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. […]
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FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it
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 […]
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What’s next for Trump’s IRS?
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 […]
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Breaking his silence, Biden to speak out on Social Security
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. […]
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Breaking his silence, Biden to speak out on Social Security
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. […]
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FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it
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 […]
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FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it
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 […]
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What’s next for Trump’s IRS?
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 […]
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Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man
By Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month. A district court judge had ordered the administration to bring Kilmar Abrego […]
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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan
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 […]