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Opinion: The West has enabled Putin long enough. It is time to stop.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of the Image of the Savior Made Without Hands in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, on Jan. 6. (Alexei Nikolsky/AP)
The Kremlin has an old habit of using the Christmas holi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Securing Cyberspace with Dmitri Alperovitch, Jeremy Sheridan & Tonya Ugoretz
Join Washington Post Live on Thursday, Jan. 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET for a three-part conversation about the growing cyber threat landscape. Hosted by the Washington Post’s national security reporter Ellen Nakashima, this program features assistant... | null | null | null | null | null |
First, let’s concede that the debate over the “terrorist” label is complicated. Experts note that under federal law, “domestic terrorism” applies to illegal life-threatening acts with the apparent goal of influencing government policy. That might or might not apply here. Still, defendants are not being tried for terror... | null | null | null | null | null |
A portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir of Irene Cahen d’Anvers, painted in 1880. It was looted by the Nazis in 1941. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
By Ori Z. Soltes
Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University. He is a co-founding director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project and the author ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Mexican states that include Cabo San Lucas, Cancún and Mexico City — three of the country’s major attractions for foreign visitors — are showing significant upticks in coronavirus cases after a busy holiday travel season.
Baja California Sur, on the western peninsula and home to tourist-heavy Los Cabos, reported a ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bulgarians dive into a lake to catch a wooden crucifix as part of Epiphany Day celebrations in Sofia, on Jan. 6, 2022. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images)
It’s a trend echoed in other countries across southern and eastern Europe. North Macedonia has also shed around 10 percent of its population in the past 20 years, w... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sidney Poitier with his Oscar statuette in 1964 for “Lillies of the Field.” (AP)
Sidney Poitier was born on Feb. 20, 1927, in Miami, where his parents were selling tomatoes they had grown on their farm in the Bahamas. The family soon returned home, to the desperate poverty of Cat Island. His mother dressed the seven Po... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bulgaria’s population dropped by 844,000 people, or 11.5 percent, to 6.5 million in 2021, according to the preliminary census data from Bulgaria’s National Statistics Institute. The country’s population peaked shortly before the fall of communism at nearly 9 million.
The numbers confirm the “deepening of negative demog... | null | null | null | null | null |
A truck plows snow early Friday at a rest stop along Interstate 95 outside Dale City, Va. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)
Unlike Monday’s cementlike pasting, which stranded hundreds of people on area roads and cut power to more than half a million customers, the light, fluffy snowfall Thursday night was rather w... | null | null | null | null | null |
For a book that describes so much unthinkable loss, “By the Grace of the Game” manages to leave the reader smiling quite a bit. The chapter about Ernie losing his older brother, for instance, is followed by one of the more amusing and memorable anecdotes in the entire book, pertaining to a dinner Dan had with Indiana P... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police: 7-year-old boy, sister, 14, killed in head-on crash
SEAFORD, Del. — A 7-year-old boy and his 14-year-old sister were killed in a head-on crash in Seaford on Thursday, Delaware State Police said.
A 14-year-old Seaford girl traveling in the Kia and her 7-year-old brother were properly restrained, but police said ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it?
Kurt Vonnegut, pictured in 1981, was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II and survived the bombing of Dresden. But he said he wasn’t traumatized by his experiences. (Photo by: John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Elliot Ackerman, a former ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nine decades later, W.E.B. Du Bois’s work faces familiar criticisms
W.E.B. Du Bois at a conference in Paris in 1949. A new edition of his book “Black Reconstruction,” an influential work of history on the Reconstruction era, is generating the same kinds of critiques that greeted its initial publication in 1935. (AP Pho... | null | null | null | null | null |
One man, three wars and the creation of Germany
A statue of 19th-century statesman Otto von Bismarck stands in Berlin. He believed that only war against an external enemy could unify 39 disparate states into modern Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
By Gerard DeGroot
Gerard DeGroot is emeritus professor of hi... | null | null | null | null | null |
As the world enters year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington Post Live talks about what challenges and opportunities lay ahead the next six months, as vaccines and variants continue to change the landscape for public health security. On Monday, Jan. 10 at 10:30 a.m. ET, former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
While the storm wasn’t a blockbuster in terms of amounts, snowfall rates along the Interstate 95 corridor were expected to briefly approach or exceed two inches per hour. That surpassed the capacity of what road crews could handle, making for treacherous travel and, in some locales, grinding traffic to a halt.
