Dell inks $9.7 billion Pentagon contract after Trump acquires stock

Ethics experts say Trump’s recent investments in and public praise for the tech company create the appearance of a conflict of interest.

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Justice Dept. says the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional

The DOJ concluded that a law requiring presidential records preservation is unconstitutional, setting the path to potentially upend decades-old legal precedent.

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Black Caucus scholarships discriminate based on race, lawsuit alleges

The lawsuit, filed by an anti-affirmative action group, is part of a broader movement to dismantle programs meant to remedy the effects of past discrimination.

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The Vast Reach of Jeffrey Epstein's Network | KQED

Airdate: Monday, March 2 at 10 AM Weeks after the Department of Justice released millions of pages of documents related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, new questions are emerging about evid...

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Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to Epstein suggested by Trump

President Donald Trump suggested the relationships between the disgraced financier and several prominent Democrats deserve more scrutiny than his own connections to Epstein.

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Trump urges Senate GOP to give ACA subsidies directly to Americans

Obamacare subsidies have been a sticking point for Democrats. The president wants to send the funds directly to Americans, which would require congressional action.

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Changemakers in Focus: A Conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson

Join Penn Washington, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, the NYU John Brademas Center, and the Association of Marshall Scholars...

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Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo

The president says the publication “deserves to be called out” for using an unflattering image of him for its cover story about his efforts in the Middle East.

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Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.

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White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director

The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials there.

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Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk

The freshman Arizona senator is making the rounds on the traditional early presidential circuit with a diagnosis of his party’s problem and a pitch for winning Trump voters.

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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home

A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”

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Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker

“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

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White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge

President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

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Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel

Jack Smith, who pursued two cases against Donald Trump, is being investigated for potentially violating the Hatch Act.

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Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older

The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan in conversation with designer Marc Jacobs.

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Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem.

Many urban canopies across U.S. cities are dominated by only a handful of tree types, putting them at risk of being wiped out by an insect or disease.

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DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy.

Homeland Security is sharing images of pastoral paintings bookended by posts cheering Trump’s deportation campaign. Some artists are pushing back.

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Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break.

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Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds

Over 1 in 5 top Trump appointees reported investments in crypto and other digital assets, far more than previous administrations, a Post analysis found.

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Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session

The state legislature will take the rare step of considering a mid-decade redrawing of district lines in light of concerns raised by the Justice Department.

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Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened.

Trump has largely shut down the southwest border by ending asylum programs and deploying troops. But those moves have shrunk the pool of easy-to-deport migrants.

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Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means.

The 33-year-old candidate clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York on Tuesday.

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The ways government is stressing out your child’s public school

Take a journey through our schoolhouse to see some of the headwinds facing K-12 education in America today.

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Trump administration weighs broad cancellation of California funding

Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales for funding cuts to the state, including citing noncompliance with the president’s executive orders.

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Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia

Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.

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Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban

The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.

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The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border

The reasons behind the decrease of fentanyl seizures in the U.S. and along the Mexico-U.S. border are complex.

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