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Jan 08, 2026
More than two dozen Republicans in the House and Senate broke with President Trump in votes on Thursday.
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Jan 08, 2026
Prospects for passage in the Senate are unclear. The enhanced subsidies expired at the end of 2025, driving costs up for millions.
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Jan 08, 2026
The president's architect disclosed the change as federal review panels begin a fast-track review of the $400 million project.
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Jan 08, 2026
The vice president accused a woman who was shot dead by an ICE agent Wednesday of criminally trying to ram the officer, whom he described as acting in self-defense.
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Jan 08, 2026
The president's architect disclosed the change as federal oversight bodies begin a fast-track review of the $400 million project.
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Jan 08, 2026
John A. Sarcone III is the fifth Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney who has been disqualified from serving in such a role.
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Jan 08, 2026
Though largely symbolic, the measure would be a rare assertion of Congress's role in using lethal force after the stunning raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.
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Jan 08, 2026
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his distaste for low-pressure showers.
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Jan 08, 2026
Some GOP lawmakers warned that using force to seize the territory could fracture NATO, while others sought to downplay the possibility for such an attack.
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Jan 08, 2026
The party has struggled to counter Trump's "America First" rhetoric: "We really have to reassert ourselves," one senator said.
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Jan 08, 2026
It is the most direct challenge yet to Halligan's continued presence in the role since another judge dismissed an indictment against Comey, finding her appointment unconstitutional.
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Jan 07, 2026
Maryland's longest serving member of Congress won't seek reelection after having spent two decades as the No. 2 House Democrat.
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Jan 07, 2026
Trump seized on partial video footage to impose his interpretation of the shooting as investigators worked to establish the facts.
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Jan 07, 2026
The USS Iwo Jima and the USS San Antonio have been relocated to waters north of Cuba, and the Air Force also has withdrawn some aircraft from the region.
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Jan 07, 2026
White House officials have said "extensive" abatement efforts occurred before the East Wing was demolished, but have shared no further details.
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Jan 07, 2026
An anonymous trader's perfectly timed bet on the fall of Venezuela's leader has ignited debate over whether fast-growing prediction markets have adequate safeguards.
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Jan 07, 2026
An anonymous trader's perfectly timed bet on the fall of Venezuela's leader has ignited debate over whether fast-growing prediction markets have adequate safeguards.
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Jan 07, 2026
The director of national intelligence was conspicuously absent among Trump's top national security advisers during the planning for the Maduro mission.
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Jan 07, 2026
The director of national intelligence was conspicuously absent among Trump's top national security advisers during the planning for the Maduro mission.
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Jan 07, 2026
The March 10 election will decide who serves the remainder of her term for the state's 14th District following her high-profile split from President Trump.
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Jan 06, 2026
The sizable death toll adds meaning to President Donald Trump's public remarks that the operation he approved was "effective" but "very violent."
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Jan 06, 2026
Five years after a mob of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol to stop certification of Joe Biden's victory, the Trump administration is still fixated on a false narrative.
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Jan 06, 2026
President Donald Trump appears stronger than ever as he continues his attempts to rewrite the history of the U.S. Capitol attack.
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Jan 06, 2026
More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here's a look at abortion laws by state.
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Jan 06, 2026
The president urged GOP congressmen to focus on drug prices, transgender athletes in women's sports and cracking down on violent crime to win the 2026 midterms.
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Jan 06, 2026
Trent Holbrook, 40, who plans to formally announce his candidacy on Wednesday, will join a crowded field of candidates vying for the congresswoman's seat.
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Jan 06, 2026
The death of the seven-term congressman, coupled with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's vacating her seat Tuesday, means Republicans are likely to face trouble advancing partisan legislation.
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Jan 06, 2026
In a progress report of sorts, U.S. officials say about 12,300 Epstein documents have been reviewed and released. There are some 2 million to go.
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Jan 06, 2026
House Republicans continue to hide a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, almost three years after a law passed requiring its display.
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Jan 06, 2026
House Republicans continue to hide a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol in 2021, almost three years after a law passed requiring its display.
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Jan 06, 2026
In an interview, the newly registered Democrat emphasized his opposition to the president, as he seeks to stand out in a packed open race in New York.
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Jan 05, 2026
Any FEMA terminations are likely to come in waves, according to three people familiar with the plans.
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Jan 05, 2026
As the former Venezuelan president and his wife take their first steps in the U.S. legal system, Maduro's former vice president consolidates her hold on power.
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Jan 05, 2026
Does Congress step in? Does the public care?
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Jan 05, 2026
The Trump administration has targeted the Arizona Democrat, a retired Navy officer, over a video reminding U.S. troops they can disobey illegal orders.
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Jan 05, 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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Jan 05, 2026
The former Democratic vice presidential nominee stepped aside amid a growing fraud probe.
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Jan 05, 2026
Gerrymandering and longer-term trends in polarization have left fewer competitive House seats in next year's midterm elections.
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Jan 05, 2026
Gerrymandering and longer-term trends in polarization have left fewer competitive House seats in next year's midterm elections.
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Jan 05, 2026
Trump's moves to assert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and pull back from Europe could embolden Russia and China.
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Jan 05, 2026
A Washington Post poll shows Americans are split on sending military forces to Venezuela to capture Maduro. Most say it should have required Congress's approval.
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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 shared a video baselessly linking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to 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
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 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 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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