By David J. Lynch · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump signaled early plans to use tariffs on imported goods as a key weapon in relations with the United States’ three top trading partners, saying the first new taxes on foreign products could be announced Feb. 1. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said […]
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Biden started the day with pardons. Trump finished with many more.
By Sarah Ellison · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Inauguration Day began and ended with unusual pardons from two presidents that legal and democracy scholars say reflected a lack of faith in the justice system, just as Donald Trump entered office. When outgoing President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons earlyMonday to an array of people who he […]
Biden started the day with pardons. Trump finished with many more.
By Sarah Ellison · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Inauguration Day began and ended with unusual pardons from two presidents that legal and democracy scholars say reflected a lack of faith in the justice system, just as Donald Trump entered office. When outgoing President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons earlyMonday to an array of people who he […]
The agonizing search for 22 people who remain missing after L.A. fires
By Sarah Kaplan · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Timothy George Hanley, 88, needs regular dialysis treatments. Patricia Diann McKenna, 77, has a disfigured leg that makes it difficult for her to move. Theresa Warrior, 84, last contacted her family in October. Kevin Devine, 54, was seen packing up his car, presumably to evacuate, as the Eaton […]
The agonizing search for 22 people who remain missing after L.A. fires
By Sarah Kaplan · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Timothy George Hanley, 88, needs regular dialysis treatments. Patricia Diann McKenna, 77, has a disfigured leg that makes it difficult for her to move. Theresa Warrior, 84, last contacted her family in October. Kevin Devine, 54, was seen packing up his car, presumably to evacuate, as the Eaton […]
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
By David Nakamura · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship faced a flurry of legal challenges Tuesday from a bevy of states and civil rights groups, signaling that the effort could be tied up in court and unlikely to take effect next month as planned. A coalition of 18 […]
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
By David Nakamura · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship faced a flurry of legal challenges Tuesday from a bevy of states and civil rights groups, signaling that the effort could be tied up in court and unlikely to take effect next month as planned. A coalition of 18 […]
Trump declares ‘liberation,’ claims mandate for emergency powers
By Isaac Arnsdorf · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Donald Trump took office as the 47th president claiming an electoral and divine mandate to immediately invoke emergency powers on immigration and energy, pursue territorial expansion and reverse Joe Biden’s policies on car emissions and trans rights. Trump declared his inauguration “Liberation Day,” condemning the country’s past leaders […]
Trump declares ‘liberation,’ claims mandate for emergency powers
By Isaac Arnsdorf · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Donald Trump took office as the 47th president claiming an electoral and divine mandate to immediately invoke emergency powers on immigration and energy, pursue territorial expansion and reverse Joe Biden’s policies on car emissions and trans rights. Trump declared his inauguration “Liberation Day,” condemning the country’s past leaders […]
Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier, convicted in FBI killings
By Jeremy Roebuck · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, whose case had become a rallying cry for the Indigenous movement in the nearly 50 years since his conviction for killing two FBI agents. Peltier, 80, […]