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Harrison leads Presbyterian against Winthrop after 21-point showing
Winthrop Eagles (10-6, 3-0 Big South) at Presbyterian Blue Hose (8-10, 0-3 Big South)
Clinton, South Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Presbyterian plays the Winthrop Eagles after Rayshon Harrison scored 21 points in Presbyterian’s 64-61 los... | null | null | null | null | null |
New Hampshire Wildcats (6-5, 1-1 America East) at Hartford Hawks (2-10)
BOTTOM LINE: Hartford hosts the New Hampshire Wildcats after Hunter Marks scored 31 points in Hartford’s 78-71 victory against the Sacred Heart Pioneers.
The Hawks are 0-2 in home games. Hartford gives up 75.8 points to opponents and has been outsc... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mack leads Wofford against Citadel after 22-point game
Citadel Bulldogs (7-9, 1-4 SoCon) at Wofford Terriers (11-7, 3-3 SoCon)
BOTTOM LINE: Wofford plays the Citadel Bulldogs after B.J. Mack scored 22 points in Wofford’s 84-64 win against the Western Carolina Catamounts.
The Terriers have gone 5-3 at home. Wofford rank... | null | null | null | null | null |
Minnesota Golden Gophers (10-5, 1-5 Big Ten) at Penn State Nittany Lions (8-7, 3-4 Big Ten)
University Park, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota visits the Penn State Nittany Lions after E.J. Stephens scored 22 points in Minnesota’s 81-71 loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
The Nittany Lions are 6-3 on... | null | null | null | null | null |
Indiana State Sycamores (8-8, 1-3 MVC) at Southern Illinois Salukis (9-8, 2-3 MVC)
Carbondale, Illinois; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Marcus Domask and the Southern Illinois Salukis host Cooper Neese and the Indiana State Sycamores in MVC play.
The Salukis are 6-2 in home games. Southern Illinois scores 65.4 poin... | null | null | null | null | null |
New Mexico Lobos (7-10, 0-4 MWC) at Colorado State Rams (13-1, 3-1 MWC)
Fort Collins, Colorado; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: New Mexico visits the Colorado State Rams after Jaelen House scored 21 points in New Mexico’s 71-63 loss to the Boise State Broncos.
The Rams are 8-0 in home games. Colorado State ranks se... | null | null | null | null | null |
Northern Iowa Panthers (9-7, 5-1 MVC) at Valparaiso Beacons (8-10, 1-5 MVC)
BOTTOM LINE: Northern Iowa faces the Valparaiso Beacons after AJ Green scored 22 points in Northern Iowa’s 69-68 win over the Southern Illinois Salukis.
The Beacons are 5-5 on their home court. Valparaiso has a 3-8 record against teams over .50... | null | null | null | null | null |
North Carolina A&T Aggies (8-10, 3-1 Big South) at UNC Asheville Bulldogs (10-7, 2-2 Big South)
Asheville, North Carolina; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: UNC Asheville takes on the North Carolina A&T Aggies after Drew Pember scored 27 points in UNC Asheville’s 76-73 loss to the South Carolina Upstate Spartans.
T... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hampton Pirates (4-9, 0-2 Big South) at Radford Highlanders (5-11, 1-3 Big South)
BOTTOM LINE: Hampton visits the Radford Highlanders after Raymond Bethea Jr. scored 21 points in Hampton’s 67-59 loss to the North Carolina A&T Aggies.
The Highlanders have gone 4-3 in home games. Radford ranks eighth in the Big South wit... | null | null | null | null | null |
La Salle Explorers (6-8, 1-3 A-10) at Rhode Island Rams (10-4, 2-1 A-10)
BOTTOM LINE: Rhode Island takes on the La Salle Explorers after Makhel Mitchell scored 20 points in Rhode Island’s 81-68 win against the UMass Minutemen.
The Rams have gone 7-0 at home. Rhode Island is seventh in the A-10 scoring 71.9 points while... | null | null | null | null | null |
Iowa Hawkeyes (13-4, 3-3 Big Ten) at Rutgers Scarlet Knights (10-6, 4-2 Big Ten)
Piscataway, New Jersey; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Rutgers hosts the Iowa Hawkeyes after Ron Harper Jr. scored 31 points in Rutgers’ 70-59 victory against the Maryland Terrapins.
