Former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) is making her return to the Virginia public policy scene following her 2025 gubernatorial election loss with a statewide tour campaigning against constitutional amendments related to abortion and gay marriage. Earle-Sears, who fell to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) by over a 15-point margin in the gubernatorial election, has been […]

A federal appeals court declined to strike down Massachusetts’s “assault weapons” ban, months before the Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the hotly contested Second Amendment issue. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit denied an effort by a trio of gun stores to revive a lawsuit […]

Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we have been eating pastries with the future of election forecasting as Kalshi launches its midterm elections hub. Plus, we remind you that Secrets subscribers were the first to read about Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine and Russia. The prediction market Kalshi took another step today from […]

President Donald Trump was adamant that the public supports his war against Iran as he traveled Wednesday to receive the remains of U.S. service members who died last week in the Middle East. Trump made the comments to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before flying to Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base, where the […]