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Dolphins coach Brian Flores was fired after an upset of the Patriots in Week 18. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
Another Black NFL coach with a solid record got fired — this time the Miami Dolphins’ Brian Flores — and the TV pundits and media apologists again lined up Monday morning with a litany of excuses.
Team owner Stephen Ross ... | null | null | null | null | null |
WASHINGTON — With inflation surging, unemployment falling and wages rising, some economists are warning that the Federal Reserve may have waited too long to reverse its ultra-low-rate policies — a delay that could put the economy at heightened risk. On Wednesday, the government is expected to report that consumer price... | null | null | null | null | null |
D.C. set to receive an additionl $17 million in rent relief funds
The U.S. Treasury redistributed emergency rental assistance money that other jurisdictions did not use
Signs that read “No Job No Rent” hang from the windows of an apartment building on May 20, 2020 in Northwest Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
Washington,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ugandan students are back to school after longest pandemic shutdown
Schools in the East African nation have been fully or partially shut for more than 83 weeks.
Students wear masks as they attend class at Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda's schools reopened to students Monday, ending the world's longest... | null | null | null | null | null |
The NWSL, which is largely dominated by White, male owners, is struggling to recover from allegations of coaching abuse and sexual misconduct last season, which prompted an outcry from players. The league has given indications that it supports the sale of the team to Boehly, according to two people close to the situati... | null | null | null | null | null |
The morning after the Washington Football Team closed with a win at the New York Giants, players, one by one, cycled through Coach Ron Rivera’s office for debriefing. The 2021 season was a roller coaster and fell short of expectations by nearly every measure, most notably by the team finishing 7-10 and failing to retur... | null | null | null | null | null |
The NWSL, which is largely dominated by White, male owners, is struggling to recover from allegations of coaching abuse and sexual misconduct that prompted an outcry from players last season. The league has given indications that it supports the sale of the team to Boehly, according to two people close to the situation... | null | null | null | null | null |
The NCAA has started to make small changes to make the women's basketball tournament more equitable with the men's tournament. (Eric Gay/AP)
The glaring inequity in the NCAA’s investment in its Division I men’s and women’s basketball championships had hidden in plain sight for decades — until it exploded into the publi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The morning after the Washington Football Team closed its season with a win at the New York Giants, players, one by one, cycled through Coach Ron Rivera’s office for debriefing. The 2021 season was a roller coaster and fell short of expectations by nearly every measure, most notably by the team finishing 7-10 and faili... | null | null | null | null | null |
Surgeons transplant pig heart into a man
While it’s too soon to know whether the operation will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for lifesaving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: As a civil war smolders, Myanmar’s military fans the flames
A protester in Yangon holds a poster featuring former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a rally in March. (AFP via Getty Images)
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s reputation as a defender of human rights has suffered in recent years, ironically — a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Melissa Epstein, a parent of 8-year-old twin boys Luke, left, and Evan, picks up coronavirus rapid tests at Lafayette Elementary School on Jan. 4. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
D.C. Public Schools is expanding its coronavirus policies by requiring testing after scheduled school breaks, providing weekly rapid te... | null | null | null | null | null |
Navy complies with order to fix facility that leaked jet fuel into tap water
Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One performs inspection and sampling of a water well near Pearl Harbor on Dec. 11, 2021. Navy divers were trying to remove fuel from a water shaft at Red Hill near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. The water supply serves about... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dwayne Hickman, who starred as Dobie Gillis in popular sitcom, dies at 87
From left, actors Dwayne Hickman, Danielle De Metz and Bob Denver in 1960 in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” (AP)
Dwayne Hickman, an actor who portrayed the lovesick teenager Dobie Gillis in a popular sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s, creating an ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Capitals had an early two-goal lead Monday night, and approval from the home crowd came in the form of rambunctious applause as the fans anticipated a little payback for the team that knocked their squad of last year’s playoffs. But scattered boos took over when Washington collapsed again in a dismal 7-3... | null | null | null | null | null |
Navy complies with order to fix Pearl Harbor facility that leaked fuel into tap water
Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One performs inspection and sampling of a water well near Pearl Harbor on Dec. 11. Navy divers were trying to remove fuel from a water shaft at Red Hill near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. The water supply serves ab... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Capitals had an early two-goal lead Monday night, and approval from the home crowd came in the form of rambunctious applause as the fans anticipated a little payback for the team that knocked their squad out of last year’s playoffs. But scattered boos took over when Washington collapsed again in a dismal... | null | null | null | null | null |
(The Washington Post illustration; iStock; Zynga)
Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive announced Monday it will acquire mobile game maker Zynga for an estimated $12.7 billion, the highest sum ever paid to buy another video game company. The deal continues an industry trend of game publishers coveting and courting ... | null | null | null | null | null |
INDIANAPOLIS — Stetson Bennett delivered the biggest throws of his storybook career and Georgia’s defense sealed the sweetest victory in program history, vanquishing rival Alabama 33-18 for its first national title in 41 years.
