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The banned terms on the Olympic app include unwelcome references to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetan Buddhists and the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square and the Falun Gong. But the list also highlights more obscure sore spots, such as infighting between ex-leaders Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin. There’s als... | null | null | null | null | null |
“The individual would need to inform their local or state public health department, who will make notifications to the travel industry partners,” the CDC’s Jasmine Reed says.
“It’s a mixed bag of responses from local public health departments,” says Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist with the COVID Tracking Proje... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ontario set to reopen dining rooms, gyms
Canada’s most populous province is ending a lockdown on restaurant dining rooms, gyms and cinemas at the end of the month.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday that they will be allowed to reopen Jan. 31 with 50 percent capacity.
The province locked down again Jan. 5 amid rec... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Don’t be fooled by the GOP’s next ‘Contract With America’
(Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post)
“I honest to god don’t know what they’re for,” President Biden said about Republicans at his Wednesday news conference. “What is their agenda?”
The truth is that if there’s one thing that unites the GOP, it’s tha... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Post was recognized with three Salute to Excellence awards from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Tracy Jan was awarded in the single feature story category for “What reparations mean to one American family,” her powerful narrative about a multi-generational Sacramento family that had endure... | null | null | null | null | null |
Andy Murray reacts after defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first round of the Australian Open. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
It’s certainly true that the absence of the unvaccinated Djokovic, along with the injured Roger Federer and Serena Williams, put a damper on the atmosphere at Melbourne Park. That the stands... | null | null | null | null | null |
Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are favored to emerge from the NFC. (Mike Roemer/AP)
Dynamic offenses highlighted the opening round of the NFL playoffs, marking the first time we’ve seen three round-one games decided by 20 or more points since 1982. It shouldn’t be a big surprise. Football Outsiders had six of the eight ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“The individual would need to inform their local or state public health department, who will make notifications to the travel industry partners,” the CDC’s Jasmine Reed said.
“It’s a mixed bag of responses from local public health departments,” said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist with the COVID Tracking Proje... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Race in America: Giving Voice with Quiara Alegría Hudes
MS. HERNÁNDEZ: Good afternoon, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Arelis Hernández, a reporter with The Washington Post. Joining me today is Quiara Alegría Hudes, her Pulitzer Prize-winning--Quiara Alegría Hudes. Sorry, messed up there. Her memoi... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Capehart” with Barbara F. Walter
In the year since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, questions have lingered over whether the country is on the brink of conflict and fission. In “How Civil Wars Start,” political scientist and author Barbara F. Walter assesses stability and risk of violence in many countries abroad... | null | null | null | null | null |
Through Tonight: Gusty northwest winds pump Arctic air into the region. Despite partial cloudiness, temperatures fall into the teens most spots, with a range of about 13 to 20 likely for lows. Wind chills — on sustained northwest wind around 10 to 15 mph — send temperatures into the single digits to around 10. Layers!
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He was 14 when he was in class at Georgetown Prep and learned his dad was assassinated in Los Angeles. After some stumbles, he became a respected environmental lawyer and activist, winning a $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto and winning multiple cases to protect coastlines and waterways.
The outlier of our nat... | null | null | null | null | null |
Searches on Akram’s cellphone led him to focus on Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of New York City’s Central Synagogue, who has been named on various online lists over the past decade as one of the most influential Jewish people in the country.
After being invited inside and sitting through some of the service, Akram pulled out ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The discussion on transgender athletes is nuanced and should continue
Penn's Lia Thomas swims in a meet against Dartmouth and Yale at Sheerr Pool in Philadelphia on Jan. 8. (Chris Szagola/AP)
I appreciated Megan McArdle’s Jan. 16 Sunday Opinion column, “We need to be able to talk about trans athletes.” Yes, we... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Preserving historic property is better than demolition
The Cornwell Farm estate in Great Falls is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Walt Lawrence)
In the case that the manor is demolished, the architectural techniques, the design and the history of the manor turn to dust.
Some might argue that the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Senators and representatives receive a substantial amount of information that the public does not, including details about how U.S. companies operate and how the government scrutinizes businesses. The fact that so much congressional stock trading goes on — with thousands of stocks traded each year by members of both pa... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.S. union membership falls, despite activism
Union membership falls despite activism
After a year marked by weeks-long labor strikes and unprecedented movements to organize at some of the largest corporations in the United States, unionization levels fell back to historic lows.
The rate of union membership, or the per... | null | null | null | null | null |
This is indeed impressive. Biden didn’t mention, though, that that achievement was likely reversed this month — and might soon be gone for good, with millions of children likely to plunge back into poverty this year.
