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Government shutdown looms as Trump tries to assert new spending powers

by Jacob Bogage (c) 2025 , The Washington Post Congress has less than two weeks to extend federal spending laws and keep the government open, but now a clash over President Donald Trump’s attempt to seize powers the Constitution delegates to lawmakers threatens to stall talks and force a shutdown. Republican negotiators walked away from […]

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Can Elon Musk find any fraud before Trump’s base notices the con?

by Philip Bump (c) 2025 , The Washington Post Last week, a number of prominent posters from right-wing social media were invited to the White House for the release of files from the investigation into the crimes of financier Jeffrey Epstein. They were given binders of material, lists of names with blacked-out contact information. They […]

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Can Elon Musk find any fraud before Trump’s base notices the con?

by Philip Bump (c) 2025 , The Washington Post Last week, a number of prominent posters from right-wing social media were invited to the White House for the release of files from the investigation into the crimes of financier Jeffrey Epstein. They were given binders of material, lists of names with blacked-out contact information. They […]

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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

by Francesca Ebel (c) 2025 , The Washington Post MOSCOW – The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is bringing Washington into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday, a shift that could upend […]

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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

by Francesca Ebel (c) 2025 , The Washington Post MOSCOW – The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is bringing Washington into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday, a shift that could upend […]

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Sen. Mitch McConnell won’t seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker

By BRUCE SCHREINER and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump. McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party […]