Welcome to Washington Secrets, your daily look inside the power politics of the nation’s capital. Today we talk to Charlie Kirk’s longtime producer about keeping his legacy alive, look at Donald Trump’s very mainstream media strategy, and see how Republicans are looking to weaponize the Iran war on the Hill… The ghost of Charlie Kirk […]

After the United States and Israel’s blistering opening strikes against Iran, Tehran turned the conflict into a regional conflict, firing drone and missile salvos at key facilities across and beyond the Middle East. In the aftermath of the joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Saturday morning, Iran fired drones and missiles at no fewer than 10 countries: […]

Members of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s deliberative body were hit with an airstrike as they convened to decide who would lead the bombarded country. The Israeli Air Force struck the Assembly of Experts building in the city of Qom on Tuesday, with Israeli media claiming it chose to attack while the body was meeting […]

The Justice Department on Monday dropped its legal defense of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting several major law firms, moving to dismiss pending appeals voluntarily after lower courts found the measures unconstitutional. In a Monday evening filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, government lawyers said they would […]