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  2. Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts, a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus

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  5. Muslim nations reject Trump’s call to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population

  6. Cuomo amassing support in Eric Adams’ home base of Brooklyn

  7. Trump names Walt Nauta, co-defendant in classified documents case, other allies to Naval Academy board

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Energy

Climate coalition launches lawsuit against Trump freeze

The lawsuit represents the latest salvo in a battle with the Trump administration over the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

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President Donald Trump pumps his fist on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.

Trump officials escalate fight to take back $20B in climate money

By Jean Chemnick

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Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans

By Associated Press

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Congress

GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs

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CULTURE CLUB

The Real Reason Zelenskyy Doesn’t Wear a Suit

By Derek Guy

Elections

Tim Walz has some sharp critiques of the Dem 2024 campaign

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Q&A

‘Devastating Political Consequences’: One Error That This Senior Dem Thinks Cost His Party Big

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and California Gov. Gavin Newsom watch and clap.

Gavin Newsom Jump-Started a Conversation Democrats Need to Have

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Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like

By POLITICO Magazine

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Europe scrambles to aid Ukraine after US intelligence cutoff

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens.

RFK Jr. poised for awkward face-to-face with food companies

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First Lady Melania Trump waves.

California Democrats find unusual ally in Melania Trump

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‘I've seen this movie before’: Dem budget chief wants to rewrite the script with Trump

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Washington and the World

Opinion | Trump Does Not Know How to Run an Empire

Even if he doesn’t know it, Trump’s war on the bureaucracy is in direct conflict with his plans to exert power abroad.

By Robert D. Kaplan

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Column | Capital Letter

Crypto Can’t Stop Fighting Itself

In a friendly Washington, the crypto community might be its own worst enemy.

By Victoria Guida

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Washington And The World

JD Vance’s Gamble on Ukraine Aid Paid Off

The vice president spent years trying to end U.S. involvement in the war.

By Ian Ward

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Column | Compass

America’s Friends Are Not Amused by Trump’s Bravado

The president’s speech offers no reprieve for countries that have long relied on Washington.

By Nahal Toosi

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Column | Corridors

Fighting Trump Requires Focus. Democrats Didn’t Show It.

The president’s policies could rekindle the resistance, but House members put the focus on themselves.

By Rachael Bade

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Column | Altitude

Trump Uses Old Tricks to Sell a New Agenda

Long a provocateur, the president is now presenting himself as an ideologue.

By John F. Harris

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Politics

What Trump Knows Instinctively About the Big Speech

The president’s address to Congress was part campaign rally, part daytime TV. Were you expecting anything else?

By Jeff Greenfield

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Column | Rules of Law

What Antitrust ‘Reformers’ Got Wrong

Lina Khan and her allies tried to remake antitrust law. Trump’s team is likely putting an end to that.

By Ankush Khardori

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Column | Corridors

Democrats Are Serious About a Shutdown

Hakeem Jeffries’ House caucus is itching for a fight: “At some point you’ve got to have a goddamn backbone.”

By Rachael Bade

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Washington and the World

Opinion | Trump Needs to Drop the EU Trade War and Face the Real Enemy

Here’s how a common U.S.-EU trade strategy on China can help avoid a transatlantic trade war.

By Mathias Döpfner

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The Gilded Age Is Back — And That Should Worry Conservatives

Corporate dominance over politics brought power, wealth — and backlash.

By Joshua Zeitz

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Column | Corridors

Zelenskyy Forgot the First Rule of Dealing With Trump

Flattery will get you everywhere. Insults will get you kicked to the curb.

By Rachael Bade

INTERACTIVES

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A list of the Project 2025 ideas in Trump's executive orders (so far)

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What the Dems who boycotted the first Trump inauguration say this time

The names of several Cabinet positions, including Chief of Staff, Ambassador to the United Nations and Education Secretary, along with the headshots of people who have been appointed, nominated or confirmed to those positions in the second Trump administration.

