Welcome to Monday’s Washington Secrets, which comes a day after JD Vance flew home from talks with Iran. The view from Virginia’s Iranian community is gloomy. The excitement generated by the prospect of regime change has evaporated and been replaced by fear that a deal will be done to leave the country’s leaders in place. […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has endorsed Democrat Micah Lasher in the crowded primary to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), boosting a longtime ally in one of the party’s most competitive races. Lasher, a former Hochul policy director and longtime fixture in New York Democratic politics, is seeking the seat in the state’s 12th Congressional District, […]

The FBI has opened a federal criminal investigation into an assault on Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez. Hernandez, a journalist for TPUSA’s Frontlines, said she was “violently” shoved when she was covering a protest in Minnesota on Saturday, identifying her assaulter as Chris Ostroushko. Article III Project Attorney Mike Davis said he is pushing […]

A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, finding the president failed to show the outlet demonstrated “actual malice” when it published a letter Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida last year, after WSJ […]