By French Edition Over the past week, The Washington Post’s coverage circled a single throughline: a president testing the outer limits of executive and personal power at home even as two foreign crises pressed in from abroad. From a landmark Supreme Court rebuke on citizenship to secret contracts, record personal earnings, and quiet U.S. warnings to an adversary, here is a digest of the Post’s most substantive national and world reporting.
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s limits
The Washington Post reports that the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, holding that the order cannot be reconciled with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil. Independent coverage from SCOTUSblog confirms the decision was a 6-3 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority and Justice Kavanaugh concurring in the result on narrower statutory grounds. Read at The Washington Post
Trump’s White House ballroom built under a $500M no-bid contract
The Washington Post reports that the administration secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million to build a new East Wing ballroom, routing it through the Executive Residence to sidestep competitive-bidding rules, with Trump personally involved in cost negotiations. The Hill and other outlets independently confirmed the arrangement, noting the project’s total cost is projected near $600 million with taxpayers expected to cover roughly half. Read at The Washington Post
Trump’s 2025 income topped $2 billion, powered by crypto
The Washington Post reports that Trump’s disclosed income surpassed $2 billion in 2025, with more than $1.4 billion tied to cryptocurrency, digital tokens and related ventures, growth on a scale without modern presidential precedent. Forbes and Time independently corroborated the figures from the Office of Government Ethics filing, including roughly $588 million from World Liberty Financial and hundreds of millions more in memecoin-linked royalties. Read at The Washington Post
U.S. warned Iran of Israeli plans to assassinate its leaders
The Washington Post reports that U.S. officials, suspecting Israel intended to kill Iran’s top negotiators during fragile ceasefire talks, quietly warned Tehran to take precautions in order to keep the diplomacy from collapsing. CNN and The New York Times independently reported the same warning, describing a specific April incident in which Iran’s parliament speaker diverted his aircraft after being alerted to a possible strike. The account rests largely on anonymous current and former officials, though it is now matched across multiple outlets. Read at The Washington Post
Unease deepens in Russia as Ukraine escalates long-range strikes
The Washington Post reports that the Kremlin is scrambling to respond to an intensifying campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes reaching deep into Russia, hitting oil refineries and arms plants and triggering fuel shortages and rationing. NPR and Al Jazeera independently documented the deep-strike campaign, with reporting that gasoline output fell sharply in June and that Putin has begun cautiously acknowledging the damage while casting the attacks as “terrorism.” Read at The Washington Post
Federal nuclear agency moves to relax radiation exposure rules
The Washington Post reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to loosen decades-old radiation protection rules, including retiring the “as low as reasonably achievable” principle, in line with a Trump executive order to speed approval of new nuclear facilities. E&E News and The Hill independently confirmed the proposal, noting it would touch all 54 U.S. nuclear plants and thousands of medical and industrial sites, with the NRC chairman insisting safety limits are not being lowered. Read at The Washington Post
Taken together, the week’s reporting traces a Washington where questions of power, money and accountability increasingly converge on the presidency, while conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue to shape U.S. policy from the outside in. Every story above was independently cross-checked and held up against outside reporting.
This is an automated coverage digest assembled via Google News and cross-checked against independent reporting. All summaries link to the original articles, which remain the definitive source. finit.news is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by The Washington Post. Compiled July 3, 2026.