MS NOW says its journalists were denied access to White House after Trump announced ban  —  The network said it “intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights” after President Donald Trump said its journalists would be denied access.

U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says  —  The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.  —  President Trump said on Friday that his administration had reached a deal with Denmark and Greenland …

Behind Trump's public confidence, his private view of midterms is sobering  —  In private, the president has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.  —  Summary

More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly  —  Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department's casualty database.  —  Summary

Kennedy Center Supporters Rally Amid Speculation About Possible Demolition  —  Photos of President Trump reviewing a poster board with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” spurred the largest gathering yet in support of the performing arts institution.  —  A large group of demonstrators locked arms …

Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump's drug-pricing deals  —  Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration's confidential deals with pharmaceutical companies …

Iran war causes global pain at the pump  —  The Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the economies of countries that have nothing to do with the war. … - The surge in prices squeezes consumers, and worsens the finances …

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children  —  Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist  —  Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across …

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School  —  Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.  —  Within hours of a Feb. 28 missile attack that hit …

Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson's Hair to Hemings's Children  —  A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.  —  For more than 200 years, the question has nagged at the edges …

Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash  —  The White House budget chief argued the agency has been funding “woke” priorities and suggested the president create a commission to review grants from the National Institutes of Health.  —  Summary

F.B.I. Temporarily Halted Cooperation With Canada Over References to 9/11  —  The abrupt move by Kash Patel, the bureau's director, came as President Trump was ramping up his attacks on the country.  —  Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, temporarily halted some cooperation with the agency's counterpart …

Why Trump's Latino voters are fleeing him  —  In 2024, Donald Trump's victory was powered in large part by massive gains with Latino voters.  He won 48 percent of those voters that year, up from 36 percent in 2020 and 28 percent in 2016.  But now, that support is plummeting …

Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America's Parks  —  Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president's favored projects in Washington.  —  An unstaffed entrance station at Zion National Park in Utah.Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Trump's Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States  —  A Trump administration proposal to exclude some types of immigrants from the 2030 census might not expand the congressional map for Republicans, and could even result in fewer House seats in red states.

ICE's mass detention has been routed in court.  The Supreme Court could reverse the tide.  —  Federal judges across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's efforts to detain tens of thousands of immigrants while they await the outcome of deportation proceedings.

Trump says he will demand drug companies split up vaccines into more doses  —  Those comments came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told attendees of a conference for the anti-vaccine group he founded that they have a “friend at the White House.”

Israel's Qatargate Scandal  —  Did Benjamin Netanyahu's aides peddle influence to a foreign power?  —  As a young man, Yisrael Einhorn was a mainstay of Tel Aviv's underground night life—an ebullient music producer and performer who billed himself as D.J. Cock and went around town costumed as a golden penis.

Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds  —  The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.  —  The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation …