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By Mariana Alfaro · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, insisted Sunday that the Trump administration did not “deport” American children to Honduras – arguing that the White House sent the children to the country because their mothers, who were being deported, wished to bring them. Early Friday, three U.S. citizen children […]

By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2025 For all the talk about President Donald Trump’s rapid decline in polls as he nears his 100th day in office, Trump remains in good stead overall with one crucial group: Republicans. And as his first term showed, he maintains a significant degree of political power as long as he […]

By Dan Diamond, Faiz Siddiqui, Trisha Thadani, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Elon Musk had tried to go over the head of a Cabinet secretary – again. The billionaire leader of the U.S. DOGE Service helped install Gary Shapley, a mid-level IRS official, as the agency’s acting commissioner last week. But the […]

By Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration declared last week that “harassment of Jewish students is intolerable” as it suspended $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University. The school’s president, Alan Garber, fired back Monday that “as a Jew and as an American,” he is well aware of rising antisemitism but that defunding […]

By JANIE HAR and KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, a government lawyer said Friday. The records in a federal student database maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

By Mariana Alfaro, Tobi Raji, The Washington Post (c) 2025 Before Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) became a politician, he was an AmeriCorps member. Thirty years ago, fresh out of college, Fetterman was sent to Pittsburgh’s Hill District as part of the program’s second class. He spent his days helping young mothers and fathers earn their […]

By Jake Spring, Dino Grandoni · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal Interior Department document, in order to spur energy development on public lands. Interior Department aides are looking at […]