Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, on Tuesday announced he was dropping his challenge to his boss. After launching his campaign for Hochul’s spot last June, Delgado failed to make much of a dent in Hochul’s commanding lead. Facing dismal polling numbers, the lieutenant governor ended his bid on Tuesday. “After much consideration, I’ve concluded […]
The comprehensive electoral victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over the weekend secured the Liberal Democratic Party a two-thirds majority in the Japanese Diet, a broad and inarguable mandate for her proposed nationalist revival. Following her victory, Takaichi was not coy about her policy ambitions — stating firmly on Monday that her goal is to […]
A codefendant charged alongside former CNN host Don Lemon in a federal case stemming from an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest inside a Minnesota church is asking a judge to dismiss his charges. Ian Davis Austin, one of nine defendants charged over a January disruption at St. Paul’s Cities Church, filed a motion on Friday […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a risky vote in the House that will block resolutions to repeal President Donald Trump’s tariffs until July, with at least two Republicans firmly against the measure and a handful of others threatening to make passage difficult. A procedural vote, called a rule, on Tuesday to advance a slate […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday and reminded him that Ottawa paid to build the new Detroit-Ontario border crossing bridge. “We discussed the bridge. I explained that Canada has paid for the construction of the bridge, over $4 billion,” Carney said. “The ownership is shared between the […]
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Todd Lyons on Tuesday declined to apologize for the Trump administration’s characterization of two U.S. citizens killed during ICE-related operations in Minnesota as “domestic terrorists.” In response to a line of questioning during a Senate hearing from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Lyons refused to comment on whether he would […]
Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, denied on Tuesday that he misled the public on his past interactions with the late Jeffrey Epstein and downplayed his association with the disgraced child sex offender. During questioning from Democrats at a Senate appropriations committee hearing on broadband, Lutnick, who for years lived next door to Epstein’s […]
Welcome to Washington Secrets, your guide to who’s up and who is less up. Today, we take a look at Will Lewis’s two years at the Washington Post and rate the chances of a full funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security — spoiler: 1% if you are lucky. Plus there’s more from the […]
Former Rep. Tom Malinowski conceded the special election primary for New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District to activist Analilia Mejia. Malinowski was seen as a more centrist establishment candidate, with his defeat marking another triumph for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. He congratulated Mejia on her “hard-won victory,” and said he would support her […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is taking the Justice Department to task for redacting the names or personally identifiable information of alleged co-conspirators to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the congressman viewed unredacted versions of the Epstein files on Monday. Massie disclosed the latest revelations from his first viewing of the Epstein files in a […]
