The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday became the latest party to question Puerto Rico Power Authority’s decision to award Whitefish Energy a $300 million contract to restore the island’s hurricane-ravaged electrical grid. “Based on initial review and information from PREPA, FEMA has…

Only a small fraction of the thousands of Colorado voters who withdrew their registrations following a controversial request for voter information from President Donald Trump’s voter fraud probe have chosen to reregister less than two weeks ahead of election day. 8,983 people have canceled their…

At a closed-door meeting earlier this month, NFL owners gathered to discuss players protesting racial inequality during the national anthem. Among the several voices in the room who opposed the protests was Texans owner Bob McNair, who said of the protesting players, “We can’t have the inmates…

As HBO’s “The Deuce” wraps up its first season, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy is trying earnestly to get America’s porn industry running. The Martino brothers played by James Franco, meanwhile, have largely moved the other sex workers of Times Square yore off the streets; instead, they’ve taken up at…

One of the most stunning parts of the White House’s debacle over Donald Trump ’s recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told a story to discredit a congresswoman that turned out to be…

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) speaks to the media about tax legislation on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) stands behind him. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Paul D. Ryan has traveled a long way from the soaring rhetoric he delivered on his first day as House speaker.…

HOUSTON -- Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred issued Yuli Gurriel a five-game suspension on Saturday with full knowledge that some segments of the baseball community -- and perhaps people who have never even seen a baseball game -- would be upset by the timing or the message or the perceived…

The Spanish government has said it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont in new elections. The central government in Madrid has ordered that fresh elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia should take place in December. It stripped Catalonia of its…

(CNN) At least 10 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb was set off outside a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace Saturday -- two weeks after the deadliest car bombings in the nation's modern history. The blast, outside the Nasa Hablod Two Hotel, near the Villa Somalia presidential…

Scarlett Johansson can’t come to the phone right now, because Taylor Swift just stole her gig. And it didn’t even really belong to her anyway. The pop star released the second music video of her “Reputation” era at midnight on Friday for the single “Ready For It,” a thumping anthem from her upcoming…

Sitting beside his wife, Jacqueline, President John F. Kennedy waves from his car on Nov. 22, 1963, iin Dallas. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, File) (Jim Altgens/AP) Barring any last-minute interventions, President Trump is expected to authorize the release Thursday of thousands of documents related to John…

Impact on California Real Estate after the Wildfires Firefighters continue to battle the 22 large wildfires that continue to burn through seven counties in California, including the famed wine-producing areas of Napa and Sonoma. About 3,500 homes and buildings have been incinerated by the blazes,…

WASHINGTON ― Deedra Abboud, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, is happy to see Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) speak out about what he called “personal attacks, … threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, [and] flagrant disregard for truth or decency,” an apparent criticism of…

Donald Trump returned to his favorite network Wednesday for a chummy sit-down interview with Lou Dobbs of Fox Business, during which the anchor showered him with praise and allowed the president to speak at length about “fake news” and his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton. The interview, which aired…

Ikea is catching heat for a sexist television commercial in mainland China that it has now pulled from the air. The Swedish furniture company’s ad shows a mother berating her 20-something daughter for not bringing a boyfriend home for dinner. She tells the young woman not to call her “mom” if she…

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Montana-based energy company tasked with restoring Puerto Rico’s hurricane-ravaged electrical grid engaged in a heated Twitter feud Wednesday. Cruz was one of several political figures who expressed concern over Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s recent…

China has revealed its new senior leadership committee, breaking with tradition by not including a clear successor to President Xi Jinping. The omission cements Mr Xi's grip on China for the next five years, a day after his name and his teachings were written into the constitution. But it raises…

Democratic attorney Marc Elias preps with attorneys Roopali Desai, Sarah Gonski and Amanda Callais in August 2016. (David Jolkovski for The Washington Post) The Washington Post broke the story Tuesday night that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for that…

WASHINGTON ― The Republican tax cut package appears to be on a fast track to approval but with one key detail unresolved: how much, or even if, middle- and lower-income families will benefit at all. With the House prepared to vote on the Senate’s version of a budget framework on Thursday, GOP…

CNN released a powerful new ad on Monday that seemed to be a direct response to President Donald Trump and his supporters calling the network “ fake news .” The 30-second “Facts First” spot states simply that an apple is an apple, even if some people “might scream banana, banana, banana over and…

The family of a U.S. Army corporal killed in Afghanistan has finally received a check from Donald Trump , months after the president promised to give the soldier’s grieving father $25,000 in a phone call. North Carolina’s ABC affiliate spoke with Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Cpl. Dillon…

