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Intel CEO says Biden wants chip factories 'bigger' and 'sooner'
Eva Dou
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said President Biden is pushing him to get new federally-funded chip factories up and running faster, amid reports of delays and creeping costs in Washington's flagship initiative to revitalize U.S. high-tech manufacturing.
Election 2024 latest news: Biden wrapping up Western swing after Houston fundraising stop
Maegan Vazquez, Marianne LeVine, Mariana Alfaro, Hannah Knowles, Meryl Kornfield, Amy B Wang, Patrick Svitek, Azi Paybarah
Get the latest election news from Washington Post reporters on the campaign trail and in Washington.
Papers that delayed Trump's N.Y. trial involve key witness Michael Cohen
Shayna Jacobs, Devlin Barrett
Prosecutors told the judge overseeing Donald Trump's New York case there is no meaningful new information about Michael Cohen from a previous investigation.
Trump's VP prospect Tim Scott sets summer wedding date after GOP convention
Michael Scherer
The timing would mean Scott would be married by Election Day, with minimal disruption to the campaign schedule if he is selected as Trump's running mate.
Democrats seize on a GOP budget proposal that would raise Social Security retirement age
Maegan Vazquez
President Biden and fellow Democrats wasted little time lambasting a budget proposal from a large group of House Republicans that would, among other things, raise the retirement age for Social Security and endorse a bill that would codify that life begins at conception.
Congress gets a $1.2 trillion spending bill days before shutdown
Jacob Bogage
House and Senate leaders unveiled new legislation that would fund the federal government for the next six months. But current funding is set to expire Saturday.
Trump Media, launched after an insurrection, faces rebellion of its own
Drew Harwell
Three men with pivotal roles in founding Donald Trump's firm and its proposed merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, are in court battles with the companies.
Trump lawyers' head-scratching legal filings just keep coming
Aaron Blake
In a Supreme Court filing this week, Trump's lawyers really reached in, citing the past words of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. And it's hardly the only recent example of their puzzling and seemingly desperate arguments.
Social Security program failed to properly notify people of huge fines, report finds
Lisa Rein
The Social Security Administration's internal watchdog office failed to properly notify some poor and disabled Americans before levying huge fines on them, an investigation found.
Biden's stutter surges into the presidential campaign
Matt Viser
Donald Trump mocks and exaggerates the speech impediment. President Biden embraces it as reflecting compassion.
Trump lags behind Biden in campaign cash reserves while legal bills mount
Maeve Reston, Clara Ence Morse
On Wednesday, a new round of campaign finance reports offered the latest snapshots of the money chase in the presidential race.
Impeachment inquiry appears on ice as House GOP tries to wrangle support
Jacqueline Alemany
The investigation into President Biden commenced last year with allegations of high crimes and misdemeanors that Republicans have since struggled to support.
Republicans hug Netanyahu tighter as Democratic tensions with Israel war strategy boil
Liz Goodwin, Abigail Hauslohner, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Leigh Ann Caldwell
"They think of Israel as a political wedge as opposed to a country and a homeland," said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
House Republican divisions over governing spill onto campaign trail
Marianna Sotomayor
An incumbent in Illinois is one of several members of Congress who have faced opposition from colleagues in primary contests.
White House: Attack on judicial nominee is 'Islamophobic smear campaign'
Tobi Raji
Adeel A. Mangi, a partner in a New York law firm, would be the first Muslim American judge on the federal appellate bench.
Texas officials ask appeals court to allow state immigration crackdown
Maria Sacchetti, Nick Miroff
Texas officials urged a federal appeals court to unblock a new law that would allow authorities to arrest and deport migrants.
In Ohio, Republicans keep taking the tougher road to the Senate
Paul Kane
The Ohio GOP's easy path to victory -- nominating mainstream conservatives -- runs into the MAGA reality of its voters.
Bankruptcy is one way out of Trump's financial jam. He doesn't want to take it.
Jonathan O'Connell, Josh Dawsey
People close to the former president say he is not currently considering bankruptcy, even though it could ease his immediate cash crunch.
Ohio Senate race comes into focus after Trump-backed candidate wins GOP primary
Amy B Wang, Maeve Reston, Azi Paybarah, Hannah Knowles, Meryl Kornfield, Patrick Svitek, Maegan Vazquez, Mariana Alfaro
Bernie Moreno, a wealthy former car dealer backed by Donald Trump, emerged from the Republican Senate field in Ohio. Trump and President Biden notched more primary wins in several states.
N.Y. attorney general questions Trump's claim that he can't get a bond
Shayna Jacobs
New York Attorney General Letitia James told an appeals court not to believe Donald Trump's claim that he is unable to secure a bond for more than $450 million.
States where abortion is legal, banned or under threat
Caroline Kitchener, Kevin Schaul, Nick Kirkpatrick, Daniela Santamarina, Lauren Tierney
More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here's a look at abortion laws by state.
Former Milwaukee election official convicted of absentee ballot fraud
Patrick Marley
Kimberly Zapata, the city's former deputy elections director, was tried in an unusual case that pitted a self-proclaimed whistleblower against election conspiracy theorists.
Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates -- again?
Aaron Blake
Bernie Moreno's victory in Ohio surfaces a long history of GOP nominees who prove to be liabilities -- and might have even cost the party control of the Senate.
Blinken begins new round of Gaza talks in Saudi Arabia
Michael Birnbaum
Secretary of State Antony Blinken started on Wednesday a visit to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel to discuss the future of Gaza with regional leaders.
'Very, very troubling': Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon
Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case, has raised alarms with a recent order involving the Presidential Records Act.
How Texas is challenging the Biden administration on border policy
Arelis R. Hernandez, Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, Ann Marimow
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott has launched multiple high-profile challenges to the Biden administration's border policies. A look at the legal battles that have followed.