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Nov 02, 2025
The renewed focus on 2020 coincides with Trump's starting to see results from his demands to prosecute his critics, including former FBI director James B. Comey.
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Nov 02, 2025
In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.
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Nov 02, 2025
When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.
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Nov 02, 2025
Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the British.
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Nov 02, 2025
Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson's great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father's words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
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Nov 02, 2025
As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson's words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, notwithstanding his own record of enslavement. They are now seen as a testament to humanity that have changed America and the world.
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Nov 02, 2025
In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a document that instead helped set America on the path to independence.
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Nov 02, 2025
Jefferson saw independence as a fight for liberty — and for access to the western lands that promised power and profit.
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Nov 02, 2025
Most Americans disapprove the president's handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.
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Nov 01, 2025
The move is an escalation in the president's campaign against the West African country's government over allegedly failing to protect Christians.
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Nov 01, 2025
In the final weekend before Election Day, several Democratic candidates and surrogates are using Trump as a foil to drum up support.
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Nov 01, 2025
Political candidates appearing on ballots this Tuesday are in the final campaign push before the election. President Donald Trump is notably absent.
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Nov 01, 2025
Once hailed as "majority makers," Democrats who won in 2018 have risen up the ranks and are aiming for a spot on the national ticket.
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Nov 01, 2025
The president is keeping a distance from some Republican candidates and signaling some pessimism about next Tuesday's contests.
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Nov 01, 2025
The president is keeping a distance from some Republican candidates and signaling some pessimism about next Tuesday's contests.
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Nov 01, 2025
President Donald Trump halted trade talks with Canada over the ad, which was paid for by the Ontario government and featured Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
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Nov 01, 2025
With the Supreme Court saying authorities can use race as a reason to stop people, Latinos and others say they are wary of looking for work, shopping and walking children to school.
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Nov 01, 2025
The nation's aviation system faces new strains amid growing concern that critical front-line employees working without pay might stop showing up for work.
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Nov 01, 2025
The president is keeping a distance from some Republican candidates and signaling some pessimism about next Tuesday's elections.
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Oct 31, 2025
The move limiting free press access to Room 140, which houses the offices of the press secretary and other staff, was said to be based on national security.
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Oct 31, 2025
The president unveiled the renovation project on his way to spend the weekend at his club in Mar-a-Lago as pressure mounts to reopen the government.
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Oct 31, 2025
The report claims Mace called officers "incompetent" and accused them of mistreating her.
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Oct 31, 2025
Officials must act ‘as soon as possible' to avoid prolonged interruption, a federal judge in Rhode Island said. A Massachusetts judge also told the administration to use the contingency funds.
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Oct 31, 2025
The appearance of far-right activist Nick Fuentes reopened a debate in the Republican Party over how forcefully to condemn antisemitism.
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Oct 31, 2025
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping deescalate their trade war - for now. And the politics of losing food assistance because of the government shutdown.
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Oct 31, 2025
Communications director Matt Mercer later said in a social media post that Trump should "feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper."
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Oct 31, 2025
The vice president told students on Wednesday that he hopes his wife, Usha, who is Hindu, converts to Christianity someday.
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Oct 31, 2025
The government did rely on contingency funding to keep food aid going when it shut down during President Donald Trump's first term.
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Oct 31, 2025
Democrats in the Virginia Senate took a big step Friday to enable lawmakers to draw new congressional maps, saying President Donald Trump has created an emergency.
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Oct 31, 2025
The new map received rare bipartisan agreement because Republicans who control the state legislature did not want to risk an election challenge from Democrats.
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Oct 31, 2025
A hiring spree would add hundreds more federal officers in the nation's capital, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
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Oct 31, 2025
A hiring spree would add hundreds more federal officers in the nation's capital, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
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Oct 31, 2025
Senate Republicans have not indicated significant openness to such a move.
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Oct 31, 2025
Combatants in the daylight-saving fight thought their prospects were bright after Trump waded in. But once again, the fate of their movement is cloudy.
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Oct 31, 2025
Since the movement upended politics 15 years ago, Republicans have sharply changed direction under MAGA — with many tea party veterans along for the ride.
