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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Lucy Perkins |Ted Muldoon
Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic church, died Monday morning at age 88. He leaves behind a legacy of inclusivity. But now that he is gone, will his approach to the papacy survive? Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became leader of the world's nearly 1.4 billion Catholics in 2013. Immediately, Francis made it clear that he would not be a traditional pope.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Ted Muldoon |Reena Flores |Lucy Perkins
This picture, released March 16, shows the arrival of alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AFP photo/El Salvador’s Presidency Press Office)Over the weekend, President Donald Trump invoked a seldom-used wartime powers act to deport suspected gang members without due process.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Reena Flores |Ted Muldoon |Lucas Trevor
Patience Frazier at home with her 2-year-old son, in her new hometown of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, in September. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Patience Frazier was charged with manslaughter under an abortion law from 1911. It was a rare instance of a woman who sought an abortion facing prosecution. Host Martine Powers is joined by reporter Caroline Kitchener to talk about Frazier’s story, the aftermath of her arrest, and the sheriff’s deputy who pushed for her prosecution.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Monica Campbell |Emma Talkoff |Ted Muldoon
Hezbollah fighters carry the coffins of comrades killed by exploding mobile devices in a funeral procession Wednesday in Beirut's southern suburbs. (Bilal Hussein/AP)Thousands of people were injured across Lebanon this week in back-to-back explosions of electronic devices – pagers, mostly – used by the militant group Hezbollah.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Ted Muldoon |Renita Jablonski |Reena Flores |Rennie Svirnovskiy
Former president Donald Trump raises his arm with blood on his face during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Donald Trump, the former president who is set to formally accept the Republican nomination later this week, was less than 10 minutes into his speech at a rally in Pennsylvania when a burst of gunfire interrupted him. Trump was quickly rushed offstage with what appeared to be blood on one side of his face.
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May 22, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Ted Muldoon |Renita Jablonski
A generation ago, community activists were able to bankrupt and push out a white supremacist hate group that took root among the tall pines and crystal lakes of North Idaho. It was a hard-fought triumph — one North Idaho residents took pride in. But today, some of those activists and residents worry that hateful ideologies are returning to their region. This time, they say, the threat is no longer on the fringes of society, dressed in Nazi garb at a hideout in the woods.
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May 8, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Ted Muldoon |Lucy Perkins
Former president Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday in New York. (Mary Altaffer/Pool/Reuters)Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified against the former president Tuesday. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, recounted details of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Her testimony was met with muttered profanities from the former president.
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May 1, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Ted Muldoon |Rachel Van Dongen
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) takes part in a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in November. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)Mike Johnson became House speaker following the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy in October. After three weeks of infighting among Republicans, Johnson emerged as the only viable candidate, in part because Johnson was relatively unknown. Before becoming speaker, Johnson was best known for leading the charge to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Emma Talkoff |Monica Campbell |Ted Muldoon
Protesters upset over the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., hold a cutout of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they rally outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto last September.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Ted Muldoon |Lucy Perkins
In Friday’s episode of “The Campaign Moment,” we look back at the political news of the week and dive into how it could shape the 2024 election. This week, senior political reporter Aaron Blake – who also writes The Post’s newsletter of the same name – talks about former president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York with Elahe Izadi and congressional reporter Liz Goodwin. They also chat about how foreign policy is dividing both Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
