House Republicans voted behind closed doors Tuesday evening to send classified transcripts tied to former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department, a move that signals the Trump administration is advancing a possible criminal case against one of the most prominent figures in the discredited Russia investigation from President Donald Trump’s first term. The […]
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser weighed in on a pair of unanimously passed D.C. Council bills addressing federal law enforcement operations in the district, signing one bill and vetoing the other. Bowser signed off on a bill that would mandate the release of body camera footage from “serious use of force” incidents involving both […]
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has submitted her resignation after her party suffered their worst electoral performance in over a century, but a swift return to office is not out of the question. The Social Democrats’ left-wing bloc walked away as the ostensible winners of the Tuesday general election with 84 seats in the nation’s […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Join us as we bring coverage from CPAC in Dallas for the rest of the week. Today, we look at the broader conservative movement and whether CPAC can regain its lost influence and energy and ask Matt Schlapp why he has moved the event to Texas. Plus, just […]
DHS: 100,000 EMPLOYEES UNPAID AMID SHUTDOWN White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Leavitt is expected to address the standstill in Congress over Department of Homeland Security funding and to provide updates on the Iran war.
President Donald Trump appointed 13 executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, to his newly formed science and technology council on Wednesday. The White House announced the appointments in a statement after the news was reported by the Wall Street Journal. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Wednesday sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging that President Donald Trump took highly sensitive classified documents aboard his private plane and showed them off to passengers. Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said the claims stem from newly disclosed Justice Department records tied to […]
Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert is co-writing a new film in the Lord of the Rings saga. Colbert made the announcement with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson on Tuesday, on a joint Zoom call. Colbert said he finds himself reading “over and over again” six chapters at the beginning of the first book, […]
Today co-host Savannah Guthrie is giving her first interview since her mother vanished more than seven weeks ago, describing the “unbearable” anguish her family has endured as the search intensifies in Arizona. In a tearful interview with Hoda Kotb on NBC’s Today, Guthrie reflected on the uncertainty surrounding her mother’s disappearance. “Someone needs to do […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said President Donald Trump did not “build up” for why the United States should engage in conflict with Iran. Trump said on March 1 that the conflict in Iran will be “a four-week process,” though the war is still ongoing. York said “a lot of polls” have asked […]
