Tag: Washington D.C.

Bowser announces 2026 DC budget priorities as current spending fight plays out

Jack Birle · April 25, 2025 9:22 am

A China Shipping Line cargo ship sails sails the North Pacific Ocean off the coast of Alaska past the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Low oil prices that have made the Arctic shortcut less attractive to freight companies are one of the reasons, along with public pressure, why the search for fossil fuels above North America has also slowed in recent years.

Energy and Environment

Trump signs order allowing mining on ocean floor

Emily Hallas · April 25, 2025 9:12 am

Trump overhauls probationary employee tenure process after federal workforce layoffs

Ross O'Keefe · April 25, 2025 8:37 am

House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), right, the ranking member, make statements as the House Rules Committee prepares to advance the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

House Republicans plan for $150B defense spending hike in win for defense hawks

Rachel Schilke · April 25, 2025 7:00 am

President Donald Trump says he has "my own deadline" for a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

Pressure builds on Trump the deal-maker to deliver

W. James Antle III · April 25, 2025 7:00 am

Tariffs: Trump’s content and messaging fiasco

Hugo Gurdon · April 25, 2025 6:05 am

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a meeting between President Donald Trump and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in the Oval Office at the White House on April 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. The leaders are expected to discuss security, trade, NATO and the war in Ukraine.

Pentagon fixates on ‘totally fake’ makeup room report amid department turmoil

Mike Brest · April 25, 2025 6:00 am

Prediction markets a budding profit center, CEO of futures company says

Zach Halaschak · April 25, 2025 5:45 am

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) gives a policy speech in Washington, D.C., on April 9.

Would-be 2028 Democratic hopeful falls into a Trump trap

David Mark · April 25, 2025 5:40 am

Bill Maher’s Trump truce: A comedian crosses the cultural divide

Daniel Ross Goodman · April 25, 2025 5:27 am

Pete Hegseth’s ‘Month from Hell’

Jamie McIntyre · April 25, 2025 5:25 am

Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Democrats

David Harsanyi · April 25, 2025 5:17 am