Trump started his briefing with a moment of silence to commemorate the lost lives before his remarks became a blame game.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Friday with his counterparts in South Korea and Japan, vowing to strengthen military ties with both countries amid regional security concerns, according to their respective defense ministries.

Nicolas Talbott is one of the plaintiffs filing suit against President Trump's ban on transgender troops in the military. This is his story.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

California officials refute President Trump's social media claim that the U.S. military entered the state and "turned on the water."

Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

A day after President Donald Trump claimed to have used the U.S. military and emergency powers to pump more water from Northern California to Southern California, federal officials have yet to provide details or explain the action.

President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

President Donald Trump is carrying out his immigration crackdown nationwide, with over 1,000 arrests reported by ICE on Monday. The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia afte

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

As late-night hosts are discovering on this, the first day back after the first weekend of the second Trump administration, Monday’s are catch-up days. Seth Meyers, approaching the weekend backlog of news,