Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
The Trump administration has frozen $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over the Ivy League school’s past policies supporting transgender athletes, the White House announced Wednesday.
The administration announced the action in a post on one of its X accounts, accusing the university of “forcing women to compete with men in sports” and heralding the penalty as “promises kept.”