Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ripped the International Olympic Committee for disqualifying Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych for wearing a helmet honoring athletes killed since the beginning of the war. The IOC announced Thursday morning that it was disqualifying Heraskevych for his refusal to comply with the committee’s guidelines on “athlete expression.” Zelensky said sports “shouldn’t […]

Welcome to the latest installment of Washington Secrets, your user guide to the capital’s politics. Today, Secrets takes an exclusive look at one of the likely big winners of Donald Trump’s Russian oil sanctions President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil will claim their biggest scalp when Lukoil, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, […]

The Trump administration fired the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York Wednesday just hours after a panel of federal judges selected him for the role, marking the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s battle with courts over control of federal prosecutor appointments. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that longtime lawyer […]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight. Hawley grilled Ellison on the fraud scandals gripping Minnesota, focusing on a 2021 meeting between Ellison and several leaders who were […]