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In Washington, deals are incremental and victories are rarely absolute (no matter how much politicians may spin otherwise). That’s where we find ourselves now. Republicans and Democrats voted last week to raise the debt ceiling and temporarily fund the government through December, essentially putting off all the legislative, political and economic drama that was supposed to […]

Congress sent a resolution to the White House Tuesday condemning the violence at the white nationalist rally in Virginia last month and urging President Trump to speak out against racist hate groups. The legislation, which passed by unanimous consent in the Senate on Monday and in the House on Tuesday, will be presented to Trump […]

The Supreme Court agreed with the Trump administration Tuesday and put on hold a lower-court decision that would have allowed more refugees to enter the country. The court issued a one-paragraph statement granting the administration’s request for a stay of the latest legal maneuvering involving the president’s executive order on immigration. There were no recorded […]

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s visit to Trump International Hotel highlights a potential conflict of interest between President Trump’s business interests and diplomatic relations. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post) Before arriving at the White House late Tuesday morning to meet with President Trump, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak strode through the golden doors of an […]Read More

Hope Hicks arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 14. The White House announced Tuesday that Hicks has been formally named White House communications director. (Evan Vucci/AP) Hope Hicks, a longtime adviser to President Trump, was formally named his top communications adviser Tuesday. Hicks has served as interim communications director since the abrupt departure […]

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gives the daily briefing Sept. 5 in Washington. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) After the fifth question in a row about former adviser Stephen K. Bannon during Monday’s White House news briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was mildly annoyed. “I think we may be answering more questions on […]Read More

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump ventured far beyond the norms of political behavior when it came to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — blaming George W. Bush for failing to prevent the deadly assault and trafficking in bogus conspiracy theories about Muslims cheering the tragedy from rooftops. But on Monday, in his first commemoration of […]

In the lobby of every federal building, just inside security turnstiles and before the elevator banks, a framed photograph of the president has always hung on the wall. Not so anymore. Nine months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, pictures of the president and Vice President Pence are missing from thousands of federal courthouses, laboratories, military installations, […]

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) directs a question beside Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). Both are 2020 contenders, and both have now come out in support of single-payer health-care legislation. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency) Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) became the fourth co-sponsor of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) “Medicare for all” health-care bill Monday. In doing so, he joined Sens. Elizabeth […]Read More

Pope Francis talks to journalists during a news conference aboard a plane flight to Rome at the end of his visit to Colombia, September 11, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Medichini/Pool President Trump isn’t as pro-life as he says he is if he doesn’t protect young immigrants from deportation, Pope Francis said on Monday. Trump decided last week to […]Read More

A single senator vowed Monday night to delay the Senate from debating a must-pass, $700 billion defense bill until he is promised a vote to force Congress to pass an authorization for use of military force against extremist groups within six months. A growing number of lawmakers have been calling for Congress to pass a […]

An independent ethics monitor found substantial reason to believe Guam’s delegate to Congress broke federal law by leasing a four-bedroom home to the government of Japan, a possible violation of the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution. Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D), the subject of the investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics, also likely […]