The U.S. Institute of Peace’s former board members filed an emergency motion Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s name from being engraved into the building. The State Department renamed the institution in Washington after Trump in December 2025. At the time, the president’s name was added to the building’s exterior in removable silver lettering. The […]
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a former physician, reflected on his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary as Cassidy finishes out his final months as a U.S. senator, refusing to say whether he regrets the crucial vote. The Louisiana senator, who lost his reelection primary after President Donald Trump endorsed his challenger, […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. As usual, we run the rule over Donald Trump’s week, and we celebrate the New York Times reaching 175 years of age with an “editor’s note” for the ages, plus we ask whether AOC would even want […]
Vice President JD Vance is traveling to Iowa on Friday and will speak at 12:10 p.m. at a campaign rally organized by the Republican National Committee intended to boost GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates in the state. VANCE TO VISIT IOWA AFTER HOUSE REPUBLICAN WAR POWERS DEFECTIONS The vice president will be promoting Rep. Ashley Hinson […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said rapper Macklemore has become a “martyr” and should travel to Gaza to support Palestinian causes if he is actually that passionate. “He turned an afterthought of an opening act from being a concert that people, in some cases, pay hundreds of dollars to attend, into an Ivy League campus […]
Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker defended former Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a “great man of history,” despite presiding over millions of deaths from state-mandated policies, forced labor, and mass famines during his rule. Piker sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Axios this week and was pressed on his favorable views of some aspects […]
Socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker said he would “absolutely” campaign for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) if she runs for president in 2028, while largely rejecting the idea of returning to Michigan to campaign for Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed before the midterm elections. Piker, the controversial commentator who recently called America “pound for pound” […]
Several of the technology industry’s most prominent artificial intelligence leaders are expected to attend President Donald Trump’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, putting AI and the growing U.S.-China technology rivalry in focus as the two leaders prepare for their Sept. 24 summit. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and […]
Texas officials confirmed Thursday that they are no longer issuing permits for new automated license plate reader cameras along state highways. The Texas Department of Transportation, at Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) direction, said it is freezing the installation of all new ALPRs, more commonly known as Flock cameras, along state roads. Around 900 Flock cameras […]
Kansas Democratic Senate Candidate Adam Hamilton pulled ahead of his competitor, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), in a new poll, an unusual jump in a state that heavily favored President Donald Trump in the past three presidential elections. A new poll from Emerson College found Hamilton with a 2-point advantage over Marshall, with Libertarian candidate David Graham splitting […]