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Oct 30, 2025
Asbestos, which can pose serious health risks to those exposed during demolition, was frequently used in projects at the time of the East Wing's construction.
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Oct 30, 2025
Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.
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Oct 30, 2025
The move could keep food assistance flowing despite the federal government shutdown.
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Oct 30, 2025
Chief political correspondent Karen Tumulty chats with readers every other Thursday at noon Eastern time.
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Oct 30, 2025
Join our chief political correspondent for her live chat every other Thursday at noon Eastern time.
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Oct 30, 2025
The North Korean leader has grown closer to Moscow since he and Trump met in 2019 and did not respond to the U.S. president's public push for a meeting.
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Oct 30, 2025
Asbestos, which can pose serious health risks when exposed during demolition, was frequently used in projects at the time of the East Wing's construction.
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Oct 30, 2025
China's leader agreed to delay restrictions on rare earth minerals for a year and buy more soybeans, Trump said after a meeting designed to calm trade tensions.
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Oct 30, 2025
Virginia's John Reid could become the country's first openly gay Republican elected to statewide office. Attacks from within his party have made his sexuality an issue, he says.
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Oct 30, 2025
If John Reid becomes Virginia lieutenant governor, he'd be the most prominent gay Republican in elected office. Not everyone in his party is comfortable with that.
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Oct 30, 2025
Ten years after Ryan's ascension, there's little of the former speaker's traditional conservatism remaining in today's House Republican caucus.
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Oct 30, 2025
Fifty-six percent say they oppose President Donald Trump's decision to tear down part of the White House to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom building.
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Oct 30, 2025
Already strained by federal funding cuts earlier in the year and a surge in demand from furloughed federal workers, food banks face a fresh wave of need as SNAP benefits end Saturday.
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Oct 30, 2025
Already strained by federal funding cuts earlier in the year and a surge in demand from furloughed federal workers, food banks face a fresh wave of need as SNAP benefits end Saturday.
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Oct 30, 2025
The strategy has fueled a stark fundraising advantage and polling lead that Democrats hope will help deliver a concrete rebuttal to the president's redistricting agenda.
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Oct 30, 2025
China's leader agreed to delay restrictions on rare earth minerals for a year and buy more soybeans, Trump said after a meeting designed to calm trade tensions.
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Oct 30, 2025
The president said he wanted testing to occur "on an equal basis" with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.
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Oct 30, 2025
In return, the Chinese leader agreed to delay restrictions on rare earth minerals for a year, Trump said after a meeting designed to soothe trade tensions.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump's announcement was short on detail but came a day after he finalized a trade deal with South Korea that includes a pledge of $350 billion in investment.
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Oct 29, 2025
The president said he wanted testing to occur "on an equal basis" with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.
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Oct 29, 2025
The president said he wanted testing to occur "on an equal basis" with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump's announcement was short on detail but came a day after he finalized a trade deal with South Korea that includes a pledge of $350 billion in investment.
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Oct 29, 2025
Kat Abughazaleh, who is running for Illinois's 9th Congressional District seat, is among six people indicted by a federal grand jury stemming from a clash with a federal agent at an immigration protest last month.
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Oct 29, 2025
Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia's richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.
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Oct 29, 2025
The request means the justices won't rule on the issue until at least mid-November, which would leave President Donald Trump's attempted troop deployment blocked for more than a month.
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Oct 29, 2025
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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Oct 29, 2025
Casey Means left mainstream medicine. She could soon be in a position to change it as the next U.S. surgeon general.
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Oct 29, 2025
The trade agreement will lower U.S. tariffs on Korean cars and parts to 15 percent in exchange for $350 billion in investment, a Korean official said.
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Oct 29, 2025
The Times of London apologized and said someone duped its reporter by claiming to be former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and criticizing Zohran Mamdani.
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Oct 29, 2025
Lawmakers are demanding answers about the project's financing and what donors have been promised. The White House has defended its use of private donations.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump, 79, has for months openly mused about serving beyond January 2029, when he is scheduled to leave office.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump, 79, has for months openly mused about serving beyond January 2029, when he is scheduled to leave office.
