Theresa May intends to step down as her party’s leader by June 7 and make way for a new British prime minister later this summer. Among the many expected to contend for the job is former foreign secretary and Brexit hard-liner Boris Johnson, who is leading in opinion polls.
The move gives Attorney General William P. Barr broad powers to unveil carefully guarded intelligence secrets about the Russia investigation as he conducts a review of the probe.
President Trump has signaled that he may invoke emergency authority to complete weapons sales that lawmakers have temporarily blocked.
Under the proposal, $30 million would go to alleged victims of the disgraced Hollywood producer, former Weinstein Company employees and creditors, and their lawyers.
Fisher Industries workers prepare land on private property in Sunland Park, N.M. (Jordyn Rozensky and Justin Hamel for The Post)
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According to administration officials, President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a wall contract to a construction firm led by a Republican donor who has frequently appeared on TV to tout a border barrier.
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House Democrats agreed to suspend deadlines for the president’s accounting firm to hand over his records, pending an expedited review by the federal appeals court in D.C.
The change is central to agency efforts to make the most dramatic changes to federal meat-inspection policy since a 1906 law seized control of food safety from plant owners.
Videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media.
In a news conference, President Trump lashed out at the House speaker, calling her “crazy” and dismissing her criticism and political assessment.
The trade battles concern leaders such as Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Trump ally whose state has been at the forefront of spurring economic development with China.
The federal indictment charges Assange worked with a former Army intelligence analyst to obtain and disseminate secret documents — conduct similar to reporting work at many traditional news organizations.
A New York designer is using 3-D stamps to replace slave owner Andrew Jackson’s face with the woman who escaped slavery and led hundreds of others to freedom.
Physical therapist Angela Gordon performs dry needle therapy for Anthony Harris as Kait Donovan looks on. (Doug Kapustin for The Post)
Harris’s recovery program for a torn ACL includes workouts with a resistance band. (Doug Kapustin for The Post)
Harris is one of three elite Washington-area basketball players to suffer an ACL tear during a six-month span. (Doug Kapustin for The Post)
Year-round basketball schedules are putting young athletes at risk of knee injuries. “We are pushing our kids to the limit,” one doctor said.
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The 1980s bad boy novelist, has reinvented himself as a podcaster and provocateur. His new hobby: “triggering millennials” — or what he calls “Generation Wuss.”
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Pick a problem, or a perceived problem, and it can probably be traced back to the rise of velocity as the sport’s ultimate weapon.
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