Patel's FBI raids John Bolton's home in high-profile national security probe  —  FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.

National Guard Members On DC Streets Will Be Armed, Military Says  —  The Pentagon and the Army said last week that troops would not carry guns.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's law …

Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now  —  A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered …

Getting “DOGED”: DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media.  Then the Taliban Took His Family.  —  It was early morning on April 1 when Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar, got a panicked message from his son.  Halimi's name had just appeared in a viral post on X …

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad  —  The president's latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.  —  In what looks to be an intensifying quest to reshape American history and scholarship according to his own preferences, President Donald Trump this week targeted …

Poll suggests Trump's ICE raids are backfiring in California … About half of California voters favor a pathway to citizenship, while smaller proportions favor eligibility for permanent residency and temporary work permits.  —  There's “an impulse of empathy and humanity …

Powell indicates conditions ‘may warrant’ interest rate cuts as Fed proceeds ‘carefully’ … Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave a tepid indication of possible interest rate cuts ahead as he noted a high level of uncertainty that is making the job difficult for monetary policymakers.

Playbook: Can Dems talk their way out of the wilderness?  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  On today's Playbook Podcast, Adam Wren and Megan Messerly talk about Democrats' focus on their own language, why the White House is leaning in on its D.C. crackdown and the expected …

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants  —  Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration's decision to cancel numerous public health grants.

Fact check: Trump and the case of the nonexistent $600 billion EU ‘gift’  —  Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC.  As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave the United States …

Russia's foreign minister says no Putin-Zelenskyy summit planned despite Trump's peace push  —  Sergey Lavrov told NBC News' “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in an exclusive interview Friday that the Ukrainian leader had rejected Trump's proposed terms for a deal.

Red Envelopes With Cash Are Changing Hands at Adams Campaign Rallies  —  New York Times reporters witnessed supporters of Mayor Eric Adams handing out cash-filled envelopes.  Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets.  —  Few New York City politicians …