During an event on Thursday, Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly struggle to keep his eyes open. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent roughly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open. New video w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will not run for reelection in 2026. @washingtonpost.com dug through nearly 40 years of archival footage from Pelosi's congressional career to piece together 90 seconds of key moments from her career.

FAA orders 10% cut in flights at several airports as shutdown drags on www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference on Wednesday that the company hopes the federal government will backstop the financing of future data-center deals. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

TRUMP: "We're the no. 1 nuclear power, which I hate to admit, because it's so horrible. It's such a horrible situation if it ever has to be used. Russia's second, China's a distant third...We're maybe working on a plan to denuclearize the three of us, so we'll see if that works"

Donald Trump has spent 30 years calling for higher tariffs. But now, the signature economic policy of his second term could be undercut by the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments today on the legality of many of his tariffs. My latest analysis for @washingtonpost.com:

SCHUMER: "This morning I talked with Mayor-elect Mamdani, we had a very, very good conversation, we said we cared about New York City and that we look forward to working together to help the city and improve the city, I congratulated him on running a very, very good campaign"

Donald Trump has spent 30 years calling for higher tariffs. But now, the signature economic policy of his second term could be undercut by the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments today on the legality of many of his tariffs. My latest analysis for @washingtonpost.com:

TRUMP: "I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented, and what we should do about it, and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. I think if you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans"

Democrats swept statewide and local elections across the country on Tuesday, in the first electoral test since Donald Trump's victory in 2024. My key takeaways from last night in 90 seconds:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays and federal workers nationwide left without paychecks. apnews.com/article/gove...

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

"The Trump administration is sending notifications to federal staff suggesting that only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that also guarantees pay to furloughed employees." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states increased 59% from 2019-2024 per FBI data, compared with a 16% rise in total homicides for the same locales. www.wsj.com/us-news/homi...

In a surprise move, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is not seeking re-election, leaving in place a succession plan for his chief of staff, the only Democrat to file for his seat on the last day to do so. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Breaking News: President Trump urged New Yorkers to vote for Andrew Cuomo for mayor, writing on social media, “you really have no choice.” Zohran Mamdani has consistently led in the polls and remains the clear front-runner.

Over four years, Vietnam has built out a series of remote rocks, reefs and atolls to create artificial islands that expand its footprint in the contested South China Sea.

Visible from space, bloody sands expose the slaughter of tens of thousands in Sudan www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

Donald Trump can't stop talking about how much he loves gold My latest supercut for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

How the Supreme Court has expanded Trump’s power www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown. SNAP, which aids 42 million people, was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.

New: the Trump admin bent over backwards to send out a second month of SNAP benefits during the border wall shutdown in 2019 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested in August on suspicion of driving drunk questioned the nationality of a sheriff’s deputy and threatened to check the deputy’s immigration status, according to newly released body-camera footage." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has been “unlawfully serving in that role,” marking the third time a court has disqualified one of the administration’s top prosecutors.

REPORTER: Mamdani, are you going to vote for him? SCHUMER: Look, the bottom line is very simple: I have a good relationship with him, and we're continuing to talk. REPORTER: The vote is on Tuesday. What are you going to do? *Schumer walks away*

THUNE: “SNAP recipients shouldn’t go without food, people should be getting paid in this country, and we’ve tried to do that 13 times — and you voted no 13 times. This isn’t a political game, these are real people’s lives that we're talking about."

Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“Congress has passed all 12 appropriations bills by the Oct. 1 funding deadline only four times since the process was put in place in the 1970s.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Donald Trump keeps changing how he plans to build his White House ballroom My latest supercut for @washingtonpost.com:

Donald Trump keeps changing how he plans to build his White House ballroom My latest supercut for @washingtonpost.com:

The Washington Post reports that dump trucks on Thursday were dumping East Wing debris at East Potomac Park. Some of the dirt will eventually be moved elsewhere and some will be used to create new mounds at the nearby public golf course. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Senate Foreign Relations Chair James Risch (R-Idaho) tells Axios that he has no plans "at this time" to hold an oversight hearing on the Trump administration's boat strikes. www.axios.com/2025/10/23/r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Associated Press photos on Thursday show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves forward with a ballroom construction. apnews.com/article/trum...

"Binance forged a partnership with World Liberty Financial, the crypto company founded by the Trump and Witkoff families. In May, Zach Witkoff announced Binance would receive a $2 billion investment in the form of a cryptocurrency called USD1 that World Liberty had developed."

“The U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record…It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic — the U.S. hit $37 trillion in grossnational debt in August this year” apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump on East Wing demolition: "In order to do it properly, we had to take down the existing structure. The way it was shown, it looked like we were touching the White House. We don't touch the White House. That's a...glass bridge going from the White House to the ballroom."

TRUMP: "We have legal authority [for boat strikes], right? We're allowed to do that. And if we do by land, we may go back to Congress. ... They killed 300,000 Americans last year, and that gives you legal authority."

"White House officials Tuesday said to expect a full-scale teardown of the East Wing" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BESSENT: "We are going to either announce after the close this afternoon or first thing tomorrow morning, a substantial pickup in Russia sanctions."

“The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power. Sometimes, the backlash against it comes from everywhere but the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

New @washingtonpost.com supercut: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have spent the past 17 weeks refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation — a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings — also called Tuesday to pause demolition of the East Wing until Trump's project could go through a transparent review.

"A man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was arrested last week after allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York)." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

NYT reports Donald Trump has submitted complaints through an administrative process seeking ~$230 million in compensation from the Justice Dept. for previous federal probes of him. Any settlement might be approved by DOJ officials who defended him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

House Republicans stopped revising their legislative calendar back in July. So I updated it for them. Since July 4, the House has conducted 20 days of business in 16 weeks. Oct. 27-30 remains TBD.

New @washingtonpost.com supercut: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have spent the past 17 weeks refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Exclusive: In order to deport immigrants to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised President Nayib Bukele to betray arrangements protecting some U.S. informants.