Defense secretary nominee Patrick Shanahan withdrew from consideration Tuesday after an unusually lengthy FBI background check delayed his nomination. In interviews with The Post, he said he regretted explaining his son’s 2011 baseball-bat assault on his mother — Shanahan's ex-wife — as an act of self-defense.
Senators are asking why they weren’t told sooner about the domestic abuse allegations involving Shanahan's family.
The president's remarks on Jerome H. Powell constitute an almost unprecedented attack on the central bank just as top Federal Reserve leaders are meeting to decide what to do on interest rates.
In tweets, President Trump appeared to reference a plan to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities.
Workers sort out plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
The Japanese government says it wants to reduce plastic use by 25 percent by 2030. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Every person in Japan uses around 300 or 400 plastic bags a year, or more than 40 billion for the entire nation. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Japan will call for collective action to tackle the ocean plastic crisis at next week’s G-20 summit, although the country still has an obsession with plastic packaging.
Reports of a confrontation in the state of Veracruz came as Mexico increased enforcement against migrants at the behest of the United States, creating new checkpoints and deploying thousands of national guardsmen.
The planes will include one of the jetliners used as Air Force One. The flyover reflects his interest in replicating a celebration he observed in France in 2017 and his desire to throw an extravagant patriotic event, three people briefed on the plans say.
The president refused to apologize Tuesday for the full-page ad he ran in 1989 calling for the execution of the Central Park Five and suggested the men might still be guilty, even though they were exonerated years ago.
“It would be pretty hard to figure out who to compensate,” the Senate majority leader told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.
In an interview with Time magazine, the president said he would “certainly” go to war over nuclear weapons but left open the question of taking action to protect oil supplies.
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The Government Accountability Office said project cost overruns and schedule delays are even worse than originally thought.
The New York Democrat faced criticism from Republicans who said she was demeaning Jews exterminated in the Holocaust.
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