Colombia has arrested a key leader of the Venezuelan-based terrorist organization Tren de Aragua with the support of United States law enforcement officials. The U.S. State Department Bureau of Counterterrorism announced on Friday that the officials captured Jorge Luis Laez Cordero, nicknamed “Cucaracho,” this week. The bureau said Cucaracho was one of seven Tren de […]

The FBI is investigating thousands of hours of video footage as part of its investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Authorities have not detained a suspect in the case since Guthrie was reported missing from her Arizona home roughly four weeks ago. The FBI said Thursday it has collected up to 10,000 hours of video related […]

Dozens of influential divisions within the Trump administration‘s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are headed by holdovers from the Obama and Biden administrations, a Washington Examiner review has found. Those officials could complicate the Trump administration’s stated plans to ramp up a crackdown on fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. A Washington Examiner […]

Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Is it still only February? Today, we have our weekly assessment of Donald Trump’s week, a reminder that not all D.C. journalists are beta nerds (or at least, weren’t back in the day), and why Kristi Noem is not going to be fired any time soon (cut it […]