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Oct 29, 2025
The Chinese leader looks confident ahead of the meeting in South Korea, striking a deal that will largely wind back to the clock to before Trump's tariff blitz.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, where he will meet business and political leaders, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Oct 29, 2025
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, two of the state's top Democrats, want a special session to redistrict. Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said no.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, where he will meet business and political leaders, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Oct 29, 2025
Trump is attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea, where he will meet business and political leaders - and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Oct 28, 2025
A three-judge appeals court panel had ruled in Trump's favor on deploying National Guard forces. Now a larger panel will reconsider the case.
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Oct 28, 2025
The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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Oct 28, 2025
Mike Donilon's total potential pay package was unusually large and outsized compared to the salaries of senior campaign officials working for the president's reelection.
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Oct 28, 2025
Trump, 79, has for months openly mused about a third term, even though it would be prohibited by the Constitution.
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Oct 28, 2025
Everywhere the U.S. president goes, it seems, dignitaries have decided that the way to his heart is through the game he loves.
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Oct 28, 2025
A report released Tuesday calls for further DOJ investigation into the Biden administration.
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Oct 28, 2025
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican seeking election to the U.S. Senate, filed suit against Tylenol's maker and its former parent company barely a month after President Donald Trump warned pregnant women not to take the painkiller.
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Oct 28, 2025
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican seeking election to the U.S. Senate, filed suit against Tylenol's maker and its former parent company barely a month after President Donald Trump warned pregnant women not to take the painkiller.
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Oct 28, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump inked a rare-earth minerals deal ahead of Trump's meeting with China's Xi Jinping.
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Oct 28, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump inked a rare-earth minerals deal ahead of Trump's meeting with China's Xi Jinping.
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Oct 28, 2025
Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security's 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.
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Oct 28, 2025
The story behind the surprisingly catchy hold music at Social Security that millions have heard - and plenty even love.
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Oct 28, 2025
This musician wrote a song nearly 20 years ago about not waiting. Hundreds of millions have heard it -- while on hold, waiting.
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Oct 28, 2025
The party is divided over how much Zohran Mamdani's rise will matter in 2026 midterm elections that they expect to be dominated by opposition to Trump.
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Oct 28, 2025
A report released Tuesday calls for further DOJ investigation into the Biden administration.
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Oct 28, 2025
A report released Tuesday calls for further DOJ investigation into the Biden administration.
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Oct 28, 2025
Current and former members of the National Capital Planning Commission panned Trump's East Wing demolition and worried that his ballroom would be rubber-stamped
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Oct 27, 2025
Trump met with new Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, who heralded the start of a "new golden age" in the bilateral relationship following tricky trade talks.
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Oct 27, 2025
A special session is the first step in what could be a months-long race to change Virginia's congressional map before next year's midterms. The nationwide effort spreads to Indiana.
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Oct 27, 2025
Why Democrats are looking to a former president to weather the Trump storm.
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Oct 27, 2025
A special session of the Virginia General Assembly starts Monday. It's part of a nationwide redistricting race, with Indiana's Republican governor calling a special session there too.
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Oct 27, 2025
A Quinnipiac University polls shows Democrats overwhelmingly support the NFL's pick for the halftime show while nearly as many Republicans oppose it.
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Oct 27, 2025
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for a stopgap funding measure to bring employees back to work with back pay.
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Oct 27, 2025
The president said it would be "pretty easy" to meet with the North Korean leader on his Asia tour, but White House officials have downplayed the likelihood.
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Oct 26, 2025
Pence's handwritten notes documenting a phone call with Trump before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack would have been used as evidence if a criminal case had gone to trial.
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Oct 26, 2025
The announcement marked a significant de-escalation of a volatile trade war ahead of Trump's Thursday meeting with Xi.
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Oct 26, 2025
A guide to political podcasts from potential candidates. Not all of them are riveting.
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Oct 26, 2025
GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli hopes for improved Black and Latino support against Democratic rival Mikie Sherrill.
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