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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 Kane28 minutes ago

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Analysis

McCarthy’s secret speaker deal takes a bizarre turn

By Aaron Blake12 minutes ago

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

By Tyler Pager1 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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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

BREAKING NEWS

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

By Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett16 minutes ago

Opinions

Asians are part of the American story. They deserve a place on the Mall.

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

Today’s OpinionsNewsletter

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

Play: Today’s crossword puzzles and other games

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

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter diagnosed with dementia

By Timothy Bella

Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced Theranos founder, reports to prison

By Julian Mark

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Drone attack shocks Moscow after new missile strike on Kyiv

Drones damaged two residential buildings in a dramatic strike on the Russian capital after yet another barrage of missiles on Ukraine’s capital killed one person and injured more than 12.

By Isobel Koshiw, Samantha Schmidt and Francesca Ebel

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