An FBI agent sought to open a criminal investigation into SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in February last year after federal employees were asked, thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency, to list “five things” they accomplished during the previous week, according to records Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) obtained from the bureau released […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. Today, we look at how AI companies might have to adjust their message to persuade President Donald Trump to regulate their industry, and we say farewell to a friend. Leading figures in the field […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha blasted rapper Macklemore over his pro-Palestinian remarks during Ed Sheeran’s tour, which sparked backlash from Jewish and pro-Israel groups. “People just want to hear good music,” Concha said Tuesday on Fox & Friends First. “They want a concert, they don’t want a campus protest. And many people pay good money […]
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers confirmed he will not participate in a debate scheduled for Tuesday evening, due to concerns the television anchor moderating the event is biased in favor of his Democratic rival. Rogers, the Republican embroiled in running a tight race against Democrat Abdul el Sayed, declined to participate in the Fox […]
President Donald Trump denounced some of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices for ruling to keep in place an injunction that blocks mail-in ballot restrictions before the midterm elections. “The Supreme Court has really let our Country down!” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post Tuesday morning. “Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and […]
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas issued a sharp dissent on Monday from the rest of the Supreme Court’s decision to keep a new set of USPS mail-in ballot rules blocked, warning that the majority of the high court is “incorrectly” affirming a “Hail Mary” bid to halt the new policy ahead of the midterm […]
President Donald Trump has nominated Kimberly Greenwood, the wife of country singer Lee Greenwood, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and seven other nations in the Eastern Caribbean. Kimberly Greenwood’s nomination was among dozens of judicial, ambassadorial, and other administration nominations sent to the Senate on Monday. If confirmed, she would serve as […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said she wants to see Lindsay Clancy, the woman who went on trial for fatally strangling her three young children, publicly executed as a “warning to women everywhere.” The congresswoman called for the death penalty after Clancy’s court proceedings resulted in a mistrial earlier this month due to one sole juror […]
The median U.S. household income, adjusted for inflation, rose to an all-time high of $87,460 in 2025, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, showing that the country prospered in the first year of President Donald Trump‘s first term, even as measures of consumer sentiment began to fall toward multidecade lows. The household income was a 2.6% […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday morning, where he is set to face intense questioning on the economy, the international financial system, and other issues. The hearing is set to begin on Capitol Hill at 10 a.m., as Bessent gives his annual testimony to the panel of […]
