President Trump said he is no longer looking to cut payroll taxes, pivoting away from an option he’d confirmed was under consideration a day earlier.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said what she really thought of Trump’s plan to buy Greenland. Trump responded Wednesday, saying Frederiksen’s statement “was nasty” — invoking a word he has repeatedly used to describe political women he disagrees with.
The number of reported hate crimes in Washington, D.C., reached an all-time high of 204 last year. But a Washington Post analysis of 200,000 police and court records found that hate-crime prosecutions and convictions are at their lowest point in at least a decade.
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