The snow... | null | null | null | null | null |
While filling in for Drew Gooden, the regular Wizards’ color commentator, Consor has tried to bring his eccentric personality to the television side. His role is to illuminate the game, but also entertain as the kooky sidekick to the strait-laced play-by-play man. The shtick has worked at times — with Consor and Chris ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In theory, this seems to be the point, to test out that age-old question: What’s more important, love or money? In practice, the series is exactly like any other awkward dating show you might have seen in the past 20 years. There’s manipulation, fighting, questionable decisions, lots of champagne, a pool party where pe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Briana Kirkland is demanding “accountability for Trump’s central role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection,” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The officer was forced to take a year off work after suffering a traumatic brain injury while fending off the pro-Trump mob that breac... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Why we need a new approach for the omicron phase of the pandemic
More significant is the distinction between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The U.K. analysis, which looked at the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, estimated that people with two doses of the vaccine plus a booster shot are 88 perce... | null | null | null | null | null |
For a book that describes so much unthinkable loss, “By the Grace of the Game” manages to leave the reader smiling quite a bit. The chapter about Ernie losing his older brother, for instance, is followed by one of the more amusing and memorable anecdotes in the entire book, pertaining to a dinner Dan had with Indiana P... | null | null | null | null | null |
Trump’s efforts over the past year to build a social media presence that doesn’t depend on the big platforms have so far only underscored their dominance. In May, he launched a blog called “From the Desk of Donald Trump.” It failed to attract readers and he shut it down after just a month. In October, he announced to f... | null | null | null | null | null |
A truck plows snow early Jan. 7 at a rest stop along Interstate 95 outside Dale City, Va. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)
Unlike Monday’s cementlike pasting, which stranded hundreds of people on area roads and cut power to more than half a million customers, the light, fluffy snowfall before sunrise Friday was r... | null | null | null | null | null |
While the storm wasn’t a blockbuster in terms of amounts, snowfall rates along the Interstate 95 corridor were expected to briefly approach or exceed two inches per hour. That surpassed the capacity of what road crews could handle, making for treacherous travel and, in some locales, standstill traffic.
The snow was win... | null | null | null | null | null |
Engaging with on-the-ground organizations as well as the policy process are a couple ways experts suggest individuals can encourage protection of the nation’s old-growth forests.
“You can donate to an organization that’s buying up land and protecting it,” said Maloof. Or, for those with more funds, they could purchase ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police: Woman, child killed, juvenile suspect in custody
CLINTON, Md. — A woman and child are dead and a juvenile suspect is in custody after a domestic-related shooting at a Maryland home Thursday, police said.
Prince George’s County Police said a man who was also shot at the home in Clinton had injuries that were not... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Don’t tell Republicans, but the American economy is a bipartisan success story
(Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post)
When it comes to job creation, the American economy at the moment is a marvel, perhaps unparalleled in the entire world. And at a moment when the parties are so bitterly divided, we should ... | null | null | null | null | null |
NEW YORK - AUGUST 8, 1957: Actors John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier in the film "Edge of the City: directed by Martin Ritt.
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOV. 17, 1958: Kneeling on his crippled legs, Porgy, played by Sidney Poitier, urges Bess (Dorothy Dandridge, center) to join Maria (Pearl Bailey) at the picnic which was to cha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Protesters aren’t benefiting from Kazakhstan’s oil economy.
