Trump backs two-year budget deal that boosts spending, suspends debt limit
The bipartisan deal, which still must be passed through Congress, would clear a debt ceiling crisis later this year but would continue Washington’s borrowing binge for at least the next two years.
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Analysis Boris Johnson’s rise could be a preamble to his fall
Johnson wants to lead a Britain liberated from Europe to its former global greatness. Many experts say he’s in for a rude awakening.
Justice Department tells Mueller to not answer a wide swath of questions
The instructions are a fresh indication of how difficult it may be to extract any new information about the former special counsel’s investigation when he testifies.
Commuters travel by suburban train toward Mumbai. (Reuters)
Can a new plan change New Delhi’s reputation as one of the world’s worst cities for women?
To improve safety, the Delhi state government wants to make public transport free for women, an effort officials say will make it easier and safer for women to commute to work.
Chris Kraft
1924–2019 Godfather of NASA’s Mission Control who helped send Americans to the moon dies at 95
Mr. Kraft played a crucial role as a backstage visionary during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions. His death was announced by NASA, which had just days ago celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Trump administration officials say the proposal would result in an annual budgetary savings of $2.5 billion and restrict less needy individuals from qualifying for benefits.
Using a fast-track process that bypasses immigration judges, authorities will be able to quickly remove undocumented immigrants who arrived within the past two years from anywhere they encounter them across the United States.
Most moderate Democratic freshmen will have the resources to try to counter the GOP message — money they will need with President Trump at the top of the ticket.
From the moment Hunter Biden took a job in 2014 with an energy company in Ukraine, Republicans have said it presented a conflict of interest.
Scientists captured the last 22 California condors left in the world in 1982 in order to breed the giant scavengers in captivity.
The five-Olympic champion pulled out of the 200- and 1,500-meter events, casting uncertainty on the rest of her race program in South Korea.
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Her husband was killed at the newspaper he loved. Now she’s finishing his life’s work.
A year after the Capital Gazette shooting, much is unfinished, but John McNamara’s book will publish this fall thanks to his wife, Andrea Chamblee.
(Jabin Botsford/The Post)
Cuyahoga and Summit counties soon will be at the center of the most important legal test of how much responsibility drug companies bear for the opioid epidemic.
(Eamon Queeney)
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In Greenville, N.C., where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back,” leaders of three congregations handled the moment differently in the pulpit.
