands of Medicaid providers flagged as “high risk” for fraud after the Trump administration threatened to withhold $2 billion in Medicaid payments flowing to the state over mismanagement concerns. In order to release the funds, the cleanup of Minnesota’s Medicaid enrollment records was required by the U.S. Centers […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran shot down an American Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz Monday night, and that the United States would respond to the attack. Trump has fought to hold together a fragile ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. for more than a month, even amid renewed attacks […]
Mayor Muriel Bowser offered a clear show of support for Councilman Kenyan McDuffie on Tuesday but stopped short of endorsing a successor, while warning that Washington, D.C., risks repeating financial mistakes that once pushed the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Speaking at an Axios AM Live event, Bowser praised McDuffie when asked about the […]
EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump‘s claim that he’s speaking to the major American artificial intelligence companies about creating a “partnership” with the federal government caught some of the leading firms by surprise, four people familiar tell the Washington Examiner. On Friday, Trump told reporters that he’d spoken to AI executives about making the American public […]
A Sudanese immigrant was arrested after a video showed him trying to behead a man in the middle of a Belfast street in the United Kingdom, drawing national outrage. Police were called at around 10:30 p.m. local time on Monday. A graphic video posted on social media showed the suspect, estimated to be in his […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we reveal how Donald Trump’s top data lieutenant has secured a deal to collect data from World Cup soccer fans in Washington, D.C., and we ask whether the president has more in common with Joe Biden than he would care to admit … Brad Parscale was the […]
