By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually. Mexico agreed Monday to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico […]
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Tariff threats take aim at fentanyl trafficking. Here’s how the drug reaches the US
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually. Mexico agreed Monday to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico […]
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RFK Jr. faces blistering questions on vaccines, abortion from Democrats
By Dan Diamond, Rachel Roubein, Lauren Weber, Lena H. Sun, Fenit Nirappil · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a divided panel of senators Wednesday, with Democrats deeply critical of the vaccine skeptic’s bid to serve as America’s top health official, and Republicans insisting that the former liberal was the right choice to lead a nearly $2 […]
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RFK Jr. faces blistering questions on vaccines, abortion from Democrats
By Dan Diamond, Rachel Roubein, Lauren Weber, Lena H. Sun, Fenit Nirappil · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a divided panel of senators Wednesday, with Democrats deeply critical of the vaccine skeptic’s bid to serve as America’s top health official, and Republicans insisting that the former liberal was the right choice to lead a nearly $2 […]
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What federal workers should know about Trump administration’s ‘deferred resignation’ offer
By Daniel Wu · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The White House announced details Tuesday of a “deferred resignation” offer it made to federal employees that allows them to resign with pay through Sept. 30. Here’s what we know about the offer, which affects the majority of the 2.3 million workers employed by the government and was […]
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What federal workers should know about Trump administration’s ‘deferred resignation’ offer
By Daniel Wu · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The White House announced details Tuesday of a “deferred resignation” offer it made to federal employees that allows them to resign with pay through Sept. 30. Here’s what we know about the offer, which affects the majority of the 2.3 million workers employed by the government and was […]
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Ahead of the expected Trump-Putin call, each side stakes out its position
By Robyn Dixon, Catherine Belton · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Amid expectations in Moscow that President Donald Trump will speak by phone in the coming days with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials are staking out hard-line positions on the Ukraine war ahead of any talks and playing down any imminent major breakthrough on U.S.-Russia ties. Sensing […]
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Ahead of the expected Trump-Putin call, each side stakes out its position
By Robyn Dixon, Catherine Belton · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Amid expectations in Moscow that President Donald Trump will speak by phone in the coming days with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials are staking out hard-line positions on the Ukraine war ahead of any talks and playing down any imminent major breakthrough on U.S.-Russia ties. Sensing […]
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Trump golf course incident investigated as potential assassination attempt
by Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Mariana Alfaro (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Federal authorities are investigating a potential assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump on Sunday after a man with a weapon appeared near his golf course in Florida as Trump was golfing. “The FBI has responded to West Palm […]
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Border arrests drop 33% to a 46-month low in July after asylum restrictions take hold
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum being temporarily suspended, authorities said Friday.