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Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

As reporters were leaving the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump appeared to answer a...


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump said his decision on whether to impose additional sanctions on Russia would be...


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May 20, 2025

Trump says U.S. has chosen plan for ‘Golden Dome' missile defense system
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that deploying and operating just the space-based interceptors could cost $542 billion over the next two decades.

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May 20, 2025

Trump touts ‘Golden Dome,' downplays existing systems


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump said he did not discuss space-based nuclear weapons during his phone call with...


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration has selected the design that will make...


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May 20, 2025

Buttigieg: Trump's bill is ‘bad policy,' no matter your party


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May 20, 2025

Supreme Court for now overturns Maine official's censure on trans sports
Maine lawmakers stripped voting rights from Republican Rep. Laurel D. Libby after her online post about a transgender high school pole vaulter.

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May 20, 2025

Trump's budget bill is big - but is it beautiful enough?
On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" - the 1,100-page proposal for a measure that includes a whole of of the GOP's priorities, all in one package. But does Trump have the support of his own caucus, or does he need to convince Republicans in both the House and the Senate to vote for it? The crew dives into what changes it would make to U.S. law, which tax cuts it would extend, and how Republicans have structured the bill to bypass Democrats' votes entirely. Plus: The timing of former president Biden's announcement that he has cancer raises questions.

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May 20, 2025

Rubio, Democrats clash over Trump's foreign policy moves
In his return to the Senate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced intense backlash from former colleagues who accused him of abandoning his principles.

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May 20, 2025

Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) explained Tuesday why he was the only Democrat to vote to...


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May 20, 2025

Diddy trial recap: Witnesses testify on Cassie Ventura, freak-offs and Combs's Star Island mansion raid
Sean "Diddy" Combs's federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort, among testimonies.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

If time allows, prosecutors plan to call Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi this week. He is the...


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May 20, 2025

Sean Combs's mother and sons did not appear in court Tuesday for the second day in...


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May 20, 2025

Gun parts with serial numbers that had been defaced were recovered from Sean Combs's bedroom at...


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May 20, 2025

Diddy trial live updates: Homeland Security agent Gerard Gannon testifies about federal raid in Sean Combs's case
Sean "Diddy" Combs's federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort, among testimonies.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Special Agent Gerard Gannon was asked by prosecutors to walk through some of the items found...


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May 20, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters that Republicans still have a "number of loose ends...


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May 20, 2025

Gerard Gannon, a Department of Homeland Security special agent now testifying, was in charge of planning...


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May 20, 2025

Homeland Security special agent Gerard Gannon is giving an account of the planning and search of...


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May 20, 2025

Homeland Security special agent Gerard Gannon was tasked with planning the federal raid on Sean Combs's...


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May 20, 2025

Moderate Republicans who have opposed President Donald Trump's tax and immigration bill stood firm Tuesday in...


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May 20, 2025

Now for a change of pace: The government has called its next witness, Gerard Gannon, a...


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May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes testifies more about whether Cassie Ventura enjoyed herself


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May 20, 2025

Possibly contradicting his earlier testimony that Cassie Ventura sometimes winced and sighed at Sean Combs's instructions...


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May 20, 2025

Trump's favorite food? Leavitt fields kids' questions in briefing room.


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May 20, 2025

Hayes says he wrote self-help book that was also part roman à clef


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May 20, 2025

Under cross-examination by attorney Xavier Donaldson, Sharay Hayes, 51, said he began his exotic dancing career...


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May 20, 2025

Freak-offs were fairly predictable affairs, Sharay Hayes testified. The rooms were always dimly lit with electric...


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May 20, 2025

What's in Trump and Republicans' giant tax and immigration bill?
How what Trump has called his "big, beautiful bill" could change the federal government and the U.S. economy.

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May 20, 2025

Van Hollen clashes with Rubio, says he regrets voting to confirm him


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May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes has returned to the witness stand, where the government will continue questioning him about...


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May 20, 2025

Federal workers would lose protections or pay higher pension contributions


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May 20, 2025

Trump backs off ceasefire after call with Putin, letting fighting rage on
After Trump's third phone call with Putin since his inauguration, it appears there will be no letup in fighting and less U.S. pressure on Moscow.

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May 20, 2025

The court is on lunch break.


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May 20, 2025

Diddy trial live updates: Exotic dancer Sharay Hayes testifies about freak offs in Sean Combs's case
Sean "Diddy" Combs's federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort, expected to testify.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes said he didn't recognize Sean Combs or Cassie Ventura during their first encounter, but...


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May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes testified that Sean Combs would periodically give instructions during the freak-off, telling Cassie Ventura...


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May 20, 2025

Rubio defends resettlement of White South Africans amid refugee program pause


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May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes said his first freak-off with Cassie Ventura and Sean Combs took place in 2012,...


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May 20, 2025

Sharay Hayes is bald and muscular, wearing a black suit and tie. He also speaks with...


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May 20, 2025

Prosecutors' next witness is Sharay Hayes, 51, a male exotic dancer from Harlem whose stage name...


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May 20, 2025

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a conservative fiscal hawk who is demanding Republicans' massive tax and immigration...


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May 20, 2025

Jeffries asks Johnson to reschedule meeting currently set for 1 a.m.


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May 20, 2025

Sean Combs's lead counsel, Marc Agnifilo, declined to cross-examine Regina Ventura, Cassie Ventura's mother, after she...


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May 20, 2025

Cassie Ventura's mother, Regina Ventura, said her daughter first told her Sean Combs was physically...


