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 […]
The Israeli government is paying to support a network of front websites that are being used in attempts to manipulate popular search engines and drum up support for the war in Iran, a Washington Examiner review found. In August 2025, Israel entered into a multimillion-dollar contract with Clock Tower X, a consultancy run by former […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha gave his thoughts about late-night comedy, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert for “speaking down to their audience”. It’s “as if you are listening to some sort of weird version of MSNBC meets Abby Phillip over on CNN meets C-SPAN,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox and […]
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to smooth over tensions that emerged during Illinois‘s Democratic Senate primary. Pritzker held a phone call with the CBC on Tuesday evening, telling the representatives it was “time to come together” following their schism over which candidates to support in the Land of […]
