Trump attacks Danish prime minister over ‘nasty’ remark on Greenland
The prime minister had called the idea of selling the island to the United States “absurd,” prompting President Trump to cancel a trip to Copenhagen.
Federal Reserve officials were divided on whether to cut rates, meeting minutes show
The president pressured Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell to make deeper rate cuts, but most Fed officials want to see more data before rolling out further reductions.
The grandparents of Margaret Wilson, 80, were the first family to move into Aberdeen Gardens in 1937. (Ryan M. Kelly for The Post)
Cynthia Young-Lee, right, talks with Margaret Wilson during the annual fish fry at Aberdeen Gardens. (Ryan M. Kelly for The Post)
Painters in Aberdeen Gardens in 1936. It was the first federal project created for African Americans under the New Deal, and the only one with a black architect, supervisor and laborers. (Library of Congress)
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The number of crimes investigated by D.C. police as bias-motivated reached an all-time high of 204 last year. But a Washington Post analysis of 200,000 police and court records found that hate-crime prosecutions and convictions are at their lowest point in at least a decade.
Gay friends leaving a bar.
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The president ratcheted up his attacks on Jewish Democrats on Wednesday, dismissing an outcry from both sides of the aisle as well as Jewish organizations.
Campaign 2020Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford are leaning toward a presidential bid, while Jeff Flake is taking recruitment calls and John Kasich plans a visit to New Hampshire.
Officials plan to eliminate a 20-day cap for holding migrant children and create a licensing regime that would make it easier for federal officials to expand family detention.
Hundreds of federal, state and local policymakers have visited warehouses this year as President Trump and some of his Democratic would-be rivals rip the retailer’s tactics.
Tom Bergeron tweeted that he thought the producers had agreed the show should be “free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.”
(Jean Chung for The Post)
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