Child poverty plummeted this past year thanks primarily to the fiscal stimulus Democrats passed in Marc... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021. A Native American tribe has agreed to lease more of its water to help address dwindling supplies in the Colorado River Basin. The agreement involves the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commiss... | null | null | null | null | null |
A lesbian couple was brutally slain in Mexico. Authorities have ruled out hate crime.
But authorities said Thursday that this will not be the case this time around. The state attorney general’s office said that the investigation is “very far ahead” and that it is following “special protocols” given the sensitivity of t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Atlanta-area prosecutor seeks special grand jury in Trump probe
Special grand jury is sought in Trump probe
In her letter to Christopher S. Brasher, chief judge of Fulton County’s Superior Court, Willis cited several advantages to impaneling a rarely used special purpose grand jury. Among them: It could sit for a longe... | null | null | null | null | null |
But authorities said Thursday that this will not be the case this time around. The state attorney general’s office said that the investigation is “very far ahead” and that it is following “special protocols,” given the sensitivity of the case and to avoid “criminalization” of the victims.
Martínez, the spokesman, said:... | null | null | null | null | null |
He was 14 and a student at Georgetown Prep and learned his dad was assassinated in Los Angeles. After some stumbles, he became a respected environmental lawyer and activist, winning a $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto and winning multiple cases to protect coastlines and waterways.
The outlier of our nation’s p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Searches on Akram’s cellphone, they said, led him to focus on Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of New York City’s Central Synagogue, who has been named on various online lists over the past decade as one of the most influential Jewish people in the country.
After being invited inside and sitting through some of the service, Akram... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Supreme Court denied a request from abortion providers Thursday to send Texas’s restrictive abortion law back to a district judge who had once stopped it, and dissenting liberal justices said the court was complicit in allowing an “unconstitutional chill on abortion care.”
The court’s one-sentence order denying the... | null | null | null | null | null |
“I was looking at the IP list, I mean, let’s go!” Spencer said. “ ‘King’s Quest,’ ‘Guitar Hero,’ … I should know this but I think they got ‘HeXen.’ ”
“HeXen,” indeed an Activision Blizzard property, is a cult hit first-person game about using magic spells. Microsoft’s pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard also mea... | null | null | null | null | null |
Through Tonight: Gusty northwest winds will pump Arctic air into the region. Despite partial cloudiness, temperatures will fall into the teens in most spots, with a range of about 13 to 20 likely for lows. Wind chills — on sustained northwest wind around 10 to 15 mph — will send temperatures into the single digits to a... | null | null | null | null | null |
The weak outlook, which the company attributed to a “Covid overhang” and economic hardship in places like Latin America, sent jitters through the streaming world. Shares of streaming companies including Walt Disney Co. and Roku Inc. dropped in after-hours trading as investors anticipated the slowdown in subscriber grow... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Putin has carefully calculated the odds. Right now, they’re in his favor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a news conference on Dec. 23. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
What does Vladimir Putin want? It’s a question Washington finds hard to answer because we Americans rarely put ourselves in other people’s s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Updated Jan. 19 at 10:57 a.m.Originally published Jan. 20, 2022
Manet opted for sharper tonal contrasts than Velázquez. The transitions from light to dark in the matador’s face and stockings, for instance, are abrupt to the point of coarseness. (To contemporary critics, it made Manet’s style seem vulgar — the painted e... | null | null | null | null | null |
The report comes amid an explosion in the market for stablecoins, cryptocurrencies whose prices are pegged to an external asset such as the dollar. The private companies issuing those tokens market them as a safer alternative to other, better-known cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, that have experienced wild... | null | null | null | null | null |
'Citizen Ashe' traces the life and career of a tennis legend
While Black immigrants have much in common with both U.S.-born Black Americans and other immigrant groups, their experience stands apart in a number of ways. Nearly a third of Black immigrants over the age of 25 have a college degree, compared with 22 percent... | null | null | null | null | null |
Andy Murray after defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first round of the Australian Open. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
It’s certainly true that the absence of the unvaccinated Djokovic, along with the injured Roger Federer and Serena Williams, put a damper on the atmosphere at Melbourne Park. That the stands in man... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Nationals unveiled a revamped player development staff this week, checking their biggest box in what otherwise has been a quiet, lockout-dampened offseason. There are a lot of new names — some familiar, some less so — and added roles to sift through. And a lot of questions, too, a handful of which are as... | null | null | null | null | null |
Officers with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police search a field near Emerson, Manitoba, in Canada for the bodies of a family believed to have died of exposure as they attempted to cross the border into the United States. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
TORONTO — U.S. authorities said Thursday that they had charged a Flo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Georgetown’s Big East struggles continue with loss at No. 21 Providence
What to know from the Hoyas’ 83-75 setback to the Friars
Providence's Noah Horchler takes the ball from Georgetown's Collin Holloway, right, during Thursday's game. (Stew Milne/AP)
By Mike Scandura
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Don’t blame Donald Carey for Ge... | null | null | null | null | null |
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Taylor Mikesell scored a career-high 33 points, Jacy Sheldon added 24 points with 10 assists, and Ohio State beat Maryland.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Nerea Hermosa scored a career-high 21 points and Georgia Tech beat Syracuse.
