Trump backs two-year budget deal that boosts spending, suspends debt limit
The bipartisan deal, which still must be passed through Congress, would clear a debt ceiling crisis later this year but would continue Washington’s borrowing binge for at least the next two years.
Trump administration to expand power for quick deportations
Using a fast-track process that bypasses immigration judges, authorities will be able to quickly remove undocumented immigrants who arrived within the past two years from anywhere they encounter them across the United States.
Justice Department tells Mueller to not answer a wide swath of questions
The instructions are a fresh indication of how difficult it may be to extract any new information about the former special counsel’s investigation when he testifies.
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From the Magazine
One hundred years ago, in the midst of a white riot, black Washingtonians fought back. Soon, a police officer was dead and a girl named Carrie Johnson was headed to trial.
Chris Kraft
1924–2019 Godfather of NASA’s Mission Control who helped send Americans to the moon dies at 95
Mr. Kraft played a crucial role as a backstage visionary during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions. His death was announced by NASA, which had just days ago celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
From the moment Hunter Biden took a job in 2014 with an energy company in Ukraine, Republicans have said it presented a conflict of interest.
The Fix
Analysis A New Yorker piece has provided an opportunity for a debate that was never had in full, with the added benefit of two years of festering resentment from his supporters.
In a late-morning tweet, the president escalated his attacks on freshman lawmakers known as ‘the Squad.”
The country has one of the world’s highest rates of violence against gay and transgender people, and its president regularly makes homophobic remarks.
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The company, which faces growing scrutiny and suspicion, worked with another Chinese firm to funnel equipment across the border for nearly a decade, internal documents say.
U.S. team officials have yet to make a decision on whether the five-time Olympic champion will race in Tuesday's 1,500-meter final.
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Her husband was killed at the newspaper he loved. Now she’s finishing his life’s work.
A year after the Capital Gazette shooting, much is unfinished, but John McNamara’s book will publish this fall thanks to his wife, Andrea Chamblee.
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Cuyahoga and Summit counties soon will be at the center of the most important legal test of how much responsibility drug companies bear for the opioid epidemic.
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In Greenville, N.C., where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back,” leaders of three congregations handled the moment differently in the pulpit.
