President Trump meets with a bipartisan group of members of Congress, including Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Tom Reed, at the White House Wednesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump on Wednesday vowed not to cut taxes for the wealthy, promised to try to protect young undocumented immigrants…

After the Twitter account of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was caught “liking” a porn video this week, you’d think the adult film industry would be excited about the publicity. But not the porn stars above. Watch these real X-rated actresses denounce the conservative politician (who says a staffer…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested a military jet to fly him and his wife, Louise Linton, to their European honeymoon this summer, raising questions again about the wealthy couple's use of government aircraft. A Treasury Department spokesman said in a statement Wednesday that the…

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Wednesday that President Donald Trump has done more for bipartisanship in the last eight days than former President Barack Obama did during his eight years in office. Sanders was referring to the president striking a deal with…

Jessica Biel sure knows how to lift our spirits. Apparently, all it takes is the actress entering the set of “ The Ellen DeGeneres Show ” to the tune of ”(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” made famous in 1987′s “Dirty Dancing.” While dancing is not an unusual sight on DeGeneres’ show, doing the iconic…

The relationship between President Donald Trump and his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump is not what it appears to be, she says. In an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday, the president’s eldest daughter rebuffed the assumption that she holds much power of persuasion over her…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities were investigating the cause of a fire early Thursday that blocked the only exit of an Islamic dormitory on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, killing 23 people, most of them teenagers. Firefighters and witnesses described scenes of horror — first of…

Martin Shkreli is interviewed on Fox Business on Aug. 15. (Richard Drew/AP) NEW YORK — The out-of-court antics of Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager convicted of defrauding his investors, may finally be coming back to haunt him. A federal judge on Wednesday is scheduled to hold a hearing…

The iPhone X -- that's pronounced "ten", by the way, not "ex" -- is a phone of firsts for Apple. A brand-new 5.8-inch OLED screen, Face ID to unlock the phone, and no home button. Optical image stabilization on both rear 12-megapixel camera lenses, a portrait mode on the front-facing camera, and a…

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D) announced Tuesday that he will resign after a fifth man came forward accusing him of sexual abuse. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images) Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D), facing multiple child sex-abuse allegations, will resign Wednesday. Murray’s spokesman, William Lemke, told…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US NOW PLAYING Edith Windsor, an activist who paved the way for marriage equality, has died at the age of 88. Subscribe to The Morning Email. Wake up to the day's most important news. Remembering Marriage…

A federal anti-drug program has been requesting information about registered medical marijuana patients in several states where the drug is legal for medical purposes. Officials say they are collecting general demographic data for research, but the move has alarmed some state officials as well as…

Journalists can’t stop arguing with President Donald Trump and his allies about immigration. CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview with former top Trump adviser Steve Bannon, which aired Sunday, offers a telling example of this phenomenon. After Bannon said Trump should have gone “full bore” and focused “on…

Political polls tend to find Americans split along hardened partisan lines these days. Opinions of President Donald Trump , for instance, are vastly more polarized than were those for any of his recent predecessors. But Trump has also played some havoc with traditional partisan cues. While much of…

Arielle Cohen, of Lawrenceville, a Pittsburgh neighborhood, the co-chair of the Pittsburgh local of the Democratic Socialists of America, leads a chant with other protesters in Mt. Lebanon, a city suburb, in response to President Donald Trump's announced plans to end the Deferred Action for…

The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, Jr., on April 19, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland, found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal civil rights charges against six Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers.…

A decade after the release of the first iPhone, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage in the brand-new Steve Jobs Theater on Tuesday to announce, among other things, the iPhone X. That’s “X” for “10,” but it may as well also stand for “exclusive.” Apple is charging just under $1,000 for the device. The…

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House, on Tuesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Justice Department should consider prosecuting former FBI director James B. Comey for actions that “were improper and likely could have been illegal,” White House…

WASHINGTON ― Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill this week after he claimed that Democrats had prematurely celebrated the fiscal deal they negotiated with President Donald Trump. Republicans, he asserted, actually walked out of last week’s high-stakes…

