Washington Post in City Desk

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

By Jacob Bogage, Meryl Kornfield, Patrick Svitek · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Given all the news out of the IRS lately, I started pondering what Tax Day 2026 will look like. I asked my sources inside the IRS, in the tax community and in the Trump administration to play it out with me. Most of these people spoke on […]

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]

By Susan Svrluga, Carolyn Y. Johnson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In a scene that is becoming familiar, two powerful universities were rocked this week by rumors that the Trump administration would pull hundreds of millions in funding, with little to do but wait to learn the details. On Tuesday afternoon, an internal National Institutes of Healthemail reviewed […]

By Victoria Bisset, Steve Thompson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration did not comply with a federal judge’s order setting a Friday morning deadline for officials to lay out steps for the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, calling it “impracticable” to adhere to a time limit set […]

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]

By Susan Svrluga, Carolyn Y. Johnson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In a scene that is becoming familiar, two powerful universities were rocked this week by rumors that the Trump administration would pull hundreds of millions in funding, with little to do but wait to learn the details. On Tuesday afternoon, an internal National Institutes of Healthemail reviewed […]