BOSTON — Cameron Swartz scored 28 points, Makayla Dickens added 20 and Boston College... | null | null | null | null | null |
By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti | AP
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Eighteen people were picked to hear the federal case against three former Minneapolis officers who are charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 arrest that led to the Black man’s death. Twelve jurors will deliberate and six are alte... | null | null | null | null | null |
What to know about the Maryland’s 95-89 loss to the Buckeyes
Associate head coach Karen Blair got a chance to coach the Terrapins with Brenda Frese attending the funeral for her father. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
Brenda Frese learned a lot from her father, Bill. Many of the lessons came on a basketball court.... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOSTON — Charlie McAvoy scored a power-play goal with 45 seconds left in the third period, lifting Boston over Washington.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia dropped its 10th straight game for the second time this season, the first team to accomplish that ignominious feat in more than a decade.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tyler Seguin an... | null | null | null | null | null |
Riad and Tesla also face civil litigation in the crash. Maria Luz Nieves, the mother of victim Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez, sued Riad and the limousine company run by his father in 2020 alleging wrongful death. Nieves alleged product liability — including negligence and design and manufacturing defects — on Tesla’s pa... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cae Farrington doesn’t think they had covid, but they’ve had to take steps to protect themselves against memory decay. Farrington, a 24-year-old illustrator from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., started having memory problems in August 2020. They developed what they describe as a brain fog that made it difficult to concentrate o... | null | null | null | null | null |
LOS ANGELES — Playing the second game of a back-to-back set, the Colorado Avalanche looked tired. They weren’t able to bombard the Los Angeles Kings with their typical offensive brilliance, finding themselves on the wrong side of a 14-shot disparity.
“Even just the simplest of tasks, plays, breakouts, regroups, we were... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Ukrainians can’t afford to be afraid
A mother of one of the so-called Cyborgs, Ukrainian servicemen who died during defending Donetsk airport, touches his picture on a memory wall in Kyiv on Jan. 21. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
By Nataliya Gumenyuk
Nataliya Gumenyuk, the founder of the Public Interest J... | null | null | null | null | null |
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Black Americans ‘are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans,’ sparking outrage online. His office said he misspoke and meant to say ‘other Americans.’
Black Americans are using social media to express outrage over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s com... | null | null | null | null | null |
March for Life convenes today during a pivotal time for abortion rights
Hey, it’s your Health 202 researcher, Alex. Rachel's got a great rundown today of where we are in the national battle over abortion. But first, I wanted to say goodbye. Today’s my last day on the newsletter. I’m leaving The Post for another job opp... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden listens to a question from a reporter during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 19. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
As he enters his second year in office, President Biden said he would make a stronger push for voting rights: more travel, more vitriol, more “making the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are trying to get back to the Super Bowl after four painful losses in NFC championship games. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)
The duality is fascinating. Any one of his long list of entanglements would be been overwhelming for most: his anti-covid-vaccination stance, his proud descent... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bob Goalby got hate mail over his 1968 Masters victory. He never backed down.
Bob Goalby won the green jacket at the 1968 Masters after competitor Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard. (AP)
Bob Goalby, who died Wednesday at the age of 92, won 11 times on the PGA Tour in a career that stretched from 1958 to ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Gary Russell Jr. will be fighting for the first time in two years when he defends his World Boxing Council featherweight title Saturday night. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
During every training camp in his professional boxing career, District-born Gary Russell Jr. had been able to turn to his father and trainer,... | null | null | null | null | null |
On Aug. 3, 1949, representatives of the National Basketball League and Basketball Association of America shake hands after agreeing to merge the two circuits into an 18-team organization known as the National Basketball Association. Grouped around Maurice Podoloff, center, are, from left, Ike Duffey, Leo Ferris, Ned Ir... | null | null | null | null | null |
Over 30 quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard-run Raven Software have formally asked management to recognize their union.
