Trump Administration Live Updates: Johnson Shutting Down House Early to Block Epstein Vote  —  Where Things Stand  — Epstein case: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut the House down early for its summer recess to head off Democratic demands for votes on calling for the release of files …

Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned.

Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election  —  Five years ago, Marco Rubio said there was “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”  Now, Tulsi Gabbard says that claim is “treasonous” and should be criminally investigated.

Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client  —  Trump Defense Attorney Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi just announced that Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell and discuss potential cooperation deals with her.

NPR news chief announces she's leaving days after Congress kills federal funding  —  NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer Edith Chapin told colleagues Tuesday morning that she has decided to step down.  —  The veteran news leader's announcement comes just days …

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response  —  The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Trump's WSJ Lawsuit Raises a New Constitutional Question … The president can sue you, but you can't sue him.  —  It seems like an absurd thing to say but that's effectively the reality of our legal system today, one that has become increasingly alarming during Donald Trump's second term.

Zohran's Bronx Science tales  —  MAMDANI PLAYS HOOKY: He's just like us.  He got detention.  He cut class to get lunch.  He says he's bad at math.  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani graduated from the public, test-in, competitive Bronx Science High School in 2010.

Everything Is a ‘False Flag’ Now  —  Conspiracy theories about so-called false flag attacks have been around for decades.  But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake.  —  As President Donald Trump struggles to contain …

Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump.  A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.  —  Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration's agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.

Coca-Cola Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Full Year Guidance  —  Comparable Currency Neutral Operating Income (Non-GAAP) Grew 15%  —  Operating Margin was 34.1% versus 21.3% in the Prior Year;  —  Comparable Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) was 34.7% versus 32.8% in the Prior Year

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication  —  As Harvard's feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal.  Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?  —  And will it ever come to America?  —  Last week the House passed the GENIUS Act, which will boost the growth of stablecoins, thereby paving the way for future scams and financial crises.  On Thursday the House also passed a bill that would bar …

White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog's Inquiries Into Spending Cuts  —  Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the Trump administration's withholding federal funds.  —  A federal watchdog has opened dozens …

American Steel Just Got More Expensive.  Buyers Blame Tariffs.  —  Steel producers like Cleveland Cliffs and Steel Dynamics both said this week that they raised prices after President Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on imports.  —  American steel makers are raising prices …

Can The Washington Post's TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post? … Dave Jorgenson is leaving The Post next month to start an online video company based on his personal YouTube channel, Local News International.  —  For years, Dave Jorgenson has been nearly synonymous with The Washington Post on social media.

New poll: Democrats lead House generic ballot; deportations unpopular; Musk party flops  —  Summary of main poll findings:  — Americans remain deeply dissatisfied with the political status quo and increasingly pessimistic about the nation's direction, according to the July Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.

We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory  —  The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics. … I would prefer here a precise accounting of Jeffrey Epstein's history of pedophilia.  Unfortunately, much remains unknown.

Trump's Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground  —  The Trump administration's efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provision have no obvious legal parallel.  —  The four veteran immigration agents …

A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands  —  Many persons I'd think would know better have affixed their names to a new and highly illiberal set of demands on colleges and universities.

Your favorite national park is struggling to survive  —  What budget cuts mean for wildlife, climate monitoring — and surviving peak tourism. … Stories of struggle flow unceasingly from our public lands — here, a senior botanist pulled from invasive species removal to check campgrounds …

The conservative case against Trump's worst judicial nominee  —  Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now. … Emil Bove is one of President Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyers.  He's now a senior Justice Department official …

Oversight Committee to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell ‘as expeditiously as possible,’ spokesperson says  —  A House Oversight subcommittee has approved a motion to direct the full committee chairman, James Comer, R-Ky., to issue a subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

What Trump's Feud With Jerome Powell Is Really About  —  Donald Trump has been bullying Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—calling him “too late,” insulting his intelligence, and trying to gin up a case that Powell spent too much on renovations of the agency's headquarters as a pretext for firing him.

A QAnon-affiliated figure has hosted Trump's VA secretary and at least four GOP members of Congress since May  —  A podcast host affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement has featured the secretary of Veterans Affairs and at least four Republican members of Congress in recent months.

The Perverse Economics of Assisted Suicide  —  In June, lawmakers in my native country, Britain, approved plans to legalize assisted suicide.  If the bill becomes law, England and Wales will join more than a dozen countries and 11 U.S. states in permitting medically assisted dying.