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Europe condemns U.S. move to bar individuals over tech monitoring

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department would bar several Europeans for their actions in monitoring the internet, which he characterized as censorship.

24 Dec 2025 6:12 pm
I am The Posts federal government whisperer. Its been brutal.

One reporters effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources and nearly broke her.

24 Dec 2025 4:30 pm
Congress set records in 2025, some more dubious than others

Republican lawmakers reflect on a year without much productivity and greater ceding of powers to the White House.

24 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Despite anti-media rhetoric, the government is still reading the news

The Trump administration is spending tens of thousands of dollars on paywalled news sites, including Politico and Bloomberg, despite earlier criticism of media outlets.

24 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Supreme Court hands Trump a major defeat on National Guard deployment

The Supreme Court holds that the presidents authority to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement purposes likely only applies in exceptional circumstances.

24 Dec 2025 2:33 am
Republican former senator Ben Sasse says he has terminal cancer

The 53-year-old who was one of a handful of Republicans to speak out against Trump during his first term said in a lengthy social media post he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and suggested he doesnt have long to live.

24 Dec 2025 12:27 am
A third of D.C. arrests still involve federal agents despite end of takeover

The Post has gathered more than 5,000 arrest reports filed in D.C. Superior Court since Trumps crackdown began with a 30-day federal takeover of D.C. police.

23 Dec 2025 8:22 pm
Second big batch of Epstein files includes many mentions of Trump

After a first batch of Epstein document had few mentions of President Trump, the Justice Department disclosed thousands more with many references to the president.

23 Dec 2025 9:08 am
Trump critic George Conway files papers for U.S. House bid in New York

George Conway is joining a crowded Democratic race in New York to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler for his U.S. House seat.

23 Dec 2025 3:56 am
Trump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors

A senior State Department official called it a bid to ensure adherence to the America First agenda while others called it a devastating blow to Americas diplomatic corps.

23 Dec 2025 2:24 am
Democratic Rep. Crockett says Vance used racist tropes in comments about her

Two Black Democrats, Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, criticized comments the vice president made about them during his weekend speech at a Turning Point gathering.

23 Dec 2025 1:43 am
Republicans and Democrats pitch competing plans to tackle affordability

Affordability is topic No. 1 with midterms looming, but economists are skeptical that Congress can do much to lower prices across the board.

22 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
JD Vance is walking a tightrope on raging Israel debate within MAGA

Pressure is mounting on Vice President JD Vance to condemn Nick Fuentes over antisemitic rhetoric. But so far, hes trying not to disavow anyone within the movement.

22 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Ted Cruz weighs another presidential run, setting up clash with Vance

He feuds with Tucker Carlson and privately criticizes the vice president, touting traditional GOP foreign policy and warning of the partys rising antisemitism.

22 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Two lawmakers seek to find Bondi in contempt over Epstein files

Top Justice Department official defends redactions and deletion of documents on agencys website, including one of a photo that includes Trump.

22 Dec 2025 1:58 am
Trump faces narrowing options on Venezuela action

The Trump administration has backed itself into a corner on Venezuela, with President Nicols Maduros removal by force or war the only compelling options.

21 Dec 2025 3:31 pm
The year Trump broke the federal government

How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nations sprawling bureaucracy.

21 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Alsobrooks on her first Senate year: The mission was 'crystal clear.

Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks profile rose after her grilling of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his appointment hearing went viral.

21 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Epstein files include child porn complaint a decade before federal investigation

Maria Farmer has long claimed she warned the FBI about Epstein in the 1990s, but they ignored her complaint.

21 Dec 2025 2:39 am
Whats in Epstein files so far? Celebrities, Clinton, few Trump mentions

The Justice Department has not indicated when more files will be released, and its site no longer contains some files that had already been posted.

21 Dec 2025 1:39 am
Republican women shrinking their ranks in Congress

Retirements, resignations and tough elections could cut into their growing numbers from recent elections.

21 Dec 2025 1:22 am
Governments historic role as trusted information source is under threat

The U.S. government for decades has been the worlds leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.

20 Dec 2025 6:59 pm
Tucker Carlson inflames a raging battle for MAGAs future

The provocative podcaster has an audience online, among influencers and inside the White House. That worries some on the right.

20 Dec 2025 4:30 pm
Trump makes affordability pitch in struggling corner of N.C., his last rally of 2025

Trump used the rally to hammer the issue his advisers want him to emphasize as his poll numbers lag.

20 Dec 2025 10:58 am
Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92

His books on Reagan have never been transcended, said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.

