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Jan 04, 2026
Trump shared a video baselessly linking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to conspiracies over brazen political killings in the state this summer.
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Jan 04, 2026
Trump said many Venezuelan immigrants "want to go back." Will Maduro's removal spark a return — or another exodus?
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Jan 04, 2026
Democrats immediately argued that U.S. military action in Venezuela was an abandonment of the president's promise to focus on improving lives at home.
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Jan 04, 2026
Democrats immediately argued that U.S. military action in Venezuela was an abandonment of the president's promise to focus on improving lives at home.
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Jan 04, 2026
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
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Jan 04, 2026
The Secret Service has launched an effort to expand by about 20 percent to relieve pressure on an overstretched workforce and reduce reliance on outside agencies.
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Jan 03, 2026
The attack to seize Venezuela's president came months after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers the administration didn't intend to invade the country.
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Jan 03, 2026
The Venezuelan leader faces a multi-count indictment in New York. International-law experts question his arrest, but that probably will not affect his trial.
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Jan 03, 2026
The Venezuelan leader faces a multi-count indictment in New York. Experts in international law question his arrest, but that probably will not affect his trial.
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Jan 03, 2026
Trump allies point to the capture of Panama's Noriega in 1990 as a precedent. But Venezuela could turn out to be much more difficult.
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Jan 03, 2026
Venezuelans in the Miami suburb of Doral took to the streets in celebration after learning that the U.S. had struck their homeland and removed Nicolás Maduro.
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Jan 03, 2026
Once a critic of entanglements abroad, Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, risking a backlash from his MAGA base.
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Jan 03, 2026
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.
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Jan 03, 2026
The Minnesota governor is seeking a third term amid a welfare probe in his state that has sparked unwanted national attention.
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Jan 03, 2026
At Mar-a-Lago, official governance, private business and personal relationships converge.
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Jan 02, 2026
Officials say an 18 year old man contacted an NYPD undercover officer posing as a member of ISIS and discussed staging an attack at a North Carolina grocery.
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Jan 02, 2026
More than a dozen states have passed laws regulating protests in recent years, raising concerns among free-speech advocates.
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Jan 02, 2026
The National Park Service is spending $54.2 million to repair seven fountains in Washington, according to procurement records reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Jan 02, 2026
Expert testimony about sexual violence helped convict a Pakistani American man of assaulting his wife. His defense says the testimony relied on stereotypes.
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Jan 01, 2026
Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York City, was sworn in Thursday, marking a generational shift in the city's leadership with his promises to address affordability.
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Jan 01, 2026
Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York City, is to be sworn in Thursday, marking a generational shift in the city's leadership with his promises to address affordability.
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Jan 01, 2026
Margo Martin, a lesser-known member of the president's staff, fuels social media with a blitz of Trump content.
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Jan 01, 2026
The White House is seeking members likely to clear the way for President Donald Trump's controversial ballroom and other projects.
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Dec 31, 2025
Trump is seeking to gain approvals for his ballroom in just over two months that have taken other large projects years to complete.
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Dec 31, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts said in his annual year-end report on the judiciary that the nation's founding charters remain robust.
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Dec 31, 2025
The Colorado Republican said she hopes Trump's action on a water infrastructure bill benefiting her district "has nothing to do with political retaliation."
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Dec 31, 2025
Renee Hardman's convincing special-election win offers a hopeful signal for Democrats looking to 2026. She becomes the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.
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Dec 31, 2025
Renee Hardman's convincing special-election win offers a hopeful signal for Democrats looking to 2026. She becomes the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.
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Dec 31, 2025
The project reflects Trump's expansive view of presidential authority — even over the White House itself.
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Dec 31, 2025
Renee Hardman's convincing special-election win is an optimistic signal for Democrats looking to 2026. She becomes the first Black woman elected to the state Senate.
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Dec 30, 2025
The Coloradan was the only American Indian in the Senate during his tenure and helped lead the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington.
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Dec 30, 2025
Minnesota state senator Julia Coleman knew both Charlie Kirk and Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman. She is fed up with the conspiracy theories around their deaths.
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Dec 30, 2025
Customer service has deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump's second term, internal data and interviews show.
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Dec 30, 2025
Armed with a quorum and GOP majority, Chair Andrea Lucas is pressing new priorities — such as dismantling DEI — that criticis say have turned the agency's mission "on its head."
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Dec 29, 2025
Netanyahu has hailed Trump as the "greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House." Now the two must navigate rifts over Middle East strategy.
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Dec 29, 2025
It isn't clear what specific claims could be brought against Powell or when.
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Dec 29, 2025
Trump would not say if the military or the CIA conducted the strike in Venezuela amid escalating U.S. pressure on Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 29, 2025
Netanyahu has hailed Trump as the "greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House." Now the two must navigate widening rifts over Middle East strategy.
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Dec 29, 2025
As Trump's first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk's unusual influence.
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Dec 29, 2025
By The Washington Post's latest tally, at least 18 former members — 11 Democrats and seven Republicans — are asking voters to send them back to D.C. next year.
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Dec 28, 2025
The United States will help facilitate Russia-Ukraine talks in January, as Trump called the peace process "very complicated stuff."
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Dec 28, 2025
The president sounded optimistic about a deal to end Russia's almost four-year-old invasion while sharing no new specifics.
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Dec 28, 2025
Zelensky will visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss raising pressure on Russia, security guarantees and investment in postwar reconstruction.
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Dec 28, 2025
Zelensky will visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss raising pressure on Russia, security guarantees and investment in postwar reconstruction.
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Dec 28, 2025
The agency has moved away from focusing on arresting migrants at local jails to tracking them down in communities, a Washington Post analysis found.
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Dec 27, 2025
Democrats have suggested the lack of testimony is yet another way the administration is snubbing the legislative branch.
