Secretary of State Marco Rubio will head to Rome and Vatican City on Wednesday to speak with leaders for bilateral talks, the State Department announced. “Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome, Italy May 6-8 to advance bilateral relations with Italy and the Vatican. Secretary Rubio will meet with Holy See leadership to […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said that Spirit Airlines wasn’t “destined to prosper,” after the company announced it would shut down following years of struggles. “Here you just had the market working,” York said on Fox & Friends on Monday. “Spirit was in bankruptcy twice. It had an ever-diminishing share of passengers, and […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in the process of recovering from a pneumonia diagnosis, his spokesman said, after being hospitalized in Florida on Sunday. Giuliani’s pneumonia battle was complicated by an underlying respiratory condition he was diagnosed with after helping New Yorkers during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade […]
House Democrats are expanding their 2026 midterm election map, adding eight candidates in competitive districts to their “Red to Blue” program. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday unveiled an expanded list of targets as well as its preferred candidates for the seats. The group is backing a diverse group of candidates, including a firefighter, […]
EXCLUSIVE — An Illinois mother who was sued after criticizing a teacher in her local school district secured a decisive legal victory this week, with a judge dismissing the case against her with prejudice and barring a teacher who brought the lawsuit from ever refiling her claims. Helen Levinson, a Chicago-area parent of two children, […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, will skip this year’s Met Gala, breaking tradition with predecessors who accepted invitations to fashion’s biggest night. In an interview with Hell Gate newsletter in April, Mamdani confirmed reports that he would not attend the event, saying, “That’s true” about the couple’s impending absence. […]
Welcome to a new week of Washington Secrets. The midterm elections are six months away, but today, we bring you another worry for Republicans in toss-up races: the prospect of a vote on funding ICE. It’s not popular with voters, which means moderate Republicans or candidates in blue states don’t want to go on the […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he is confident the global energy markets will soon stabilize, citing President Donald Trump’s latest operation to divest the Strait of Hormuz of Iranian influence, among other initiatives. Bessent said Trump’s Project Freedom operation in the strategic waterway, which launched on Monday, alongside the United Arab Emirates’ decision to […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked on Monday an appeals court’s ruling that barred abortion pills from being sold online and transported to patients via mail. A pair of drugmakers who offer mifepristone, the abortion pill at the center of the litigation, urged the Supreme Court to halt the Friday ruling from the U.S. […]
Iranian executions picked up over the weekend, despite President Donald Trump’s plea for the regime to stop killing protesters. Tehran executed at least six protesters amid the country’s dispute with the United States, particularly over the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM DENIES IRAN’S CLAIM IT DAMAGED US WARSHIP IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ Iranian media announced on […]
