President Donald Trump, perhaps the United States’s most prominent Anglophile, had a very special gift on his wish list from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That request almost drove the ambassador and an international team of civil servants insane before it was ultimately abandoned. A cache of emails related to former British Ambassador to the […]

Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the latest from the political coal face. Today, we look at how Graham Platner is dealing with his latest scandal (he has plenty of practice) and the fallout from a different kind of scandal in London… Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race, has a […]

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt pitched his California conservative agenda against the rise of socialism in an hourlong interview with Bill Maher on Monday. Pratt, a former reality TV star running to unseat current Mayor Karen Bass after losing his home in the Palisades fire last year, took aim at the rise of socialism […]

The Supreme Court added a case to its next term on Monday that addresses how the First Step Act applies to inmates seeking quicker transfers from prison to lower-security confinement, such as a halfway house, marking the latest instance of the justices reviewing the scope of the 2018 criminal justice reform law. The high court […]