INDIANAPOLIS — College Football Playoff expansion talks remain stalled and the possibility o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Residents wait at a rest area after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a mobile station set up for elderly residents in Hong Kong on Jan. 9. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Hong Kong had a year to protect its elderly, who have free access to Pfizer-BioNTech or Sinovac doses. But staggeringly low take-up among o... | null | null | null | null | null |
A woman saw 3 children fall into an icy pond. She ran out and saved them, police say: ‘What she did was amazing’
Dusti Talavera, 23, saved three children who fell into a frozen pond near her apartment. (KMGH) (KMGH)
“The fact that we had her witness these kids fall in there and her quick reaction … in putting her life ... | null | null | null | null | null |
For now, national governments control the rules — and much of the funding
Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket after the ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell in New York on Jan. 7. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
In November, Elon Musk announced that his company’s Starship project may launch as early as this month. Developed by Spa... | null | null | null | null | null |
A man was killed in Prince George's County, Md. (iStock) (iStock)
Local police said Eugene Kelly Gray, 24, of Bowie was fatally shot Sunday. The incident happened around 7:50 p.m. in the 15400 block of Empress Way in the city of Bowie, officials said.
Police responded for a report of a shooting, and when they arrived t... | null | null | null | null | null |
“The Lost Daughter” filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, pictured at the Lumiere Film Festival in October, describes her transition from acting to directing as “just a total joy.” (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)
While starring on HBO’s “The Deuce,” Maggie Gyllenhaal used to write “long essays” about why she believed certain sc... | null | null | null | null | null |
Web3 Just Had Its Emperor’s New Clothes Moment
Web3 or Web 3.0 has become the latest craze for investors who fear missing out. Hotter than bitcoin, harder to understand than artificial intelligence and also painfully abstract, Web3 points to a more transparent, decentralized and equitable web, which in principle is bet... | null | null | null | null | null |
Actions by the medical profession in the 1970s still reverberate today
Abortion opponents kneel in prayer in 2019 outside Reproductive Health Services, an abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala. (Blake Paterson/AP)
By Carole Joffe
Carole Joffe is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the Univer... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Biden administration is wrong. N95 masks are comfortable — and they work.
The masks are easy to breathe in, and they’re easy to find now, too.
A teacher joins a protest for stricter covid-19 safety protocols in Oakland, Calif., on Friday. (Noah Berger/AP)
By Abraar Karan
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Ranu Dhillon
But the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Texas’ new attempt to circumvent the Constitution resurrects an old tactic
Texas’ abortion law embraces a mechanism used to defend Jim Crow.
Advocates on both sides of the abortion debate gather outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1 as arguments begin about the Texas abortion law. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Can Democrats appeal to both professionals and blue-collar workers? Yes, but only on these issues.
