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By Maxine Joselow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal judgehas temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency from terminating at least $14 billion in climate grants approved under President Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction late Tuesday that prohibits the EPA from “unlawfully […]

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

By Jacob Bogage, Meryl Kornfield, Patrick Svitek · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Given all the news out of the IRS lately, I started pondering what Tax Day 2026 will look like. I asked my sources inside the IRS, in the tax community and in the Trump administration to play it out with me. Most of these people spoke on […]

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

By Jacob Bogage, Meryl Kornfield, Patrick Svitek · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Given all the news out of the IRS lately, I started pondering what Tax Day 2026 will look like. I asked my sources inside the IRS, in the tax community and in the Trump administration to play it out with me. Most of these people spoke on […]

By Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month. A district court judge had ordered the administration to bring Kilmar Abrego […]