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Biden can reassure his base he’s fighting right up to the end. First, he can make clear that any change made to the filibuster must be on an up-or-down vote. If the Senate moves to a “talking” filibuster (i.e., those objecting to a bill must speak on the Senate floor with the support of at least 40 other senators to pr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cybersecurity labels for consumer products could be on the way
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison 54 years ago today.
Below: The White House is bringing in industry leaders to talk about log4j and other open-source software vulnerabilities, and at least 35 people in El Salvador wer... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Navy’s fuel leak in Hawaiʻi outraged local activists. That’s happened around the globe.
Military bases’ environmental harms disproportionally hurt ethnic minorities — and they have pushed back
A tunnel in the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility in Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, in 2018. (Shannon Haney/Navy/AP)
By An... | null | null | null | null | null |
Best bets for the NFL’s first round: The Steelers are no match for the Chiefs
Chiefs wide receiver Byron Pringle scores during a December win over the Steelers. (Ed Zurga/AP)
The first round of the NFL playoffs includes six games, and five are rematches from the regular season. The most alluring one for bettors could b... | null | null | null | null | null |
The omicron surge may be slowing in some U.S. cities.
There are promising signs in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, although it’s too early to say there’s a rapid decline.
What this means: Parts of the country could be near a turning point in the latest coronavirus wave.
Coming today: President Biden will announ... | null | null | null | null | null |
49ers quarterback Steve Young went to great lengths to secure a breakthrough victory in the NFC championship game after the 1994 season. (John Mabanglo/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
San Francisco held a 28-13 lead late in the game, but that only gave Roger Staubach an early chance to build his “Captain Comeback” c... | null | null | null | null | null |
An image from a video of surgeon Simon Bramhall, who in 2017 was convicted of assault and fined after branding transplant organs with his initials. (PA Video/PA Wire/PA Images)
Bramhall was suspended from Queen Elizabeth Hospital by the end of 2013 and resigned the following May when he told the BBC he had made “a mist... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nicholas Rossi, who used the last name Alahverdian, faked his death of late-stage cancer in 2020. Law enforcement found him in Scotland last month. (KSTU)
In fact, authorities allege, Alahverdian, whose actual last name is Rossi, made up the cancer diagnosis and dramatic death as a ruse to cover up his escape to Scotla... | null | null | null | null | null |
This image released by Matt Ross Public Relations shows Sutton Foster, foreground center, with the cast of the London production of “Anything Goes.” A filmed recording of the London cast of Cole Porter’s romp “Anything Goes” hits more than 700 cinema screens across the U.S. for two days — March 27 and March 30. (Matt R... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Lionel Richie performs at KAABOO Texas in Arlington, Texas on May 10, 2019. The Library of Congress said Thursday that Richie will receive the national library’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. He will be bestowed the prize at an all-star tribute in Washington, D.C., on March 9. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File) | null | null | null | null | null |
Graham’s comments Wednesday night should certainly be understood in the same way, but that doesn’t make them any less significant. This tension has simmered more than it has boiled — at least when it comes to how fellow Republicans have dealt with it — but it has shown no sign of fading. And now Graham is pushing his p... | null | null | null | null | null |
BRUSSELS — Afghanistan is facing a “tsunami of hunger” because of a shortage of funds that’s needed to keep the supply of food intact as country teeters on the edge of economic run with more than half of the population struggling to eat this winter, a senior official with the United Nations World Food Program said on T... | null | null | null | null | null |
The court rejected Republicans’ argument that the citizens’ referendum passed with 71 percent of the vote was “aspirational” and therefore could be ignored. Take a moment and think about the arrogance of politicians rolling their eyes at a supermajority voters and attempting to carry on with business as normal.
The Bre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police make arrest in December slaying of Alexandria woman
Melia Jones was killed in Alexandria, and police have charged a man in the case
A man has been arrested and charged in the slaying of an Alexandria woman.
Local police said Tuesday that they arrested David Cunningham, 40, of Alexandria, and charged him with sec... | null | null | null | null | null |
Biden can reassure his base he’s fighting right up to the end. First, he can make clear that any change made to the filibuster must eventually result in an up-or-down vote. If the Senate moves to a “talking” filibuster (i.e., those objecting to a bill must speak on the Senate floor with the support of at least 40 other... | null | null | null | null | null |
One of two bald eagles at its nest along the Dulles Greenway. The eagle is going to be named in a contest among kids at Loudoun County Public Schools. (Dulles Greenway)
Kids in Loudoun County Public schools will have a chance to name two bald eagles that are nesting along the Dulles Greenway in Virginia.
