One man with a violent criminal record was arrested after assaulting a New York Police Department officer during Tuesday’s snowball fight in Washington Square, a scene Mayor Zohran Mamdani described as “kids throwing snowballs.”  The NYPD said Thursday that 27-year-old Gusmane Coulibaly was arrested for assaulting the officer in Washington Park and that Coulibaly had […]

On Wednesday, the Cuban Coast Guard announced it had killed four people and injured six after intercepting a speedboat licensed in Florida, an incident with the possibility of ratcheting up tensions between the United States and Cuba. The incident was first revealed by the Cuban Coast Guard, which claimed to have fired on the boat […]

The Justice Department this week pledged it would release certain files related to Jeffrey Epstein if the documents were “improperly tagged” not to be disclosed.  The promise from the DOJ comes after the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), expressed concern that information about one of Epstein’s […]

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we look at how the law firm Jones Day, which staffed up the first Trump administration and represented the president and his campaign in a string of lawsuits, has switched sides and the ethical questions that raises. We also dive into the court documents where we find […]