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Debt Ceiling

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 Kane1 hour ago

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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

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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Here are some of the fastest-sinking areas around the U.S.

Cities aren’t only seeing sea level rise. Parts of them are also sinking.

By Kasha Patel

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

By Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett

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

Drone attack shocks Moscow after new missile strike on Kyiv

By Isobel Koshiw, Samantha Schmidt and Francesca Ebel

Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced Theranos founder, reports to prison

By Julian Mark

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

As retailers leave some cities, one grocery chain is trying to stay

Giant Food is taking several small steps to cut costs and stop theft without deterring customers.

By Jaclyn Peiser

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‘The Larry Sanders Show’ was a sitcom that changed sitcoms

Actors, writers and directors remember the highs and lows of making the influential ’90s series, which aired for the last time 25 years ago this week.

By Stuart Miller