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May 20, 2025

Noem botches definition of habeas corpus in Senate hearing


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May 20, 2025

Rubio faces off with Democrats opposed to Trump's foreign policy moves
In his return to the Senate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was met with intense questioning about the Trump administration's bid to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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May 20, 2025

Jurors previously heard testimony that Sean Combs was livid that Cassie Ventura had been dating rapper...


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May 20, 2025

Regina Ventura said she took out a home-equity loan in 2011 for $20,000 to satisfy a...


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May 20, 2025

Why Sean ‘Diddy' Combs and Suge Knight have been rivals for decades


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May 20, 2025

Rubio claims ignorance of Trump meme coin dinner, Qatar jet future


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May 20, 2025

RFK Jr. slammed by both sides of the aisle in Congress


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May 20, 2025

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) appears to be shrugging off Donald Trump's latest attacks on him as...


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May 20, 2025

Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles
Follow President-elect Trump's progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.

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May 20, 2025

Colorful cross-examination of David James concludes


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May 20, 2025

The witness coming up is Regina Ventura, the mother of alleged victim Cassie Ventura. She's about...


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May 20, 2025

During the redirect, the government asked David James if Sean Combs himself ever got violent with...


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May 20, 2025

James: Combs scolded him for altercation with female chef


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May 20, 2025

Elon Musk says he plans to do ‘a lot less' political spending going forward
"I think I've done enough," the Tesla CEO said Tuesday, months after plowing at least $288 million into the 2024 election to help Trump and other Republicans.

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May 20, 2025

Burchett says Republicans ‘really close' to bridging SALT disagreements


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May 20, 2025

Schumer calls Trump a ‘liar' for state and local tax reversal


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump has left the Capitol after meeting with House Republicans for over an hour....


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May 20, 2025

More details emerge of what it's like to be Combs's assistant


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May 20, 2025

State and local tax deductions at issue in meeting with Trump


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May 20, 2025

Live updates: Trump, visiting Capitol Hill, warns House Republicans against opposing his bill
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump's return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.

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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump is speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after leaving the closed-door House GOP...


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May 20, 2025

Revised House GOP bill takes aim at health coverage for immigrants


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May 20, 2025

Revised House GOP bill takes aim at health coverage to immigrants


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May 20, 2025

Defense counsel Marc Agnifilo was fairly aggressive as he cross-examined Sean Combs's former assistant David James...


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Diddy trial live updates: Ex-assistant David James testifies about baby oil, drugs in Sean Combs's case
Sean "Diddy" Combs's federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort, expected to testify.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Musk says he plans to do ‘a lot less' political spending going forward
"I think I've done enough," the Tesla CEO said Tuesday, months after plowing at least $288 million into the 2024 election to help Trump and other Republicans.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

A former assistant alleged setting up baby oil, drugs in separate lawsuit


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump has now been meeting with House Republicans for over an hour. Some members...


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May 20, 2025

Trump tries to persuade, and threaten, GOP to back his budget bill
The massive tax and immigration bill, which is central to Trump's second-term plans, faces continued resistance from both moderates and GOP hard-liners.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Trump tries to persuade, and threaten, GOP to support his budget bill
The massive tax and immigration bill, which is central to Trump's second-term plans, faces continued resistance from both moderates and GOP hard-liners.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

The defense is suggesting the Suge Knight incident didn't happen, at least not the way Sean...


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May 20, 2025

Former assistant seems to corroborate 2009 Cassie incident


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May 20, 2025

A couple of protesters were forcibly removed from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing room in...


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May 20, 2025

Before the trip to the diner, Sean Combs's girlfriend Cassie Ventura was crying and begging him...


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Elon Musk says he'll do ‘a lot less' political spending going forward


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Musk says he'll do ‘a lot less' political spending going forward


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Sean Combs had three handguns on his lap when he ordered members of his entourage to...


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May 20, 2025

Trump tells House Republicans to get it together and pass his bill


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May 20, 2025

David James, describing the prep he would do for Sean Combs's hotel rooms, said he was...


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May 20, 2025

Personal assistant describes Combs's hotel supplies


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May 20, 2025

As President Donald Trump addresses House Republicans on Capitol Hill, the White House is promoting a...


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May 20, 2025

The White House has added a new event to President Donald Trump's schedule for Tuesday: a...


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump is continuing to talk to House Republicans in their closed-door meeting after speaking...


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump, before meeting with House Republicans, claimed lawmakers are "not touching" Medicaid and then...


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May 20, 2025

Sean "Diddy" Combs traveled with a large supply of prescription and illegal drugs, including pills that...


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May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), a critic of the president's priority...


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that Republicans are a "very unified party" — but he also...


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May 20, 2025

David James, Sean Combs's former personal assistant, told the court Monday afternoon that he would often...


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May 20, 2025

Judge Arun Subramanian has repeatedly praised the jury's timeliness, noting at the start of court Tuesday...


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

David James, a former personal assistant to Sean Combs, is back on the witness stand after...


Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Diddy trial live updates: Ex-assistant David James to testify in Sean Combs's sex-trafficking case
Sean "Diddy" Combs's federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort expected to testify.

Washington Post Politics
May 20, 2025

Judge Arun Subramanian said he would like to see Regina Ventura's testimony before making a ruling...


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May 20, 2025

The defense is not denying that Sean Combs demanded $20,000 from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura's mother,...


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May 20, 2025

A closed-door House Republican conference meeting has started, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) just left...


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