A federal judge restored 11 clean energy grants in states that President Trump lost after attorneys acknowledged the election influenced why the funding was nixed.
Lawyers representing Energy Secretary Chris Wright were named the top defendants.
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- Twenty student newspapers in Maryland are fighting a district memo that they’re concerned could lead to censorship. The memo says administrators must review all content printed in school publications before deciding whether it can be published.
- For Pope Leo, it pays to have friends in high places — especially earthly ones. The pope wrapped up his trip to Spain by borrowing a private jet from Spain’s King Filipe VI after the Vatican’s chartered plane, with the press corps on board, broke down.
- Mohamed Jesil, a restaurant manager in London, said he acted on “pure instinct” when he saw a young girl hanging from the balcony ledge. Jesil and a police officer were able to catch the girl when she fell.
00:00 - If your instinct is to reach for a probiotic supplement after you take antibiotics, you may want to rethink that, our Ask a Doctor columnist says. wapo.st/4vezCod
00:00 - Pope Leo XIV warned Europe, which is in the midst of a new migration crackdown, that it “cannot claim to uphold human dignity while growing accustomed to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic becoming unmarked graves.” wapo.st/4vJMsuI
- Federal law enforcement officials raided the offices of an Ohio organizing group that ran one of the state’s biggest 2024 voter registration efforts, seizing computers and other materials from the group’s Cleveland office.
- Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift profusely thanked her parents, crediting their decision to move their family to Nashville for her career. “I will never be able to express my gratitude,” she said.
- A U.S. citizen who researched Myanmar politics was arrested in China after the country accused him of espionage. In a separate incident in Myanmar, authorities detained an American businessman who ran a security consultancy.
- After days of tit-for-tat military strikes, Pakistan’s prime minister said that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to the terms a peace deal. A senior Trump administration official confirmed that they were 80 to 85 percent of the way to reaching a deal.
- Union voters could be crucial to some of the most competitive House races during November’s elections. The Post interviewed 27 union workers at the national convention of the AFL-CIO in Minneapolis, and nearly all disapproved of President Trump.
- President Trump says he’s exploring ways to give the public a stake in leading AI companies. The plan remains vague, but experts say if and how it develops could have massive consequences. Here are a few forms the plan could take:
