Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

the coverage was led by our climate team's @bradydennis.bsky.social, brianna sacks and @byscottdance.com on the ground in NC, w/ assists from @samueloakford.bsky.social in visual forensics and my tech colleagues @gerritd.bsky.social & @jeremybmerrill.com et al www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...

not a big Prize Guy but proud to have played a role on the @washingtonpost.com team that was named a Pulitzer finalist in National Reporting today for our coverage of Hurricane Helene, including the social media-fueled storm of lies that followed in its wake www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

The @washingtonpost.com won the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news on Monday for its coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It’s the paper at its finest, and I’m so proud that our Visual Forensics work featured in the winning package. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

As Trump upends U.S. foreign policy, getting closer to Russia, threatening NATO allies, pausing cooperation with Ukraine, Washington’s traditional partners — and best customers — are rethinking their dependence on American weapons systems www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Trump's Iron Dome for America plan — now renamed "Golden Dome" — is rocketing forward and Silicon Valley-linked contractors like Anduril and SpaceX could reap some of the rewards: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

The Internet Archive has removed its archives of individual tweets from the account belonging to DOGE staffer Marko Elez. The WSJ reported yesterday that this account belonged to Ekes, and that many of these tweets were racist and led to his resignation.

“The Federal Communications Commission is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing right-wing backlash to the radio station.”

“The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The Trump administration’s abrupt decision to repatriate USAID’s overseas workforce has thrust the agency’s global staff into chaos and despair, as workers scramble to uproot their lives and brace for what they fear will be a shutdown of all American aid missions in 30 days.

Entities behind President Donald Trump’s crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms, a large windfall from a venture that has seen tens of thousands of small traders lose money.

New Washington Post reporting: Some DOGE staffers have gained access to internal systems at the Education Dept., including a financial aid dataset that contains personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

In fascinating interview with @spytalker.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social tells how his @citizenlab.ca investigators connected the dots between high tech spyware and political repression around the globe, resulting in a spate of "Watergate-like" scandals. www.spytalk.co/p/tracking-t...

should have known something was up

Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals. @cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information. Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.

"In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September."

forget about waking the president — someone wake up Bill Simmons

WASHINGTON POST, DATELINE LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to acquire Luka Doncic from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Anthony Davis in a blockbuster trade, people with knowledge of the situation confirmed Saturday. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

this trade is deeply unsettling!!!

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S. government payments after the administration ousted a top career official at the department." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: @washingtonpost.com has obtained dash-cam video of a previously unseen angle of the DC plane crash (via WaPo's Jenny Gathright):

#OTD in 1925, Paul Newman was born. He wanted to be a naval aviator but was rejected because of his colorblindness. He served as an aviation radioman in the Pacific theater during WWII and was aboard USS Hollandia when the news of Japan's surrender was announcd on 14 August 1945.

Trump's TikTok executive order is out: Tells Justice Department to pretend the law doesn't exist for 75 days, taking "no action" to enforce it or impose any fines, and to send letters to providers saying they won't face liability. He can't promise that, though. The law does exist. wapo.st/3WrFcV3

President Trump has pardoned or ordered the release of virtually all who were federally prosecuted for Jan. 6, including those convicted of seditious conspiracy or assaulting police officers. Here's free access to my colleagues' extraordinary coverage of that day: www.pulitzer.org/winners/wash...

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who is serving the longest sentence among all Jan. 6 cases, is being released from federal prison tonight, his lawyer told The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump directs that a list of personnel be immediately granted TS/SCI clearances without background investigations. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

All the Jan-6ers prosecuted by the DOJ, including felons convicted of assaulting police officers, will soon be released from incarceration if they were still in federal custody. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

David Lynch, who brought surrealism into the cineplex, dies at 78 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

NEW: A Washington Post Investigation identifies major security lapses preceding the NYE attack in New Orleans that left 14 dead. The Post used visual evidence, witness testimony — and exclusively obtained a road closure plan for that evening. Gift link here: wapo.st/3C9HrWd

Did a commute write this

I've spent the past year obsessed with how police are using facial recognition. What I found: Police in 12 states have used these tools to find and arrest suspects when they have no other evidence, leading to wrongful arrests wapo.st/4fQYlXn 🧵 what I learned from 1,000 docs & dozens of sources ->

NEW: A Washington Post Investigation identifies major security lapses preceding the NYE attack in New Orleans that left 14 dead. The Post used visual evidence, witness testimony — and exclusively obtained a road closure plan for that evening. Gift link here: wapo.st/3C9HrWd

"Wall Street investment giants view Main Street retirement savings as a way to boost demand for non-listed illiquid bets that aren’t traded on any public exchange." finance.yahoo.com/news/private...

We're mapping the fires in Los Angeles. Wind + fire is a wicked combination, flashbacks to Paradise and Lahaina. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Frank Mayor, a 67-year-old Altadena resident, witnessed the tragic loss of his 1887 architectural gem, the McNally House, built by renowned map publisher Andrew McNally. Despite being among the last to evacuate, the house burned down in an area not typically considered a fire hazard.

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

5 years ago today: Wuhan Health Commission sends urgent notice reporting cases of unidentified pneumonia. It's the first official word about COVID-19.

All but two of the 181 people who were aboard a Jeju Air flight are presumed dead after the plane crashed while landing at an airport near the South Korea's southern tip early Sunday, in what appears to be the nation’s deadliest aviation accident in decades. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

A big cat sanctuary in Washington — home to tigers, cougars and leopards — has temporarily closed after a devastating bird flu outbreak killed most of its animals, some rapidly after they developed pneumonia-like symptoms, the director said. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Trump backs H-1B visas, aligning with Musk on immigration. 
“I’ve always liked the visas,” he said, siding with tech leaders against anti-immigration hard-liners. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Thank you.

In Texas, at least 18 babies have been abandoned this year. Whether there’s a pattern or common link in these tragedies is not clear. But they’re happening in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans — with no exceptions for rape or incest — and one of the highest birth rates.

Kind of interesting that Google has simply stopped being embarrassed by this sort of thing

A global boom in cocaine trafficking defies decades of anti-drug efforts The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any point in history as Albanian traffickers expand the market in Europe for the drug.

i'm biased bc i work with @pranshuverma.bsky.social & @cqzakrz.bsky.social and they are great, but i found this a really useful straight-news treatment of the musk v. MAGA tiff, with tons of relevant context on trump's precarious alliances with big tech www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

At least 38 people were killed when a passenger jet headed for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan in an incident that Ukraine officials and aviation experts said was likely caused by Russian antiaircraft fire. www.wsj.com/world/dozens...

Syria’s Christian population plummeted since the war began. Now it grapples with hope, fear. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

"Every night without fail, a mobile phone rings in the Holy Family church in Gaza, and a parish priest answers. The voice at the end of the line is that of Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church and spiritual leader to a global flock of 1.4bn people." www.ft.com/content/03ea...