TOP PERFORMERS: Harper is scoring 16.6 points per... | null | null | null | null | null |
George Washington Colonials (5-10, 1-2 A-10) at Saint Joseph’s (PA) Hawks (7-8, 1-3 A-10)
BOTTOM LINE: George Washington visits the Saint Joseph’s (PA) Hawks after Joe Bamisile scored 26 points in George Washington’s 77-76 win against the George Mason Patriots.
The Hawks have gone 5-4 in home games. Saint Joseph’s (PA)... | null | null | null | null | null |
Western Carolina Catamounts (8-10, 2-3 SoCon) at Furman Paladins (12-7, 4-2 SoCon)
BOTTOM LINE: Furman hosts the Western Carolina Catamounts after Jalen Slawson scored 22 points in Furman’s 71-69 loss to the Chattanooga Mocs.
The Paladins are 8-1 on their home court. Furman is eighth in the SoCon in rebounding with 31.... | null | null | null | null | null |
South Carolina Upstate visits Gardner-Webb following Gainey's 22-point game
South Carolina Upstate Spartans (6-10, 3-1 Big South) at Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (9-8, 3-1 Big South)
BOTTOM LINE: South Carolina Upstate visits the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs after Jordan Gainey scored 22 points in South Carolina Upst... | null | null | null | null | null |
Stony Brook visits Binghamton following Falko's 22-point showing
Stony Brook Seawolves (9-6, 2-1 America East) at Binghamton Bearcats (6-7, 3-1 America East)
Binghamton, New York; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Binghamton hosts the Stony Brook Seawolves after Jacob Falko scored 22 points in Binghamton’s 73-65 win o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lehigh Mountain Hawks (6-12, 4-2 Patriot) at Navy Midshipmen (12-5, 5-1 Patriot)
Annapolis, Maryland; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Lehigh takes on the Navy Midshipmen after Evan Taylor scored 20 points in Lehigh’s 69-57 loss to the Loyola (MD) Greyhounds.
The Midshipmen have gone 4-3 at home. Navy is seventh in t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Wyoming hosts San Jose State following Amey's 23-point game
San Jose State Spartans (7-8, 0-3 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (13-2, 2-0 MWC)
Laramie, Wyoming; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: San Jose State visits the Wyoming Cowboys after Myron Amey Jr. scored 23 points in San Jose State’s 81-56 loss to the UNLV Rebels.
Th... | null | null | null | null | null |
That’s what we found when we analyzed which Republicans voted against certifying the 2020 election last year
A voter outside the American Airlines Center in Dallas in October 2020. (LM Otero/AP)
By Michael G. Strawbridge
Richard R. Lau
As the 2022 midterm elections approach, the Republican Party still overwhelmingly em... | null | null | null | null | null |
In 2020, Denmark culled some 17 million minks after they were found to be at risk of carrying coronavirus. The government later admitted that the minks were improperly killed and buried, and a commission of inquiry has been established to look into the case.
In cramped Hong Kong, hamsters have been popular as pets for ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Aid groups and defense officials from Australia and New Zealand are working on contactless ways to deliver water and other vital supplies to the remote archipelago kingdom, which is one of the few places in the world to remain essentially free of the virus. (Residents went into a brief lockdown in November when a singl... | null | null | null | null | null |
By 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, the team of rescuers headed up the mountain in a truck. But they swiftly encountered an issue, authorities said. The road, which had been closed off to all cars except emergency vehicles, was deemed unsafe. (Haywood County Search & Rescue /Haywood County Search & Rescue)
That same day, North Ca... | null | null | null | null | null |
Those seeking to thwart democracy have long used forged documents
Former president Donald Trump departs after speaking at a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on Jan. 15 in Florence, Ariz. At the rally, Trump continued to make false claims about the 2020 election. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
By Ryan Skinnell... | null | null | null | null | null |
Students are protesting covid policies — and the adults who won’t listen to them
For a century, student activists have demanded a say in their schools
Demonstrators hold signs and chant during a student walkout over coronavirus pandemic safety measures at Chicago Public Schools. (Cheney Orr/Bloomberg News)
By Jack Hodg... | null | null | null | null | null |
We stopped tracking coronavirus cases at the University of Florida. Here’s why.
