"What worries me most is that the conflict may put more time on the clock of an Iranian regime that was about to expire," David Ignatius writes.

The impact of ICE operations saturated every aspect of the day in the schools outside of Minneapolis. Dozens of parents were in custody. Hundreds more had decided school was too risky and enrolled their children in online classes.

New York City leaders rehung the Pride flag in front of the Stonewall National Monument, a rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to take down the symbol of the LGBTQ+ rights movement from federal property. https://wapo.st/3ZTsqQR

POST LEADERSHIP: look these are tumultuous times and we need to fire everyone so that we can figure out how anyone might possibly make a newspaper profitable THE NEW YORK TIMES: uh

Trump's promised manufacturing boom is a bust so far www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Exactly one year ago I went to Copenhagen. I wrote about the fallout from Trump's first phone call with the Danish prime minister. Danes have been preparing for this crisis for a year. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

🇻🇪🇻🇦🇺🇸 Inside the frantic global race to find an escape route for Maduro, - WP On Christmas Eve, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, urgently summoned Brian Burch, the U.S. ambassador, to press for details on plans in Venezuela. Would US target only drug traffickers or really after regime change? 1/4

LIVE COVERAGE GIFT LINK Aircraft, explosions seen, heard and felt in Caracas wapo.st/4joD4Yr

Die Linke, or “The Left,” is the successor to the former East German socialist party. It long lingered on the margins but is enjoying a surge in appeal among Gen Z and younger millennials, sending tremors through the German political system.

WOLVES SAVE (HUMAN) LIVES by killing deer: Researchers say wolves in Canada and the Upper Midwest alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives @dinograndoni.bsky.social @byaliceli.bsky.social and @joshualott.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

GIFT LINK live updates Two National Guard members shot near White House wapo.st/49ItGwi

Exclusive: the White House considered dropping leaflets over Caracas, touting a $50M reward for info leading to Maduro's arrest and conviction. They eyed a mission for tomorrow -- Maduro's 63rd birthday. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Undermining the already-dubious claims the Trump administration has been making in court, Costa Rica says it remains willing to accept Abrego Garcia on the same terms it has offered since August: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A chronic shortage of manufacturing labor could imperil the domestic factory boom promised by President Trump, who has touted his protectionist trade policy as a key driver of economic growth.

Interesting finding on how immigrants feel about current immigration enforcement in the U.S. - 50% are angry, 50% are afraid, 22% are satisfied but 40% say it is necessary (rising to 46% among immigrant registered voters) www.kff.org/racial-equit...

The unregulated industry that coaches veterans to pile on benefits via @Reinlwapo, Craig Whitlock @CaitlinGilbert @AaronSchaffer www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Democrats swept key elections across the country on Tuesday night, delivering a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second term so far and boosting the party’s hopes ahead of the midterms. Here are some top takeaways:

My latest: Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I'll keep getting actual NatSec news from @danlamothe.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social @taracopp.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social @mbirnbaum.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social @mradamtaylor.bsky.social Noah Robertson Karen DeYoung and the rest of the greats at The Post bit.ly/3LhXlSN

Eight warships, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, a floating base for Special Operations and an aircraft carrier on the way www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

President Trump told Congress in September that the United States is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Now (POST EXCLUSIVE) DOJ lawyers say he’s not bound by the War Powers Resolution, under which it would require congressional approval and oversight www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trinidad and Tobago PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar has welcomed the Trump administration's strikes on small boats: “The U.S. military should kill them all violently” Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called them “murder” and “only for television” Grenada has a decision to make wapo.st/3LBbJ8A

Formerly known as Prince www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

AT LEAST 132 PEOPLE KILLED IN RIO POLICE RAIDS The toll more than doubles as favela residents bring out the bodies Family members lift sheets, recognize loved ones and scream It’s the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history Marina Dias reports (n.b. photos of bodies) wapo.st/47vXSYD

On extending a $40b bailout package to Argentina, President Trump conditioned further support on voters supporting Milei’s party in the midterms. On Sunday, they delivered Sammy Westfall and Frances Vinal report www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

BREAKING Ireland elects independent Catherine Connolly president. The Sinn Fein-backed leftist campaigned on economic justice at home, fury over Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Multiple airports around the country said they won’t display a video in which DHS Sec. Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown and related travel delays.

THE MOST MARAVILLOSO TIME OF THE YEAR For Maduro, it's become an annual tradition: The economy’s in free-fall? Declare Christmas. Lost the vote but claiming reelection anyway? Declare Christmas. The U.S. is blowing up boats and threatening stronger action? Declare Christmas wapo.st/4mXgp5X

President Trump’s announcement that his administration will impose a 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceutical products, unless a company is building a manufacturing plant in the United States, sparked confusion early Friday. Here’s what to know.

“It is one of the most dangerous places. I want real results.”

President Trump’s warning to pregnant women to stop taking Tylenol based on a largely unproven link to autism sent ripples through communities of expectant mothers, parents of autistic children and health experts. https://wapo.st/3VT3TJH

As President Trump ties Tylenol to autism, many in the scientific community are alarmed by the politicized rush to present drug like leucovorin as solutions, bypassing the slow careful work research demands.

UPDATED ICE is referring hundreds of immigrant children to federal shelters from the US interior, not from the border. Among them are parents separated from their children, an issue raised at a Senate hearing today: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Vowing to crush dissent from two left-wing groups for a piece of free speech they had nothing to do with www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @cqzakrz.bsky.social @mbirnbaum.bsky.social

“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified" “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” George Floyd was a “scumbag” Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was “a huge mistake" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Descendants of enslaved man, plantation owner unearth past at a Maryland cabin. The families worked with archaeologists and volunteers to sift through soil that had been scooped from the floor of a cabin on the Sotterley Plantation www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

GIBRALTAR EXITS BREXIT The British enclave, which voted 96 percent Remain in 2016, establishes a customs union with the EU and visa-free travel in the Schengen area. “This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says wapo.st/4gjzu0g

Trump “has taken credit for ending an ever-increasing roster of conflicts,” @mbirnbaum.bsky.social writes: “Last week’s tally started at six and by Friday was 10, ‘if you think about pre-wars’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Frederick Douglass was a writer, diplomat, advisor to President Lincoln and American hero. The Maryland National Guard is declining to march in the annual Douglass parade in his native Talbot County this year because he was Black and the DoD no longer does Black history wapo.st/3CQfK5g

An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.

THE VIEW FROM THE HELICOPTER from flight data, air traffic control communications, pilot interviews @imogenpiper.bsky.social @evanhill.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social @megkelly.bsky.social @to-be-frank.bsky.social Irfan Uraizee @abtran.bsky.social @samueloakford.bsky.social wapo.st/4b7Iymw

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service launched an official website late Wednesday night, setting up doge.gov as a portal tracking the size of the federal workforce and documenting the number of federal regulations.

"Leave aside the fact that most young American men today do not meet military fitness requirements." From @amymcgrath.bsky.social and Michael O’Hanlon of @brookings.edu: wapo.st/4jXhv1k

Breaking news: President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.

Sheinbaum said this morning the troops she'd send to the border would be on top of personnel already there. Trump agreed to crack down on U.S. guns flowing south. The $900 million border plan that saved Canada today, in contrast, was announced in December www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...