The Washington Post's New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’  —  This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”  —  After Donald J. Trump entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored …

Giuliani Keeps His Home in Settlement of Defamation Case  —  The former mayor of New York City was at risk of forfeiting his sole remaining home, a Palm Beach apartment, to election workers he defamed after the 2020 vote.  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani has reached a settlement with two Georgia election workers …

Pelosi not attending Trump inauguration  —  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not be attending President-elect Trump's inauguration on Monday, her spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.  —  Pelosi returned to Washington earlier this month for the entrance of the new class of lawmakers …

The Purge Has Begun  —  Your regular newsletter-er, Andrew Egger, is taking some much-deserved time off as he welcomes a new member of his family into the world.  Congrats, Egger!  But the news doesn't stop, even if Andrew has.  And, so, neither shall we.

I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers  —  Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl  —  I don't know if anyone else has noticed …

Famed cartoonist with Bay Area ties arrested on child porn charges  —  Darrin Bell, 49, who got his start at UC Berkeley, was arrested in Sacramento County  —  A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist with Bay Area ties has been arrested in Sacramento County on suspicion of child pornography.

Rep. Rick Crawford expected to serve as House Intelligence chair  —  Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to choose Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) as the next chair of the House Intelligence Committee, two people familiar with Johnson's intentions said.  Johnson on Wednesday removed former Chair Mike Turner …

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career.  Now What?  —  For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America's DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse  —  I hear from them all the time.  —  “Add one more to your list of aggrieved white males,” a reader wrote to me recently.

Biden or Trump - who should claim credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal?  —  Joe Biden says his team negotiated deal but Donald Trump claims it was agreed now only because he is about to become president  —  The question yelled at Joe Biden by a reporter was unapologetically blunt …

Treasury pick Scott Bessent and Trump transition team deny allegations that he avoided taxes  —  In a new memo obtained by NBC News, Senate Finance Democratic tax staff found that Scott Bessent avoided over $950,000 of self-employment taxes.  —  In a review of the Treasury Secretary nominee's tax returns …

Trump Taps Voight, Gibson, Stallone as Special Ambassadors to ‘Bring Back’ Hollywood  —  Trump claims Hollywood has fallen into disarray over the past four years because of “foreign countries,” so he's tapped the three actors as “special envoys” to revive “the Golden Age of Hollywood”

Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump's Mass Deportations  —  With Meta's recent speech policy changes regarding immigration, in which the company will allow people to call immigrants pieces of trash, Mark Zuckerberg is laying the narrative groundwork for President-elect Trump's …

Karine Jean-Pierre leaves reporters fuming as she blocks hostage-deal expert from final White House briefing for her ‘goodbye party’  —  WASHINGTON — Journalists and aides to President Biden are seething over White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's refusal to let a national security expert discuss …

Far-right state senator arrested for trying to enter the Georgia House  —  State Sen. Colton Moore last year was banned from House chambers by the speaker.  —  A northwest Georgia senator was arrested Thursday after he refused to abide by a ban on entering the House chamber made by the speaker last year …

DeSantis picks Florida attorney general to replace Marco Rubio in Senate  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday said he would appoint Ashley Moody, his state's attorney general, to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday said he would appoint Ashley Moody …

Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever … In less than a decade, Stephen Miller has risen from an anti-immigrant agitator on Capitol Hill to one of the most powerful unelected people in America.Doug Mills/The New York Times  —  When Stephen Miller met with Mark Zuckerberg …

MAGA “populism” was always an inch deep — Trump's billionaire-palooza proves it  —  The entirety of Donald Trump's con artist schtick to bamboozle his followers was perfectly illustrated in one recent photograph.  In it, the president-elect sits grinning maniacally next to fellow rich white guy James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola.

Progressive Hill staff group pitches lighter workweek  —  As the second Donald Trump presidential term dawns, some progressive Capitol Hill staffers are floating a bold new proposal: working less.  The Congressional Progressive Staff Association proposed establishing a rotating 32-hour workweek …

Judgment in Trump's New York fraud case stands at $502 million ahead of inauguration  —  Quietly, just before the calendar turned for the new year, an already whopping debt tentatively owed by President-elect Donald Trump and co-defendants in his New York civil fraud case hit an eye-popping …

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video)  —  New Glenn just earned its wings.  —  COCOA BEACH, Florida  —  Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just earned its wings.  —  New Glenn launched for the first time ever this morning …

Joe Biden's tragic presidency  —  On January 6 of this year, the Washington Post ran an op-ed from President Joe Biden, who wrote that “four years ago, our democracy was put to the test — and prevailed.”  This feels like a declaration from another reality, one where Donald Trump was held accountable for his assault on democracy.