Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets, which returns after a short break. Have we missed anything? Today, we run the rule over Donald Trump’s week with our two political analysts. And we congratulate Axios reporter Barak Ravid for running his “Middle East peace deal is close” story again. Donald Trump’s week featured business as usual on […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is attempting to “undo” his previous remarks since the election became a two-man race following Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the Republican primary. “What [Talarico] has been doing now that the race has gone down to a two-man race is […]
SACRAMENTO, California — Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) is fighting a political battle on two fronts: one, in Congress and the other, in his West Coast home state. On Capitol Hill, Kiley has emerged as one of the loudest critics of California’s mid-decade congressional remap, accusing Democrats of redrawing the map to weaken GOP incumbents. He has also […]
President Donald Trump said he was meeting with advisers in the White House Situation Room to make a “final determination” on negotiations with Iran. Over six weeks into the ceasefire, negotiations with Tehran have waxed and waned. After a flurry of diplomatic activity and speculation, Trump indicated that the conclusion of negotiations was close in […]
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) will not run for reelection to Florida’s 24th District, marking the end of her 15-year congressional career. The longtime Florida congresswoman confirmed her retirement during an interview with the Miami Herald, saying she felt it was “time.” “I think I really held on as long as I did because of the […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for saying Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt should stick to being “the screaming jerk on reality shows.” “Mayor should not be your first job,” Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday. “You watch these monologues and you don’t laugh,” Concha said on Fox News’s […]
Former President Joe Biden’s lawsuit against the Justice Department has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who rose to national prominence for overseeing several cases connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Biden sued the DOJ on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of private conversations and audio recordings tied to […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticized legacy media for not reporting on welfare fraud across the country. Concha said the fraud is “widespread” and “massive” in all 50 states on Fox Business’s Evening Edit on Thursday. “This is one of the most underreported stories in legacy media of the year, and maybe even the decade, […]
A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily blocked the opening of a new Ebola quarantine center for U.S. nationals on the same day the facility was set to open. The U.S. and the Kenyan government recently reached an agreement allowing Washington to establish the center to monitor U.S. citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo and […]
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday, telling House investigators she did not personally oversee every aspect of the Justice Department’s review of millions of records tied to the disgraced financier. Bondi arrived at the Rayburn House Office Building shortly before 8 a.m. for a […]
