Welcome to Thursday’s Washington Secrets, where we are World Cup-ready. A team hat is in the mail, and our wall chart is ready to go. In the meantime, we spent yesterday with conservative supporters of Ukraine as they pondered how to push back against pro-Russia voices on the Right. But there are signs that the […]
Michigan’s new Gordie Howe International Bridge on Thursday faced further delays in opening, amid Washington’s feud with Canada over the massive infrastructure project. The 1.5-mile-long crossing will connect Detroit to Ontario, with its half-mile span over the Detroit River making it the longest of any cable-stayed bridge in North America. President Donald Trump has railed […]
The Trump administration has tracked down 146,000 unaccompanied migrant children who came over the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration and were lost after the government released them to unvetted sponsors, according to senior officials. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced on Thursday a massive increase in the number […]
Vice President JD Vance’s chief of staff, Jacob Reses, will depart the Trump administration by the end of summer, according to multiple reports on Thursday. Reses began working as Vance’s chief of staff since President Donald Trump reentered the White House in January 2025, but he has been by the vice president’s side since he […]
EXCLUSIVE — Ukraine must not be forced to surrender any territory in a peace deal that has not been captured by Russian forces, according to Donald Trump’s former special envoy to the two countries. It is the clearest split between Keith Kellogg, a retired three-star general, and his former boss, who last year pushed for […]
President Donald Trump said American voters don’t have the stomach to handle the United States taking over Kharg Island as the war with Iran continues with no peace deal in sight. “My preference has always been [to] take Kharg Island,” Trump told Fox & Friends Thursday morning. “I don’t know that America has the stomach for it, […]
Washington Examiner White House reporter Naomi Lim said a lack of vetting on Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, could hurt Democrats’ hopes of controlling the Senate. Lim’s comments follow political consultant Daniel Moraff and fiancée Leanne Fan’s account of how they identified and recruited Platner to run for Maine’s Senate seat. […]
Violence in Belfast, United Kingdom, continued for another night into Thursday over the attempted beheading of a local by a Sudanese immigrant. Masked crowds clad in black marched out again on Wednesday night into Thursday, where they encountered a far more concerted police response than on previous nights. In contrast to the lackluster response the […]
An illegal immigrant from Jamaica, who allegedly overstayed her tourism visa by more than a decade, is accused of committing marriage fraud to stay in the country, joining the Army to expedite becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, and then fraudulently claiming disability benefits through veterans’ services. Britney Sherene Curry, 26, a Jamaican national living in […]
The House rejected a short-term extension of a government spy program set to lapse in just one day. The House voted 198-218, with 19 Republicans joining nearly every Democrat against the three-week patch of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill would have needed a two-thirds majority to pass under an expedited […]