Our covid ‘dashboard’ had reported more cases than any other university in the country. But the data was increasingly unreliable.
Students wear masks on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville on Sept. 1. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/For The... | null | null | null | null | null |
Two were hit-and-runs, police said
Dana Hedgpeth
Today at 10:08 p.m. EST|Updated today at 6:33 a.m. EST
Three pedestrians were killed in separate traffic incidents Monday in Montgomery County, according to police. Authorities described two as hit-and-runs.
In one of the hit-and-run incidents, a woman was struck shortly... | null | null | null | null | null |
By 11:30 a.m. Sunday, the rescuers headed up the mountain in a truck but swiftly encountered an issue, authorities said. The road, which had been closed off to all cars except emergency vehicles, was deemed unsafe. (Haywood County Search and Rescue)
Also on Friday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) warned people in hi... | null | null | null | null | null |
CAIRO — About a dozen people were killed and others injured in retaliatory airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, overnight, Houthi officials said on their website Tuesday.
The UAE is a partner of the coalition that has been battling the Houthis since 2015, shortly after the group took over the Yemeni capital. On Mon... | null | null | null | null | null |
We care about how to value “risk free” because it’s the most systemically important asset in financial markets. It determines the value of pretty much everything: stocks, lending collateral, bond yields, investment allocation. The risk-free rate is the foundation of asset pricing; if it’s askew, so are markets.
In theo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Scholars estimate that the Chinese government has detained over 1 million Uyghurs and placed them in reeducation camps in an effort to assimilate the mostly Muslim minority that’s native to the northwest Xinjiang region, The Washington Post reported. Since 2017, Uyghurs have been sent to the camps for wearing headscarv... | null | null | null | null | null |
Many defenders of Black, Native American and women’s political rights saw Prohibition as increasing freedom
(Rick Bowmer/AP)
One hundred and three years ago this week, the United States ratified the 18th Amendment, adding the prohibition of liquor traffic to the Constitution. Though it was repealed in 1933, Prohibition... | null | null | null | null | null |
Law enforcement personnel continue the investigation to the hostage incident at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, USA, 16 January 2022. (Ralph Lauer/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
BLACKBURN, England – The armed British man who took four hostages inside a Texas synagogue during Saturday services was k... | null | null | null | null | null |
Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of American Indian Movement, dies 85
Clyde Bellecourt, a leader of the American Indian Movement, speaks at a news conference in 1973. (Jim Wells/Associated Press)
Clyde Bellecourt, a leader in the Native American struggle for civil rights and a founder of the American Indian Movement, died ... | null | null | null | null | null |
What questions do you have about the Washington Football Team’s offseason? Ask The Post.
That said, this is an enormously important offseason for Ron Rivera’s team, one that will have a new nickname when it takes its next snap. Because of that, we thought it would be a good idea to have Nicki Jhabvala, one of The Post’... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police: 3 pedestrians killed in 3 crashes
HILLANDALE, Md. — Three pedestrians are dead after three separate crashes in one Maryland county on Monday night, police said.
Montgomery County police said the first crash happened just after 5:30 p.m. near New Hampshire Avenue and Elton Road in Hillandale, when a Toyota Camry... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Post Helping Hand raises a record-breaking $402k for Washington, D.C.-area nonprofits
The Washington Post Helping Hand today announced it has raised a record-breaking $402,000 in its first season partnering with three new local nonprofits: Bread for the City, Friendship Place and Miriam’s Kitchen. Throug... | null | null | null | null | null |
Teddy Amenabar
Following the news of the acquisition, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Kotick will stay on as CEO of Activision Blizzard, reporting to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. In an email sent to Activision Blizzard employees Tuesday and shared with The Washington Post, Kotick wrote he would stay on... | null | null | null | null | null |
The question is whether this law does require school boards to implement such universal masking. If so, Youngkin’s executive order might not have any force, and might be vulnerable to a court challenge, says Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond.
