In Saudi Arabia, the president signed a joint “strategic vision” that includes $110 billion in American arms sales and other new investments that the administration said would bring hundreds of thousands of jobs. Trump, who was received like visiting royalty, was serenaded by military bands, treated to a flyover of Saudi jets and feted in opulent palaces on the first day of his visit to the ultraconservative Muslim nation.
The White House was stymied on a plan to add the Saudi ISIS branch to a terrorist list.
Air Force personnel refuel an A-10C Thunderbolt II at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo)
The Pentagon has generated almost $6 billion over the past seven years by charging the armed forces excessive prices for fuel and has used the money — called the “bishop’s fund” by some critics — to bolster mismanaged or underfunded military programs, documents show.
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Analysis Democrats have made a tactical decision not to turn the contests into a referendum on President Trump’s alleged scandals and instead are focusing on policy decisions by the president and congressional Republicans.
The Pueblo Mall is an outlier in the age of Amazon.com, when socks and laundry detergent and televisions — nearly anything you can think of — can be delivered to your front stoop within hours.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) calms an argument between town hall attendees May 12 in Calhoun, Ky. (Michael Noble Jr. for The Post)
Comer pauses to be photographed after his meeting at the McLean County Courthouse. (Michael Noble Jr. for The Post)
Law officers stand by as Comer speaks at a meeting in Edmonton, Ky. (Michael Noble Jr. for The Post)
Comer leaves the McLean County Courthouse in Calhoun after a town hall. (Michael Noble Jr. for The Post)
Rep. James Comer returned to his district for the first time in a month, worrying that, for Republicans, the “wheels were falling off.” Was Trump still popular here? Had he lost this part of Kentucky? As he braved town hall meetings during the congressional recess, he started to hear an answer.
Is the fact that some water seeped into the “fail-safe” seed vault no big deal? Or are we as a human race doomed to die, starving and cropless, in the event of global catastrophe? The answer is a bit more measured.
NBA Playoffs
Game 3 of the Western Conference finals continued what has become a consistent theme of these playoffs: a one-sided spectacle marred by the absence of a star player.
The Fix
Analysis This week’s reemergence of the conspiracy theory involving the slain Democratic National Committee staffer revealed plenty about the fake news ecosystem.
“It was unprofessional,” the CNN host said of the exchange with conservative pundit Jeffrey Lord that evoked an image of the president, his desk and the call of nature.
The Switch
Perspective The “death” of the MP3 is really not much of a death at all. Still, some nostalgia is understandable: The MP3 changed the way we listened to music as it liberated people from tapes and compact discs.
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Perspective
High above the German city and its industrial waterfront, the billion-dollar Elbphilharmonie — with its cutting-edge acoustics and extraordinary design — has become a destination for music lovers.
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Despite (or perhaps because of) a flood of information, Americans get a failing grade in nutrition literacy.