TRIP II, the o... | null | null | null | null | null |
The ethics of a second chance: Pig heart transplant pioneer stabbed a man seven times years ago
David Bennett, Sr., who received a heart implant from a genetically modified pig, with his University of Maryland Medical Center surgeon Bartley Griffith. (Photo by UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE / AFP) (-/Univers... | null | null | null | null | null |
This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van she was traveling in with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. An investigation has found that Utah police mad... | null | null | null | null | null |
Tina Charles, who led the WNBA in scoring while playing for the Mystics last season, is one of several high-profile free agents. (Scott Taetsch for The Washington Post)
The names on the list are staggering at first glance — Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, Sue Bird, Angel McCoughtry, Sylvia Fowles, Tina Charles. That’s ... | null | null | null | null | null |
So the piano man is passing his time at home. He has applied for and received a Small Business Administration loan and a grant from Montgomery County, which has allowed him to write record his music; and he has started psychotherapy, which he hopes will help combat his new and pervasive feeling of being adrift in the w... | null | null | null | null | null |
A U.S. Park Police helicopter pulls two people from the wreckage of the remains of the Air Florida jetliner after it fell into the Potomac River. (AP/Charles Pereira)
The helicopter flew so low that, at points, its skids dipped into the water. A passenger on the plane, Arland D. Williams Jr., died after being pulled in... | null | null | null | null | null |
David Bennett, Sr., who received a heart implant from a genetically modified pig, with his University of Maryland Medical Center surgeon Bartley Griffith. (University of Maryland School of Medicine/AFP)
Downey froze. The man being heralded as a medical pioneer, David Bennett Sr., was the same man who had been convicted... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rep. Jody Hice (R) is running for secretary of state in Georgia. (Emil Lippe for The Washington Post)
There was a time when election administration in the United States was considered dull and outside the realm of partisan competition. While an ambitious politician might move from being secretary of state to becoming a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Glenn Youngkin’s charter school plan moves past ideology
Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) at a speech in Ashburn in June, when he was campaigning. (Michael Blackshire/The Washington Post)
By Nina Rees
Nina Rees is the president and chief executive of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and a resident... | null | null | null | null | null |
He was a lifelong Baltimore guy — a huge fan of all Baltimore teams and of the University of Maryland, (even though he graduated from Haverford College and Yale Law School) most notably in basketball. The Orioles were his first love, and he was extremely pleased when he represented Tom Clancy’s wife, Wanda, in their di... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ted Ku-DiPietro’s path to D.C. United was one of a kind
Oakton native Ted Ku-DiPietro was Loudoun United's leading scorer last season. (Courtesy Loudoun United)
What’s most unique about Ted Ku-DiPietro?
It could be his last name. (“I don’t think anyone else has it,” he said.)
Or that he is one of nine children. (Includ... | null | null | null | null | null |
First Look with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart, Donna F. Edwards, Frances Stead Sellers & George F. Will
Donna F. Edwards
Donna F. Edwards, a Washington Post contributing columnist, writes across a broad range of topics. Edwards represented Maryland’s 4th District for five terms in Congress, where she served on the commi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Winter storm watches and warnings have been hoisted in the narrow zone of real estate likely to pick up a good thump of snow, with a widespread 6 to 10 inches and localized one foot totals slated to fall. Only watches were in effect over most of Iowa on Thursday morning, since warnings usually aren’t issued more than a... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden is seen after paying his respects at the casket of former Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 12, 2022. (Oliver Contreras for The Washington Post)
Biden, a former six-term senator, is delivering his closed-door pitch two days after he ma... | null | null | null | null | null |
The 56-year-old, who was at the Capitol that day but has said he did not enter the building, is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far. He and 10 others were charged with seditious conspiracy, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. | null | null | null | null | null |
The Eagles declined to comment through a spokesman and Raiche was not available. The Vikings did not respond to a request for comment. They are searching for a replacement for Rick Spielman. He was fired, along with Coach Mike Zimmer, following a season in which the Vikings missed the playoffs with a record of 8-9.
Maj... | null | null | null | null | null |
People sit on the steps of a shopping mall in Tehran in 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Over the years, Washington has issued exemptions for personal communications tools — such as applications for messaging, blogging and social networking — citing the U.S. interest in ensuring Iranians maintain access to the global Internet. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Starting Feb. 28, the East Building, which houses the museum’s modern and contemporary collection, will be closed to expedite the atrium skylight restoration.