So Youngkin’s executive order might not even survive... | null | null | null | null | null |
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells CEOs businesses are not ‘climate police’
BlackRock's Larry Fink said in a letter to fellow CEOs that "Capitalism has the power to shape society and act as a powerful catalyst for change. But businesses can’t do this alone." (Mark Lennihan/AP)
Shareholder activists had been trying to persu... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ralph Emery, longtime country music broadcaster, dies at 88
Ralph Emery is hugged by country music star Barbara Mandrell after she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in radio a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Boris Johnson rode into power on a wave of populism akin to the tide that propelled Donald Trump in the United States. Trump once dubbed Johnson “Britain Trump,” and the prime minister, like the former president, emerged immune from each scandal, gaffe and political firefight, basking in undimmed ratings from his base.... | null | null | null | null | null |
Homes in New Canaan, Conn., mourn the death of Teddy Balkind. (Hayley Salvatore/TWP)
Over the past few weeks, the ice hockey community has come together to mourn one of its own, placing sticks outside front doors and starting games with a moment of silence to honor the life of Connecticut high school hockey player Tedd... | null | null | null | null | null |
A previous version of this article misstated part of Chamath Palihapitiya's quote about America's health-care infrastructure. He called it "crippling," not "crumbling." This version has been corrected.
In November, President Biden said he was considering a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, a measure... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several sports leaders with ties to West Virginia signed a letter appealing to Manchin to support the Freedom to Vote Act.
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) after a meeting attended by President Biden and Senate Democrats on voting rights and the filibuster on Capitol Hill on Jan. 13, 2022. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washing... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden speaks in Philadelphia on Jan. 16. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
It’s not new that Trump doesn’t have much of a policy agenda, of course. During the 2016 election, he was explicit in rejecting the idea that his candidacy required detailed policy positions. Running for reelection in 2020, his agenda was similarly diap... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: “Capehart” with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
MR. CAPEHART: Good morning, and welcome to the “Capehart” podcast on Washington Post Live. I am Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post.
President Biden faces more than a few challenges on the world stage--China... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dutch historian Bart van der Boom, of the University of Leiden, told The Post by email on Tuesday that he was skeptical. He said Otto Frank’s note was only “one piece of evidence” and that the idea that the Jewish Council had access to lists of addresses was a “very serious accusation,” for which there was “virtually n... | null | null | null | null | null |
BlackRock's Larry Fink said in a letter to fellow chief executives that “Capitalism has the power to shape society and act as a powerful catalyst for change. But businesses can’t do this alone.” (Mark Lennihan/AP)
Shareholder activists had been trying to persuade BlackRock — which frequently controls the largest bloc o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a progressive from Vermont. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
But that story is wrong in every respect. In fact, over the past two years, progressives have done almost everything right, or at least as well as could have been expected. If they don’t get all the policy victories they want — and th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked Friday with two key leaders of the Afghan relief effort: Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary of humanitarian affairs, and Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross. The two urged Blinken to support international efforts to provide cash fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sri Lanka is facing a debt crisis, and yet its stock market is up more than 60% in the last year. The Federal Reserve is getting ready to hike rates to combat inflation, and the higher interest rates move, the lower stock prices should be. The S&P 500 may be down the last few weeks, but it’s still up more than 20% for ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several sports leaders with ties to West Virginia signed a letter appealing to Manchin to support the Freedom to Vote Act
“The eyes of the nation will be watching what happens this week in the United States Senate, just a few days removed from what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King’s Jr.'s. 93rd birthday,” Senate ... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden speaks in Philadelphia on Jan. 16. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
It’s not new that Trump doesn’t have much of a policy agenda, of course. During the 2016 election, he was explicit in rejecting the idea that his candidacy required detailed policy positions. Running for reelection in 2020, his agenda was s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Known for creating the television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Joss Whedon was once celebrated as a feminist. The series subverted common tropes of the fantasy genre, centering a young woman who might elsewhere have been cast aside early in the story. Buffy — played by Sarah Michelle Gellar for seven seasons, beg... | null | null | null | null | null |
Kelen, comparing the surge to flooding during a hurricane, said in an interview that talking about the peak of the variant is like asking, “Where’s the high-water mark?”