WASHINGTON ― With his boss escalating tensions with North Korea and Iran, former White House adviser Stephen Bannon on Monday instead pitched as a major foreign policy success an event many have already forgotten: an anti-terrorism conference President Donald Trump arranged in Saudi Arabia this…

America’s sweetheart no more, Taylor Swift ’s music persona morphs into what appears to be an android warrior to fight the forces of evil in a stunning teaser for a music video from her new album. In the spiky, sci-fi scenes for “ ... Are You Ready for It?” — posted on Swift’s Instagram Monday — the…

On the heels of devastating wildfires that killed more than 40 people in Northern California earlier this month, Southern California is now on high alert for fire danger. Nearly all of Southern California has been placed on a red flag warning through Wednesday, as weather conditions ― including high…

Memo to Bill O’Reilly : Your former Fox News colleagues want you to leave them out of your mess. The latest of those colleagues is Eric Bolling, who said Monday that O’Reilly’s claims regarding the recent death of Bolling’s son are “beyond inappropriate” and asked he cease discussing it. Bolling…

ESPN’s Jemele Hill returned to her hosting duties Monday night, two weeks after the network suspended her over political social media posts it says violated company policy. She briefly addressed her absence at the start of her 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” show. “I love you,” Hill told co-host Michael…

An Oklahoma man is greasing the wheels of justice with lots of Vaseline. When John Wayne Kellerman was pulled over on Oct. 15, he could have easily given officers the slip. That’s because the 54-year-old was mostly covered in Vaseline on his hands, and his upper and lower body parts, according to…

She’s baaack! In 2010, Andrew Lincoln started off “ The Walking Dead ” by killing a kid zombie, aka Summer the Teddy Bear Walker. On Sunday, the Season 8 premiere of the show paid tribute to that scene, recreating it shot for shot, including having Rick kill a zombie that looked eerily similar to…

WASHINGTON ― Nearly 1 million Americans in Puerto Rico still have no drinking water , more than a month after Hurricane Maria destroyed the island. Some have resorted to drinking from wells at hazardous Superfund sites. Others have been drinking water from creeks that sick animals have urinated in ―…

A prominent journalist at Russia’s top independent radio station was stabbed in the neck on Monday after a spate of recent attacks and threats against Russian media. Tatyana Felgenhauer, deputy editor and a host of Ekho Moskvy, was hospitalized in a medically induced coma after an assailant broke…

A deluge of disturbing stories about sexual misconduct have come to light since The New York Times published its exposé on producer Harvey Weinstein — and many of these allegations have surfaced in industries outside of Hollywood . On Friday, Jessicka Addams, former frontwoman of the band Jack Off…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US NOW PLAYING Trump's Call 'Hurt' Sgt. Johnson's Widow The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in Niger, discussed the controversial phone call with President Donald Trump that left her in tears.…

Bill O’Reilly says the recent New York Times report that he settled a sexual harassment suit for $32 million shortly before Fox News offered him a $100 million contract extension is “false, defamatory” and “another smear article.” But according to Megyn Kelly , who worked alongside O’Reilly at Fox…

Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News employee who accused Bill O’Reilly of sexually harassing her in 2011 , said Monday that she’s still “terrified” of the network after the lengths it went to in order to protect him and discredit her. “You know that you’re just this one person that’s about to go up…

Hollywood continues to reckon with its past in the wake of numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations against film executive Harvey Weinstein , but it’s not the only industry that allows a culture of abuses against women to persist. George Clooney sat down with “Entertainment Tonight” to…

Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore takes a hard-line Christian fundamentalist stance on just about every issue. He’s written poems lamenting legal abortion. He wants to make gay sex illegal and overturn marriage equality. The former judge says he places “God’s law” above the Constitution,…

Rodrigo Rodriguez personally understands the stakes of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s longstanding problem with youth homelessness and police violence . He grew up in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods ― the International District, once known as the “War Zone” ― and says that as a young person, he…

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the #MeToo campaign showed that sexual harassment or abuse of women is shockingly pervasive. Now, four U.S. senators are telling their stories. NBC’s “ Meet The Press ” reached out to all 21 female senators, asking about their experiences with sexual…

The Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly barred three agency scientists from giving talks about climate change at a conference in Rhode Island days before they were scheduled to speak. The researchers were booked to appear Monday in Providence at the State of the Narragansett Bay and…

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared to heap more criticism on President Donald Trump during an interview on Sunday, saying it was “wrong” for high-income Americans to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War. “One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we…