White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources  —  Gabriel Perez is in settlement talks with federal regulators, the sources said.  —  Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Nicholas Kerr  —  President Donald Trump read …

‘Scared s-tless’: Republicans brace for Trump's primetime speech  —  President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security.  Many Republicans wish he wouldn't.  —  The president's speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House …

Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say  —  President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.  —  Just now  —  The lining of the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting …

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer  —  An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.  —  Community:  —  4 min readFont size +

Thom Tillis tells Todd Blanche to meet with Epstein victims — or don't expect his support  —  Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday his vote to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is contingent on Blanche meeting with victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle  —  President Donald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between …

ICE Is Out of Control.  Here's What to Do About It.  —  In the span of a week, federal immigration enforcement agents took the lives of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian man shot in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man gunned down in Houston.

Iran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if US hits power network, sources say  —  Iran has asked Yemen's Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies.

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Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio  —  The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas recently bought three condominiums at a luxury resort in Utah …

GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law  —  Race & ethnicity Social media Senate election US elections  —  Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur …

Johnson preps to punt government funding through midterms  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he plans to hold a House vote next on a stopgap spending measure, one that would likely fund the government through the November midterm elections.  The move is an opening bid in what could become …

Tillis goes scorched-earth on SAVE America Act, threatening to stall it  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), a retiring Republican who has become one of the most vocal critics of the Trump administration in his party, delivered harsh words for President Trump's top-priority voter ID legislation …

Racist Attacker Lunges at ‘Today Show’ Host After Storming Studio  —  STUDIO HORROR  —  The man, who was looking for beloved weatherman Al Roker, managed to get past security before lunging at Craig Melvin.  —  A man has been arrested after he managed to slip past Today show security before lunging at host Craig Melvin.

U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressure on food companies … The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore.  —  Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices.

Trump approval stuck in the 30s amid pessimism on Iran and economy, poll finds  —  Americans give President Trump broadly negative assessments, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.  —  Summary  —  Americans give President Donald Trump broadly negative reviews for his handling of key issues …

Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post  —  WASHINGTON — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his “very flirtatious” …

Fetterman threatens to abandon Democrats  —  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he'd leave the Democratic Party if it becomes the “anti-Israel party,” though he signaled he had no plans to imminently depart the caucus. … - Fetterman acknowledged the Democrats' difficult Senate math …

Colbert's Melania Reveals MAGA Threats Forced Her to Move  —  GTFO  —  Laura Benanti said Trump supporters circulated photos of her walking her daughter to school.  —  Stephen Colbert's resident Melania Trump impersonator paid a hefty price for bringing her comical take on the first lady …

Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks  —  President Donald Trump hopped on Truth Social last year to share some “very big and exciting news.”  Nvidia, the computer chip manufacturing behemoth, had just announced plans to build AI supercomputers in the United States.

Trump Media to Sell Faster Access to President's Social Posts  —  New service will let traders and investors pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts  —  President Trump broke with tradition by posting near-constant policy decisions and market-moving news on his social-media platform.

How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century  —  A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible.  When the various agencies designed to protect the American people from all manner of threats are working perfectly …

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‘Utterly baffling’: Ukrainians outraged, call for protest after Zelensky ousts Fedorov  —  This is a developing story and is being updated  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky's dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister has drawn a wave of criticism from soldiers, veterans …

Can This Pseudo-Journalist Destroy American Democracy?  —  The post-truth era gets its post-truth journalist—only this time, he's operating from inside the government.  —  DONALD TRUMP'S PRIMETIME ADDRESS Thursday is shaping up to be a grab bag of conspiracy theories …