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Feb 17, 2026
Remarks by a top administration official appeared to be aimed at dispelling skepticism of its assertions, as President Donald Trump vows to restart U.S. tests.
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Feb 17, 2026
The Supreme Court will begin using software to scan litigants' filings to identify justices' potential conflicts of interest.
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Feb 17, 2026
Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and the president's longtime executive assistant, is set to be sworn in Thursday.
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Feb 17, 2026
A former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., he launched two historic presidential campaigns while spreading a message of hope and resilience: "I am — somebody."
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Feb 17, 2026
Col. David Butler, who had been selected by senior Army leaders for promotion to brigadier general, will instead retire, officials said.
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Feb 17, 2026
Those months revealed many things about America, not all as uplifting as the spirit that propelled the civil rights leader to second place in the Democratic presidential primary.
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Feb 17, 2026
The obstacles he faced — including those from his own party's establishment — were overt and subtle.
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Feb 17, 2026
A number of prominent figures have stepped down or are facing investigations after their communications with Jeffrey Epstein and his former longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, were released last month.
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Feb 17, 2026
As a civil rights activist, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and Memphis. He later launched two historic presidential campaigns.
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Feb 16, 2026
President Donald Trump said the federal government would help with an incident that poured 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
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Feb 16, 2026
A GOP-appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery to a George Washington site in Philadelphia.
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Feb 16, 2026
A GOP-appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery to a George Washington site in Philadelphia.
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Feb 16, 2026
The former president appeared to confirm decades-old conspiracy theories. Lawmakers say Barack Obama is simply saying what many Americans already believe.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former McConnell interns, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with Trump.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former interns for Mitch McConnell, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with President Donald Trump.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former McConnell interns, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with President Donald Trump.
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Feb 15, 2026
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties' ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.
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Feb 15, 2026
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties' ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.
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Feb 15, 2026
Advisers had been encouraging the president to sound more empathetic toward struggling Americans. But as some bright spots emerge, the messaging has shifted.
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Feb 14, 2026
Some area golfers say the president's ambitions for East Potomac Golf Links could put low-cost entry points to the game out of reach.
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Feb 14, 2026
At the Munich Security Conference, the secretary of state stressed cultural and historical ties but also slammed European trade and border policies and the U.N.
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Feb 14, 2026
In several states and swing districts, House Democrats have nomination contests that could prove harmful.
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Feb 14, 2026
Democrats refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigrations agents.
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Feb 13, 2026
The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades and is advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.
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Feb 13, 2026
The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades.
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Feb 13, 2026
Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.
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Feb 13, 2026
Democrats have refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigrations agents, including requiring them to wear body cameras and tighter rules on warrants.
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Feb 13, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health department is undergoing a major leadership overhaul.
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Feb 13, 2026
The Supreme Court of Virginia has said the April 21 redistricting referendum can go forward even as it hears the appeal of a lower court's ruling against it.
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Feb 13, 2026
The USS Gerald R. Ford, deployed since June, will cross the Atlantic for a second time despite a Navy warning that the warship needs maintenance.
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Feb 13, 2026
President Trump aims to end the military mission there despite concerns about Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's ability to prevent a resurgence of the group.
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Feb 13, 2026
Democrats are pushing for new policies requiring agents to wear body cameras and get judicial warrants for raids.
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Feb 13, 2026
The effort to indict six Democratic lawmakers marks the first time DOJ has attempted to classify critical speech from prominent Trump detractors as a crime.
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Feb 13, 2026
The movement of between 6,000 and 7,000 detainees to Iraqi government control, underway for weeks, could be complete as soon as Friday.
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Feb 12, 2026
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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Feb 12, 2026
Gail Slater — an antitrust attorney who vowed to resist political interference at her confirmation hearing — announced her departure on social media.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Trump administration intends to appeal the ruling, which says the retired Navy officer's right to free speech was under attack.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Trump administration is expected to appeal the ruling, which says the retired Navy officer's right to free speech was under attack.
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Feb 12, 2026
The potential 2028 presidential candidates will sound off on a range of burgeoning crises as European leaders recoil at America's populist politics.
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Feb 12, 2026
Donald T. Kinsella was chosen by judges to lead the federal prosecutors' office in Albany, then fired hours later via an email from the White House.
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Feb 12, 2026
Gail Slater — an antitrust attorney who vowed to resist political interference at her confirmation hearing — announced her departure on social media.
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Feb 12, 2026
Gail Slater — an antitrust attorney who vowed to resist political interference at her confirmation hearing — announced her departure on social media.
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Feb 12, 2026
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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Feb 12, 2026
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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Feb 12, 2026
Our chief political correspondent took your questions during her live chat.
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Feb 12, 2026
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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Feb 12, 2026
A handful of House Republicans bucked leadership to oppose the administration's tariff policy, but GOP senators still fear speaking out on Epstein connections.
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Feb 12, 2026
Some election experts warn it could portend attempts to muddle future election results.
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Feb 11, 2026
The president could veto the measure if it reaches his desk, but the action underscores some Republican frustrations with his trade policies.
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Feb 11, 2026
Trump had initially excluded Democrats from the traditionally bipartisan meeting. However, not all Democrats were invited to a separate dinner.
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Feb 11, 2026
The attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.
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Feb 11, 2026
Follow President Trump's 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.
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Feb 11, 2026
Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ruben Gallego and Gretchen Whitmer hope to reassure anxious European allies at the Munich Security Conference.
