Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets, where we are gearing up for the United States Men’s National Team (is that the worst nickname in soccer?) to take on Paraguay (La Albirroja or “The White and Red”) at the World Cup tonight. As usual, we bring you our review of the president’s week with our two political […]
A federal appeals court upheld Friday the fraud conviction and prison sentence of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange. His appeal loss came days after he applied for a presidential pardon to wipe his criminal record. In November 2023, a New York federal jury convicted Bankman-Fried on all seven counts of […]
The U.S. Navy is escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz despite the threat from Iran, guiding more than 20 crude oil carriers on some nights, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. Some are ultra-large tankers that hold 2 million barrels of crude, Burgum said Friday on CNBC. The comments add detail to the claims made […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Vice President JD Vance will look more “statesman-like” than The View’s co-hosts during his appearance on the show next week. Vance will be joining the daytime talk show on Tuesday to promote his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which will be released the same day. Concha […]
A Republican intraparty clash broke out on social media between Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) over the SAVE Act, with Cornyn arguing the bill lacks the votes to advance and warning that GOP infighting is damaging the party’s political prospects. Cornyn, who is serving his final months in the Senate after losing […]
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, will return to Utah court Friday at 11 a.m. Eastern for an evidentiary hearing. Robinson, 23, will appear before Fourth District Judge Tony Graf Jr. in criminal court in Provo, where the judge will likely rule on whether Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard violated a […]
Three teenage boys have been arrested in Washington for their involvement in a viral brawl at a Chipotle restaurant in the Navy Yard neighborhood last month. Two 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old were charged with simple assault and affray this week, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Thursday. Two were from the District of Columbia, and one […]
President Donald Trump claimed that the ceasefire terms reported by Iranian state media on Friday were “fake news” and denied offering any monetary compensation to Tehran to secure its cooperation in ending the war. Iranian state media began circulating a 14-point ceasefire agreement Friday morning that included more than $300 billion being paid out to […]
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from suing ActBlue, citing concerns that the lawsuit is an attempt to sabotage his political rival’s campaign. U.S. District Judge Richard Gaylore Stearns’s ruling in Massachusetts marks a loss for Paxton, who filed a lawsuit against the Democratic donor platform in April, alleging it […]
A local search party group out of Nogales, Mexico, began searching for Nancy Guthrie this week after fielding an anonymous tip about her remains being buried in the Mariposa area near the Arizona-Mexico border. The tip and subsequent search party for Guthrie’s remains comes more than four months after she was abducted from her home […]
