The Debrief
President Trump's supremacy is being challenged inside his own realm. With his administration engulfed by crisis, he can no longer control the forces once solidly arrayed behind him.
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Analysis Add risk of government shutdown to impeachment and other legislative logjams
Congressional leaders are fearful that any of the must-pass bills could turn into a hostage situation if President Trump sees it as possible leverage against impeachment.
Biden’s aggressive efforts to reform Ukraine yielded successes but also earned him enemies
The former vice president spent three years pushing Obama administration policy on Ukraine, but his approach may have laid the groundwork for questions now being raised by political opponents about his and his son’s behavior.
Parliament votes to withhold full approval of Brexit deal, delaying moment of reckoning
The humiliating defeat, however, did not deal a fatal blow to the withdrawal agreement British Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiated in Brussels. He said he planned to press ahead and seek approval of his deal in the coming week.
Daisy Flores holds a portrait of her son, Edwin, who disappeared in May. She and his nephew, Hector, wait for news in their home. (Fred Ramos for The Post)
Karen looks through the window of her bedroom. Her husband went missing in San Salvador last November. (Fred Ramos for The Post)
A soldier guards a farm in El Limon, where investigators found a clandestine grave with human remains. (Fred Ramos for The Post)
Disappeared in El Salvador: The return of a Cold War nightmare
In the 1970s and ’80s, tens of thousands of people disappeared as right-wing governments — many supported by the United States — fought to extinguish leftist insurgencies. Now, three decades after a brutal civil war characterized by never-explained, never-resolved disappearances, Salvadorans are again vanishing.
‘They are livid’: Trump’s withdrawal from Syria prompts rare public criticism from current, former military officials
The unusual flurry of commentary, including from retired Gen. Joseph Votel, exposed an internal debate over the military’s role in foreign policy and the responsibility of uniformed officials to speak out publicly.
Campaign 2020The senator from Vermont drew a rally crowd of more than 25,000 — and the endorsement of rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Jobs-focused college students are fleeing to STEM majors. But prominent economists say the world needs more storytellers — and that the economy does, too.
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The Past, Rediscovered The Carters married in 1946, when he was 21 and she was only 18.
New surveillance footage reveals how former Oregon Ducks football star Keanon Lowe comforted a teen who authorities say planned to take his own life.
High school security guard fired for repeating slur after telling student not to call him the n-word
School officials pointed to a zero-tolerance policy on employee use of racial slurs, a news report said.
An unpredictable rivalry has arisen between two Democratic politicians — one who isn’t even running this cycle and another who is polling at barely one percent.
An LGBTQ group had protested the company, but a spokesperson said Chick-fil-A had always planned to operate the location for a limited time.
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Podcast The first mass police shooting on a U.S. college campus happened two years before the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University.
