Left-wing nonprofit group Democracy Forward filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Tuesday to find records related to a recent report concerning drinking allegations against FBI Director Kash Patel. The FOIA request comes days after the Atlantic published an article, citing more than two dozen anonymous sources, about Patel’s alleged drinking problem and how […]
Four former presidents expressed confidence that the United States’s best days are ahead, because of democracy’s “self-correcting” power. In an NBC News interview that aired on Tuesday, former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden shared a message to the country in light of the nation’s semiquincentennial. They sat down for […]
Europe’s highest court has declared Hungary cannot maintain policies meant to curb the “promotion of homosexuality” among young people. Outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was defeated in a national election earlier this month, propagated the policies in 2021 as “stricter measures against individuals convicted of pedophilia.” These policies have been expanded into sweeping bans […]
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in his confirmation hearing that Trump never asked him to commit to any interest rate decisions during his vetting process. Warsh, a 56-year-old former Fed governor, testified on Tuesday before the Senate banking committee, where he faced questions about Fed independence and […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent Monday sitting in various leather armchairs at the hotel formerly known as the Trump Hotel, watching the White House get the old team back together ahead of the midterm elections. Meanwhile, the administration firings continue. So who is next? For two hours, the brightest campaign brains […]
Two Israeli soldiers are in the process of being disciplined for damaging a Christian symbol in Lebanon, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday. Over the weekend, the incident came to light involving a soldier who bashed a large crucifix residing in a small village with what appeared to be a sledgehammer. The sacrilegious act was […]
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is demanding answers from U.S. officials after two American personnel were killed alongside two Mexican investigators in a car crash following a counternarcotics operation in northern Mexico. The four officials died Sunday in the state of Chihuahua when their vehicle veered off a mountainous road, plunged into a ravine, and exploded […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s silence on crime and called it “Third-world stuff right here in New York City.” “Rampant crime is inescapable from the smell of weed in this city,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Mamdani’s lack of public response to crime has fueled […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Justice Department would not end its investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over cost overruns tied to renovations at the central bank’s headquarters, even as the inquiry threatens to complicate his effort to install a successor. During an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, the president was asked […]
A federal appeals court on Friday allowed for the biologically accurate placement of transgender prisoners in accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive on housing inmates by biological sex, a ruling that incarcerated women hope will help their lawsuits aimed at moving biological males out of women’s prisons across the country. Trump, upon taking office, issued […]
