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Who will attend Pope Francis’s funeral?

By Gaya Gupta · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday, including many world leaders, Catholic officials and mourners from around the world. Here’s a look at who is expected to attend. President Donald Trump Trump, who had clashed with Pope Francis during his first and second […]

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Rubio unveils sweeping reorganization of State Department

By Adam Taylor · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan Tuesday to significantly reorganize the State Department, saying the redesign would reverse “decades of bloat and bureaucracy” within the agency. The proposed shake-up of America’s primary foreign policy institution comes as the Trump administration continues to reorientate the United States on […]

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Interior secretary gives DOGE aide sweeping powers to remake department

By Dino Grandoni, Maxine Joselow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given a former oil executive and aide to Elon Musk broad latitude to cut costs and consolidate work within his vast department, which oversees more than 500 million acres of land across the United States. In an order issued Thursday, Burgum put […]

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Pope Francis, whose humility and empathy reshaped the papacy, dies at 88

By Anthony Faiola · The Washington Post (c) 2025 VATICAN CITY – Three days after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in March 2013, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires greeted the international press inside a cavernous Vatican audience hall. As he rose from a richly upholstered armchair, a pair of well-worn black shoes […]

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White House embraces lab leak as ‘true’ pandemic origin, axes covid website

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the covid-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans but remains divisive in the intelligence community and opposed by many virologists. The new website, […]

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Travel to the U.S. from almost everywhere is falling under Trump

By Anumita Kaur, Adrián Blanco Ramos · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Overseas travel to the United States has declined sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office. Industry experts say some of the reasons are plain to see: Reports of detentions and deportations, including the weeks-long lockup of European tourists, have sowed fears of bad experiences at the […]

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White House embraces lab leak as ‘true’ pandemic origin, axes covid website

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the covid-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans but remains divisive in the intelligence community and opposed by many virologists. The new website, […]

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White House embraces lab leak as ‘true’ pandemic origin, axes covid website

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the covid-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans but remains divisive in the intelligence community and opposed by many virologists. The new website, […]

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Trump says he’s ‘100%’ sure of U.S.-Europe trade deal as Italian P.M. visits

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s “100 percent” sure the United States will make a trade deal with the European Union, offering hope that he would ease new tariffs he imposed earlier this month. Trump made the remarks near the beginning of a bilateral meeting with […]

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Trump administration again appeals judge’s order on illegally deported man

By Steve Thompson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order to facilitate the return of a Maryland man illegally deported to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador, a move that could send the case back to the Supreme Court for a second time. In a request to pause directives from […]