Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are scheduled to testify before Congress next week as lawmakers consider the judiciary’s funding request. Barrett and Kagan are slated to appear before the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on Tuesday, July 14, according to the House committee schedule. They will also testify […]
Belgium’s national soccer team turned a dominant World Cup victory into a pointed message aimed at President Donald Trump after eliminating the United States with a 4-1 win in Seattle. The Belgian players’ celebration came after days of controversy surrounding U.S. striker Folarin Balogun, whose one-match ban was suspended by FIFA shortly before the match. […]
Democrat Troy Jackson moved one step closer to running to replace embattled Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner by filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to fundraise for a possible bid. Jackson, who finished third in last month’s gubernatorial primary, is seen as the progressive candidate most acceptable to Platner’s base of support. The Maine […]
Michael Cohen, long one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies-turned enemies after testifying against him, revealed that he and the president have reconciled. In an appearance on 77 WABC’s “Cats and Cosby Show,” Cohen told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby that the reconciliation happened roughly six months ago. In his telling, the man best known as […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called on Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop out on Tuesday after one of Platner’s ex-girlfriends came forward with new allegations of sexual assault on Monday. Sanders issued the statements nearly 24 hours after news of the allegations first broke. “I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best […]
A federal judge deemed that the suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs near the national headquarters of both major political parties in Washington, D.C., over five years ago is ineligible for President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons given to defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. In a three-page ruling issued on […]
Former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he warned former President Joe Biden that his advisers were directing him toward far-left policies during the 2020 election. Manchin, who changed his party affiliation to independent over changes within the Democratic Party, argued on Fox News’s The Story With Martha MacCallum that Biden wasn’t this progressive before his […]
The Maine Democrat floated as a possible replacement for scandal-plagued Senate candidate Graham Platner is accused of previously hitting a woman with a water bottle. Political organizing group Progressive International said Monday it is investigating claims from “contacts on the ground in Maine” that former state Sen. Troy Jackson threw the bottle at the woman […]
Michigan’s senate race is heating up between the two remaining candidates, as Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) launched a website aimed at dragging Abdul el Sayed’s record ahead of their first one-on-one debate on Tuesday evening. Stevens’s campaign launched a website called Abdulfacts.com, publishing what her campaign calls “the big claims, brags, and promises Abdul El-Sayed […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Donald Trump has arrived in Turkey for the NATO summit, and there is yet more upheaval in Britain’s domestic politics thanks to Nigel Farage. But we start by sitting down for lunch with Blake Marnell to find out how he became such a well-known figure at Trump rallies, […]
