President-elect Donald Trump intends to launch a broad legislative agenda that includes cutting taxes, rolling back the Affordable Care Act and rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. The question is how Republicans, after eight years of warnings about the growing national debt, will respond to the fiscal implications of proposals that would likely send the deficit soaring.
Trump's election as an outsider promising to shake up a system he said was rife with “fraud and abuse” has conservatives optimistic they could do now what Republicans have been unable to achieve in the 133 years since the civil service was created.
The former New York mayor’s security consulting business could create conflicts if he’s chosen as secretary of state.
Paris Wade, left, and Ben Goldman in their Long Beach, Calif., apartment. (Stuart Palley for The Post)
In a bare rental apartment, two young writers are making big profits on the political division of 2016 by leveraging what “works on Facebook”: conspiracy theories, exaggeration, stoking fear, and inflaming racial and gender tensions.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz suggests State Department officials deliberately transferred information from a classified to an unclassified system.
In the fatal shooting, the officer was writing a ticket when the shooter pulled up behind him, got out of his car and fired, authorities said.
The president made appeals to Trump and voiced concern about the rise of “crude nationalism” during his final foreign trip in office, a week-long valedictory journey to Greece, Germany and Peru.
The protesters, who have been facing off with authorities since October over the Dakota Access oil pipeline, were attempting to clear a blocked bridge near Cannon Ball, N.D., when they were sprayed with water and tear gas.
Francis had earlier allowed priests to hear confessions for abortion for one year. Now, he's making that permanent.
He rapped a little and ranted a lot in a Saturday night show that lasted just two songs and 30 minutes before he walked off the stage to boos and confusion from fans.
After Israel’s supreme court set a deadline for people to get out, settlement supporters in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are scrambling to find a way to save Amona — or at least save face.
Two sons of privilege, Brendan Sullivan III and Robert Elwood, accuse one another in court of using the Washington area’s Headfirst Baseball as a personal ATM. Evidence includes photos of bags of cash.
