House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) plans to move forward with a clean extension for the federal government’s foreign spy powers amid threats of Iranian terrorist cells. Johnson announced Tuesday he plans to move forward with a clean extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, despite a push to attach a voter identification bill […]
President Donald Trump claimed the United States does not need the help of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the war against Iran, despite calling for allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. The president said on Tuesday that the U.S.-Israel operation against Iran was successful in decimating Tehran’s […]
European Union sports commissioner Glenn Micallef urged FIFA to strengthen security planning for the 2026 World Cup on Monday, warning that rising geopolitical tensions could pose risks for teams and fans. The United States, Canada, and Mexico are set to jointly host the tournament, with as many as 10 million visitors expected to travel to […]
President Donald Trump will host Ireland’s Taoiseach Michéal Martin at the White House Tuesday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The two will have a bilateral meeting, and then attend a Friends of Ireland event.
As U.S. forces move to secure the Strait of Hormuz amid the escalating war with Iran, some analysts say the conflict could deliver an unexpected strategic payoff: new leverage over China’s ability to wage war — including a potential invasion of Taiwan. Though the administration hasn’t listed control of the strait as an objective, Foundation […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we have a dive into the fundraising numbers that show that Democrats’ target list of midterm districts is aspirational, to put it politely, or a “political hallucination,” if you are less polite, plus how Donald Trump is uniting British politicians… Democrats keep expanding their battleground map of […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said that Democratic lawmakers eyeing the White House will need to “reckon” with the last administration’s handling of immigration and border security. Authorities identified Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone who spent six years in the Virginia National Guard, as the gunman in the […]
Israel’s assassination of most of the paramilitary Basij’s leadership signals a new phase in the war, in which the political repression apparatus in Iran is becoming the primary target. On the night of Monday into Tuesday, Israel launched its largest and most effective wave of assassinations since the opening hours of the war with Iran, […]
Joe Kent, the director of President Donald Trump‘s National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation Tuesday. Kent served 11 combat tours before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018 and taking over the administration’s counterterrorism center last summer. He is the first high-ranking Trump administration official to leave his post based on the president’s war in […]
The family of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson clarified on Monday that a supposed endorsement claimed by one Democratic front-runner in the Illinois Senate primary after the civil rights activist’s death was released without authorization. The family’s statement came days after Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announced Jackson had endorsed her before he died last […]