Justin Lessler, an epidemiology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, echoed that there will be “a few more tough weeks” even ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Several sports leaders with ties to West Virginia signed a letter appealing to the senator to support the Freedom to Vote Act
The Freedom to Vote Act would create national rules for voting by mail, early voting and other parts of the electoral process. Another bill that Democrats are hoping to pass, the John R. Lewis V... | null | null | null | null | null |
The FAA is far from the only federal agency for which use of this bandwidth is critical. Some senators believe the lesson is to update the memorandum that governs FCC-NTIA coordination, or to craft a new process with a final-say adjudicator. Yet a simpler and more serious lesson may also have emerged. This dust-up spil... | null | null | null | null | null |
Washington executive Damon Jones, a key player in stadium search, leaves for L.A. Dodgers
Damon Jones, the Washington Football Team's chief legal officer, with Julie Andreeff Jensen, its former senior vice president of external engagement and communications, in June 2021. Jensen left the organization last September, an... | null | null | null | null | null |
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith says vaccination saved his life when he had covid-19
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith credits getting vaccinated with his survival from a scary case of covid-19. (Elsa/Getty Images)
The first sign that something still wasn’t quite right with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith came in the initial moments o... | null | null | null | null | null |
It’s the former senator’s second run for the office; she was kidnapped in 2002 during the first.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Ingrid Betancourt, a politician who was held captive by Colombia’s largest guerrilla group for more than six years, announced on Tuesday that she will compete in the presidential election this year.
Befor... | null | null | null | null | null |
This undated Handout showing computer-generated imagery released by Nyoman Nuarta on Jan. 18, 2022 shows a design illustration of Indonesia's future presidential palace in East Kalimantan. (Handout/Nyoman Nuarta/AFP via Getty Images)
Jakarta, one of the world’s largest megacities, is straining under the weight of expon... | null | null | null | null | null |
PARIS — The French lawyer for a jailed human rights defender in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday filed a torture complaint against the new president of Interpol, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi, as the official made his first visit to the international police agency’s headquarters in the French city of Lyon. | null | null | null | null | null |
Is it a stunt? Sure. And Chambers is a long shot, to say the least. An activist and community organizer, he has never held public office, though he has run unsuccessfully for a couple of lower offices. And he’s trying to unseat Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican incumbent running in a state Donald Trump won by almost 20 p... | null | null | null | null | null |
The latest Gallup findings on the two parties’ support, released Monday, show that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents made up an average of 46 percent of adults during 2021, versus 43 percent for the Republicans, a two-point pro-GOP shift from the 48-to-43 Democratic edge in 2020. (The margin of error is one... | null | null | null | null | null |
Resistance to change was “less than I thought it would be,” Berger told me in an interview last month at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif. The key, he said, has been to invest the money and people freed up by discarding old systems to invest in new capabilities that can combat a modern, high-tech... | null | null | null | null | null |
Everything changed last week, when Serbia’s main independent newspaper carried the news on its front page, accusing the government of acting “in the service of Putin’s regime.” Serbia’s pro-democracy opposition, which is expected to make gains in April’s parliamentary and municipal elections, slammed President Aleksand... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dutch historian Bart van der Boom, of Leiden University, told The Post by email on Tuesday that he was skeptical. He said Otto Frank’s note was only “one piece of evidence” and that the idea that the Jewish Council had access to lists of addresses was a “very serious accusation,” for which there was “virtually no evide... | null | null | null | null | null |
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty. The deal comes as Microsoft is trying to boost its competitiveness in mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology. The all-cash $68.7 billion deal will turn the maker of the Xbox gaming system in... | null | null | null | null | null |
Goldman 4th quarter profits falls by 13 percent
Goldman 4Q profits fall by 13 percent
Goldman Sachs said its fourth-quarter profits fell by 13 percent from a year earlier, largely because of the bank preparing to pay out hefty pay packages to its well-compensated employees.
It’s the latest sign that wages are increasin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Janice Burtch, on left, tells Lanny, center, and Bill Hathaway how she is doing since covid-19 claimed her husband, Danny. They gathered at the 50 Plus Club in Lewiston, Mich. (Nick King for The Washington Post)
Just days earlier, the club’s president — and one of its most devoted euchre players, Danny Burtch — died of... | null | null | null | null | null |
Zara Rutherford, 19, should arrive home this week in Belgium after August takeoff.
