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Byline: Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Ellison, Patrick Marley, Holly Bailey Sitting in front of a fireplace on New Year's Eve, a battleground state official asked a relative to consider a [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski, Sarah Ellison, Michael Birnbaum President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal aid from California as it works to recover from devastating wildfires, recycling several baseless claims and [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Inauguration Day began and ended with unusual pardons from two presidents that legal and democracy scholars say reflected a lack of faith in the justice system, just [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the 2008 presidential campaign, the board praised the nascent outlet for using 'probing reporters and the power [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Jeremy Barr For many years, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to sue the press but often didn't follow through. When he did, he almost always lost. But Trump's [...]

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump has yet to start his second term, but at a raucous black-tie gala in downtown Manhattan, a former aide floated the idea of a [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Andrew Jeong When President-elect Donald Trump said he wants Kari Lake, a former local television news anchor who has spread false election claims, to [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr, Sarah Ellison Rupert Murdoch has faced a setback in his bid to cement his son Lachlan's future control of his media empire, after a Nevada probate commissioner [...]

Byline: Michael Kranish, Dan Lamothe, Sarah Ellison, John Hudson By Pete Hegseth's account, his heavy drinking began after a brush with death when an RPG ricocheted off his vehicle but [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Donald Trump's return to the White House signals a significant breakdown of an already battered democracy, experts say. Almost as dangerous, they contend, much of the electorate [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison In the aftermath of the extraordinary 2016 victories by Brexit and Donald Trump, the Oxford Dictionaries chose 'post-truth' as the word of the year. The concept outlived [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard, Sarah Ellison When President Donald Trump threatened in 2017 to pull licenses from television stations that scrutinized his administration, he met resistance from his own political appointee [...]

Byline: Hannah Allam, Sarah Ellison Hate speech was woven through the fiery words and crude jokes of Donald Trump's rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, an event that analysts say [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Adriana Usero MIAMI - Like his favorite American politician, Alexander Otaola unsuccessfully contested the election results when he lost his bid to become mayor of Miami-Dade County [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Two weeks before the presidential election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) accused billionaire Elon Musk of spreading âdangerous disinformationâ about voting in her state after [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Amy Gardner, Clara Ence Morse CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Elon Musk acquired Twitter in November 2022. It was late October 2022. [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Mariana Alfaro, Lisa Rein A week after his unsubstantiated comments on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, sparked a national firestorm and spurred violent threats in the small [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Sarah Ellison Donald Trump latched onto a new false claim before a prime-time debate audience of 67 million people: Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating people's pets. [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Jeremy B. Merrill It started with a tragedy, gained momentum online with neo-Nazis and became Donald Trump's message from the presidential debate stage. A Midwestern town grappling [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Amy Gardner Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to 'immediately implement changes' to X's AI [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Jeremy Barr As James Murdoch stepped away from the family business, he made clear that he didn't approve of the direction he saw it taking. Leaving his [...]

Byline: Karla Adam, Sarah Ellison LONDON - London Metropolitan Police have told former British prime minister Gordon Brown that they are considering his request to open a new police probe [...]

Byline: Maegan Vazquez, Sarah Ellison Democratic lawmakers and Vice President Harris's campaign joined a chorus of online critics in calling out remarks Donald Trump aimed at a Christian audience on [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison A federal judge in Florida threw out a bankruptcy case filed by the Gateway Pundit, ruling that the site, which is known for spreading conspiracy theories, sought [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Mariana Alfaro When President Biden announced he was suspending his campaign for president, Donald Trump and some of his supporters stitched together a series of conspiracy theories [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Cat Zakrzewski, Clara Ence Morse Law enforcement officials quickly launched an investigation into the Saturday night shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, offering few details. [...]

Byline: Aaron C. Davis, Greg Miller, Sarah Ellison, Isaac Stanley-Becker LONDON - In late January 2011, just days after Scotland Yard launched a major new investigation of illegal phone hacking [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Sarah Ellison, Greg Miller, Aaron C. Davis LONDON - The alleged offense was trying to steal a soon-to-be-released copy of former prime minister Tony Blair's memoir. The [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi, Sarah Ellison For the people who work at The Washington Post - as well as the people who read it - a window into the motivations of [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Elahe Izadi Washington Post Publisher and CEO William Lewis is drawing scrutiny after press reports described him as attempting to dissuade journalists - including those at The [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Elahe Izadi, Jeremy Barr Barely five months after joining The Washington Post as publisher and CEO, William Lewis recently began discussing a plan with his top executives [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Jeremy Barr, Elahe Izadi Matt Murray, named as a new top editor of The Washington Post, vowed Monday to uphold journalism standards during a staff meeting that [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Josh Dawsey For months, top advisers to Donald Trump expected that he would be convicted by a New York jury on all 34 felony counts. So Trump [...]

Byline: Karla Adam, Aaron C. Davis, Sarah Ellison LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry cannot expand his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's U.K. publishing company to include additional claims that the media [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez The video message from Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes warmly greeted the scores of election workers who had gathered at a Phoenix-area hotel [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison On Friday morning, Donald Trumpâs hush money trial in Manhattan revisited a moment from the 2016 campaign when a Washington Post article felt as if it might [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison When Marla Maples was about to give birth to Donald Trumpâs fourth child, Tiffany, in 1993, former New York Daily News gossip columnist Linda Stasi had her [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Josh Dawsey, Jeremy Barr Two days after NBC NewsÇÖs decision to reverse its hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, network staffers were coming to [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Josh Dawsey MSNBC President Rashida Jones participated in recruiting former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this month and McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor [...]

Byline: David Kenner, Sarah Ellison, Jonathan O'Connell A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax, according to documents and representatives for the media company and [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Toluse Olorunnipa When 2024 dawned, the presidential race appeared destined to play out as much in the courts as on the campaign trail. Former president Donald Trump [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Every year, local television news stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting conduct short surveys among viewers to help guide the yearâs coverage. A key question in each poll, [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, who served as chairman of a select committee dedicated to combating the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and was a key [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley Rusty Bowers, a former speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives who played a pivotal role in resisting efforts to overturn [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison The story had all the elements of a blockbuster crime saga: burner phones, semiautomatic weapons, silencers and bags of prepaid cash cards. 'NOW WE HAVE PROOF!' blared [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison After warning for years that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy, two constitutional scholars proposed a possible solution over the summer to keep him [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Fox News host Sean Hannity didn't mention the word 'dictator' last week when he asked former president Donald Trump during a Fox News Town Hall if he [...]