Riot police walk to block demonstrators gathering during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 5, 2022. (Vladimir Tretyakov/AP)
By Edward Schatz
Protesters across Kazakhstan, infuriated by rising prices and corrupt governance, took to the streets this week.... | null | null | null | null | null |
Abha Bhattarai named The Post’s Economics Correspondent
Abha Bhattarai (The Washington Post)
Announcement from Business Editor Lori Montgomery, Deputy Business Editor Zachary Goldfarb, Economics Editor Damian Paletta and Deputy Economics Editor Jennifer Liberto:
We are thrilled to announce that Abha Bhattarai will beco... | null | null | null | null | null |
Christian nationalism has deep roots in America, faith leaders say
Colleen Thomas, at the lectern, speaks in November as part of a panel discussion titled "Constructing a Moral Narrative: Dismantling Christian Nationalism" at First AME Church in Los Angeles. (Alejandra Molina/RNS)
By Alejandra Molina
Shannon Rivers bel... | null | null | null | null | null |
Protecting Public Safety with Los Angeles Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides
Cities across the country are grappling with a surge in violent crime. As part of our continuing Protecting Public Safety series, Emada Tingirides, deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice Vi... | null | null | null | null | null |
WP Subscriber Exclusive: Carl Bernstein, Author, “Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom”
Carl Bernstein is a pioneer of investigative journalism, becoming a household name in the 1970s after he and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal and co-authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning “All the President’s Men.” From self-... | null | null | null | null | null |
Engaging with on-the-ground organizations as well as the policy process are a couple of ways that experts suggest individuals can encourage protection of the nation’s old-growth forests.
“You can donate to an organization that’s buying up land and protecting it,” Maloof said. Those with more money could purchase and pr... | null | null | null | null | null |
In 1973, just five years after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ignited an explosion of rioting that left Shaw and other D.C. neighborhoods in ruins, New Bethel Baptist Church began renting brand new apartments to low-income tenants. Most of the building’s early residents were Black families who also at... | null | null | null | null | null |
While filling in for Drew Gooden, the regular Wizards’ color commentator, Consor has tried to bring his eccentric personality to the television side. His role is to illuminate the finer points of the game, but also entertain as the kooky sidekick to the strait-laced play-by-play man. The shtick has worked at times — wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Rainbow Six Extraction” is a game about planning. In Ubisoft’s latest installment to the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six franchise, due out Jan. 20, players squad up in groups of three to act as exterminators, clearing maps of alien infestations. This work can be broken up neatly into three phases. There’s the planning stage... | null | null | null | null | null |
Live updates:Mariah Bell is the front-runner, but drama lurks at the U.S. Figure Skating...
NASHVILLE — Alysa Liu, considered the United States’ top female figure skater and best hope to medal at the Beijing Olympics, has tested positive for the coronavirus and pulled out of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, U.S. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Afghan Refugee Crisis with Filippo Grandi
MS. RYAN: Good morning, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Missy Ryan, national security reporter for The Washington Post. It’s been five months since the United States withdrew its remaining forces from Afghanistan. Since then, the Taliban has consolidated it... | null | null | null | null | null |
The observation is true in the universe of “Rebelde” — a beloved Mexican telenovela adapted from Argentina’s “Rebelde Way” — and in real life. The Televisa series, which premiered in 2004, gave way to a chart-topping pop group that helped propel the show’s cast to superstardom. RBD released nine studio albums (includin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Teen boy charged with murder in fatal shooting of female family member and her 8-year-old son, police say
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shootings of a female family member and her 8-year-old son on Thursday night in Clinton, Md., Prince George’s County police said.
The teenage... | null | null | null | null | null |
Many of those who remain on campus, however, are feeling the aftershocks of a presidential term that has been described as “tumultuous” and “rocky,” said Zach Schonfeld, the managing editor of the GW Hatchet, the university’s student-run newspaper, who covered LeBlanc’s tenure.
For some professors, the problems started... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Mr. Williams went above and beyond during this very stressful situation, and we thank him for his thoughtful actions,” an Uber spokesperson told The Post in an email.
The biggest surprise came when the CEO of Alto, an upscale ride-sourcing service operating in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and D.C., ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Don’t tell Republicans, but the U.S. economy is a bipartisan success story
President Biden delivers remarks at the White House on Aug. 22.(Oliver Contreras for The Washington Post)
And when Biden took office, the unemployment rate was 6.4 percent. Now, it’s 3.9 percent. A triumph!
