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...

This type of statement from a moderate Democrat in Congress would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago

One of those odd moments where Trump offers highly specific & totally inaccurate info about something no one asked him about: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar, you can walk it in 1 second. You go, boom, boom & now you're in Qatar” (they don't share a border)

Diane Keaton, dead at 79, reports People people.com/diane-keaton...

As a U.S. senator last year, Marco Rubio supported María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize nomination @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Steve Hendrix report www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The United States government currently employs an admiral named Brad Cooper and a DHS official named Chris Pratt

The Washington Post obtained recordings of tech billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures and it included more musings on one of his favorite topics: The Antichrist and Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Hamas now has 72 hours to release the hostages, says Witkoff

NEW: Trump announces that Hamas and Israel have agreed to the first phase of the peace deal involving the release of all hostages and a partial withdrawal of Israeli troops

Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred commitment to compensate those harmed in the line of duty www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

“Trump has ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza, but residents and local hospitals said strikes continued across the territory.”

Anticipating a major diplomatic victory, Trump says "Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza." (Some of Israel's most deadly strikes on Hamas leadership have come when peace deals appeared imminent)

Trump apparently so pleased with Hamas's response he reposts the militant group's entire response verbatim

Hamas accepts Trump’s plan to end Israel’s war in Gaza but with conditions wapo.st/4nHM0tC

U.S. kills 4 alleged drug smugglers near Venezuela, Hegseth says wapo.st/3VRaiF4

Canadians with gender neutral passports warned they may no longer be accepted at the U.S. border www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The banner on the top of the State Department's website right now

The government will shut down at midnight after Senate blocks funding extension wapo.st/3IIEajS

The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge rules, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.” wapo.st/4pPUT5I

New: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership, per 8 current & former officials www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump set to bail out Argentina, irking some in ‘America First’ camp wapo.st/3KnBjxq

New: Iranian President Pezeshkian criticized Trump’s top envoy Steve Witkoff over his negotiating style on Friday, telling a group of journalists and academics in New York that the real estate tycoon-turned diplomat took inconsistent positions from one meeting to the next

Netanyahu tells the UN that war will continue as over a hundred diplomats from more than 50 countries stage a mass walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New: A wave of diplomats walkout in protest of Netanyahu’s speech at the UN

Netanyahu to address U.N. amid widening global backlash wapo.st/3W7MxZl

Trump’s latest post, arguing Ukraine can win back all its territory — completely contradicts the core point Trump, Vance and Rubio have been saying about the war since taking office, which was that Crimea and most of Donbas was not recoverable

Trump upbraids U.N. in speech, claiming ‘your countries are going to hell’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

How can Israel be considered a partner for peace, asks the Emir of Qatar. “They visit our country and plot to attack it. They negotiate with delegations and plot to assassinate the members of the negotiation teams.”

Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan wapo.st/46xMPh8

Britain recognizes Palestine as a state, breaking with U.S. to rebuke Israel www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Michael Waltz confirmed as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, days ahead of UNGA www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The deal could shift the regional balance of power. It is the first recent significant example of a longstanding U.S. partner in the Middle East seeking to move away from dependence on Washington for national security."

ICE is seeking new office spaces in hundreds of locations across the U.S. to support plans to hire thousands of new lawyers and immigration enforcement officers, according to 6 officials and records obtained by WaPo