The Supreme Court signed off on nearly every policy of President Trump, but in a sharp reversal, the justices struck down his sweeping tariffs. The rulings and argument could start a new and fraught era of relations between a president and justices.

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

some (rare) good news for the journalism industry: The Philadelphia Inquirer is profitable www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

X says Grok account will stop undressing women. I just tested the standalone Grok app, which immediately complied with my request to undress a photo of me. This is illegal, according to the legal experts I spoke with.

At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars. Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.

Screens are often used to shield child sex-abuse victims when they testify, but that can conflict with a defendant’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court noted Monday.

Money is pouring into MAGA lobbying firms amid a record surge in spending. Ballard Partners, which once employed Susie Wiles and AG Bondi, has become the most sought after shop for inroads into Trump’s orbit. W/ @federicacocco more here on where how that money is being spent: wapo.st/4nixqrd

For decades, the fed’l gov’t used data analysis - known as disparate impact - to ferret out discrimination, winning cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and more. Now the Trump admin is unwinding those cases. w/ @julez.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Former FTC officials say Trump's brazen firing of both Democrats on the commission is a bid to crush dissent that, if allowed to stand, could cost the agency its legitimacy. One called it "a big gift to corporate lawbreakers." Gift link to today's Tech Brief: wapo.st/4hoPPzU w/ @julez.bsky.social

The gutting of a longstanding civil rights bulwark in the federal government has begun. In the 60s, civil rights reforms began with the federal government. Six decades later, so is their dismantling w/ @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @danielleabril.bsky.social wapo.st/43aVQg1

My colleagues and I have been working to break news + write stories holding powerful people accountable. These are the top stories on our homepage right now, one of which I worked on. Our newsroom work is continuing. No one has ever told me what to write. If that changes, I’d speak out and leave.

X is blocking links to @signal.org, now widely used to discuss / report on Washington. Same technique (flagging as 'potentially harmful') that X has used to block / throttle Bluesky, Instagram, NYT, Reuters & Substack. When Twitter derailed links to Hunter Biden story, Musk called it "tyranny."

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

Phenix Lumber was the deadliest workplace in America over the past five years. OSHA inspectors issued them more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.

I obtained documents revealing DOGE’s private plans to soon eliminate at least hundreds of government workers and offices they somehow tag as related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Help us keep doing this kind of reporting: message me on Signal at (202) 580-5477. wapo.st/4jVWqEd

NEW: Over the last few days, the Trump administration has moved to drop cases the EEOC had brought on behalf of transgender workers, some who allege they were groped at work and referred to as "it." wapo.st/4b0Yc2S

Here’s the full scope of DOGE’s purge of federal DEI and civil rights office workers: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season. Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities. -- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson

Clerked for Justice Scalia, member of the Federalist Society, picked by Trump administration last month

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data from the Education Department into AI to target cuts. DOGE was also responsible for placing 100+ non-DEI employees on leave for DEI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

NEW: A half dozen Trump loyalists in and around the admin have told WIRED there’s a fissure emerging between Musk and Trump camps, following Musk’s DOGE takeover. By @jakelahut.writes.news:

When President Trump announced his proposal for the U.S. to take ownership of Gaza, he shocked even senior members of his own White House and government. His administration hadn't done even the most basic planning to examine the feasibility of the idea, people with knowledge of the discussions said.

NEW: Fired NLRB board member is suing for her job back. Gwynne Wilcox alleges Trump is violated the law in removing her, but observers also say the case may tee up an opportunity for SCOTUS to expand presidential power. w/ @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: Diversity officers and professors sue to block Trump’s DEI orders www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Dozens of feds in non-DEI jobs are on leave. The purging suggests the Trump admin is not just seeking to eliminate DEI but also to remove people who expressed interest in or even took a single training on DEI. w/ @laurameckler.bsky.social @julez.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Trump’s DEI purge is targeting federal workers who did not work in DEI. Some merely had previous DEI experience or were members of affinity groups www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Control tower at National Airport understaffed before deadly collision www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, a break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

China’s DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The newly signed executive orders to end “illegal discrimination” and restore “merit to government service” were so sweeping and aggressive that even conservative activists were shocked by their scope and intensity. @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/3E8QVSo

Must-read from @julez.bsky.social, Taylor Telford and Susan Svrluga on DEI's 'death blow' by Trump. 'I can't believe he's going this far,' says one anti-DEI activist:

I'm clearly an unbiased observer here but my @washingtonpost.com colleagues have some really thorough coverage of the TikTok ban:

Scoop: We got ahold of a playbook circulating in “DOGE” to ax federal DEI programs. Details from me & @faizsays.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hundreds of employees at The Washington Post sent a letter to Jeff Bezos on Tuesday evening, asking the Amazon founder for a meeting amid widespread concern about the future of the newspaper.

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 ->

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

McDonald's becomes the latest to retreat from DEI www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Trump.

From @anntelnaes.bsky.social: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Who could've imagined it would've ended like this www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

Arizona is hiking power rates to support the state’s data center boom — while leaving Navajo residents who have NO electricity to take cold showers in the dark www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The new strategy comes amid a broad embrace of crypto by conservatives, including President-elect Donald Trump, who told advocates in July that he intends to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.” wapo.st/3ZKI00E

The new strategy comes amid a broad embrace of crypto by conservatives, including President-elect Donald Trump, who told advocates in July that he intends to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.” wapo.st/3ZKI00E

We're on the verge of a government shutdown, but let's recall the daisy chain of events that led us here. This is not an overnight crisis. This was a slow-moving train wreck that began more than a year ago. It starts in SPRING 2023 - Republicans leverage the debt limit to force spending cuts... 🧵

Many of the optimists on Wall Street are choosing to believe that the President-elect Trump promises they want to see fulfilled are going to become reality, while dismissing those they think would be bad for the economy as mere posturing.

Medical insurance denials are seemingly on the rise, as insurance companies often issue those denials without explanation, sending letters that offer only sparse justifications. Patients rarely appeal, daunted by jargon and red tape: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🚨WaPo Scoop: Biden + USPS’s EV mail trucks are way behind schedule - USPS should have 3,000 of them by now. Instead it has 9️⃣3️⃣. - Persistent production problems. - In some cases, the **airbags** don’t work coming off the production line. - We’re publishing the vehicle price — a closely held secret