The Trump administration recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact, senior administration officials said.
A meeting with congressional leaders underscored how few substantive developments have occurred since the shutdown began.
House Democrats spent two years trying to tamp down discussions of impeachment. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s remark gave the president an opening.
Luc Bensimon, a 47-year-old transgender activist, is optimistic about the future for LGBT people in Kansas. (Christopher Smith for The Post)
Dan Brennan is the Equality House’s executive director. (Christopher Smith for The Post)
Newly elected Kansas state legislator Susan Ruiz applauds the passage of an anti-discrimination ordinance (Christopher Smith for The Post)
Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. (Christopher Smith for The Post)
Advocates say that they expect the number of elected LGBTQ politicians to grow and that it could have a significant impact on the 2020 race, particularly in suburban battlegrounds with college-educated voters in states like Kansas.
Most economists now agree: Growth will slow in 2019 but there is no immediate sign of recession. The economy has “good momentum,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell told the annual meeting of the American Economic Association.
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A growing crop of companies such as Netflix, Spotify and the publisher of the hit game Fortnite are skipping fees on big app stores, costing Apple and Google millions.
Democrats surged to power in the midterm House elections promising to protect Americans from rising prescription costs. They’re buoyed by populist anger and a potential — if unpredictable — ally on the issue in the White House.
For the probes being conducted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, the grand jury’s tenure, originally set to end Saturday after 18 months, will continue, though it’s not clear for how long.
Some developers have eschewed traditional retail in favor of more eateries, cooking demonstrations, outdoor yoga classes, bars and lounges, farmers markets and anything else that helps people interact in a way they can’t online.
The mass robbery of people on their way to see the famous landmark could mark an early test for anti-crime crackdowns promised by Brazil’s new president.
The leader of a neighborhood group fighting a Virginia mosque’s plans is a reporter, raising questions about whether journalists — bound to neutrality and independence — can be active players in public controversies.
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