The 34 testers, most of them tasked with working on the popular game “Call of Duty: Warzone,” received a majority of signatures within their department to form a union. The workers in the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dangerous ice glazing Carolinas as snow targets southeast Virginia
Up to a half-inch of ice could accumulate, turning roadways into skating rinks.
A high-resolution model simulation of precipitation over the Carolinas. (WeatherBell) (WeatherBell)
A high-impact ice storm is unfolding in the Carolinas, with up to a half-... | null | null | null | null | null |
British white supremacist, initially sentenced to read Austen and Dickens, imprisoned for two years
The former home of the author Jane Austen in Chawton, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
LONDON — Ben John, a British man described by police as an extremist with neo-Nazi sympathies, has completed a journey from the cl... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lafayette's Fran O'Hanlon is retiring after this season. (Chris Seward/AP)
One of the best college basketball coaches I have ever known is retiring at the end of this season.
No, I’m not late hearing the news about Mike Krzyzewski‘s departure from Duke. And don’t expect this announcement to lead “SportsCenter” or any n... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman. (Neeta Satam /For The Washington Post)
ST. LOUIS — When state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman stepped up to the microphone, her male colleagues stopped talking. Inside a crisis pregnancy center, Missouri’s secretary of state, three state representatives, a state senator and several support staf... | null | null | null | null | null |
After decades, Biden plans to make mobile homes greener, sparking a fierce debate.
For the first time since 1994, the government must update energy efficiency standards for manufactured houses
Tony Flanders, a housing consultant at Factory Direct Homes, stands outside a manufactured home in Pittsford, Vt. (Hilary Swift... | null | null | null | null | null |
Magruder High School student injured and school on lockdown, police say
The student was taken to a local hospital.
Police are investigating after a student was reported injured at Muncaster High School in Montgomery County. (Freddy Kunkle/TWP)
Fredrick Kunkle
A student at Magruder High School was injured and taken to t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hannah Gittings, center, the girlfriend of Anthony Huber, receives a hug after speaking at a news conference following Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal in November. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
By Mark Guarino
Kyle Rittenhouse has been added as a defendant to a civil lawsuit filed by the parents of Anthony Huber, a Wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Intel should not have apologized to China
Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on Jan. 20, 2021. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News)
Intel late last year issued a routine open letter to suppliers containing a reasonable request: avoid sourcing from Xinjiang, the Chinese region in which President Xi Jinpin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe in the 1973 court case, on left, and her attorney Gloria Allred. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP/Washington Post illustration)
A blip on the screen. A sigh of relief. A miracle. An afterthought.
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision came at a time of great political turmoil: The antiwar movement was in full sw... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in 2017 in Montgomery, Ala. (Brynn Anderson/AP)
The case got its start nearly five years ago on one of the darkest days in American political memory: James T. Hodgkinson on June 14, 2017, fired on a group of Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Comedian Louie Anderson in 1987. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP)
Louie Anderson, a comedian and actor who mined laughs from his Minnesota upbringing and his girth for more than four decades and who won an Emmy Award in 2016 as the unlikely matriarch on the quirky, earnest TV comedy “Baskets,” died Jan. 21 at a hospital in Las Ve... | null | null | null | null | null |
Thousands of Giuliani’s communications turned over to Manhattan U.S. attorney following privilege review
Rudolph Giuliani speaks about the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks during an appearance on a radio show in New York. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Rudolph Giuliani, Sidney Powell
Gi... | null | null | null | null | null |
This undated photo released by the U.S. Navy shows U.S. Navy Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell. Farrell is scheduled to become the first woman to lead the crew of the USS Constitution, the 224-year-old warship known as Old Ironsides, during a change-of-command ceremony scheduled for Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Farrell takes over from... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: How the brilliant André Leon Talley got sidelined
The author, Karen Attiah, takes a selfie with André Leon Talley in 2018. (Karen Attiah/The Washington Post)
I just hope André Leon Talley — Vogue’s only Black creative director, who passed away this week at the age of 73 — knew how much he was loved by us norma... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Russia’s ransomware arrests send a dangerous message
The headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow in 2015. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
The United States has been asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for some time now to bring down his fist on ransomware gangs in his country, yet there has... | null | null | null | null | null |
Snow begins to fall at the White House on Dec 16, 2020. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Not directly, of course. In a draft executive order obtained by Politico, her mistake is framed as part of a sweeping international conspiracy to hijack the election to Trump’s detriment. Dated Dec. 16, 2020, here’s how it arti... | null | null | null | null | null |
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons of USA, who finished in first place, pose with their medals after the ice dance free dance skating program during the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Stepanov)
TALLINN, Estonia — Caroline Green and Michael P... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Future of the Supreme Court with Thomas Griffith & Cristina Rodriguez
MR. BARNES: Good morning, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Robert Barnes, and I cover the Supreme Court for The Post. We’re very fortunate today to have two members of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court joining us, f... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lisa Rein
Jeffrey Vincent Brown, nominated in 2019 to the federal bench by then-president Donald Trump, said that the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors constituted an overreach of executive authority.
