Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to spend up to $2 million on robot “dogs” to assist its agents' operations, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding document. A funding document posted to DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System on Thursday said the agency could spend between $1 million and $2 million on...
Two Trump administration officials are calling for an independent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation into the government's response to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment — which caused toxic chemicals to spill into the town. In a joint Friday letter, Vice President JD Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA’s acting inspector...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) walked back its move Friday to advise its journalists not to refer directly to Al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. as an act of terrorism — guidance that garnered widespread criticism from political leaders. In an internal memo this week first reported by The Toronto Sun, CBC’s...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions of four Army officers picked for promotion to one-star rank, some of whom have ties to top Army generals the Pentagon chief ousted earlier this year, The Hill has learned. Some of the officers pulled from the list have links to former Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, who...
According to nearly every historical measure of power, the United States leads China by sizable margins — in wealth, economic output, fuel, food and...
New progressive “reform” bills will abolish life without parole sentences for New York’s most violent, while re-traumatizing the very people we swore to protect.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats need to defeat "MAGA extremists" in the midterm elections — and then bizarrely called for his party...
Los Angeles hosts the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population. In recent years, despite billions of dollars in city and county spending, LA’s once-pristine streets...
Democrats think that taking money from billionaires to throw at problems will magically fix them. One look at public schools should be enough to disprove that theory. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made some waves criticizing socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s public school spending. Bezos claimed that doubling what he paid […]
Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and removed from Caracas, Venezuela, in an American operation called “Absolute Resolve” on Jan. 3. The next month, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the brutal supreme leader of Iran, was killed during a joint U.S.-Israeli operation. And on Wednesday, the United States indicted Fidel Castro’s […]
It’s no secret that Democrats are the party of failed, horrendous border security policies and suppressing illegal immigration enforcement. They promoted policies that led to millions of illegal immigrants entering the country, many with violent criminal records, during the Biden administration, contributing to the murders of innocent American women Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn […]
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent Wednesday getting our FreeCon or something, hanging out with one of the factions in the Republican Party preparing for what comes after Donald Trump. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) delivered a “fireside chat” — there was no fire or fireside — in which he said he wished […]
The Justice Department indicted de facto Cuban leader Raul Castro this week over the 1996 killings of four Americans. The indictment shows that the Trump administration wants to pressure Castro’s communist regime and to lay a legal foundation for any future U.S. military raid to capture him. Castro will certainly fear that a U.S. special […]
The U.S. autonomous vehicle industry, like any other industry, relies on a supply chain that spans the globe, collecting automotive hardware and raw materials from countless other countries. Typically, a global supply chain is a positive sign of cost optimization and connectivity, but these benefits should not obscure national security considerations. In the United States, […]
Three days. That is how long it took Washington to go from warning that Iraqi government elements are providing cover for Iran-backed militias to congratulating Tehran’s hand-picked prime minister and inviting him to the White House. Ali al Zaidi, a known money launderer and dollar smuggler whose Al-Janoob Islamic Bank has been under coordinated sanctions […]
