Poland says it has shot down drones that entered its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine  —  Poland's military said early Wednesday that it had shot down drones that violated its airspace during a Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine, in what is potentially a major provocation for Europe.

You Really Need to See Epstein's Birthday Book for Yourself  —  This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.  —  Looking back, I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I opened “Request No. 1,” the PDF file containing the contents of Jeffrey Epstein's 50th-birthday book.

ICE is Eating the Soul of America  —  Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law … A big part of this newsletter is trying to mark the moments when America changes — when today is different from before.  —  A big change happened yesterday …

The Constant Battle  —  The first excerpt from 107 Days … The first stop on the day's calendar had been planned months earlier.  At a meeting in the Oval Office discussing her work uplifting Black executives and entrepreneurs, Dr. Stacie NC Grant had invited me to address the annual gathering …

Memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human Services the Commissioner of Food and Drugs  —  In 1962, the Congress vested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the authority to regulate prescription drug advertising.  These advertisements can mislead the public about the risks and benefits …

GENERAL (RET.) MARK A. WELSH III  —  I am reaching out today to follow up on a statement I distributed through social media yesterday regarding an ongoing issue with one of our 16,000 course sections.  I directed the Provost to remove the College of Arts and Sciences Dean and English Department Head from their administrative positions.

Judge Rules Fed Governor Can Remain in Role, for Now  —  The decision is a win for Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor whom President Trump sought to dismiss over allegations of mortgage fraud.  —  A federal judge late Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump from removing Lisa Cook …

After declaring D.C. ‘safe,’ Trump dines out in the city  —  The president boasted in recent days about the success of the federal takeover of D.C. police.  During his first term, he ventured only to the restaurant at the hotel he owned.  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday night arrived …

Democrats add 1 more vote in Congress after Virginia special election  —  Democratic Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw defeated Republican Stewart Whitson easily on Tuesday, with the Associated Press calling the race at 7:36 p.m. Eastern time.  The race for the seat …

Democratic governors build vaccine firewall against RFK Jr. … “We're ... creating a public health infrastructure that used to exist under the federal government, but with RFK, Jr. at the helm, has been completely disrupted and dismantled,” Healey told reporters Monday at the state Capitol.

Biden's Final Flop: 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported in the Year Through March  —  The U.S. economy added nearly a million fewer jobs in the year through March 2025 than previously reported, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Many Ways in Which the September 2 Caribbean Strike was Unlawful ... and the Grave Line the Military Has Crossed  —  Now that the President has submitted the required War Powers Resolution report to Congress, we can begin to take stock of just how extraordinary and significant last Tuesday's lethal strike in the Caribbean Sea was.

They Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America  —  Although it has long since entered the pantheon of American rhetoric as one of our nation's great orations, there was a time, however brief, when the Gettysburg Address had its critics.  —  The president's funeral sermon …

National Guard documents reveal candor, ‘shame’ over D.C. deployment  —  Internal documents reviewed by The Post show how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans' trust in the military.  —  The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about President Donald Trump's federal takeover …

“The Axios Show” exclusive: Lutnick says U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue … The debut episode, featuring our conversation with Lutnick in his Commerce Department office, will be out later this week. … - The next step, Lutnick says, is to guarantee the U.S. gets …

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites  —  The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.

Job Revisions and the Trump Economy  —  Blaming Biden and the Federal Reserve for slow growth won't work forever.  —  President Trump finds vindication wherever he looks.  So it's no surprise that he blamed a big downward revision in job growth announced Tuesday on the Federal Reserve and Joe Biden.

Leak exposes Washington Post boss Will Lewis's role as secret adviser to Boris Johnson while PM  —  Extensive meetings in 2022 between Lewis, then vice-chair of AP, and Johnson were not disclosed in transparency records  —  The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis …

Fired CDC director who clashed with RFK Jr. set to testify in Senate  —  The hearing would give Susan Monarez a high-profile opportunity to respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims about her ethics and their conversations about vaccines.  —  Just now  —  Susan Monarez is set to testify …

Far right and far left in EU Parliament to file separate von der Leyen no-confidence motions at midnight  —  STRASBOURG ― The EU's Patriots and The Left groups will both formally demand at midnight on Wednesday that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen face a no-confidence vote.

Flagging economy weighs on Republicans' midterm hopes  —  The News  —  President Donald Trump and his GOP majorities in Congress know they have work to do selling voters on their economic agenda ahead of the midterms.  Their job isn't getting any easier.  —  Trump's party is staring …

Supreme Court to quickly consider if President Donald Trump has power to impose sweeping tariffs  —  The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before the nation's highest court.

Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal  —  Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan's administration.

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas.  Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.  —  Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders.  The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

GOP poll: Sununu is competitive with Pappas … This memo is notable because it comes from a group with close ties to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and it's the clearest sign yet that GOP leaders aren't excited about former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who's already in the GOP primary.

'He's a nut': Hill Republicans sour on Trump housing official Bill Pulte … “I think he's a nut,” one House Republican said of Pulte.  (Like others in this story, the lawmaker was granted anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive dynamics within the Trump administration.)