I can already hear Republican... | null | null | null | null | null |
Members of Congress reflect on Capitol attack on one-year anniversary
Lawmakers talk about their own fear and the bravery of Capitol Police officers.
Representative Susan Wild, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, speaks Thursday during a discussion about the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. W... | null | null | null | null | null |
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In Rochester, N.Y., about 40 percent of students were absent from classrooms in the school district Monday. At a middle school on Long Island, the student absentee rate was 26 percent at the start of the week and had climbed to 35 percent by Wednesday. And an elementary school in Portland p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Because of Tutu’s prominence and impact, the archbishop was “the most influential antisemite of our time,” Dershowitz said. “In reckoning with the careers of people with mixed legacies, whether it be Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and others,” Dershowitz said, “we have to include in a reckoning o... | null | null | null | null | null |
This do-your-own research mentality hurts athletes. Of course covid-19 is a relatively new and sometimes unpredictable malady. But trained experts are in a better position than sports stars to determine what is good for the human body, just as Mr. Djokovic is in a better position than his spectators to serve up aces an... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The first ‘Great Resignation’
A fast food restaurant stands empty in a Manhattan neighborhood on Feb. 5. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Regarding the Jan. 5 front-page article “Labor churn is highest on record”:
This mass resignation phenomenon is not entirely unprecedented. Consider the “Great Migration” of Bla... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The problems in policing
Scenes from the aftermath of a shooting in northwest Washington, D.C., on Sept. 5. (Michael Laris/TWP)
Regarding the Jan. 1 Metro article “Killings rocketed in Md. suburbs and D.C. in 2021”:
Two hundred homicides a year? I wish! I was the D.C. homicide commander in 1988, when we had 37... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Women belong in history books
History books on a shelf at Clarion High School. (Jeff Swensen/Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post)
Bless Micaela Wells for her Jan. 2 op-ed, “My history textbook’s message: Women don’t matter.” Among today’s students are tomorrow’s world leaders and decision-makers. Their educat... | null | null | null | null | null |
Snow-stranded drivers, a sheep and goat syringe and more of the week’s best photos
Drivers get stranded on Interstate 95 in Virginia during an ice and snowstorm; a tribute to soccer star Diego Maradona appears at the bottom of a pool in Argentina; the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is remembered in Washington. Here are 12... | null | null | null | null | null |
Airports in New York, Boston and D.C. were among the hardest hit
Delays also were reported at the three airports in the Washington region, which are still trying to rebound from a Monday storm that dumped more than 10 inches of snow in some parts of the region. Reagan National Airport received nearly seven inches of sn... | null | null | null | null | null |
Reggie Brown, of Centralia, carries his daughter, Ocean, 4, on his shoulders as he walks through the floodwaters on Highway 507 with his wife, Jonell Brown, on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Centralia, Wash. The highway had flooded after heavy rains caused the Skookumchuck River to rise about its northern banks.(Peter Caster... | null | null | null | null | null |
The intense jet of moisture has produced record-setting rainfall, high seas, and, in the mountains, copious snowfall.
In Seattle, 2 inches of rain fell Thursday, a record for Jan. 6.
The Bellingham Herald reported that at least a dozen homes were impacted by the coastal flooding.
Farther north, especially in the Pacifi... | null | null | null | null | null |
NASHVILLE — Alysa Liu, considered the United States’ top female figure skater and best hope to medal at the Beijing Olympics, tested positive for the coronavirus and pulled out of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, U.S. Figure Skating announced Friday.
She was the second major competitor to drop out of the national... | null | null | null | null | null |
Airports in New York, Boston and D.C. were among the hardest hit.
According to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website, more than 2,600 flights within, to and from the United States were canceled Friday. Southwest Airlines continued to be the hardest hit among major U.S. carriers, with more than 520 flights canceled, ro... | null | null | null | null | null |
The intense jet of moisture has produced record-setting rainfall, high seas and, in the mountains, copious snowfall.