Belgian-British teenager Zara Rutherford waves from her Shark ultralight plane before takeoff at the Kortrijk-Wevelgem airfield in Wevelgem, Belgium, on August 18, 2021. Rutherford is set to land in Kortrijk, Belgium, this week in the ho... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mr. Akram, 44, identified by authorities as the gunman, died during the standoff, but police have not disclosed whether he killed himself or was shot by law enforcement. He had demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill U.S. military personnel in Afghanist... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: We all have a stake in college enrollment
Students pose on the steps of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in May 2020. (Steve Helber/AP)
Congress can start by reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, now stuck in political gridlock. Everyone who advises students and families should sh... | null | null | null | null | null |
A health-care worker treats a patient in the covid-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo., on Aug. 3, 2021. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News)
What has emerged is a different sort of pandemic, one in which far more people are getting infected but — so far — fewer are dying. Yet there’s a caveat: The... | null | null | null | null | null |
Then-President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (left) and Attorney General William P. Barr (right) participate in an event about the census and the citizenship question in the Rose Garden in July 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The plot effectively bookended Donald Trump’s four years in office, with a Cabinet off... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: WP Subscriber Exclusive: Carl Bernstein, Author, “Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom”
MS. LEONNIG: Good afternoon, and welcome to this subscriber exclusive interview. I am Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig. We have a special guest today, journalist and author Carl Bernstein. We all kn... | null | null | null | null | null |
The legislation would remove a memorial to former senator Francis G. Newlands, a Democrat of Nevada who advocated for abolishing the right of African American men to vote and restricting immigration to White people only; he died in 1917. His name appears on a 60-foot sandstone fountain within Chevy Chase Circle, which ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The legislation would remove a memorial to former senator Francis G. Newlands, a Democrat of Nevada who advocated abolishing the right of African American men to vote and restricting immigration to White people only; he died in 1917. His name appears on a 60-foot sandstone fountain within Chevy Chase Circle, which stra... | null | null | null | null | null |
Is it a stunt? Sure. And Chambers is a long shot to say the least. An activist and community organizer, he has never held public office, though he has run unsuccessfully for a couple of lower offices. And he’s trying to unseat Sen. John Neely Kennedy, a Republican incumbent running in a state Donald Trump won by almost... | null | null | null | null | null |
Everything changed last week, when Serbia’s main independent newspaper carried the news on its front page, accusing the government of acting “in the service of Putin’s regime.” Serbia’s pro-democracy opposition, which is expected to make gains in April’s parliamentary and municipal elections, slammed President Aleksand... | null | null | null | null | null |
Visitors wade in the Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island near Syracuse, Utah, on Aug. 1. Water levels in the lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, have dropped to the lowest levels ever recorded. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Although 2021 tied for the sixth-hottest year on record, it ranked as th... | null | null | null | null | null |
The parents of Austin McEwen filed a lawsuit in Madison County, Ill., on Monday, saying Amazon’s decisions contributed to the 26-year-old man’s death on Dec. 10, 2021. Among them was the decision to call employees and contractors such as McEwen to work during the holiday rush despite more than 24 hours of severe-weathe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former FARC captive to run for president
Íngrid Betancourt, a politician who was held captive by Colombia’s largest guerrilla group for more than six years, announced Tuesday that she will compete in the presidential election this year.
The last time Betancourt ran for president, in 2002, she was kidnapped by the Revol... | null | null | null | null | null |
No charges in Black teen’s custody death in Kansas
No charges in Black teen's custody death
The teen’s family decried Bennett’s decision.
