The Justice Department’s top antitrust official, Gail Slater, announced Thursday that she is resigning from her post, less than a year after she was appointed by President Donald Trump. Slater, who has served as assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Antitrust Division since March, said in a post on X that she would be leaving […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is headed to the Big Apple to meet with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, bucking an invitation to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s oversight hearing Thursday morning. The two Democratic mayors are meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss public safety and protection of immigrants within each […]
First lady Melania Trump announced on Thursday that she helped reunite Russian and Ukrainian children with their families. This marks the third time she has helped reunite children with their families since the war between Russia and Ukraine began. “I appreciate that Russia and Ukraine are dedicated to bringing back the children who have been […]
Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack said on Sunday that the Republican Party is off to “a very bad start” for the November midterm elections after President Donald Trump generated new controversy over the weekend. Trump posted and took down a video on Truth Social depicting him as the king of the jungle and former […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ripped the International Olympic Committee for disqualifying Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych for wearing a helmet honoring athletes killed since the beginning of the war. The IOC announced Thursday morning that it was disqualifying Heraskevych for his refusal to comply with the committee’s guidelines on “athlete expression.” Zelensky said sports “shouldn’t […]
Welcome to the latest installment of Washington Secrets, your user guide to the capital’s politics. Today, Secrets takes an exclusive look at one of the likely big winners of Donald Trump’s Russian oil sanctions President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil will claim their biggest scalp when Lukoil, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, […]
The Trump administration fired the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York Wednesday just hours after a panel of federal judges selected him for the role, marking the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s battle with courts over control of federal prosecutor appointments. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that longtime lawyer […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight. Hawley grilled Ellison on the fraud scandals gripping Minnesota, focusing on a 2021 meeting between Ellison and several leaders who were […]
Welcome to the latest installment of Washington Secrets, your user guide to the capital’s politics. Today, we have the juice on who will stand in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt when she goes on maternity leave, an exclusive look at one of the likely big winners of Donald Trump’s Russian oil sanctions (TLDR: […]
President Donald Trump said Oklahoma will “soon” have a governor who can “accurately write a Press Release” in his latest dig against Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) on Thursday. Trump’s rift with Stitt stems from the president’s rejection of the governor’s allegation that the White House invited only Republican governors to the annual governors’ dinner. This […]
