![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...
![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...
![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...
![‘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.
![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...
![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...
![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...
![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...
![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...
![Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismisses calls for Iran war powers resolution: ‘Getting the cart ahead of the horse’]()
“I think we're getting the cart ahead of the horse here,” Thune told reporters on Capitol Hill, when asked if he would allow a war powers resolution to come...