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Feb 11, 2026
J.P. Cooney served as a top deputy to special counsel Jack Smith in two criminal prosecutions of Trump.
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Feb 11, 2026
The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump's show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
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Feb 11, 2026
The vice president's historic trip illustrates Trump's transactional diplomacy and willingness to use economic muscle to elbow out rivals such as Russia and Iran.
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Feb 11, 2026
Three Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting an attempt to block votes that would end the national emergency underpinning the president's tariffs.
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Feb 11, 2026
The vote opens the door to consideration of measures that would end the national emergency Trump declared to justify sweeping tariffs on other countries' imports.
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Feb 10, 2026
Federal prosecutors launched an investigation into the lawmakers after they released a short video advising current military members to reject "illegal orders."
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Feb 10, 2026
The FBI told a federal judge that it is investigating whether any "deficiencies" in Georgia officials' handling of the 2020 presidential election were intentional.
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Feb 10, 2026
The FBI told a federal judge that it is investigating whether any "deficiencies" in Georgia officials' handling of the 2020 presidential election were intentional.
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Feb 10, 2026
At least some in the GOP want ICE to tone it down.
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Feb 10, 2026
Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly approved proposed congressional maps that favor their party, setting the stage to send sending the matter to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D).
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Feb 10, 2026
Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly sent proposed congressional maps that favor their party to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) Tuesday as part of a budget package.
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Feb 10, 2026
The president left some governors, including Maryland's Wes Moore, off the guest list for an event that has traditionally been bipartisan.
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Feb 10, 2026
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Congress that he recalls meeting with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein three times over the course of 14 years.
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Feb 10, 2026
As the Gordie Howe bridge neared its completion, Trump, in his latest salvo against Canada, suggested he would "not allow" it to open, saying Canada had treated the U.S. "very unfairly."
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Feb 10, 2026
Explaining the SAVE Act, which Republicans in Congress are voting on this week.
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Feb 09, 2026
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said a judge should dismiss Stephen K. Bannon indictment over defying a Jan. 6 subpoena "in the interests of justice."
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Feb 09, 2026
A federal judge weighing whether the project may proceed has focused on whether the administration can use private donations to bypass congressional approval.
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Feb 09, 2026
A lawyer for about Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell said she is prepared to testify before lawmakers if first granted clemency.
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Feb 09, 2026
Michael Whatley was selected for Post Next 50.
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Feb 09, 2026
The president is said to be eager to increase his involvement but has yet to approve a spending plan for his $300 million-plus war chest.
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Feb 09, 2026
More Perfect Union, one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels, doesn't look like most other online political content.
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Feb 09, 2026
Thomas Massie has challenged Trump on issues including the Epstein files and is trying to survive reelection in deep-red Kentucky.
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Feb 08, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers filed records requests to the National Security Agency and the CIA, according to documents released by the Justice Department.
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Feb 08, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers filed records requests to the National Security Agency and the CIA, according to documents released by the Justice Department.
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Feb 08, 2026
The White House did not say why Democratic governors were not invited to the meeting with Trump. In addition, at least two Democrats were uninvited to a dinner, their offices said.
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Feb 08, 2026
Amid a burst of high-profile targeted violence, authorities have identified a new source of terror.
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Feb 08, 2026
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-New York) faces the challenge of leading the questioning of top immigration officials at the peril of angering the White House.
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Feb 07, 2026
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ending graduate-level programs for military personnel at the school, which he claimed had become a breeding ground for "radical ideologies."
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Feb 07, 2026
Six years after leading Trump's first impeachment trial, Schiff reflects on the balance Democrats must strike between opposing Trump and lawmaking.
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Feb 06, 2026
"No, I didn't make a mistake," the president said.
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Feb 06, 2026
Documents indicate that Navy Secretary John Phelan was a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 for two transatlantic flights in 2006.
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Feb 06, 2026
Officials announce the arrest of a man they called a key participant in the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others.
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Feb 06, 2026
Tim Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, called it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House."
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Feb 06, 2026
Tim Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, called it ‘the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House.'
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Feb 06, 2026
Officials announce the arrest of a man they called "a key participant" in the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others.
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Feb 06, 2026
Scores of claims are expected to arise out of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Experts say suing the government will be tough.
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Feb 06, 2026
Many allege injuries or property damaged during the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Experts say suing the government will be tough.
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Feb 06, 2026
Republicans have criticized Democrats' proposals as "a ridiculous Christmas list" but say they're willing to negotiate.
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Feb 06, 2026
Amid an immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area, judges have lost patience with the Trump administration, saying officials are flouting their orders.
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Feb 06, 2026
Amid an immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area, judges have lost patience with the Trump administration, saying officials are flouting their orders.
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Feb 06, 2026
Why doctors who led the pandemic response in their states are running for office.
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Feb 05, 2026
The president has argued his drug-pricing initiative ‘should win us the midterms.' Experts say its impact could be positive but limited.
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Feb 05, 2026
A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.
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Feb 05, 2026
Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers filed a video last year reminding troops that they can ignore illegal orders.
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Feb 05, 2026
Races in the Lone Star State are among those that will be key to determining which party controls the U.S. House.
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Feb 05, 2026
The president has argued his drug-pricing initiative ‘should win us the midterms.' Experts say its impact could be positive but limited.
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Feb 04, 2026
The Supreme Court allowed a new California voting map that could help Democrats gain up to five seats in Congress.
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