The mysterious death of a Chicago teenager at a local hotel has angered her family and friends, some of whom are demanding that the hotel be closed. Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was found dead early Sunday morning in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois. Her mother,…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US NOW PLAYING The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has an official response to the suggestion that scientists nuke hurricanes. Subscribe to The Morning Email. Wake up to the day's most important…

Danielle Brooks is sharing her fabulosity with the world through a new clothing collection. The “Orange is the New Black” star announced on Instagram Tuesday that she’s designing clothes for a new collection for plus-size clothing brand Universal Standard. She shared a photo of herself effortlessly…

Late Monday night, the Twitter account belonging to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) liked a tweet from the account @SexuallPosts containing a pornographic video. An aide for the senator said the like was the result of a “ staffing issue .” Yet somehow the video still offers a rich guide to the senator’s…

Edith “Edie” Windsor, the LGBTQ activist and lead plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court marriage equality case, died Tuesday at age 88, The New York Times reports . Windsor came to national prominence after she sued the federal government for not recognizing her marriage to her late first wife. Her…

ST. LOUIS ― While President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission met publicly for the second time on Tuesday, a coalition of voting rights groups gathered outside the Missouri History Museum here to denounce the panel and warn that Trump’s commission will likely lead to more voting restrictions.…

Many factors go into making people happy, including how much money they make, who they spend time with and where they live. And certain states are more conducive to happiness than others, according to WalletHub . The personal finance website recently evaluated three categories ― emotional and…

It was supposed to be a fun gathering. On Sunday, 27-year-old Meredith Hight invited a group of friends over to her house in Plano, Texas, to watch football and grill. A few months earlier, she had filed for divorce from her husband, and she was looking forward to new beginnings. “She was a cook,…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to unveil a new version of his “Medicare-for-all” proposal on Wednesday. But the actual substance of the plan may matter less than what he says about it ― and the role he envisions that proposal playing in future debates over how to reform the U.S. health care…

Donald Trump ’s presidential campaign was largely characterized by his misogyny and inappropriate behavior toward women . In her recently released book about covering Trump’s campaign, NBC journalist Katy Tur wrote about an experience in which she was victim to that behavior. In one chapter of…

Christian Bale , known for his ability to transform for his movie roles , has done it again. The actor attended the premiere of his film “Hostiles” at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night, sporting a drastically different look including bleached eyebrows. The makeover is for…

MIAMI ― As Hurricane Irma rapidly approached Florida’s southern coast, Ron Book, the chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, and the Miami-Dade Police Department made an unprecedented decision: They chose to detain homeless people ― some against their will ― to protect them from the storm.…

On Monday night, the official Twitter account of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) liked a tweet that featured an adult video. Hilarity and lots of jokes ensued . Cruz’s senior communications adviser, Catherine Frazier, initially tried to explain away the like by suggesting that someone may have hacked into…

The actress who starred in the porn video liked by Ted Cruz ’ Twitter account has harsh words for the Texas Senator. “I didn’t like that he watched it for free,” Cory Chase told HuffPost. “He pirated that video. He should have paid Reality Kings for a subscription.” Cruz denied that he was…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ― Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States. The storm killed at least 18 people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and another 43 in the Caribbean. It had…

If you’ve been feeling shortchanged by your McDonald’s fry order, there might be a reason. A couple of anonymous McDonald’s employees claimed they were taught to under-fill fries by their employer. Their confessions were in response to an askReddit thread prompting folks to answer, “What did your…

ST. LOUIS ― Last month, just over three years after a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson, authorities started erecting barriers around the Carnahan Courthouse and police headquarters in downtown St. Louis. The city was bracing for a verdict in the…

(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) The Supreme Court agreed with the Trump administration Tuesday and put on hold a lower court decision that would have allowed more refugees to enter the country. The court issued a one-paragraph statement granting the administration’s request for a stay of the…

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton writes in her new book that when approached by then-Congressman Ryan Zinke at President Donald Trump ’s inauguration luncheon , she quickly assured the soon-to-be interior secretary he needn’t worry about her being supremely evil. During a campaign stop in January 2014,…