Articles filed under Washington Post
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Thousand Oaks parents: 'I don't want prayers. I don't want thoughts. I want gun control.'Nov 09, 2018 12:00 am - Marc and Susan Orfanos awoke at 2 a.m. on Thursday in Thousand Oaks, California, to a call from a relative in New York. The groggy-eyed couple stumbled into a ritual tha...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2017: 'Holy hell to pay' if Sessions is fired. In 2018: 'When was that? What year?'Nov 09, 2018 12:00 am - Standing in the halls of Congress, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., vowed that he was 100 percent behind Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was July 27, 2017, and Preside...
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White House shares doctored video to support punishment of journalist Jim AcostaNov 08, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday night shared a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that appeared to have been altered to make his action...
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12 people killed, including sheriff's deputy, in 'horrific' California bar shootingNov 08, 2018 12:00 am - THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - A gunman firing seemingly at random killed a dozen people inside a crowded country-music bar here late Wednesday, authorities said, a toll that i...
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Democrats projected to win control of House, but Senate remains in GOP handsNov 07, 2018 12:00 am - Democrats claimed control of the House late Tuesday and flipped at least seven governorships, but Republicans were poised to expand their majority in the Senate, deliver...
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The historic firsts of the 2018 midtermsNov 07, 2018 12:00 am - The results of the 2018 midterm election ushered in one of the most diverse groups of politicians in American history, bringing in a wave of governors, senators and repr...
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Trump declares victory in midterm electionsNov 07, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the "Republican Party defied history" in the midterm elections, despite Democrats seizing the House majority,...
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Rep. Steve King says he hopes Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan 'will elope to Cuba'Nov 06, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Hours before he was set to appear with Iowa's governor in an election-eve rally, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Monday that he hopes Supreme Court Justices E...
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5 possible scenarios for Election Day, and what they would meanNov 05, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - It's midterm election eve, and we're in a somewhat similar situation to where we were in 2016. According to projections, Democrats are a strong favorite to ...
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Tax law changes make passing down large fortunes much easierNov 04, 2018 1:12 am - The teams had to be big, because the work was so complicated. A single aging rich person would often hire more than a dozen people - accountants, estate administrators, ...