CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban  —  The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump's war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.  —  Journalists from CNN and MS NOW were 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

Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’  —  The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.  —  Summary  —  Thousands of supporters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts gathered Friday …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax  —  Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy  —  A group of progressive Nobel Prize-winning economists has joined the fray in California's battle …

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.

A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think  —  After multiple incidents of A.I. agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech's most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing.

Has Trump Lost Touch With Reality?  —  Three Opinions writers debate whether the president's recent behavior is really that different from what we've seen from him over the years. … Michelle Cottle: We are going to talk about this unnerving week in A.I.-related news.

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 …

The clues in ICE's mass detention court losses that point to a win at SCOTUS  —  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.

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.

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say  —  The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.