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María Corina Machado surrounded by people with phones and cameras.

Machado presents Trump with her Nobel during White House meeting

Sydney Carruth

Jerome Powell sits with his hands clasped in front of his mouth.

GOP senator gives the Fed’s Powell bad advice, urges him to resign as part of a ‘deal’

Steve Benen

Greenland Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt, center, and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark Lars Lokke Rasmussen, right, walk to a meeting.

Trump is giving Denmark and Greenland an impossible choice

Hayes Brown

President Trumps walks out of White House at night, holding a black large umbrella.

Trump’s Minnesota threats suggest he may be close to unleashing what he’s always wanted

Philip Bump

Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis

Sydney Carruth

ICE’s aggressive tactics are causing ‘a rising tide of revulsion’ among Americans

Allison Detzel

A person's hands cuffed behind their back. An officer on either side holds the person's arms.

The 3 rights everyone — citizens and noncitizens alike — should know if they encounter ICE

Allison Detzel

Donald Trump points at the crowd from the stage. His photo doing the same thing can be seen in the background.

Trump muses on midterms: ‘When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election’

Steve Benen

Bernie Moreno followed by reporters.

The Senate’s Obamacare deal hits a ‘pothole’

Kevin Frey

An ICE agent signals "stop" with his left hand up while holding a spray bottle as other agents follow him.

ICE funding jumped $75 billion. Here’s my plan to redirect the windfall.

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

President Donald Trump wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.

Trump’s NY Times interview was full of notable moments. His white grievance rhetoric stands out.

Philip Bump

Kari Lake's profile.

Kari Lake admits to impeding Radio Free Europe’s broadcast into Iran for ideological reasons

Ja'han Jones

Rep. Kristin Noble.

New Hampshire Republican is defiant after reportedly hyping ‘segregated schools’

Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump pats the back of John Hess as he delivers remarks on June 12, 2025 in the East Room of the White House.

Chevron board member made sizable donation to Trump-affiliated PAC

Lisa Rubin & Soorin Kim

Mario Díaz-Balart looks at the camera as microphones are held to his face.

Trump isn’t so sure about Venezuela’s next leader. Florida Republicans would like a word.

Ali Vitali & Lillie Boudreaux

A man waves a venezuelan and american flag while standing a statue in Bogota.

Prioritizing Venezuela’s oil won’t pan out the way Trump wants

Retired Amb. James Story

The Washington Post headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s intimidation campaign just took a terrifying new turn

Jen Psaki

Federal agents carry a handcuffed person by the person's arms and legs.

Trump targets Maine’s Somali population as federal officials consider new enforcement operation

Laura Barrón-López & Marc Santia

Donald Trump speaks at a Ford factory standing in the middle of a group his hands are up.

The ‘manufacturing renaissance’ exists only in Trump’s imagination

Steve Benen

FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Sept. 25, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House.

Bondi’s months-old decision set the stage for FBI raid on Washington Post reporter’s home

Steve Benen

A photo showing daily life in Tehran where two men crossing the street with a big iranian flag seen on a billboard in the background.

U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran as death toll tops 2,600

Julianne McShane

Josh Hawley stands in front of a group of journalists. Photo is shot from above.

GOP’s Hawley, Young send an unsubtle signal to Trump: Bullying works

Steve Benen

Rep. Lisa McClain at the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. Lisa McClain denies insider trading: ‘If it was … we would have bought a heck of a lot more’

Ja'han Jones

A demonstrator, as seen from the eyes up, looks down. They have a face painting of the trans flag on their forehead.

New data illustrates ‘Trump effect’ on LGBTQ Americans

Julianne McShane

A woman sitting at a table looking at her health care bills

College for one child or insulin for another? Georgia mom forced to make a ‘crushing’ choice

Peggy Helman & Arielle Hixson

Mahmoud Khalil raises his hand while protesting with a big crowd. A Palestinian flag is draped over his shoulder.

Appeals court reverses decision that freed Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention

Ebony Davis

President Donald Trump during an Economic Club of Detroit event on Jan. 13, 2026.

Trump is throwing spaghetti at the wall with his latest economic proposals

Charles Herman

‘One chicken, one broccoli, one corn tortilla’: Brooke Rollins mocked over her out of touch meal

Sen. Elissa Slotkin says she’s under federal investigation over viral video

Bolton: Trump’s ‘missing a real opportunity’ to make change in Iran after softening rhetoric

Thousands join Buddhist monks on peace walk to promote national healing

Chris Hayes’ map-based theory behind Trump’s Greenland obsession

Lawrence: Trump’s middle finger to auto worker proves he is the vulgarian-in-chief

Mayor Jacob Frey gives press conference after latest Minneapolis ICE shooting

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin talks with reporters on Jan. 12, 2026 in Pittsburgh.

    What Mike Tomlin leaving the Steelers might mean for the NFL

    Keith Reed

  2. Emissions rise from the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Norco Refinery in Norco, La.

    Trump’s EPA is giving companies a license to make Americans sick

    Hayes Brown

  3. A window, acting as a prism, multiplies an image of Donald Trump on a TV.

    Trump’s ‘morality’ can be summed up in 5 words

    Kristen Monroe

  4. Vice President JD Vance claps as President Donald Trump smiles.

    This new DOJ fraud division gives Trump a tool no president should have

    Austin Sarat

  5. The arson attack on Beth Israel isn’t typical of Mississippi. But the response to it is.

    Stuart Rockoff

  6. People hold signs reading "Who will ask the questions" and "Less news we all lose" outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building.

    Another local newspaper shuttering is bad news for America

    Keith Reed

  7. Elon Musk pauses and looks down against a black background.

    Countries have begun banning Grok over its porn scandal. Could the U.S. be next?

    Ja'han Jones

  8. A man looks at the screens at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History.

    The Smithsonian Institution is in trouble

    Zeeshan Aleem

  9. An illustration of Plato with duct tape over his mouth

    Texas A&M wants to ban a 2,000-year-old male philosopher from my college class

    Martin Peterson

  10. Vice President JD Vance.

    Vance’s ‘door to door’ rhetoric is reminiscent of Gestapo

    Ja'han Jones

  11. At sunset, an American flag flies in the foreground with the Capitol in focus in the background.

    CBS News says it ‘unapologetically’ loves America. But it’s perpetuating a dangerous binary.

    Anthony L. Fisher

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