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Debt Ceiling

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 Kane

The FixAnalysis

McCarthy’s secret speaker deal takes a bizarre turn

By Aaron Blake

5 takeaways on the debt deal’s economic impact

By Abha Bhattarai1 hour ago

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

By Tyler Pager

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

As retailers leave some cities, one grocery chain is trying to stay

Giant Food is taking several small steps to cut costs and stop theft without deterring customers.

By Jaclyn Peiser

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

7 things to know today: Debt ceiling; Rosalynn Carter; Elizabeth Holmes; sinking cities; AI warning; and more

5 min

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Their high school canceled an LGBTQ play. These teens put it on anyway.

Their Indiana school rejected “Marian.” So, after three frenzied weeks of preparation, they took their revolt offsite — and staged it at an outdoor theater.

By Hannah Natanson1 hour ago

Opinions

Asian Americans have been overlooked. This could help change that.

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

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

By Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett

Court paves way for Purdue Pharma opioids settlement, shielding Sackler family from future claims

By David Ovalle

Live briefing: War in Ukraine

Drone attacks on Moscow and Kyiv escalate tensions in warring capitals

By Bryan Pietsch and Annabelle Timsit3 minutes ago

Smoking chimneys and a solar panel farm in Yulin in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. (AP)

How the U.S. wants to pressure China to help avert climate catastrophe

U.S.-China relations will determine the future of global warming, but it’s difficult to set aside superpower rivalries in the bid to reduce emissions.

By Michael Birnbaum and Christian Shepherd

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