Tracking Trump’s Cabinet picks

CARTOON CAROUSEL

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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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Congress

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House could make early exit if stopgap passes

By Meredith Lee Hill

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House Dems still offer no promises to help GOP avoid shutdown

By Jennifer Scholtes, Nicholas Wu and Meredith Lee Hill

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Johnson defends Musk, says essential veteran jobs ‘will come back’

By Ali Bianco

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NRCC deletes post calling Espaillat an ‘illegal immigrant’

By Nicholas Wu

White House

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Pence whacks Trump’s tariffs

By Ali Bianco

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Trump says ‘we’re doing very well with Russia,’ hours after threatening sanctions for bombing Ukraine

By Ali Bianco and Robbie Gramer

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Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk

By Dasha Burns and Kyle Cheney

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Judge temporarily halts Trump administration from ousting head of United States African Development Foundation

By Ali Bianco

Legal

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Judge orders Trump administration to pay some foreign-aid bills by Monday

By Josh Gerstein

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Trump targets prominent Democratic-linked law firm

By Megan Messerly

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Labor regulator Trump fired must be reinstated, judge rules

By Kyle Cheney and Nick Niedzwiadek

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Federal workforce watchdog who was fired by Trump drops legal fight to get his job back

By Josh Gerstein

States

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Marco Rubio’s diplomacy practice: Helping Bill Belichick coach UNC

By Danny Nguyen

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A $400M punishment for Columbia University from the Trump administration

By Bianca Quilantan

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Inside California Democrats’ intra-party feud over trans rights

By Dustin Gardiner and Blake Jones

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California delegation unites behind wildfire aid plea

By Jeremy B. White

Elections

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Democrats slam GOP campaign committee labeling New York lawmaker an ‘illegal immigrant’

By Andrew Howard

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Insider poll: The Democratic Party has ‘lost its way’

By Holly Otterbein, Lisa Kashinsky, Brakkton Booker and Myah Ward

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House Democrats add Latino-heavy districts to most vulnerable list for 2026

By Nicholas Wu

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Lucy McBath takes first step toward Georgia governor run

By Danny Nguyen

Foreign Affairs

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Trump strikes dark tone as he seeks to restart nuclear talks with Iran

By Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing

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Top lawmaker blocking US arms sales to UAE over role in Sudan war

By Robbie Gramer and Joe Gould

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Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army

By Jan Cienski and Wojciech Kosc

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Europe is doing what you wanted, UK tells US defense boss

By Seb Starcevic

Earlier

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Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole

By Associated Press

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Trump wants his Cabinet and Musk to play nice on DOGE cuts

By Megan Messerly, Jordain Carney and Kyle Cheney

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‘I don’t trust a word of it’: Federal workers deeply skeptical that Trump will rein in Musk

By Holly Otterbein, Jordan Wolman, Marcia Brown, Nahal Toosi and Sophie Gardner

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DOJ opens investigation into egg companies for price-fixing

By Marcia Brown

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Trump’s tariffs put the Fed’s Powell in a bind

By Victoria Guida

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Trump takes credit for jobs gains amid broader economic turmoil

By Adam Cancryn

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Trump’s plan to stockpile crypto complicates industry’s policy push

By Jasper Goodman and Declan Harty

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Johnson ‘looking at’ taking Green off committee

By Meredith Lee Hill

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Trump administration declares TSA screener union contract void

By Nick Niedzwiadek and Oriana Pawlyk

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‘Detox': Fading outlook on Trump’s economy clouds first jobs report

By Sam Sutton

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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge

By Associated Press

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Capitol agenda: Senate Dems’ shutdown test

By Lisa Kashinsky and Mia McCarthy

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  5. Trump administration declares TSA screener union contract void

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Democratic Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump joint address to Congress

Democratic Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump joint address to Congress

'Pocahontas': Trump name calls Warren as Dems show Ukraine support

'Pocahontas': Trump name calls Warren as Dems show Ukraine support

Can Trump buy Greenland? Here's what you need to know.

Can Trump buy Greenland? Here's what you need to know.

Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy in heated Oval Office meeting

Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy in heated Oval Office meeting

Musk gets applause at Trump's first Cabinet meeting

Musk gets applause at Trump's first Cabinet meeting

TALKERS

President Donald Trump is handed an executive order by Vice President JD Vance as he delivers an address to a joint session of Congress.

Trump Uses Old Tricks to Sell a New Agenda

President Donald Trump greets lawmakers in the House chamber.

America’s Friends Are Not Amused by Trump’s Bravado

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office.

Trump, Vance attack on Zelenskyy angers many. But Russians and (some) Republicans love it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands with his wife Cheryl Hines at the White House.

Inside RFK Jr.’s health department takeover

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Dying in Darkness: Jeff Bezos Turns Out the Lights in the Washington Post’s Opinion Section

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