In Seattle, two inches of rain fell Thursday, a record for Jan. 6.
The Bellingham Herald reported that at least a dozen homes were affected by the coastal flooding.
Farther north, especially in the Pacif... | null | null | null | null | null |
Calif. project blocked over wildfire concerns
The Lake County judge’s ruling on the Guenoc Valley Resort could have sweeping ramifications for housing and business developments across a state where fires are growing in severity and local officials are under intense pressure to approve new building projects during a hou... | null | null | null | null | null |
10 bodies found near governor's office
Ten bodies — eight men and two women — were found Thursday in a parked van near the governor’s office in Zacatecas in north-central Mexico. The vehicle was parked under a Christmas tree in the state capital’s main plaza, according to the newspaper La Jornada.
Initial autopsies per... | null | null | null | null | null |
The tendency to show up for those in mourning, a pattern of his years in public office, has caused some tension among staff, since the events disrupt his schedule and take considerable preparation time.
Biden ability to stretch his schedule to accommodate the events at times surpasses his wife’s. The president, speakin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sole criminal charge against Cuomo dismissed
Sole charge against Cuomo dismissed
The only criminal charge filed over the sexual harassment allegations that drove former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo from office was dismissed Friday at prosecutors’ request, clearing what had been seen as the most serious legal threa... | null | null | null | null | null |
KEY INJURIES: Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs (illness) is out, robbing Dallas for a key playmaker. ... WR Michael Gallup is out for the playoffs after tearing the ACL in his left knee last week against the Cardinals. ... TE Blake Jarwin (hip) has been designated for return from injured reserve, which mostly likely means a ret... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bulgaria’s vanishing act: Population dives by more than 11 percent over the past decade
BERLIN — Bulgaria’s population shrunk more than 11 percent over the past decade, according to its latest census, as the Eastern European country struggles to stem the tide of young people seeking more-lucrative work abroad amid low ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Because of Tutu’s prominence and impact, the archbishop was “the most influential antisemite of our time,” Dershowitz said. “In reckoning with the careers of people with mixed legacies, whether it be Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and others,” Dershowitz said, “we have to include in a reckoning of... | null | null | null | null | null |
Having never made my way through “The Plague” by Albert Camus, I, like a lot of others, decided to pick it up, and I thought it’d be fun if others read it with me. At the time, I was the print editor of the Stranger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper in Seattle. I announced the formation of a book club to read ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Patrick Ewing was so furious Friday night he stood up in the midst of his postgame news conference and strode out of the room at Capital One Arena. Moments earlier, the final buzzer had sounded in Georgetown’s 92-64 loss to Marquette in the team’s Big East opener. His Hoyas had missed the past four games due to covid i... | null | null | null | null | null |
St. Louis Blues defenseman Colton Parayko (55) checks Washington Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov (9) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Joe Puetz)
ST. LOUIS — The Washington Capitals flew out of the gates Friday night in the opening minutes against St. Louis Blu... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bradley Beal led with 26 points on 9-of-14 shooting and added six assists. Kyle Kuzma had 21 points and 11 rebounds — posting his fourth double-double in the past five games — but went 0 for 4 from three.
The offense ultimately mattered less to Unseld.
“I just didn’t think our effort and focus was there tonight on the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
An earlier version of this story included an incorrect photo caption that said Lydell Henry wrestled at Morgan State University. The program was dropped before Henry could wrestle for it.
Henry, 44, who recruits would-be wrestlers for an inner-city youth program he runs, knew what the sport did for him in high school. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Patrick Ewing was so furious Friday night he stood up in the midst of his postgame news conference and strode out of the room at Capital One Arena. Moments earlier, the final buzzer had sounded in Georgetown’s 92-64 loss to Marquette in the team’s Big East opener. His Hoyas had missed the past four games due to coronav... | null | null | null | null | null |
In an interview with The Washington Post, Niccol says technology will be instrumental in the future of the restaurant industry. Chipotle is using vision sensors to identify in real time how much guacamole is made and offer predictions for how much will be needed in the future. The company is also experimenting with str... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters on Jan. 4 outside his office on Capitol Hill. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Additionally, Manchin’s offer included a number of proposed tax hikes that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) had already ruled out, people familiar with the matter said. And while Manchin di... | null | null | null | null | null |
D.C.-area forecast: Freezing temperatures today, and a chance of freezing rain Sunday morning
Winter weather advisory issued north of District Sunday morning for freezing rain and slick roads and walkways.