The ruling amounted to yet another blow to the administration’s most ambitious... | null | null | null | null | null |
KYIV, Ukraine — With 100,000 Russian guns pointed at their heads, Ukrainians appear to take a stoical pride in not seeming rattled. They appear ready for what could be a savage war. Their main worry is that the United States and its allies will get so nervous they will yield to Russian pressure.
It’s a dizzying and fri... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police, community members and others meet near the Columbia Heights Metro Station to discuss recent shootings and other crime in the area on Jan. 20 in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
A woman who recently moved into an apartment steps from the Columbia Heights Metro station saw a man shoot another man at... | null | null | null | null | null |
Brian Laundrie talks to an officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah on Aug. 12. (Moab Police Department/AP)
Four months after Gabby Petito went missing while on a cross-country road trip with her fiance,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Two shot, critically wounded in Southwest Washington
Two men were shot and critically wounded Friday evening in Southwest Washington, according to the D.C. police.
One of the two was unconscious and not breathing, and the other was unconscious and barely breathing, said Officer Sean Hickman, a police spokesman.
He said... | null | null | null | null | null |
Once the case was decided, the court, as is its usual practice, sent the case back to the appeals court. The ordinary thing for the appeals court to do would have been to refer it back to the trial level judge, who appeared inclined to put the law on hold while the litigation continued.
Then came Texas, with a new dela... | null | null | null | null | null |
Supreme Court will revisit dispute between Oklahoma, tribal leaders
The Supreme Court building in Washington. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP)
The Supreme Court will consider limiting a controversial 2020 decision that greatly expanded the amount of Indian land in Oklahoma and disrupted criminal prosecutions in the area, the justice... | null | null | null | null | null |
Louie Anderson performs his stand-up comedy routine at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas in 2017. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
By Robyn Bahr
Louie Anderson was, by far, the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen perform live.
About a decade ago, when I was an unemployed and depressed recent post-grad who had no sense o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Until fall 2003, champions were limited to 5 games. Now that double-digit streaks are increasingly common, former winners can’t help but think about what could have been.
Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio are both million-dollar winners on “Jeopardy!” in the last year. (Jeopardy Productions Inc.)
Of course, the concept was... | null | null | null | null | null |
Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired.
Singer Andy Steinfeldt explains his handstand push-up technique to a group of fifth-graders at Groveland Elementary School in Minnetonka, Minn. Steinfeldt keeps his creativity flowing through travel, exercise and motivational speaking about his res... | null | null | null | null | null |
Day 1 produced a slight hint of something not quite right. A mini wave of nausea caused me to notice that I was sneezing quite a bit and ripping through a box of tissues. I had thought it was only the lingering effects of the weekend’s ice storm — and life in an elderly house (c. 1827) that requires an indoor coat in w... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: There can be no ‘both sides’ on voting rights
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg News)
Toward the end of President Biden’s nearly two-hour news conference on Wednesday, a reporter, acknowledging that schools are opening, raised the possibility that Rep... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: What happens after omicron? Hard decisions about vaccines.
Health-care workers in D.C. prepare to administer a coronavirus booster shot on Jan. 18. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
Vaccines are the answer to the pandemic, but not a perfect answer. They protect against serious illness and death, but effica... | null | null | null | null | null |
In Venezuela, a soldier can be sent to prison for being gay. The courts could change that.
