BY MIKE LILLIS, MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND EMILY BROOKS |
House Republicans are sending a clear and early warning to their Senate allies as the bill encompassing President Trump's domestic priorities heads to the upper chamber: Don't water it down.
House GOP leaders spent weeks in delicate talks with Republican holdouts before cobbling together a fragile agreement that could thread the needle between conservatives' demands for more spending cuts and moderates' insistence on a controversial tax break. |
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Elias Rodriguez, the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers Wednesday night outside a Jewish museum in Washington, made his first court appearance this week, where a picture of the criminal case against him so far began to come into focus. The killings of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, a young couple who worked for the embassy, have already roiled the nation's capital as new details continue to emerge. |
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Republican budget hawks got steamrolled this week as the House passed a bill to advance President Trump's agenda, sending concerns though financial markets about permanently higher U.S. deficit levels.
Following the pandemic, the U.S. national debt ratcheted up to a new plateau of around 120 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) after the government sent out trillions in stimulus to bolster the economy — an amount that contributed to inflation and drew Republican outrage. |
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Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted discovery Friday in a lawsuit seeking access to documents and information about the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) operations.
In a brief order, Roberts granted the government's request for an administrative stay, which temporarily lifts a judge's order allowing limited discovery into whether DOGE is an "agency." If it is found to be an agency, that would make DOGE subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. |
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The Trump administration on Friday authorized the relaunch of operations at a southeastern Utah uranium mine — marking its first use of a newly fast-tracked environmental review process.
The Velvet-Wood mine, set to be reopened by Canadian company Anfield Energy, contains both uranium and vanadium, a mineral used to strengthen steel equipment in cars, building and nuclear reactors. |
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President Trump revived his trade war Friday, threatening to slap hefty tariffs on the European Union and to hit Apple with tariffs if it doesn't manufacture in the United States.
His moves represented an about-face after weeks in which markets had rallied to Trump's pausing of his "Liberation Day" tariffs on much of the world and his lowering of tariffs on China. |
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The Pentagon on Friday released new rules for reporters that cover the building, banning journalists from certain areas without an official escort or prior approval, heavily curtailing press access to military officials.
Reporters can now only wander certain hallways, mostly near the Pentagon's entrances and the food court, with the areas off limits including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's physical office spaces and the Joint Staff physical office spaces "without an official approval and escort from the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs," according to a memo signed by Hegseth. |
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President Trump announced Friday a partnership between U.S. Steel and Japanese corporation Nippon Steel, saying that jobs will be created in Pennsylvania as a result.
"I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, US Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh. For many years, the name, 'United States Steel' was synonymous with Greatness, and now, it will be again. This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel, which will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 Billion Dollars to the U.S. Economy," Trump said on Truth Social. |
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Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, said Friday it is planning to cut 2,500 jobs as the Trump administration seeks to reduce government spending levels by discontinuing federal contracts.
The federal shift is projected to decrease Booz Allen's fiscal 2026 revenue by 3 percent, as most of the company's earnings are rooted in government contracts. |
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BY MILEAH KROMER AND IAN ANSON |
OPINION | Democrats and Republicans don't just disagree on policy — they increasingly diverge in how they live their daily lives. From the places they eat and the cars they drive to the television networks they watch and even the names they give their children, lifestyle choices are often split along partisan lines. These differences reflect a broader and more troubling trend: political polarization is shaping not just the outcomes of our elections, but the fabric of American culture.
With the unofficial start of summer upon us, it is worth asking: Has polarization also seeped into something as apolitical as summer vacation? |
OPINION | When I graduated college in the early 1990s, I was ready to start my career. The only hitch was that I had no idea how.
Armed with a degree, boundless optimism, and zero practical knowledge of how to get a job, my grand entrance into the workforce led me straight to a mall software store, where I became a proud purveyor of floppy disks and CD-ROMs for just above minimum wage. |
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Tariffs are up. Tariffs are down. Shipping is frozen. Shipping is back on.
In the past several weeks, Chinese imports to the U.S. have been on a seesaw, leaving Americans uncertain how tariffs will affect their lives.
It's impossible to say what tariffs will do to the price or availability of any particular item, although even the Trump administration's current level of 30 percent tariffs — on top of previous levies — will certainly make many things more expensive. |
BY ANNIE LINSKY, EMILY GLAZER AND ERICH SCHWARTZEL |
When Joe Biden left office in January, he sought to follow the template set by his predecessors for a post-presidency: Raise funds for a library, deliver a memoir and hit the speaking circuit.
Instead, he has been derailed by a battle to salvage his tarnished legacy—and an urgent fight against stage-4 prostate cancer that kills most men within five years. A stream of new books detailing the extent of his decline while in office and the efforts to conceal it has spawned a fresh round of recriminations over the 82-year-old's presidency.
The twists have turned the final chapter in Biden's half-century of public life into a solemn and diminished period that stands to further erode his standing in history. |
Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo vividly remembers receiving a call around midnight from a community activist. The caller told him to watch a video spreading on social media of a white officer pinning a Black man to the ground, despite his fading pleas of "I can't breathe."
The dying man was George Floyd. The officer was Derek Chauvin. And Arradondo was the city's first Black police chief.
"It was absolutely gut-wrenching," Arradondo, 58, recalled in an interview ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd's murder. |
BY ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ AND MARIA SACCHETTI |
Masked officers descended on courthouses across the country this week and arrested stunned immigrants showing up for scheduled immigration hearings as part of a new directive from federal officials aimed at dramatically accelerating deportations.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Arizona, Virginia and more than 20 other states have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered them to be deported or after prosecutors move to drop their cases, according to internal documents issued this month and reviewed by The Washington Post. |
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