Blue-collar workers’ greater economic insecurity is making them more conservative on many subjects
A sign directs people at a polling place during early voting in Las Vegas on Oct. 30, 2020. (John Locher/AP)
By Steven Bri... | null | null | null | null | null |
The October coup is faltering — here’s why
Demonstrators in Khartoum, Sudan, during a Jan. 9 rally against military rule. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)
By Gerrit Kurtz
Hamdok’s resignation leaves only Sudan’s military leaders in control, complicating U.S. and international efforts to facilitate the return to a ci... | null | null | null | null | null |
The U.S. is about to break covid hospitalization records.
More than 141,000 people were in the hospital yesterday, the second-highest daily total of the pandemic.
What this means: Hospitals in Colorado, New York and elsewhere have made changes like stopping elective surgeries, cutting back on the number of nurses carin... | null | null | null | null | null |
President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, arrives at Lido Beach for the 76th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 31 August 2019. (Ettore Ferrari/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Sassoli’s two-and-a-half-year tenure as president was defined by the pandemic and he spent much of it working vir... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sassoli’s 2½-year tenure as president was defined by the pandemic and he spent much of it working virtually. He was instrumental in passing the European Union’s ambitious $2.1 trillion pandemic relief fund and the bloc’s seven-year budget. The budget was ultimately one aimed at rescuing the economies of countries hit h... | null | null | null | null | null |
A man was killed in Prince George's County, Md. (iStock)
Eugene Kelly Gray, 24, of Bowie was fatally shot Sunday, local police said. The shooting happened around 7:50 p.m. in the 15400 block of Empress Way in the city of Bowie, officials said.
Police responded to a report of a shooting, and when they arrived they found... | null | null | null | null | null |
The European Parliament is one of the three main bodies of the European Union and represents nearly 450 million European citizens. The parliament comprises more than 700 elected members from the 27 countries in the bloc, and one of its major responsibilities is to shape the European Union’s budget.
Sassoli’s 2½-year te... | null | null | null | null | null |
Why House Democrats Are Retiring, and What It Means
U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter of California announced on Monday that he would not run for another term, making him the 18th House Democrat retiring after this Congress. That’s not a huge number, especially for an election year immediately after a census and redist... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Sidwell Friends starters huddle before taking on Paul VI in Chantilly on Jan. 9. (Scott Taetsch/For The Washington Post)
The Sidwell Friends girls’ basketball team showed up at Paul VI’s sparkling new gymnasium on Sunday afternoon having not played a basketball game since Dec. 11. The Quakers, a local and national ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Web3 Just Had Its Emperor’s-New-Clothes Moment
Web3, or Web 3.0, has become the latest craze for investors who fear missing out. Hotter than Bitcoin, harder to understand than artificial intelligence and also painfully abstract, Web3 points to a more transparent, decentralized and equitable web, which in principle is b... | null | null | null | null | null |
“As they left, they opened the door, and the door stayed open,” Nigro said at a news conference. “The stairwell was very dangerous as the door was left open and some of the floors — certainly on 15 — the door was open from the stairs to the hall and the 15th floor became quite untenable.”
The Twin Parks North West comp... | null | null | null | null | null |
Novak Djokovic is far from the only elite athlete with an extreme view of training and diet
By Matt Bonesteel | Jan 11, 2022
Novak Djokovic’s extreme workout and diet regimen have helped propel him to 20 Grand Slam championships, tied for the most all-time among men’s tennis players. But Djokovic has yet to receive a c... | null | null | null | null | null |
Tucker Carlson is seen in an image from his Jan. 10 show. (Fox News)
“Additional cases in the United States are likely, but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover,” he continued. “ … Healthy people, if you’re healthy, you will probably go through a process and you’ll be fine.”
