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 […]
The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has been taken to a “secure location,” his attorney announced Thursday, after other members of the jury in the high-profile case alleged the lone juror had doubts the mother of three was sane when killing her children. Michael Desronvil was the holdout juror in the Massachusetts […]
Warren Buffett stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on Friday, ending a six-decade run at the helm of the conglomerate he built from a struggling textile company into one of the world’s most valuable businesses. Buffett, 96, will become chairman emeritus and remain on Berkshire’s board of directors, the company announced. His son, Howard […]
