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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, in separate remarks on Thursday, criticized President Donald Trump and the White House for moves that they called unconstitutional or [Read More…]

Scott Taetsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A tearful tribute from the United States’ most decorated figure skaters coupled with multiple fundraising efforts has garnered $1.3 million on behalf of the Washington, D.C., plane crash victims, organizers [Read More…]

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a message to staff on Friday that he’s “expanded” the scope of his investigation into the office’s [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called them “reciprocal” — a response, he said, to those nations that [Read More…]

Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to [Read More…]

Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area will rally outside the Department of Education [Read More…]

Julia Beverly/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, was among the numerous officials far-right activist Laura Loomer urged President Donald Trump to remove during her official Oval Office meeting [Read More…]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As markets nosedived and foreign allies recoiled after the unveiling of sweeping tariffs to be imposed by the U.S., President Donald Trump said he was looking toward the future impact [Read More…]

Omar Havana/Getty Images (BRUSSELS) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting NATO’s headquarters in Brussels for a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers, putting him on the front lines of the Trump administration’s push [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be [Read More…]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump reacted for the first time on Thursday to the fallout from his tariff announcement, which included markets nosediving and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. Trump had no [Read More…]

Ezra Acayan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has announced it has agreed to a request from top senators and is launching a probe into the use of the commercial messaging app Signal by [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For decades, Donald Trump has used a signature phrase to show his contempt for countries he says cheat and take advantage of the U.S.: “They’re ripping us off.” He used [Read More…]

Far-right activist Laura Loomer; Photo credit: Jacob M. Langston for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House has fired a handful of National Security Council staffers following a Wednesday meeting with [Read More…]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday was standing firmly behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout despite markets nosediving, businesses recoiling and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. While Trump [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the House of Representatives at a standstill, Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to fold on his strong opposition to allowing new parents in Congress to vote remotely. “I [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping new set of tariffs impact friend and foe alike, but also on the list are uninhabited islands while some glaring omissions include Russia and [Read More…]

(adamkaz/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Despite billionaire Elon Musk’s repeated warnings that “Western Civilization” was at stake if the conservative candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race lost, the Tesla CEO and senior adviser to President [Read More…]

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday, which the White House dubbed “Liberation Day.” “This is one of the most important days in my opinion in [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a long-promised, sweeping set of baseline tariffs on all countries and what he described as “kind reciprocal” tariffs on nations he claimed were the [Read More…]