Trump administration abruptly recalls scores of career ambassadors www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

CBS News abruptly pulled an investigative “60 Minutes” segment on the Trump administration’s deportations of migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison after the Trump admin refused to grant an interview, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An update from the U.S. State Department on one of the 8 wars Trump "ended"

Justice Department releases huge trove of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Gift link: wapo.st/45iTYSt

Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into Trump's deadly boat strike campaign in the Caribbean www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

How many hits from a Keurig does it take you to start feeling something?

Susie Wiles tells Vanity Fair Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper has been “sort of political” and the VP has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”

NEW: Secret meetings between Ukraine’s top negotiator and FBI Director Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are sparking concerns from Ukraine backers about the high-stakes talks to end the war in Ukraine www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Two peace deals Trump took credit for appear to unravel at the same time www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

WSJ: “David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he’d make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump’s ire. Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming”

In a recent phone call between Trump and Maduro, "Trump indicated he would like to see Maduro step down but there were no ultimatums and the two pledged to speak again." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We do not have to get on our knees." Lesley Stahl: "Well, most members of Congress disagree with you." Greene: "Well, most members of Congress take donations from AIPAC and I don't." www.cbsnews.com/news/marjori...

Trump peace deal threatened as Thailand strikes Cambodian border www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

who's surprised: "Signalgate report contradicts Hegseth’s claim of ‘total exoneration’" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reps. Adam Smith and Jim Himes: "The video we saw today showed two shipwrecked individuals who had no means to move, much less pose an immediate threat, and yet they were killed by the United States military... this was wrong."

"More than $148 billion was spent by the U.S. government in its failed attempt to build a free Afghanistan," per inspector general www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

Audit Finds Palestinian Inmates Face Starvation and Beatings in Israeli Prisons

That’s commitment

As The Post first reported, the information Hegseth shared on Signal derived from an email classified “SECRET/NOFORN,” meaning unauthorized disclosure could jeopardize national security www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

My latest On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm

I went on @nprfreshair.bsky.social with Terry Gross to lay out what we know and don’t know about the administration’s second deadly strike on Sept 2, which killed two survivors in the Caribbean www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

Great Today Explained ep yesterday! I talk to 🐐 @johnphudson.bsky.social about Russia/Ukraine peace talks & specifically the growing influence of Sec of State Marco Rubio. Then @lukeharding1968.bsky.social pours cold water on the whole thing— suggesting this is not about peace at all. It’s business

The Miami meeting between Trump's top aides (Witkoff, Rubio and Jared Kushner) and Ukraine's top negotiators has been going on for 20 minutes now. Here's the list of Ukrainian participants:

Trump says he has ordered closure of Venezuelan airspace wapo.st/3XXT5L4

New: Several Democratic senators are urging Marco Rubio to quickly investigate what a classified government watchdog report has described as “hundreds” of potential human rights violations allegedly committed by the Israeli military in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support. Kyiv is under "extraordinary pressure" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

NYT: Ambassador Mike Huckabee met with Jonathan J. Pollard, an American who spent 30 years in prison for betraying the U.S. and spying for Israel. “It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...

House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of Jeffrey Epstein files

Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics: “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

NEW: The classified opinion by Trump's Office of Legal Counsel says the US personnel taking part in lethal strikes on boats would not be exposed to future prosecution, per sources. “It sounds like an admission that there is no legal basis for these strikes” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"it made no lasting dent in Afghan opium production" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“The Justice Department’s Gulfstream G550 took nine trips to Las Vegas—where Kash Patel lived before running the FBI—and seven others to Nashville, according to a WSJ review of flight records.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Zohran wins

Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities wapo.st/3WzQial

New: Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Shane Goldmacher scoops on the private 30-minute phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Yep. And if they go full Star Wars, it'll cost many, many trillions of dollars.

Trump's pick, who was scheduled to face the Senate tomorrow, spent most of the last decade as a senior executive at a Swiss subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a Russian steel group co-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, per a disclosures obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more *** www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Ted Cruz & Dave McCormick have effectively torpedoed Trump's pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Arab American & Muslim to hold that job, endorsed Trump amid deep anger at Biden over the war in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Dallas Morning News: "A Washington Post investigation confirmed what this Editorial Board feared: The deal between the Trump administration and the Bukele government to house deportees in a Salvadoran prison compromised a high-profile federal case into the murderous MS-13 gang"

Smart questions from @NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about our new investigative piece on Trump's deal to use El Salvador's mega prison www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

“Rubio assured Bukele he would get his men and stressed that the American public cared little about the fate of Salvadoran gang members.” AKA criminal informants working for the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Helluva story from @johnphudson.bsky.social and colleagues.

Extraordinary story: the Trump administration was so eager to get a media splash by deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador it was willing to sabotage Justice Department investigations of MS-13 members and the Salvadoran regime. By @johnphudson.bsky.social & colleagues. [gift link] wapo.st/4nbNiM4

New: U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...