Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has ... Read More

What to watch during what could be Biden’s final White House correspondents’ dinner

Joe Biden’s aviator sunglasses likely won’t be far away Saturday night when the president cracks some jokes at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But not everyone will be ... Read More

When trade deficits matter

Economists are quick to point out the fallacy of the trade deficit as a definitive indicator of economic health. In politics, though, the evils of a trade imbalance make an easy sound bite. Read More

The central question hanging over Trump’s legal cases: From the Politics Desk

Plus, McConnell’s next big fight and Biden is privately feeling more optimistic about the direction of his re-election campaign. Read More

National News

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects ... Read More

Israel has briefed US on plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of potential Rafah operation

Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential Rafah operation to root out Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city ... Read More

Tabloid Publisher Describes Deals to Buy Silence at Trump Trial

David Pecker, the longtime publisher of The National Enquirer, is expected to return to the stand and describe the hush-money deal with a porn star at the heart of the case, in which Donald J. Trump ... Read More

20 reasons why Donald Trump has been good for America: No, seriously

Here are 20 examples of how Trump may have benefited America, or at least where Trumpian maleficence, malfeasance and malpractice have alerted us anew or reawakened us to ideas and practices we once ... Read More

How Arizona became the center of the political universe

With nearly 400 miles of shared border with Mexico, Arizona is also a flashpoint in the immigration debate that is at the top of voters’ minds — this year, the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector reported ... Read More

Jury of 12 Is Seated in Trump Criminal Trial

The process of picking jurors for the criminal case against former President Donald Trump has accelerated. He is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to ... Read More

Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement

Georgia is the only state with a Medicaid work requirement, and it is suing the federal government to try to keep the mandate in place. The work requirement was approved by then-President Donald Trump ... Read More

Mississippi legislative leaders swap proposals on possible Medicaid expansion

The House voted by a wide bipartisan margin in late February to expand Medicaid coverage to about 200,000 people who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $20,120 annually for one person. Read More