The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases. The department directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to broaden its execution protocols to include additional methods beyond lethal injection, such as […]
Allies of the United States are responding to an internal Pentagon email that allegedly floated several ideas for punishing uncooperative members of NATO. Top Pentagon policy adviser Elbridge Colby allegedly wrote in an email that compliance with U.S. requests to access foreign bases is “just the absolute baseline for NATO” — a standard that multiple […]
Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said Europeans are not surprised by the latest record-high number of immigrants residing in the European Union, but it does “shock” them. “They don’t surprise because Europeans have felt that their governments and essentially the power establishments have been ignoring their concerns about this for years,” Gurdon said on […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. As usual we have our weekly White House report cards FROM a Democratic pollster and a Republican strategist, plus we have the inside details on where Donald Trump will host King Charles for his state banquet NEXT week, and why there is no comedian at the White House […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said House oversight and government reform committee Republicans are not supporting a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Luna made the comments in a NewsNation interview days after Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chairman of the oversight committee, told reporters the […]
President Donald Trump blasted the Southern Poverty Law Center over its fraud charges, and called for the 2020 election to be erased if they are convicted. The Department of Justice charged the SPLC with fraud Tuesday. Trump called it “one of the greatest political scams in American History” and a “Democrat hoax.” “If it is true, […]
Prominent Hezbollah parliamentarian Ali Fayyad said the party “firmly rejects” the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, coinciding with the intensification of fighting in southern Lebanon. In a statement to Lebanon’s state National News Agency, Fayyad dismissed the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, negotiated in Washington, D.C. by high-level delegations, as “meaningless.” The ceasefire was only negotiated between the governments of Israel […]
Vice President JD Vance received a more positive assessment than President Donald Trump in a recent Cook Political Report poll, while both parties were still ranked as unpopular among voters. The poll, conducted by CPR in collaboration with New River Strategies and GS Strategy Group, asked over 1,000 likely voters across 36 competitive districts about […]
The Justice Department has dropped its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, clearing the way for President Donald Trump’s pick to replace him to be confirmed by the Senate. The DOJ announced on Friday that it was ending the inquiry. The news marks the end of a contentious period in which Sen. Thom […]
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said there isn’t a “good way” to save Spirit Airlines from being forced out of business without government intervention. Spirit is nearing a $500 million bailout deal with the Trump administration to save the struggling airline company after it filed for bankruptcy twice. “As of right now there’s […]