The National Gallery of Art East Building will close for renovations for at least three months, starting Feb. 28. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Those hoping... | null | null | null | null | null |
So the piano man is passing his time at home. He has applied for and received a Small Business Administration loan and a grant from Montgomery County, where he lives, which has allowed him to write and record his music; and he has started psychotherapy, which he hopes will help combat his new and pervasive feeling of b... | null | null | null | null | null |
The 56-year-old, who was at the Capitol that day but has said he did not enter the building, is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far. He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates, said the people familiar with the investigation, who spoke on... | null | null | null | null | null |
The court rejected Republicans’ argument that the citizens’ referendum passed with 71 percent of the vote was “aspirational” and therefore could be ignored. Take a moment and think about the arrogance of politicians rolling their eyes at a supermajority of voters and attempting to carry on with business as normal.
The ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) arrives for a Senate Democrat caucus luncheon with President Biden in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Biden, a former six-term senator, is delivering his closed-door pitch two days after he made his most... | null | null | null | null | null |
Winter storm watches and warnings have been hoisted in the narrow zone of real estate likely to pick up a good thump of snow, with a widespread 6 to 10 inches and localized one-foot totals slated to fall. Only watches were in effect over most of Iowa on Thursday morning, since warnings usually aren’t issued more than a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Last week, Simpson introduced his wife to Wordle, a popular daily puzzle where players have six tries to guess the 5-letter word of the day. She often finishes in fewer tries than Simpson, or answers correctly on days he’s stumped. Each defeat stings a little.
“She’s much more methodical about it,” Simpson says of his ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Wes Moore, author and former CEO of the anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood, at Howard University on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
Author and former non-profit chief Wes Moore raised nearly $5 million over the past seven months, his campaign for Maryland governor said Thursday — a sizable ... | null | null | null | null | null |
LONDON — Buckingham Palace announced Thursday that “with the Queen’s approval and agreement,” all of Prince Andrew’s military affiliations and remaining royal patronages have been returned — a devastating blow for Elizabeth II’s second son, who is facing a U.S. civil lawsuit that accuses him of having sex with a teenag... | null | null | null | null | null |
The keeper of sacred documents like the Declaration of Independence to step down after 12 years.
David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, poses during a tour of the Remembering Vietnam exhibit at the National Archives on Nov. 6, 2017, in Washington. (Ricky Carioti)
“It has been the honor of a lifetime,” Ferri... | null | null | null | null | null |
Stephen Sachs, Maryland prosecutor of anti-Vietnam War Catonsville Nine protesters, dies at 87
Stephen Sachs in 2008. (Brian Witte/AP)
By Jacques Kelly and Frederick N. Rasmussen
Stephen H. Sachs, who prosecuted the Catonsville Nine in the late 1960s as U.S. attorney for Maryland and later served two terms as Maryland’... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Why is Mexico’s president pushing a recall vote against himself? Winning might be easier than leading.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks virtually Tuesday during the 33rd Meeting of Ambassadors and Consuls. (Jose Mendez/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Mexico’s response to the pandemic continues to... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Nicaragua throws in its lot with the world’s autocracies
Neighbors watch the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in Managua, Nicaragua, on Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Andres Nunez) (Andr�s Nunez/AP)
A Spanish proverb says: “Tell me your company and I’ll tell you who you are.” Applying that maxim to Nica... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Why Kazakhstan will not be returning to Russia’s fold
Troops in Almaty march in a Thursday ceremony marking the beginning of Russian troops' withdrawal from Kazakhstan. (Str/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
By Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova is a senior fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several Republicans involved in the process acknowledged it for what it was — a pretty brazen attempt at holding on to power. That attempt has now failed. And GOP Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor punctuated it Wednesday with a remarkable call to action.
Ohio state Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor in Columbus,... | null | null | null | null | null |
“He had his gear on, he went on and came back off so I think we are just trying to make sure everything is good for the weekend,” Capitals Coach Peter Laviolette said. “Sure, he would have … liked to be out there today, but it was probably best just to try and make sure he is good for the weekend.” | null | null | null | null | null |
PARIS — With Paris Saint-Germain still holding a strong lead in the French title race, the fight for second place is heating up down south between Nice and Marseille.