The challenge here is not tha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Senators are close to completing a bill to revise the Electoral Count Act of 1887, I’m told. The new measure would fix ambiguities in the ECA that Trump directly exploited with his wide-ranging 2020 plot... | null | null | null | null | null |
“As they left, they opened the door, and the door stayed open,” Nigro said at a news conference. “The stairwell was very dangerous as the door was left open and some of the floors — certainly on 15 — the door was open from the stairs to the hall, and the 15th floor became quite untenable.”
The Twin Parks North West com... | null | null | null | null | null |
Damian Collins MP & Will Hurd join Washington post Live on Tuesday, Jan. 11 (The Washington Post)
Rose Jackson
Provided by Atlantic Council.
Rose Jackson is an entrepreneur and former diplomat with 15+ years of experience strengthening democracy and defending human rights, leveraging technology for social impact, and b... | null | null | null | null | null |
Permafrost covers about 5 million to 7 million square miles in the Arctic and stores about “1,700 billion metric tons” (nearly 1.9 trillion U.S. short tons) of frozen and thawing carbon, one of the studies noted. As it warms and become more unstable, it not only threatens the man-made structures, but the melting releas... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Morgan Wallen arrives at the 53rd annual CMA Awards on Nov. 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s most historic and storied stage, is getting heavy criticism for an appearance by the country star. Wallen’s surprise performance has given many the impression that the institution has giv... | null | null | null | null | null |
From there, it’s a question of what level of efficacy you demand for vaccine mandates (or vaccine-or-testing mandates, which is most of the Biden administration’s policy). It’s also about how you define vaccinated: either two doses or three doses, the latter which studies show are significantly better at preventing inf... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several St. John's wrestlers earned medals at the East Coast Catholic Classic in Richmond last weekend. (Michael Sprague/Courtesy photo)
At the East Coast Catholic Classic in Richmond on Saturday, St. John’s junior Ruben Karapetyan took down his opponent, hit a cradle and pinned him. While this victory over a Notre Dam... | null | null | null | null | null |
Atmospheric river bringing renewed flood concerns to Washington state
Parts of the Washington state, Oregon and British Columbia are once again in the crosshairs of an atmospheric river, leading to flooding and landslide concerns after an autumn that was extremely active in the Pacific Northwest. An additional 10 inche... | null | null | null | null | null |
The rare finds announced on Tuesday include more than 300 coins, jewelry and a giant Roman road and has been described as “a significant archaeological site” by HS2 Ltd, the publicly funded government company developing HS2, a national high-speed railway project.
For the last 12 months, some 80 archaeologists from MOLA... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nearly 70 percent of the infrastructure in the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost regions are located in areas that could have near-surface thaw by 2050, researchers project
In coming decades, the shifting terrain that accompanies the warming of the permafrost caused by climate change will put more of the human-made stru... | null | null | null | null | null |
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)
Senators are close to completing a bill to revise the Electoral Count Act of 1887, I’m told. The measure would fix ambiguities in the ECA that Trump directly exploited with his wide-ranging 2020 plot.
In coming week... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lindsey Vonn, Author, “Rise: My Story”
Lindsey Vonn shares stories from her memoir, “Rise: My Story” on Tuesday, Jan. 11 (The Washington Post)
Lindsey Vonn is a world champion athlete, three-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated female skier in history. In her first memoir, “Rise: My Story,” Vonn shares stories ... | null | null | null | null | null |
From there, it’s a question of what level of efficacy you demand for vaccine mandates (or vaccine-or-testing mandates, which is most of the Biden administration’s policy). It’s also about how you define vaccinated: either two doses or three doses, the latter of which studies show is significantly better at preventing i... | null | null | null | null | null |
Michael Lang in 2009. (Jeff Christensen/AP)
Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, died Jan. 8 at a hospital in New York City. He was 77.
Michael Pagnotta, a family spokesman, said Mr. Lang had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Along w... | null | null | null | null | null |
It’s the latest big bank to shift gears on the controversial penalties, which regulators and consumer advocates call “exploitative."