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Dec 26, 2025
Explicitly sectarian religious messages for Christmas on official government social media accounts drew complaints from advocates for church-state separation.
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Dec 26, 2025
Courts have ruled against Trump's efforts to take security clearances away from opposing lawyers. The latest loss comes in a case involving lawyer Mark Zaid.
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Dec 26, 2025
The Sunday meeting suggests that Washington and Kyiv are closing in on a joint position to end the war. Russia, however, will probably reject the plan.
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Dec 26, 2025
The meeting suggests that Washington and Kyiv are closing in on a joint position to end the war. Russia, however, will probably reject several aspects of the plan.
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Dec 26, 2025
Red-state farmers continue to struggle under damaging inflation and the fallout of President Donald Trump's tariff policies, especially with China.
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Dec 26, 2025
Among the Epstein files are records on his death in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center, but nothing so far challenges a ruling that he died by suicide.
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Dec 25, 2025
The U.S. military said it attacked ISIS militants at the request of Nigerian authorities. The number of casualties is unknown
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Dec 25, 2025
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) are two of the chamber's staunchest believers in the value of constituency services.
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Dec 25, 2025
Donations are down by more than 40 percent after a year when federal workers faced major agency downsizing and a lengthy government shutdown.
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Dec 25, 2025
The National Capital Planning Commission is preparing to host a presentation on the White House ballroom building next month.
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Dec 25, 2025
After the Border Patrol arrived in Louisiana, a couple and their five children went into hiding. That meant less food, few outings and no lights on the Christmas tree.
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Dec 24, 2025
The massive size of the Epstein files — perhaps more than a million pages — has created problems for the Justice Department.
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Dec 24, 2025
The tranche revealed wide-ranging references to President Donald Trump and detailed efforts to interview Prince Andrew in two investigations.
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Dec 24, 2025
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.
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Dec 24, 2025
One reporter's effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
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Dec 24, 2025
Republican lawmakers reflect on a year without much productivity and greater ceding of powers to the White House.
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Dec 24, 2025
The Trump administration is spending tens of thousands of dollars on paywalled news sites, including Politico and Bloomberg, despite earlier criticism of media outlets.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Supreme Court held that the president's authority to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement purposes likely only applies in "exceptional" circumstances.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Supreme Court holds that the president's authority to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement purposes likely only applies in "exceptional" circumstances.
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Dec 23, 2025
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 doesn't have long to live.
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Dec 23, 2025
The documents show that U.S. authorities sought to interview the former prince in connection with two separate criminal investigations.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Post has gathered more than 5,000 arrest reports filed in D.C. Superior Court since Trump's crackdown began with a 30-day federal takeover of D.C. police.
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Dec 22, 2025
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.
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Dec 22, 2025
George Conway is joining a crowded Democratic race in New York to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler for his U.S. House seat.
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Dec 22, 2025
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 America's diplomatic corps.
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Dec 22, 2025
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.
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Dec 22, 2025
Pressure is mounting on Vice President JD Vance to condemn Nick Fuentes over antisemitic rhetoric. But so far, he's trying not to disavow anyone within the movement.
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Dec 22, 2025
Affordability is topic No. 1 with midterms looming, but economists are skeptical that Congress can do much to lower prices across the board.
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Dec 22, 2025
He feuds with Tucker Carlson and privately criticizes the vice president, touting traditional GOP foreign policy and warning of the party's rising antisemitism.
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Dec 21, 2025
Top Justice Department official defends redactions and deletion of documents on agency's website, including one of a photo that includes Trump.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Trump administration has backed itself into a corner on Venezuela, with President Nicolás Maduro's removal by force or war the only compelling options.
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Dec 21, 2025
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation's sprawling bureaucracy.
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Dec 21, 2025
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.
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Dec 21, 2025
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.
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Dec 20, 2025
Some files that were posted to the site were deleted without explanation, only to be restored several hours later.
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Dec 20, 2025
Maria Farmer has long claimed she warned the FBI about Epstein in the 1990s, but they ignored her complaint.
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Dec 20, 2025
Retirements, resignations and tough elections could cut into their growing numbers from recent elections.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Justice Department's first release of Epstein files is heavy on photos of Bill Clinton, light on mentions of President Donald Trump and mostly lacking revelations.
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Dec 20, 2025
The provocative podcaster has an audience - online, among influencers and inside the White House. That worries some on the right.
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Dec 20, 2025
The U.S. government for decades has been the world's leader provider of trusted data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
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Dec 20, 2025
Trump used the rally to hammer the issue his advisers want him to emphasize as his poll numbers lag.
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Dec 19, 2025
His books on Reagan "have never been transcended," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
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Dec 19, 2025
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.
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Dec 19, 2025
Stefanik's move came after Trump ally Bruce Blakeman decided to enter the Republican primary for New York governor.
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Dec 19, 2025
A Vanity Fair interview with President Donald Trump's chief of staff, a controversial social post about a Hollywood legend, and brusk remarks on the economy have put the cracks within Trump's party on full display.
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Dec 19, 2025
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.
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Dec 19, 2025
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque authorizing private raids at sea.
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Dec 19, 2025
The nation's past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office.
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Dec 19, 2025
More and more drug companies are making deals with the White House on drugs sold to the government and to Americans through a new website, TrumpRx.gov.
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Dec 19, 2025
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president's clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
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Dec 19, 2025
There are 24 states in the U.S. that have legalized the recreational use of marijuana.
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Dec 19, 2025
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.
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Dec 18, 2025
The jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of a felony, obstructing an official proceeding, but acquitted her of a misdemeanor.
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Dec 18, 2025
The announcement follows reporting by The Washington Post that detailed plans to downgrade the definition of such symbols to "potentially divisive."
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