ArticleVenezuela earth­quakes test Trump’s west­ern hemi­sphere policy after gut­ting of USAID

ArticleA glimpse into the West Wing

Perched in a White House wait­ing room dur­ing World War II, Nor­man Rock­well watched a cross-sec­tion of Amer­ic­ans file in to see Pres­id­ent Frank­lin D. Roosevelt – sol­diers, law­makers and beauty pageant win­ners. They came in uni­form, in...

ArticlePar­tisan cloud hangs over nation’s birth­day

WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago this week, Pres­id­ent Ger­ald Ford’s heli­copter arrived at Val­ley Forge in a dense fog. After a speech to 15,000 people, he des­ig­nated the Revolu­tion­ary War land­mark as a national park before head­ing to...

ArticleEx-national secur­ity advisor Bolton pleads guilty

GREENBELT, Md. — Former Trump admin­is­tra­tion national secur­ity advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty on Fri­day to illeg­ally retain­ing clas­si­fied inform­a­tion, seal­ing a deal with fed­eral pro­sec­utors that could allow him to avoid a prison term.

ArticleTrump nom­in­ates Schroyer as ICE chief Eds: UPDATES: Adds another former senior ICE offi­cial’s reac­tion. Adds that Ven­turella is expec­ted to

ArticleDon rips Bolton after plea

Pres­id­ent Trump on Fri­day mocked former National Secur­ity Adviser John Bolton after his one­time aide admit­ted to mis­hand­ling a clas­si­fied national defense doc­u­ment. Bolton pleaded guilty hours earlier dur­ing a hear­ing in US Dis­trict...

ArticleNew­som Calls In Trump’s Day-one Prom­ise

■ One of Don­ald Trump’s first exec­ut­ive orders of his second term prom­ised to end the “third-world weapon­iz­a­tion of pro­sec­utorial power”—a four-year audit of cases that may have tar­geted Amer­ic­ans for polit­ical views or law­ful protest....

ArticlePro­gress­ives rolling after Mam­dani clears path

WASHINGTON – In her cam­paign to become the next mayor of the nation’s cap­ital, Janeese Lewis George seduced voters in the Dis­trict of Columbia with prom­ises of afford­able hous­ing, uni­ver­sal child care, lower util­ity bills and a will­ing­ness...