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.

Trump's peace bid flops as Kremlin says no plans for Putin-Zelenskyy summit  —  Moscow obfuscates again in new remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  —  Russia's top diplomat said Friday the Kremlin is “not ready at all” for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse  —  The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon's main intelligence wing — of the Iran military strikes, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.  —  just now

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.

Treasury Department's No. 2 official is leaving … Faulkender, the deputy Treasury Secretary, oversees the agency's operations and has a broad policy portfolio that spans tax, international finance, sanctions and financial regulation.  He previously was a finance professor at the University …

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 …

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable  —  The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.  —  The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday …

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.

Trump seeks funding to clean up D.C. in latest effort to control city  —  Trump has falsely claimed he has solved the city's crime problem.  Now he seeks to transform Washington into a place reminiscent of his private golf clubs.  —  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would request funding …

Thanks, Trump: ICE Just Gassed a Public School Into Submission  —  Federal riot police are bombarding a Portland neighborhood with so many chemical munitions it forced a public school to flee  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald Trump's forces have tear gassed a public school into submission.

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 …

Your Rectitude Isn't Helping  —  Gavin Newsom is getting a lot of attention for something, and it pisses me off, because frankly I deserve credit for it.  —  Or, okay, here's a humbler and more constructive way of putting it: Gavin Newsom is doing something leading Democrats could and should have done …