Trump asks Supreme Court to shield his tax returns from prosecutors
The filing by the president’s private lawyers represents a historical moment that tests the court’s independence and highlights the Constitution’s separation-of-powers design. It also marks a new phase in the investigations that have dogged President Trump throughout his time in office.
Floodwaters in St. Mark's Square didn’t deter some tourists in Venice. (AFP/Getty Images)
People use a footbridge to cross St. Mark’s Square. (AFP/Getty Images)
The crypt of St. Mark’s Basilica on Wednesday. (AFP/Getty Images)
‘The reaction is to cry’: In flooded Venice, visitors take selfies as residents reel
The tourists stayed when flooding arrived this week. But Venetians say the toll of repeated inundation has led to a sense that life in one of the world’s most improbable and spellbinding cities is becoming unviable.
Ex-envoy’s testimony will be a moment of reckoning on gender for Trump
Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine, was targeted by male allies of President Trump. She’s about to publicly face some of his fiercest congressional defenders.
Career White House budget official expected to break ranks, testify in impeachment inquiry
Political appointees at the Office of Management and Budget have refused to appear, but Mark Sandy is a longtime employee who has worked for multiple presidents.
The shooting is at least the seventh to take place on school grounds since the start of the academic year, according to a Washington Post analysis, and the first fatal shooting on a campus since students arrived back at school.
Late Thursday night, a department spokeswoman said the office would clarify to witnesses that they could submit written feedback “consistent with rules to protect classified information.”
There were standing ovations for the newest justice and for his wife at the Federalist Society’s gala Thursday night at Washington’s Union Station.
The State Department’s inspector general concluded that the move was based not on the employee's merit but on improper and false perceptions of her political opinions, her association with the Obama administration, and her national origin.
President Trump has raised concerns that the military justice system has treated the service members involved unfairly. Some military justice experts see the possible intervention as a subversion of the legal process.
The controversial and long-delayed contract had been widely expected to go to Amazon Web Services but was instead awarded to rival Microsoft last month.
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The Post’s Mustafa Salim has covered the massive demonstrations sweeping Iraq since early October 2019. Here’s what he saw.
By The Way
These remote islands are closing to visitors next spring in the name of overtourism
A weekend without traditional tourists aims to protect the Faroe Islands from the same fate as places like Rome or Thailand's Maya Bay.
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Perspective
A white football coach, a historically black college and lessons that endure
Joe Purzycki wasn’t easily accepted when he was hired at Delaware State in 1981; Friday he’ll be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame.
