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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks with reporters Tuesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Post)

Debt ceiling deal clears first hurdle as McCarthy tries to tamp down dissent

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) faced growing opposition from far-right members of his party but remained confident he would be able to secure passage of the bipartisan bill.

By Rachel Siegel, Marianna Sotomayor, Amy B Wang and Paul Kane

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Analysis

McCarthy’s secret speaker deal takes a bizarre turn

By Aaron Blake

Biden’s budget director Shalanda Young emerges as a quietly essential figure in debt deal

By Tyler Pager

Smoking chimneys and a solar panel farm in Yulin in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. (AP)

How the U.S. wants to pressure China to help avert climate catastrophe

U.S.-China relations will determine the future of global warming, but it’s difficult to set aside superpower rivalries in the bid to reduce emissions.

By Michael Birnbaum and Christian Shepherd

Analysis

Where are all those food delivery fees going? We tested three apps to find out.

DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats may be convenient, but whether they’re a winning proposition for anybody can swing on a few dollars.

By Hamza Shaban, Faiz Siddiqui, Alexis Arnold and Joe Fox48 minutes ago

Opinions

Asian Americans have been overlooked. This could help change that.

Opinion by Elaine Chao

Kari Lake’s apparent VP ambitions should make the GOP nervous

Opinion by Henry Olsen

Erdogan won in Turkey. What does the West do now?

Opinion by the Editorial Board

Pessimistic Americans fail to see the dream that migrants chase

Opinion by Gabriel Pasquini

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An anvil will not crush the economy. At least not today.

Opinion by Drew Goins

Move over, evangelicals. Non-churchgoers now rule the GOP.

Opinion by David Byler

3 reasons we’re stuck with Trump and Biden

Opinion by Megan McArdle

This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine

Opinion by Marc A. Thiessen

Listen: The toll of DeSantis’s election police unit

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Ask Sahaj: My husband’s rigid retirement schedule is so boring

Cook: A vegetable-packed pasta satisfies a teen — and the rest of the family

Mar-a-Lago prosecutors eye July episode with Trump surveillance cameras

By Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett

Live briefing: War in Ukraine

Drone attacks on Moscow and Kyiv escalate tensions in warring capitals

By Bryan Pietsch and Annabelle Timsit1 hour ago

Home-School Nation

These Christian home-schoolers were taught that public schools are evil. Then they enrolled their kids.

A Virginia couple grew up in, and were expected to advance, the most ideologically committed faction of the modern home-schooling movement, led by deeply conservative Christians. Ultimately, they walked away.

By Peter Jamison

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Ira Kress, president of Giant Food. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Post)