That’s as many goals as PSG star Kylian Mbappe, who has eight assits and is carrying PSG's title charge. They have scored two penalties each, both been t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve on Jan. 13, 2022. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard probably faces a clear path to becoming the Federal Reserve’s second-in-command. But at h... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: “Capehart” with Rev. Al Sharpton
MR. CAPEHART: Good morning. Welcome to the “Capehart” podcast and Washington Post Live. I am Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post.
Well, since I started covering him as a cub editorial writer at The New York Daily News, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Attorney General Mark Herring issued the sweeping order during his last week in office.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring in 2021. (Steve Helber/AP)
Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring on Thursday announced that he had overturned 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racial discrimination, acknow... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police arrest teens in killing of man in Northeast Washington
D.C. police have arrested two teenagers and charged them with killing a 21-year-old man in a shooting last month near the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast Washington.
The male suspects, aged 16 and 17, were charged as juveniles with first-degree murder whi... | null | null | null | null | null |
New movies to stream this week: ‘Brazen,’ ‘Sex Appeal’ and more
From left: Malachi Weir, Sam Page and Alyssa Milano in “Brazen.” (Sergei Bachlakov/Netflix)
Based on “Brazen Virtue,” a 1988 book by best-selling romance novelist Nora Roberts, “Brazen” tells the story of Grace Miller (Alyssa Milano), a successful mystery ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Supreme Court blocks workplace vaccine requirements, allows requirement for...
Businesses and 27 Republican-led states asked the court to put on hold the workplace requirements proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had been upheld by a lower court.
Federal law grants OSHA authority... | null | null | null | null | null |
A U.S. Park Police helicopter pulls two people from the wreckage of the remains of the Air Florida jetliner after it fell into the Potomac River. (Charles Pereira/AP)
The helicopter flew so low that, at points, its skids dipped into the water. A passenger on the plane, Arland D. Williams Jr., died after being pulled in... | null | null | null | null | null |
This image provided by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows an illustration of the outer coating of the Epstein-Barr virus, one of the world’s most common viruses. New research is showing stronger evidence that Epstein-Barr infection could set some people on the path to later developing multiple sclerosis... | null | null | null | null | null |
For almost a year, voting rights advocates have called on President Biden to make expanded voting rights legislation his top agenda item. Biden has said overhauling the country’s election laws is one his biggest priorities.
But, like other major parts of his agenda, the path forward has to go through the Senate, where ... | null | null | null | null | null |
CRANSTON, R.I. — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island has opened an investigation into the North Kingstown School Department after student-athletes filed a complaint that the high school violated students’ civil rights by allowing a former boys’ basketball coach to disrobe athletes for “fat tests... | null | null | null | null | null |
Coronavirus: A National Strategy with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD & Céline Gounder, MD
As coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise, the Biden administration is aiming to make high-quality masks available to all Americans for free. On Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 1:30 p.m. E.T., Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD and Céline Goun... | null | null | null | null | null |
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the extremist group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP)
Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress —... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden accentuated the positive news regarding health-care workers, and said he was disappointed the court ruled against the administration on the workplace rules.
“The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure, but that does not stop me f... | null | null | null | null | null |
In an interview, Fahrenkopf called the meetings with the RNC “cordial” but said the committee “wanted to control things we aren’t prepared to let them control.” He said the DNC had not made any similar demands.
In a separate letter sent to the RNC in December, the commission said it would consider an earlier scheduled ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The woman was identified as Kery Lynn McAttee, 58, of Charlotte, Mi., southwest of Lansing. Police said they charged her with several criminal counts, including unlawful possession and transportation of a semiautomatic rifle.
McAttee’s 33-year-old son, Gregory M. McAttee, said his mother has suffered from mental illnes... | null | null | null | null | null |
The keeper of documents such as the Declaration of Independence will step down after 12 years
David S. Ferriero in 2017. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
“It has been the honor of a lifetime,” Ferriero wrote in a note to his staff Wednesday. “My time here has been filled with opportunities, challenges, and awesome r... | null | null | null | null | null |
Attorney General Mark R. Herring issued the sweeping order during his last week in office.
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring in 2021. (Steve Helber/AP)
Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring on Thursday announced that he had overturned 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racial discriminatio... | null | null | null | null | null |
Since then, disclosure of emails and texts — from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, conservative media figures and protest leaders — support the need to explore these questions. Specifically, the committee wants to hear from Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have claimed the inquiry is poli... | null | null | null | null | null |
We now have the first seditious-conspiracy charges from Jan. 6. Here’s how historic that is.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes speaks during the Patriots Day Free Speech Rally in Berkeley, Calif., in 2017. Rhodes has been charged with seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. (Jim Urquha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Delta reported a net loss of $408 million in the final quarter of 2021, but closed the year profitable thanks, in part, to billions of dollars in federal pandemic aid. The carrier said it expects to lose money in the first quarter this year, but also expects “a healthy profit” for the remainder of 2022.