20 Dec 2025 10:18 am
U.S. strikes dozens of sites in Syria in retaliation for troops deaths

The expansive operation follows the killing last weekend of two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter at a military base in the city of Palmyra.

20 Dec 2025 6:18 am
Elise Stefanik ends bid for N.Y. governor and wont run again for House

Stefaniks move came after Trump ally Bruce Blakeman decided to enter the Republican primary for New York governor.

20 Dec 2025 3:10 am
Why MAGA faithful are growing frustrated with Trump

A Vanity Fair interview with President Donald Trumps chief of staff, a controversial social post about a Hollywood legend, and brusk remarks on the economy have put the cracks within Trumps party on full display.

20 Dec 2025 2:52 am
To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license pirates of the Caribbean

A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque to modern-day privateers.

20 Dec 2025 2:09 am
Drug companies line up to make deals with Trump after initial hesitation

Nine more drug companies announced Most Favored Nation deals with the White House, agreeing to discount drugs sold to the government and through TrumpRx.gov.

20 Dec 2025 1:47 am
Trumps predecessors would be unsettled by his naming obsession

The nations past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office.

19 Dec 2025 10:59 pm
Trumps pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims

In addition to clearing prison sentences, the presidents clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.

19 Dec 2025 4:30 pm
More than half of Americans live in places where recreational marijuana is legal

There are 24 states in the U.S. that have legalized the recreational use of marijuana.

19 Dec 2025 2:34 pm
Kirks widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages

Erika Kirk told a Turning Point USA conference that she would work to elect JD Vance president in 2028, at an event in which MAGA divisions were on full display.

19 Dec 2025 12:35 pm
Judge in Wisconsin convicted of helping immigrant avoid arrest by ICE

The jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of a felony, obstructing an official proceeding, but acquitted her of a misdemeanor.

19 Dec 2025 9:37 am
GOP signals end to probes into militarys killing of boat strike survivors

Despite Democrats objections, the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees said they were satisfied a controversial Sept. 2 attack was lawful.

19 Dec 2025 6:27 am
Voice of America employee admits he made death threats against Rep. Greene

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirros office said Jason would place the threatening calls from inside Voice of Americas offices in D.C.

19 Dec 2025 5:30 am
Virginia sheriff accused of violating ethics law, in rare Hatch Act case

Its the first time the ethics watchdog has brought a Hatch Act action against a local or state official in at least a decade.

19 Dec 2025 2:20 am
Johnson says he still controls the House. Some fellow Republicans disagree.

The speaker is downplaying tensions within his party that for months he had tamped down with the help of President Donald Trump.

19 Dec 2025 2:11 am
Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses will be revised, Noem says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noems announcement follows reports by The Washington Post detailing plans to downgrade the definition of such symbols to potentially divisive.

19 Dec 2025 1:54 am
Why Trumps social media company is merging with a fusion power firm

The $6 billion deal between Trumps social media and cryptocurrency company and TAE Technologies aimed at bringing fusion energy to the market raises conflict of interest questions.

19 Dec 2025 1:27 am
Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses

The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 warrior dividend bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.

19 Dec 2025 1:12 am
Democrats will not release the autopsy of their 2024 loss

Party leaders hope to avoid contentious fights over the partys failing as it attempts to reboot for the 2026 midterms.

19 Dec 2025 12:30 am
Trump orders expanded access to marijuana, CBD, citing medical benefits

The moves, which do not decriminalize marijuana, come as Americans have increasingly embraced the substances.

19 Dec 2025 12:27 am
Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles

Follow President Trumps progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.

18 Dec 2025 8:37 pm
Trump tweets, White House staff disruptions trigger 2017 dj vu

GOP lawmakers are battling the same distractions as in Trumps first term despite talk of stability in the West Wing.

18 Dec 2025 4:30 pm
The lasting impact of Trumps federal surge on one D.C. neighborhood

Those at the 10th Place apartments in Southeast Washington said the presidents crime strategy deepened their distrust of police and made them feel no safer.

18 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Trump set to explore expanding CBD access for seniors

An administration pilot program to offer Medicare reimbursement for CBD treatments for seniors with cancer is expected as soon as next year.

18 Dec 2025 3:30 pm
Trump officials ordered to lift limits on lawmakers visits to ICE facilities

A recent requirement that members of Congress give seven days notice before visiting ICE immigration detention centers is unlawful, a judge ruled.

18 Dec 2025 1:57 pm
Alan Dershowitz muses over the constitutionality of a third Trump term

The presidents former legal adviser reportedly met with Trump about his new book, which considers hypotheticals for the possibility of him holding office past 2028.

18 Dec 2025 10:43 am