Soldiers guard a polling station during an election do-over on Jan. 9 to determine the governor of Barinas, Venezuela. (Matias Delacroix/AP)
By Ana Vanessa Herrero
CARACAS, Venezuela — On an early morning in 2013, a soldier alert... | null | null | null | null | null |
Erin Gemmell captures four medals as Stone Ridge swimming wins second straight ISL championship
The Gators were pushed by Holton-Arms but pulled away at the end of the meet
Stone Ridge juniors Erin Gemmell, left, and Lauren Tucker after the team's victory at the ISL swim championships. (Spencer Nusbaum)
There weren’t a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Junior forward Donta Scott, who wasn’t part of the starting lineup for the first time, scored a career-high 25 points, 15 coming in a dominant second half that saw Maryland finish the game on a 24-7 run. The exclamation point was Hakim Hart’s dunk in the closing seconds. Soon after, Fatts Russell was screaming toward t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Junior forward Donta Scott, who wasn’t part of the starting lineup for the first time this season, scored a career-high 25 points, including 15 in a dominant second half that saw Maryland finish the game on a 24-7 run. The exclamation point was Hakim Hart’s dunk in the closing seconds. Soon after, Fatts Russell was scr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Many Ukrainians wouldn’t favor a pro-Russian leader — but would the U.S. support an anti-Russian insurgency?
A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces walks along combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels near Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Jan. 20. (Anna Kudriavtseva/Reu... | null | null | null | null | null |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans will have Derrick Henry on the field for their AFC divisional game with Cincinnati after moving the NFL’s 2019 and 2020 rushing leader from injured reserve to the active roster.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. was voted NASCAR’s most popular driver a record 15 times. He didn... | null | null | null | null | null |
The new ‘Scream’ swings at two targets and misses: Horror films and Hollywood
Here’s why the best film in the franchise is actually 'Scream 3′
Ghostface in a scene from “Scream.” (AP)
Kyle Turner is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, N.Y.
By the time audiences hear a landline ring at the beginning of the new “Scream” movi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati, which had almost entirely kept the coronavirus out, went into lockdown on Saturday for the first time in the pandemic. The government imposed a 24-hour curfew after passengers on the first international flight in months tested positive.
Thirty-six people on a flight from Fiji test... | null | null | null | null | null |
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, now less than two weeks off, are perhaps the surest example yet that the IOC is an athletes-last organization. It is staging these Games in China — the second Olympics in that country in 15 years — despite China’s record of, among other atrocities, forced labor, torture and arbitrary d... | null | null | null | null | null |
Richard Fuller, 45, shovels a sidewalk in Norfolk, Va., on Saturday Jan. 22, 2022. A winter storm left as much of six inches of snow in parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina as well as ice further south in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Ben Finley). (Ben Finley/ap) | null | null | null | null | null |
MILLSBORO, Del. — For Patti Seaman, the trip from Camden to Millsboro for a Wreaths Across America retirement ceremony Jan. 18 had family ties.
Her son, Jason Lee Diehl, who served with the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom and died in a motorcycle accident at age 29 in October 2015, is among the veterans buried... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cache digs through the snow with trainer Chris Brindisi during avalanche dog team training at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. (Amber Baesler for The Washington Post)
It is quiet in the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s staff locker room at noon. Most of the ski instructors, chairlift operators and patrol team members are in... | null | null | null | null | null |
In ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays,’ Hurston, who died in 1960, is at the top of her game
(Amistad; Photo courtesy Barbara Hurston Lewis, Faye Hurston, Lois Gaston)
By Lisa Page
Walker traveled to Eatonville, pretending to be Hurston’s niece — “as far I’m concerned, she is my aunt — and that of all Black pe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Big Sur wildfire burns near California’s Highway One and forces evacuations
The Colorado Fire, which started Friday in the Palo Colorado Canyon, has burned about 1,500 acres in the hours after evacuation orders were issued by the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, Michael Meddles, assistant chief with Cal Fire in Monter... | null | null | null | null | null |
The temperature was observed at a weather station managed by Virginia Tech at the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Weather records have been kept in Canaan Valley since 1944, according to Leffler. The Virginia Tech weather station, however, was only installed about three years ago by meteorology instructor David... | null | null | null | null | null |
More than a measly raise is needed to fix D.C.'s substitute teacher problem
Other places across the country are coming up with creative solutions to school staffing shortages, and D.C. is offering substitutes $1.80 more an hour
“I was thinking, ‘I’m a teacher, I know a lot about the field and this is a way I could help... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Colorado Fire, which started Friday in Palo Colorado Canyon, has burned about 1,500 acres in the hours after evacuation orders were issued by the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, said Michael Meddles, assistant chief with Cal Fire in Monterey County. The blaze is 5 percent contained, he added.
Jim Shivers, a spoke... | null | null | null | null | null |
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