7:05 a.m. — Winter weather advisory issued north of District Sunday morning for freezing rain and slick roads and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
We found these two factors at work.
Security forces block a street in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 7 after violence that erupted following protests over hikes in fuel prices. (Abduaziz Madyarov/AFP via Getty Images)
By Pauline Jones
By Friday morning, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued a “shoot ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In 2021, Earth Networks counted more than 7,800 thunder days across the contiguous United States — a 4 percent increase from 2020. Similar to the Vaisala lightning data, Texas, Florida and Louisiana experienced the most thunder days. New Mexico, while not ranking in the top 10 for lightning counts, did have the ninth-h... | null | null | null | null | null |
The New York Giants’ struggling offense ranks 31st in the NFL in yards per game. To paint a picture of how poorly the unit has been playing, the Giants have scored one touchdown in their last 35 offensive possessions.
Last week against the Chicago Bears, backup quarterback Mike Glennon — replacing starter Daniel Jones,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. leads the nation in sacks and ranks second in school history with 34.5 tackles for loss this season. (Vasha Hunt/AP)
A coach of 20 years, Fedd helped develop Alabama’s all-American linebacker Will Anderson Jr. into a menacing pass rusher at Dutchtown High in Hampton, Ga., just south... | null | null | null | null | null |
A new school privatization battle unfolding in Charleston
People in one of the horse-drawn carriages ride past the facade of the famous St. Philip's Episcopal Church, located in the French Quarter of Charleston, S.C. (iStock)
Charleston County School District, the second-largest district in South Carolina with about 50... | null | null | null | null | null |
But there are signs of difficulty. The Food and Drug Administration said Dec. 28, “Early data suggests that antigen tests do detect the omicron variant but may have reduced sensitivity.” The FDA’s statement was based on laboratory tests, not clinical data. Experts have suggested one reason for the reduced sensitivity i... | null | null | null | null | null |
He then got the letter from Australia’s Department of Home Affairs on Jan. 1, the court documents said, and “Mr Djokovic understood that he was entitled to enter Australia and Victoria and to compete in the Australian Tennis Open.” A spokesperson for the Australian Border Force told The Washington Post by email on Satu... | null | null | null | null | null |
FedEx Field was built quickly, with the primary goal of being big. For a while, it was the largest stadium in the NFL, holding more than 91,000 people, and the Washington Football Team ranked in the top three of league attendance every season from 1999 to 2012.
But over the past decade, as fan support has declined, its... | null | null | null | null | null |
A tree with MS-13 graffiti seen in Langley Park, Md., in 2019. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
The 12 defendants were all charged in Virginia state court in 2020, but those cases have not gone to trial. Instead, authorities have accused them of involvement in a multi-state conspiracy under federal law. Eight are ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, announced Saturday he will run for reelection in 2022, ending months of speculation about whether he would seek to remain in the Senate.
