Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Wednesday backtracked on his support for transgender athletes playing in women’s sports, as his campaign fights to coalesce support in the red state ahead of the general election this fall. The state representative has long pushed for athletes to play on teams that correspond to their gender identity, […]

DALLAS — Attendees, candidates, and party operatives poured into 95-degree Fahrenheit heat for the first-ever GOP midterm convention, bringing with them high energy and a clear focus on President Donald Trump. In the days leading up to the party’s first midterm convention, many political experts and members of the press billed it as a Trump […]

The Houthis seized a strategic Yemeni port city on Thursday, bringing the Iranian-backed militant group closer to controlling a key stretch of the Red Sea coast and threatening a critical trade and energy route. The port city of Mokha, a historic coffee-trading hub that gave its name to the popular coffee drink “mocha,” came after […]

Welcome to Thursday’s Washington Secrets, coming to you from Day 2 of the midterm convention in Dallas. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. First, we meet the head of the House Republican campaign arm, who is not as gloomy as you might think. Then we hear about a […]