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 …

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 +

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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Republicans take first step to move $95B party-line package  —  Reconciliation 3.0 is on the move in the House.  House Republicans advanced their budget plan out of committee Thursday afternoon — the initial legislative step toward clearing their third party-line budget reconciliation package ahead of the impending August recess.

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 …

ICE says all its offices will have body cams in 60 days  —  Half of all ICE field offices across the U.S. now have body cameras for agents, with the rest expected to get them within 60 days, according to the Department of Homeland Security. … But pressure for more scrutiny of agents' actions …

Trump Administration Issues Final Rule to End Foreign Student Visa Abuse  —  Student visa extensions are only available with rigorous vetting  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the publication of a final rule that officially eliminates the …

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 …

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” …

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 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.

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