Lofton’s brother Marquan Teetz and a local pastor on Tuesday asked a court to release video of the altercation, citing the state’s open records law. The Wichita Police Department on ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, where a 44-year-old British national held four people hostage for more than 10 hours. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images)
Despite all the security training they’d sat through and everything that the congregants knew about the heightened dangers of hate and ignorance, they still kept the faith ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“We are entering, sadly … our third calendar year for our fight against covid,” Bowser (D) told reporters before touring the Ward 7 covid center, which opened Tuesday alongside centers in wards 1, 2 and 8. “We know that it’s going to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future. We have recognized that we have to ad... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mr. Akram, 44, identified by authorities as the gunman, was fatally shot by law enforcement officers who rushed the suspect after the hostages made their escape. He had demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. Peop... | null | null | null | null | null |
Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked Friday with two key leaders of the Afghan relief effort: Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary of humanitarian affairs, and Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The two urged Blinken to support international efforts to provide cash for... | null | null | null | null | null |
Janice Burtch, left, tells Lanny and Bill Hathaway how she is doing since covid-19 claimed her husband, Danny. They gathered at the 50 Plus Club in Lewiston, Mich. (Nick King for The Washington Post)
Just days earlier, the club’s president — and one of its most devoted euchre players, Danny Burtch — died of covid-19 af... | null | null | null | null | null |
The parents of Austin McEwen filed a lawsuit in Madison County, Ill., on Monday, saying Amazon’s decisions contributed to the 26-year-old man’s death Dec. 10. Among them was the decision to call employees and contractors such as McEwen to work during the holiday rush despite more than 24 hours of severe-weather warning... | null | null | null | null | null |
The city, though, is famously segregated — so much so that it has been a case study for BBC documentaries. Mostly, the White residents moved out. In the city center, many former churches are boarded up, or repurposed as snooker halls or new businesses.
Gulbar Akram, the hostage-taker’s younger brother, told The Post th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Saints beat Georgetown Prep, 77-62
St. Stephen's/St. Agnes guard Garrett Brennan finds Devin Ceasar with a backdoor pass in Tuesday night's win over Georgetown Prep. (Michael Errigo/The Washington Post)
Late in the third quarter of his team’s 77-62 win Tuesday against Georgetown Prep, as the Saints pieced together thei... | null | null | null | null | null |
No. 3 Paul VI and No. 4 Bishop McNamara are pulled off the court a minute before their girls’ basketball showdown because of a positive coronavirus test
Bishop McNamara Coach Frank Oliver, shown in 2019, said six of his team's games this winter have been postponed or canceled. (Will Newton/For The Washington Post)
Abou... | null | null | null | null | null |
And while it might sound a little easier to keep a couple of dedicated recycling bins around, both companies are, in their own way, tackling a flaw in our waste management systems that many people probably aren’t aware of. As it turns out, much of the material we toss into our recycling bins doesn’t actually ever get r... | null | null | null | null | null |
Deal to buy Activision Blizzard — the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty — for $68.7 billion would be Microsoft’s largest acquisition
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is buying embattled video game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a historic deal that consolidates under the tech giant’s roof an incr... | null | null | null | null | null |
A health-care worker treats a patient in the covid-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo., on Aug. 3. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News)
What has emerged is a different sort of pandemic, one in which far more people are getting infected but — so far — fewer are dying. Yet there’s a caveat: There hav... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rudolph W. Giuliani, as a guest on a talk radio show in New York in September 2021. (Robert Bumsted/AP)
The committee has also subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiance of Donald Trump Jr., a person familiar with the committee’s work, who spoke on the... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Terps have struggled to assemble a solid 40-minute showing in conference play. Recently, Maryland has experienced dramatic swings from one half to the next. Scott said the team needs to do a better job of communicating during stoppages when games start to slip away and relay the message: “Oh, if we don’t change wha... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Terps have struggled to assemble a solid 40-minute showing in conference play. Recently, Maryland has experienced dramatic swings from one half to the next. Scott said the team needs to do a better job of communicating during stoppages when games start to slip away and relay the message: “Oh, if we don’t change wha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cal Baptist Lancers (11-6, 1-3 WAC) at Tarleton State Texans (8-11, 3-3 WAC)
Stephenville, Texas; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Tarleton State takes on Cal Baptist in a matchup of WAC teams.
The Texans are 7-1 in home games. Tarleton State is 0-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.
The Lancers have gone 1-3 aga... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bowling Green faces Akron after Curtis' 21-point game
Akron Zips (10-5, 3-2 MAC) at Bowling Green Falcons (9-8, 2-4 MAC)
Bowling Green, Ohio; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Bowling Green hosts the Akron Zips after Samari Curtis scored 21 points in Bowling Green’s 92-83 victory against the Northern Illinois Huskies.
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