Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the best and worst of the nation’s politics. Today we are still defrosting our toes, running the rule over the Melania documentary, and taking you inside Donald Trump’s appearance at the Alfalfa Club dinner… The movie theater wasn’t empty. One couple was already in the fourth row […]

The United Kingdom’s former ambassador to the United States has taken another step back from public life over his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, resigning from the Labour Party on Sunday. Peter Mandelson announced he would be stepping back from the governing party after the latest release of Epstein files by the Department […]

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York predicted the Democratic lawmakers behind the partial government shutdown standoff will lose “just like the last time.” York appeared on Fox News Live Sunday, two days after the Senate averted a complete government shutdown as Republican and Democratic senators continued to negotiate the appropriations bill that funds the […]

Violent crime in Washington, D.C., continued its downward trend early in 2026, according to Metropolitan Police Department crime data, with the city posting one of its lowest homicide counts to start a year in a decade.  In January, the nation’s capital recorded only two homicides, one of the lowest monthly totals on record.  This continues […]