Thune, 60, is currently the Senate Minority Whip, making him No. 2 Republican in the chamber and a potential successor for Senate Mino... | null | null | null | null | null |
A view shows a bus that was burned during mass protests in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Jan. 8. (Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)
As protests spread in Kazakhstan, the focus shifted as well: beginning with outrage over price hikes for fuel and later taking aim at the country’s autocratic political system directed by Nursultan Nazarbay... | null | null | null | null | null |
In an auspicious event for mystery readers, Syndicate is reprinting all 12 of Joseph Hansen’s pioneering Dave Brandstetter novels over 12 months. “Fadeout,” the first in the series featuring the comfortably gay World War II vet and L.A. insurance investigator, was published in 1970. As Michael Nava points out in his in... | null | null | null | null | null |
How tropical storms and hurricanes have hit U.S. shores with unparalleled frequency
In 2021, Earth Networks counted more than 7,800 thunder days across the United States — a 4 percent increase from 2020. Similar to the Vaisala lightning data, Texas, Florida and Louisiana experienced the most thunder days. New Mexico, w... | null | null | null | null | null |
During a plane flight near the border of Kenya and Ethiopia in 1967, Mr. Leakey looked down and saw that the geological formation surrounding Lake Turkana (then called Lake Rudolf) could be promising source of fossils. He did not tell his father about it until they were meeting officials of the National Geographic Soci... | null | null | null | null | null |
A bus is burned during mass protests in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 8. (Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)
As protests spread in Kazakhstan, the focus shifted as well: beginning with outrage over price increases for fuel and later taking aim at the country’s autocratic political system directed by Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ru... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sotomayor’s false claim that ‘over 100,000’ children are in "serious condit...
Several readers questioned these remarks by Sotomayor, made during a hearing on whether the Biden administration’s nationwide rules ordering a vaccination-or-testing requirement on large employers were constitutional. Her remarks came during... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ron Rivera during a December Washington Football Team practice. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Two seasons into whatever this is, Ron Rivera has been exactly who you should’ve expected him to be. He’s the dependable leader, full of character and decency, that the Washington Football Team sought to clean up its ev... | null | null | null | null | null |
Still, the current 7-day average (Dec. 30-Jan. 5) is 797, which is sharp increase from the week before (441) and represents the peak 7-day average for children, the CDC said. So Sotomayor is not wrong to suggest the rate of pediatric admissions is cause for concern. On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics reporte... | null | null | null | null | null |
(We will not address remarks made by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, which some readers also thought were wrong. The official court transcript suggested he had made an inflated statement about the annual flu: “Flu kills — I believe — hundreds of thousands of people every year.” The flu kills between 12,000 and 52,000 people i... | null | null | null | null | null |
Gardner argues that, while it might not seem fair, New Hampshire has earned its position. “It’s a place where the little guy has a chance to come in and see a lot of people,” he said. “We saw that in 1968 and have seen it several times since. … It doesn’t happen every time, but it has happened. And it’s not the end of ... | null | null | null | null | null |
FedEx Field was built quickly, with the primary goal of being big. For a while, it was the largest stadium in the NFL, with a capacity of more than 91,000, and the Washington Football Team ranked in the top three of league attendance every season from 1999 to 2012.
But over the past decade, as fan support has declined,... | null | null | null | null | null |
In 1973, just five years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ignited an explosion of rioting that left Shaw and other D.C. neighborhoods in ruins, New Bethel Baptist Church began renting brand new apartments to low-income tenants. Most of the building’s early residents were Black families who als... | null | null | null | null | null |
The ball rattled around the rim and out, emblematic of a frustrating afternoon for the Cavaliers in a 74-58 loss to North Carolina on Saturday at the Smith Center that ended their seven-game winning streak in the series.
Nine of Bacot’s rebounds were offensive, helping North Carolina (11-4, 3-1) to a 14-2 advantage in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Amourie Porter and Coach Samuel Porter, her father, have led Glen Burnie girls' basketball to its best start in recent history. (Shonda Porter)
Thirteen years ago, Amourie Porter joined her father, Samuel, and her older brother when they practiced basketball at a gym in Fort Rucker, Ala.
Trying to keep Amourie busy whi... | null | null | null | null | null |
People stand next to a burned car Jan. 7 in a neighborhood in Louisville, Colo., that was impacted by the recent wildfire. (Susan Walsh/AP)
Robert Sharpe avidly collected family memorabilia, stockpiling thousands of pages of documents in safes, file cabinets and boxes at his house. Now, relatives wonder if the 69-year-... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mr. Leakey made his first fossil discovery at age 6 — the jawbone of an extinct giant pig — but throughout his youth he had no intention of following his parents’ profession. He quit school at 16, became a pilot and ran a safari business for a few years. But the lure of the fossil beds remained strong, and his discover... | null | null | null | null | null |
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