In one of the most consequential moves of his young administration, President Trump could within days impose new restrictions, a decision that could impact trade with more than a dozen major countries. The European Commission president responded with comments that were a reflection of how European officials have become more comfortable challenging Trump’s foreign policy stances.
(Video: Reuters; photo: German government/EPA)
Video on a German government Facebook page showed Vladimir Putin adding a friendly little finger point and a smile, while President Trump clapped the Russian leader on the shoulder.
In remarks that represent a significant shift for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he said Republicans may have to draft a more modest health bill with Democrats if his party can't muster the votes needed.
The people attending Sen. Jerry Moran's town hall aimed to prove that there was no demand for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, even in the reddest parts of a deep red state.
The momentum in the labor market picked up last month, government data showed, with the private sector and the government adding 222,000 jobs. The figure surpassed estimates of some economists who had expected an addition of 178,000 jobs for the month.
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William C. Morva was convicted for the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy and an unarmed hospital security guard during his 2006 escape.
Hobby Lobby President Steve Green chairs the museum’s board and the Green family is its major funder. While the museum said items in the federal case were never in its collection, experts said the incident could dissuade scholars from using the institution.
The first-time candidates have raised a combined $700,000, their campaigns said, an early indication that the race will be among the nation’s most expensive.
D.C. police are seeking a motive in the shooting of a construction engineer in the District's Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
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The utility’s apiary experiment tests whether bees can thrive in an urban environment, in hopes that if it works in D.C., it can work at similar facilities across the country.
Starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez delivered a strong performance and left with the Nationals trailing by one run, but the bullpen faltered and center fielder Michael A. Taylor was injured in the game.
Capital Weather Gang
The weekend will be sunny and less humid, with a chance of a thunderstorm on Saturday.
Amid North Korea’s recent flurry of provocative missile tests, Kim Jong Nam’s killing by liquid VX now looks to many experts like a proving exercise for a chemical-weapons stockpile that Pyongyang is thought to have built over decades and kept carefully under wraps.
Wonkblog
Analysis “Put the supply out there, and demand will follow,” Perry said at a coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. If the energy secretary was suggesting that no matter how much coal the industry produces there will be demand for it, he was clearly mistaken.
New research suggests that models predicting future warming are on track rather than at odds with the historical record.
Years after the housing crisis undermined the U.S. economy, state budgets are still being battered, facing the strain of plummeting energy prices, generous tax cuts and a boom in online shopping that has depressed sales tax collections.
Can repeated exposure to remote killing over a long career lead to moral exhaustion? As technology erases boundaries that once separated the war zone from home, officials wonder how they can rebuild them.
The shooting guard averaged 14.5 points last season for the Hawks, who acquired him in 2015 in a draft-day deal with … the Knicks.
Perspective
Traditions involving dress code apply to lawmakers and their staff, as well as journalists — but apparently not to first ladies or first daughters.
The case is likely to return for clarification to the Supreme Court, which ruled last month that the government could begin enforcing the ban, but not on those with “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship” with a person or entity in the United States.