During the earn... | null | null | null | null | null |
(Stefani Reynolds for The Washington Post)
At current rates, sometime in late April we will pass a grim milestone: one million Americans dead from covid-19. If we get lucky and the omicron wave abates, that one millionth death may not come until later in the spring, or the summer. But it will come, and soon.
Keep that ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Justice Gorusch, the Pope and empathy for others and animals
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. (Erin Schaff/AP)
According to the Jan. 8 front-page article “Court majority has doubts on vaccine rules for businesses,” one of the lawyers opposed to the Biden administration’s vaccination-or-testing requirements argued by t... | null | null | null | null | null |
As Alarcon got out of the vehicle, according to the suit, Duckett harassed Flores with “homophobic taunts,” asking whether Flores was “in the alley with his boyfriend.”
Leaving the vehicle, Duckett pinned Flores against a wall, the lawsuit alleges, and handcuffed him before searching his pockets without his consent, re... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Elvis Costello poses for a portrait at The Redbury New York hotel in New York on Sept. 17, 2018. Costello’s new album, the coronavirus-era disc “The Boy Named If” was made in solitary style — four musicians, five if you count a backup singer on one song — all worked from their own homes. He says that conjures th... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘Bring Them Home,’ a new documentary from Washington Post Opinions, to debut at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this February
The documentary focuses on the family of Emad Shargi, one of a growing number of Americans being held hostage by foreign governments
Bring Them Home (The Washington Post)
The Washington Post t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Securing Cyberspace with Dmitri Alperovitch, Jeremy Sheridan & Tonya Ugoretz
MS. NAKASHIMA: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter at The Washington Post. Thanks for joining us today for our three-part program on securing cyberspace.
My first guest toda... | null | null | null | null | null |
Future of the Supreme Court with Thomas Griffith & Cristina Rodriguez
President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States recently issued a report that assessed proposals for reform, including term limits and whether Congress should expand the court beyond its current nine seats. Join Washington Post... | null | null | null | null | null |
As a kid growing up in Canada, Tom Wilson had two dreams. One was to win the Stanley Cup, the other was to win a gold medal. The Washington Capitals’ winger has already achieved the former, it’s the latter that still remains elusive.
Wilson, 27, was in the conversation for Team Canada before the 2022 Winter Olympics, t... | null | null | null | null | null |
That Mom’s-basement gathering has grown to become a powerhouse of charitable giving in the region.
Uyama, 38, wasn’t the typical, high-powered Northern Virginia child. He went to a special-education school when he was young because he still wasn’t talking at 4 years old. (But he could read.) Later he lived at home whil... | null | null | null | null | null |
Omicron may have peaked in D.C. as Maryland offers 20 million free, high-grade masks
Rachel Chason
The winter surge of coronavirus cases may have peaked in the District, experts said Thursday, as Maryland’s governor announced 20 million free N95 and KN95 will be distributed to further blunt spread of the highly infecti... | null | null | null | null | null |
She complained that the press describes the Build Back Better bill as “social spending.” She instead made the case that the bill, which stalled in the Senate, is really “the only shot we’ve got of getting millions of women back to work” who have left the labor market. The former venture capitalist said she presses CEOs... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Supreme Court building in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds for The Washington Post)
At current pace, sometime in late April we will pass a grim milestone: 1 million Americans dead from covid-19. If we get lucky and the omicron wave abates, that millionth death may not come until later in the spring, or the summer. But... | null | null | null | null | null |
House Jan. 6 committee says tech firms not cooperating, issues subpoenas
Congressional investigators on Thursday issued subpoenas to the parent companies of Facebook, Google, as well as Twitter and Reddit, for failing to provide complete information on how their social media platforms spread falsehoods that fomented th... | null | null | null | null | null |
People gather at a each in Sydney on Dec. 19 as a heat wave moved across Australia. (Bianca De Marchi/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
A massive heat dome was parked over Western Australia, with Onslow sitting directly underneath it. Temperatures were about 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) above normal at the hottest ti... | null | null | null | null | null |
Unemployment claims rose last week, but remained relatively low
Unemployment claims rise amid covid spike
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased to an eight-week high in the first week of January amid raging coronavirus infections, but remained at a level consistent with a rapidly... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office investigate after three children were found dead inside a residence at an apartment complex in Le Grand, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The mother of three children found dead inside a central California home has been charged with murder, officials said Thursday. (Andrew Kuhn/Th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Thousands protest outpost demolition
Thousands of Israeli nationalists staged a protest outside the parliament building in Jerusalem, urging the government not to demolish a West Bank settlement outpost.