A Bank of America customer uses an ATM in San Francisco. The bank announced Tuesday that it will drop its non-sufficient funds fees and reduce its overdraft fee from $25 to $10. (David Pa... | null | null | null | null | null |
NYC’s new mayor calls 911 on a brawl, slides down a fire pole and faces big challenges
In his first 10 days, Eric Adams veers between “swagger” and tragedy, praise and criticism, as he begins leading the nation’s largest city
Eric Adams, holding a picture of his late mother, is sworn in as New York mayor during the New... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Biden’s big speech on voting rights will reveal his own limitations — and ours
President Biden will be speaking in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon, giving his most unequivocal statement yet urging the Senate to pass voting rights legislation — and circumvent the filibuster to do it. If you’re already preparing yo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The federal judiciary should stop resisting: It needs an inspector general
The sun sets at the Supreme Court on Dec. 14. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Glenn Fine
Glenn Fine, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, was formerly inspector general for the Department of Justice and acting inspector genera... | null | null | null | null | null |
“We're not a great defensive team,” Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett said. (Ryan M. Kelly/Getty Images)
Virginia’s Tony Bennett was participating in the weekly ACC men’s basketball coaches call with the media Monday when he overheard North Carolina’s Hubert Davis, who was speaking immediately before him, of... | null | null | null | null | null |
Employees who do not comply with the mandate generally are first to be counseled, and then suspended without pay, and then potentially fired unless they get the vaccines. Those who have been granted an exemption on medical or religious grounds, or whose application for an exemption is still under consideration, will be... | null | null | null | null | null |
Michael Parks, former top editor of the Los Angeles Times, dies at 78
Michael Parks, the former top editor of the Los Angeles Times who spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, died Jan. 8 at a hospital in Pasadena, Calif. He ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson attends a European Union Summit at the European Council building in Brussels on Dec. 16, 2021. (Pool photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/Reuters)
Andersson, a Social Democrat who has called for stricter policies on undocumented immigration, said she was duped by an unscrupulous compan... | null | null | null | null | null |
Atmospheric river bringing new flood concerns to Washington state
Parts of Washington state, Oregon and British Columbia are again in the crosshairs of an atmospheric river, leading to concerns about flooding and landslides after an autumn that was extremely active in the Pacific Northwest. Ten 10 inches or more of rai... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sheriff under investigation for seizing cash from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops
She referred all other questions about the case to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Representatives with the state attorney general’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Police in Texas can take cash ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ballots will be mailed Feb. 4, and the counting of votes will begin on March 28, the National Labor Relations Board announced Tuesday.
The NLRB cited Amazon’s mailbox as one of the reasons to order a revote, and also noted that Amazon was pressuring workers to display anti-union paraphenelia. That “could reasonably cau... | null | null | null | null | null |
At the behest of his mother, who lived in Washington and had become a Russian language specialist with Voice of America, Mr. Tolstoy emigrated to the United States. She disapproved of his dissolute lifestyle, he said, and forced him to marry. The woman’s name was Natasha, and she was another Russian emigre, but he was ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Ginger Zee, ABC News Chief Meteorologist & Author, “A Little Closer to Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm”
MS. ELLISON: Good morning and welcome. I’m Sarah Ellison, a reporter at The Post. This morning we’re going to be talking to Ginger Zee. She is the chief meteorologist for ABC News, and she has ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several models show the possibility of a storm Sunday into Monday.
The first 10 days of January produced nearly 10 inches of snow in Washington and the weather pattern for the next two weeks may be promising for more. The next chance of snow forecasters are watching is Sunday into Monday.
Computer models show the possi... | null | null | null | null | null |
She referred all other questions about the case to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Representatives with the attorney general’s office did not return a request for comment.
