Month: June 2025
June 18, 2025
Politics
Trump celebrates $100K ‘personal project’ of raising two White House flagpoles
"The White House opened in about 1800, just a tad before that, and I've always said, why doesn't it have a flag pole from the grass?" the president said....
June 18, 2025
Congress
Democrats walk out of Senate Judiciary hearing probing Biden’s mental fitness
Democrats are refusing to participate in the first congressional hearing focusing on allegations of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline while in the White House. Only Sens. Dick Durbin...
June 18, 2025
Politics
Nippon Steel’s $15B purchase of US Steel closes — with big role for Trump
The measures agreed to represent an unusual level of control conceded by the companies to the government to save the deal, after a rocky path to approval spurred by...
June 18, 2025
Politics
Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on transgender treatment for minors
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors in a 6–3 decision, concluding that such policies are best decided by the states. The Supreme...
June 18, 2025
Congress
‘The reality we live in:’ Lawmakers consider what they’d sacrifice for safety
As threats to lawmakers and their families persist and intensify, members of Congress are grappling with what steps they’re willing to take to ensure their safety.
June 18, 2025
Politics
Trump says it’s ‘really late’ for Iran to begin talks after ‘getting the hell beaten out of them’
President Trump said Wednesday that Iranian officials are pleading for a White House peace summit now that they're "getting the hell beaten out of them." — but that he...
June 18, 2025
Politics
New Senate bill fixes flaws in fed’s system to block Chinese land purchases near military bases
Three years ago, the Chinese took advantage of a defect in US protocols to block land purchases near its domestic bases and almost acquired terrain near Grand Forks Air...
June 18, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Members clash over increasing their own security
Lawmakers confronting a rise in political violence are grappling over whether to use more tax dollars for their own protection, even as Republicans search for deep cuts across the...
June 18, 2025
Politics
Treasury secretary tells ‘Pod Force One’ China’s 30% share of global manufacturing is ‘too high — and it can’t go higher’
"President Trump wants the US to manufacture more and become a manufacturing powerhouse for precision manufacturing again," Bessent told Post columnist Miranda Devine in the latest episode of "Pod...
June 18, 2025
Politics
Treasury secretary tells ‘Pod Force One’ that Ukraine minerals deal could launch post-Cold War levels of economic growth
“If the Ukrainian economy could grow at that rate,” Bessent said, “I think the Russians might be afraid of them at that point.” “If the Ukrainian economy could grow...