A protest outside a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Utah on Wednesday ended with tensions high, after a handful of demonstrators committed vandalism.  Hundreds gathered for the protest against ICE’s newly purchased detention center in Salt Lake City. The demonstration during the day was largely peaceful. But as the evening wound down, several […]

House Republican leaders are lining up behind an 18-month extension of FISA Section 702, placing the GOP behind President Donald Trump’s push to renew the surveillance authority before it expires next month, even as many conservatives remain wary of the intelligence community’s history of abuse. The effort was laid out on Thursday by House Permanent […]

An Israeli airstrike on the world’s largest natural gas field in South Pars, Iran, has raised fears of escalatory attacks on energy infrastructure across the Middle East. The Wednesday strike on South Pars marked the first U.S.-Israeli attack on Iranian energy production infrastructure of the war, and triggered a series of retaliatory strikes on Gulf […]

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are looking ahead to a big summer wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. Also, we were at the Trump-Kennedy Center last night for a reception and dance performance ahead of the Japanese prime minister’s visit today (and a reminder that even the best-laid plans can get […]