The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, country singer Alexis Wilkins, has filed a defamation lawsuit against MS Now for a report the outlet published alleging Patel had ordered Wilkins’s security detail to give her friends a ride home. The outlet, formerly MSNBC, published a report in December 2025 based on three anonymous sources that […]
Anthropic filed paperwork on Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. In doing so, Anthropic, which produces the large language model Claude, edged ahead in its fierce competition against rival OpenAI. Analysts have argued that being first to go public could be decisive because investors may not have the […]
A Utah judge on Monday denied accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s request to close portions of a preliminary hearing to the public. During a virtual hearing, Utah District Judge Tony Graf issued two rulings stemming from arguments heard last month in the high-profile murder case, denying the defendant’s efforts to keep further proceedings away […]
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner released a new populist advertisement on Monday, leaning into his anti-oligarchy message as he turns the page on another controversy that hit his campaign this weekend. Despite news breaking this weekend that Platner had previously sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married to his wife, who knew about […]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday filed a new complaint against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging the ChatGPT maker knowingly put profits over user safety to win the artificial intelligence “arms race.” The lawsuit seeks to hold Altman liable for allegedly harming Floridians by failing to implement safeguards in ChatGPT and asks […]
President Donald Trump, perhaps the United States’s most prominent Anglophile, had a very special gift on his wish list from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That request almost drove the ambassador and an international team of civil servants insane before it was ultimately abandoned. A cache of emails related to former British Ambassador to the […]
Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the latest from the political coal face. Today, we look at how Graham Platner is dealing with his latest scandal (he has plenty of practice) and the fallout from a different kind of scandal in London… Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race, has a […]
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt pitched his California conservative agenda against the rise of socialism in an hourlong interview with Bill Maher on Monday. Pratt, a former reality TV star running to unseat current Mayor Karen Bass after losing his home in the Palisades fire last year, took aim at the rise of socialism […]
The Supreme Court added a case to its next term on Monday that addresses how the First Step Act applies to inmates seeking quicker transfers from prison to lower-security confinement, such as a halfway house, marking the latest instance of the justices reviewing the scope of the 2018 criminal justice reform law. The high court […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposed that the federal government take a 50% stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, to be held in a newly created sovereign wealth fund that would benefit the public. Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist,” said he would introduce specific legislation in the next few weeks to impose […]
