The news of the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, resulted in messages of condolences from celebrities and politicians on social media. A subsequent investigation into the Reiners’ deaths is ongoing. Los Angeles police officers arrived at the Reiner home in the Brentwood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon to find the […]

The Trump slump appears to be easing, raising hopes in the White House that the president and Republicans could be poised for springtime political pop. Indications since Thanksgiving that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming off their polling lows were confirmed in a new Cygnal survey shared with Washington Secrets on Monday. “Right […]

Federal authorities disrupted what the Justice Department described as a “massive and horrific” terrorist plot targeting Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve, arresting multiple alleged members of a left-wing extremist group accused of planning coordinated bombings across Southern California. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday that the DOJ, working with the FBI, prevented a […]

Chinese authorities on Monday convicted a leading pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong on charges of publishing “seditious” material and colluding with foreign entities.  Jimmy Lai’s conviction marks Beijing’s intensifying crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997. The Chinese territory had maintained a semblance of Western-style liberties and was noted […]