Police in Texas can take cash and other property believed to be related to some kind of criminal activity, even if the person involved is never... | null | null | null | null | null |
At the behest of his mother, who lived in Washington and had become a Russian language specialist with Voice of America, Mr. Tolstoy emigrated to the United States. She disapproved of his dissolute lifestyle, he said, and forced him to marry. The woman’s name was Natasha, and she was another Russian emigre, but he was ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Allahpundit’s article was published about 4 p.m. Monday and began making the rounds on social media. The full interview was published by ABC on YouTube about 6 p.m. And then, at 8 p.m., Carlson aired the original excerpt from Friday morning to the same end as that tweet from the RNC.
Of course, even if Walensky had bee... | null | null | null | null | null |
Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Tuesday. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
“It’s not a question of if this will happen, but when this will happen, and how many people in this country will have severe illnes... | null | null | null | null | null |
Once here, they travel from state to state carrying out scores of burglaries, jewelry heists and other crimes, pilfering tens or hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of goods each year, the FBI estimates. by one estimate. Experts said the groups often operate with impunity because they have found a kind of criminal s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hundreds of police officers attended the burial service at Holy Cross Cemetery for Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek, who was fatally shot during a carjacking New Year’s Eve, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Cleveland Police Chief Wayne Drummond says Bartek was a “true public servant” and the template for what Cleveland pol... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - This combination of undated photos provided by the Gwinnett County Police Department shows Master Police Officer Robert McDonald, left, and Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni in their official portraits. A man who was punched and kicked in the head by the two Atlanta-area police officers during a traffic stop nearly five ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Who was Carl Bernstein before Watergate? A natural newshound, learning the trade.
Bob Woodward (left) and Carl Bernstein in the Post's newsroom in April 1973. (Ken Feil/The Washington Post)
And yet, as Bernstein’s wonderful new memoir of his early days makes clear, this remarkable figure ran into a major roadb... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - China’s Eileen Gu waves to the camera after competing in the women’s halfpipe skiing qualifiers of the U.S. Grand Prix and World Cup on Friday, March 19, 2021, at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen, Colo. David Wise is back at the Olympics looking for a third gold medal in men’s freestyle halfpipe. Eileen Gu, born San... | null | null | null | null | null |
James F. Ports Jr. replaces former transportation secretary Gregory Slater, who left Maryland to run a Florida tolling authority.
Maryland's new transportation secretary, James F. Ports Jr., left, and former secretary Gregory Slater in 2019, when Slater was state highway administrator, at a Board of Public Works meetin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Information Disorder with Damian Collins MP & Will Hurd
MS. ZAKRZEWSKI: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Cat Zakrzewski, a tech policy reporter here at The Post, and I’m looking forward to our discussion today on the disinformation crisis. My first guest today is Will Hurd, a former Texas congressman. H... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Lindsey Vonn, Author, “Rise: My Story”
MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon. I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post Live. Lindsey Vonn is the most decorated female skier in history. And we’ve been there for it all--for Olympic victories, her injuries, and the chall... | null | null | null | null | null |
A local politician, Jon Reyes from Manitoba, was met with a barrage of criticism over the weekend after sharing a photo on social media of his wife, Cynthia, a registered nurse shoveling snow in their driveway after a work shift.
Cynthia Reyes’s statement appears to have resonated with some social media users, with one... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Congress should stop second-guessing states
The Capitol dome as snow falls on Jan. 3. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
I agree with the Jan. 6 editorial “A way to protect democracy” that the Electoral Count Act needs modifying. But not altogether the way the editorial envisioned.
Congress should get out of... | null | null | null | null | null |
Once here, they travel from state to state carrying out scores of burglaries, jewelry heists and other crimes, pilfering tens or hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of goods each year, the FBI estimates. Experts said the groups often operate with impunity because they have found a kind of criminal sweet spot. | null | null | null | null | null |
A deputy sheriff in North Carolina is accused of fatally shooting a men he says jumped on his truck. A witness says the man was crossing the street. The truck and the body show no signs of impact, investigators said.