The outpost, near the West Bank city of Nablus, is the site of a former settlement evacuated as part of Israel’s wit... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: We can’t neglect North Korea for another year
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, speaks with military officials on Jan. 11 during an observation of what state media said was a hypersonic missile test-fire in North Korea. (AFP/KCNA via KNS) (Str)
Already this month, Pyongyang has conducted three tests of a... | null | null | null | null | null |
The leader of the far-right military group Oath Keepers has been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Jan. 6 attack. Here’s what that means.
In a critical step forward in the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the Justice Department arrested and charged 11 members and associates of the... | null | null | null | null | null |
MLB puts a new proposal on the table in labor talks. How the players respond will be telling.
No one involved expected an hour or so on a Zoom call to result in an agreement. Both sides entered hopeful, however, that Major League Baseball’s latest proposal for changes to the game’s economic structure could create some ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In less than a month, the United States brought in a new general manager and coaching staff. Instead of NHL stars, the Americans assembled a team of players competing in the NCAA, in European leagues or on minor league teams. The roster includes seven players with NHL experience, eight playing professionally in Europe ... | null | null | null | null | null |
More upheaval in Montgomery County’s school amid coronavirus surge
Montgomery County’s public school system was hit with more upheaval Thursday, as teachers voted no confidence in its leadership and the union for administrators called for a pause to come up with an effective plan as the omicron variant of the coronavir... | null | null | null | null | null |
No one involved expected an hour or so on a Zoom call to result in an agreement. Both sides entered hopeful, however, that MLB’s latest proposal for changes to the game’s economic structure could create some momentum.
But MLB’s proposal, made on behalf of its 30 club owners, was met with disappointment from the players... | null | null | null | null | null |
The leader of the far-right military group Oath Keepers has been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Here’s what that means.
In a critical step forward in the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the Justice Department arrested and charged 11 members and associates of t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Politics is trumping economics. It might end badly.
Gas prices at a station in D.C. on Jan. 12. (Will Oliver/EPA-EFA/REX/Shutterstock)
We forget now, but as recently as the 1980s, inflation was rampant across much of the world. Countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Peru had inflation rates that were measured... | null | null | null | null | null |
Despite forecasts that the omicron surge would soon peak nationwide, the seven-day average of new cases in the United States hovered near 800,000 on Thursday as the variant continued its stampede across the nation. However, the pace of new cases is starting to slow in several states along the Eastern Seaboard that saw ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Judge Robert Adrian presides over court on Aug. 26, 2020, in Adams County, Ill. Adrian, who found an 18-year-old man guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl, has come under fire after he later threw out the conviction this month, saying the 148 days the man spent in jail was punishment enough. (Jake Shane/Quincy... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ashwani Jain announces LaTrece Hawkins Lytes as running mate in Maryland governor’s race
SLUG:me-statehouse DATE:January30, 2008 CREDIT: Mark Gail/ TWP LOCATION:Annapolis, Md. ASSIGNMENT#: 197630 EDITED BY: mg CAPTION:The Maryland State House in Annapolis Wednesday. StaffPhoto imported to Merlin on Wed Jan 30 16:29:09 ... | null | null | null | null | null |
That gathering in Mom’s basement has grown to become a powerhouse of charitable giving in the region.
Uyama, 38, wasn’t the typical high-powered Northern Virginia child. He went to a special-education school when he was young because he still wasn’t talking at 4 years old. (But he could read.) Later he lived at home wh... | null | null | null | null | null |
Alex Ovechkin voted Metro captain for All-Star Game, misses Capitals practice with injury
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin missed practice Thursday with an upper-body injury. The Capitals said Ovechkin wasn’t practicing for precautionary reasons.
Ovechkin did not participate in practice Tuesday as he took a ma... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a move that stunned the prosecution, Adams County Judge Robert Adrian overturned his decision that Drew Clinton was guilty of one count of criminal sexual assault to avoid sending the teenager to prison for the minimum sentence of four years at the sentencing hearing last week. Stirring criticism from victims’ advoc... | null | null | null | null | null |
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