National News

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 […]

By Evan Hill · The Washington Post (c) 2025 One U.S. defense contractor set up a way to remotely access an office computer. Another forwarded 37 sensitive but unclassified work emails to a […]

By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration on Tuesday offered its latest tone shift on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, in an apparent attempt to steady an increasingly rocky […]

By Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) and four other Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to […]

By Meryl Kornfield, Lisa Rein, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn’t realize he was dead. The 76-year-old retired physicist, on vacation in Boca […]

By María Luisa Paúl · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Yes, the headlines are bleak. Yes, scientists are sounding the alarm. Yes, a growing pile of studies warn that the world is “on […]

By Gaya Gupta · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday, including many world leaders, Catholic officials and mourners from around the […]

By Adam Taylor · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan Tuesday to significantly reorganize the State Department, saying the redesign would reverse “decades of bloat and […]

By Anthony Faiola · The Washington Post (c) 2025 VATICAN CITY – Three days after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in March 2013, the former archbishop of Buenos […]