When boomers are done, the median first-time home buyer will be 48, the national debt will be 60 trillion, the code of federal regulations will be a quarter million pages long, and they will not at any point have been vaguely aware of what they did to this nation.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, 87, has been DC's iconic "warrior on the Hill" for 34 years. Now, multiple council members and Norton allies are questioning if it is time for new leadership & if she has the vigor needed to defend DC w/ Marianna Sotomayor & Paul Kane washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

BREAKING: Shooting suspect Vance Boelter was arrested by authorities late Sunday evening in Sibley County, according to a high-ranking state official. startribune.com/melissa-hortma…

The House-passed bill includes a provision that blocks local governments from regulating rent-setting algorithms for the next decade. cnn.com/2025/06/16/bus…

How the Minnesota shooting suspect went from youthful evangelizer to far-right zealot. In-depth reporting from a stellar ⁦The Washington Post⁩ team inc ⁦Annie Gowen⁩ ⁦Jonathan O'Connell⁩ ⁦Michelle Boorstein⁩ washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06…

Friends, a note about me and The Washington Post: I'm staying. I say that because in a season of buyouts, a number of my great colleagues are departing this month and numerous people have reached out to ask if I am, too. I am not. I'm staying because even after some body

How Trump’s personal attorney wound up investigating the Epstein case at DOJ, by Shayna Jacobs and Michael Kranish washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't know

Free to read: wapo.st/4okuxIg

New: Trump admin is NOT planning to require health insurers to cover IVF, sources say, in retreat from 2024 campaign pledge Another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists

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Working mothers, who helped drive much of the job market’s post-pandemic comeback, are leaving the workforce in large numbers this year. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

ICE is sprinting to 100k immigrant detention beds this year & we got the internal road map. It includes: ✅ More large-scale facilities ✅ More soft-sided tent cities ✅ Record number of family detention beds Details in story wapo.st/45hE9fq 🧵 Highlights ->

Veteran White House correspondents privately grumbled as a MAGA online personality dominated the Q&A during a photo op with President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump was mostly served set-ups for his own talking points: cnn.com/2025/08/18/med…

RIP to one of the realest. Jeff made me laugh every time I talked with him. 💔wtop.com/inside-wtop/20…

This pretty much sums up what went wrong with Biden era industrial policy:

🚨Senior federal officials are privately warning against firings during a government shutdown, saying the strategy may violate appropriations law. Trump & his top aides have threatened mass firings if the Dems don't budge. Scoop, with Hannah Natanson: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…