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Video: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) on June 12 was pushed out of a room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem held a news conference on the L.A protests.(c) 2025 , The Washington Post By Maegan Vazquez, Gaya Gupta, Jonathan Baran, Washington Post — A Democratic senator from California was forcibly removed and handcuffed after he interrupted […]

Washington Post staff — President Donald Trump urged Iran to “make a deal” with Israel “before it is too late,” after Israel launched what it called a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program and military targets. The strikes killed four senior commanders, including Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according […]

By Aaron Gregg — Elon Musk now says he ‘went too far’ in some of his posts about Trump Elon Musk walked back some of his criticism of President Donald Trump early Wednesday in an apparent attempt to mend their relationship after last week’s dramatic falling out. “I regret some of my posts about President […]

By Glenn Kessler — “There are all these humanitarian programs, where we sent money to people for medicine, for food, okay? What I thought, before I got into government, what most Americans think is, okay, so we sent $100,000 to this group to buy food, for like poor kids in Africa, okay? And what actually […]

(c) 2025 , The Washington Post · Ben Brasch  Protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement have spread to cities across the United States, as the president warns that the deployment of national guards and Marines to quell demonstrations in Los Angeles should serve as a warning that similar ones would not be tolerated. Many of […]

by Tim Page, Special to The Washington Post Brian Wilson, the founder and principal creative force of the Beach Boys, whose catalogue of early hits embodied the fantasy of California as a paradise of beautiful youth, fast cars and endless surf and made them the most popular American rock group of the 1960s, has died […]