Pandora Harrington, right, cries as she holds a sign with an image of Jason Walker during a demonstrati... | null | null | null | null | null |
Penn's Lia Thomas competes during a swim meet against Dartmouth and Yale at Sheerr Pool in Philadelphia on Saturday. (Kylie Cooper)
The 22-year-old zipped past her competitors from Yale and Dartmouth and was again first to the wall. It looked effortless, providing more proof that she’s among the best female college swi... | null | null | null | null | null |
“If we look at the Miami Dolphins ... there are several coaches that had a two- to three-year tenure when they were there,” Beane said. “So there were a lot of coaches prior to Coach Flores that were not there longer than three years. So I guess with each club, each club is different. Each owner is different. Each cult... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a colorful order, United States District Judge James E. Boasberg wrote that an amended complaint the agency filed in August offered “more robust and detailed” evidence to suggest Facebook has an alleged monopoly. In the filing, the FTC argued that Facebook is in a class of its own and shouldn’t be compared to other ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former transportation secretary Gregory Slater left the state to run a Florida tolling authority
Ports, 63, a longtime state transportation official, assumes the top job as the Maryland Department of Transportation works to revive the stalled Purple Line’s light-rail construction and pursue private firms to build expre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several models show the possibility of a storm Sunday into Monday
The first 10 days of January produced nearly 10 inches of snow in Washington, and the weather pattern for the next two weeks may be promising for more. The next chance of snow forecasters are watching is Sunday into Monday.
Computer models show the possi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Aymara Indigenous women hold a sign that reads in Spanish “We demand respect for our rights and life,” during a protest against a government decree requiring proof of vaccination amid the COVID-19 pandemic in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. The measure, which goes into effect on Jan. 26, will affect people’s a... | null | null | null | null | null |
“If we look at the Miami Dolphins … there are several coaches that had a two- to three-year tenure when they were there,” Beane said. “So there were a lot of coaches prior to Coach Flores that were not there longer than three years. So I guess with each club, each club is different. Each owner is different. Each cultur... | null | null | null | null | null |
In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team perform the transplant of a pig heart into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. On Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 the hospital said that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. (... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.S. Mint sends out first quarters honoring poet Maya Angelou
New quarters honoring other women, including Sally Ride and Wilma Mankiller, will appear later this year.
Poet Maya Angelou, pictured in 2008, is honored on the face of a new quarter, which the U.S. Mint began shipping Monday. The coin is the first of 20 Ame... | null | null | null | null | null |
A deputy sheriff in North Carolina is accused of fatally shooting a man he says jumped on his truck. A witness says the man was crossing the street. The truck and the body show no signs of impact, investigators said.
Pandora Harrington, right, cries as she holds a sign with an image of Jason Walker during a demonstrati... | null | null | null | null | null |
Quebec considers unvaccinated penalty
Quebec Premier François Legault is considering a novel way to boost vaccination numbers in the province and hopefully slow a growth in hospitalizations that has severely strained the health-care system: a “health contribution” — or fee — imposed on unvaccinated adults.
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Ray Epps testified that he was not, as accused, a federal provocateur
A mob of Trump supporters stormed and breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in D.C. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
“The Select Committee is aware of unsupported claims that Ray Epps was an FBI informant based on the fact that he w... | null | null | null | null | null |
An American Postal Workers Union official said more than 250 postal employees in D.C. were let go near the end of the year. Though the union is trying to get more information about the layoffs, officials say similar layoffs have occurred across the country.
The Postal Service did not immediately respond to queries from... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks during a news conference, Oct. 25, 2021, in Annapolis, Md. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans are stepping up a personal campaign to persuade Hogan to run for the Senate and help the party's chances of regaining control of the chamber. (AP Photo/Bria... | null | null | null | null | null |
Exhausting Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
President Biden walks away after a wreath laying at the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
The president traveled Tuesday to Atlanta to deliver a speech on the sanctity of voting rights — a geographic choice that spea... | null | null | null | null | null |
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