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In 'Janet Jackson,’ a star famous for her privacy lives up to her reputation
Janet Jackson's famous sense of control gets in the way of revelation in her new docuseries. (Lifetime) (Courtesy of Lifetime)
At the start of the new year, few documentaries were as widely anticipated as “Janet Jackson,” the two-night, four-h... | null | null | null | null | null |
VMI’s first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform
The scathing Facebook post from VMI Superintendent Cedric T. Wins exposed the battle over the future of the nation’s oldest state-supported military college
Virginia Military Institute Superintendent Cedric T. Wins addresses the Class ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The shell of the collapsed Knickerbocker Theatre at right, with streetcars on Columbia Road NW at left. (Library of Congress)
Washington is well known for its multitude of memorials, a vast portfolio that includes tributes to the likes of Jefferson and Lincoln, veterans of World War II, the passengers who perished on t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Revisiting the odd and compelling mid-'60s work of jazz great Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman in rehearsal for his 1966 album “The Empty Foxhole.” (Francis Wolff/Blue Note Records)
If you asked jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman about his music and philosophy, he probably would have referred you to an obscure music book, “... | null | null | null | null | null |
Main Street takes on Wall Street in ‘GameStop’ documentary
A scene from the documentary “GameStop: Rise of the Players.” (Submarine Entertainment/Neon/Super LTD)
Some of you may already have forgotten the saga of GameStop, which was all over the news a year ago after small investors managed to unexpectedly raise the st... | null | null | null | null | null |
China’s true ambitions, and what they mean for the U.S.
Office towers in Beijing. China uses access to its market as leverage over foreign corporations — a form of sharp power, Elizabeth Economy writes. (Tingshu Wang/Reuters)
By Dexter Roberts
That China’s rise poses a deep challenge to the United States is a belief no... | null | null | null | null | null |
George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy
King George V and Queen Mary watch as their granddaughter Princess Elizabeth waves from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London on May 6, 1935, after they attended a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral marking 25 years of the king’s reign. (AP)
By ... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Joerg Meuthen, federal spokesman of the AfD, speaks at the right-wing Alternative for Germany election party after the first forecasts of the outcome of the Bundestag election in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 26, 2021. The far-right Alternative for Germany said Friday that its co-leader, Joerg Meuthen, is leaving the p... | null | null | null | null | null |
First Look with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart, E.J. Dionne, Karoun Demirjian & Jennifer Rubin
Washington Post Live’s “First Look” offers a smart, inside take on the day’s politics. Jonathan Capehart will host a reporter debrief followed by a roundtable discussion with Washington Post columnists. Tune in for news and ana... | null | null | null | null | null |
Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
Mitt Romney is a former presidential candidate and has represented Utah in the United States Senate since 2019. Romney is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and has long warned about the dual threats from Russia and China and the importance of strengthening NATO. He joins Washingto... | null | null | null | null | null |
The expected disruption in the capital had also caused some vaccine clinics to close, Ottawa’s public health body said.
“The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) does not support and strongly disapproves of any protests on public roadways, highways, and bridges. CTA believes such actions — especially those that interfere w... | null | null | null | null | null |
They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance?
The long shadow of ‘truth in sentencing’ politics in Maryland, where the vast majority of lifers are Black.
A view of the Jessup Correctional Institution this month in Maryland. Many lifers eligible for parole may be affected by the d... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jake Hyman, a spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League, said Carlson’s film about Soros is “nothing more than far-right propaganda at best, and at worst a dangerous antisemitic dog whistle sure to be heard loud and clear by a large audience.”
On his Fox News show on Thursday night, Carlson described the rationale fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden delivers remarks on the announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, left, on Jan. 27 at the White House. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
And so, the carping over the next Supreme Court nominee begins, historically ignorant and racially tinged.
President Biden’s “campaign pro... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: After the hunger strike: A conversation with Joe Madison
Joe Madison, a talk-show host and civil rights activist, speaks to a coalition of conservative, progressive, and independent students, some over eight days into a hunger strike urging President Biden to prioritize voting rights on Dec. 13, 2021. (Leigh V... | null | null | null | null | null |
Breyer’s Supreme Court replacement will face a hefty cyber docket
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! The Supreme Court doesn’t lend itself to great film treatments, but “First Monday in October,” starring Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh, is pretty good.
Below: A ransomware gang hacked France′s Justice Ministry, and Hu... | null | null | null | null | null |
The NFL’s final four teams are set and it is shaping up to be a fantastic weekend of football. After a weekend of upsets where the lone favorite to advance prevailed in one of the most exciting playoff games in sports history, we’re left with two surprising yet intriguing championship games.
If history is any guide, th... | null | null | null | null | null |
The only outrage in the Hall of Fame voting? How many people voted for Barry Bonds.
Roger Clemens, left, and Barry Bonds were both kept out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. (AP)
When David Ortiz was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday and Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens — both in their 10th and final year on the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Kansas City's Tyreek Hill used his speed to devastating effect in a playoff game against Buffalo. (Colin E. Braley/AP)
In the NFL, speed has always mattered. Now it’s everything.
If consistency of accomplishment counts for anything, Hill still stands above the pack. That 64-yard touchdown gave him 14 plays this season ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Snowboarder Shaun White, once the dominant face of the halfpipe, finished seventh at Copper Mountain, Colo., in December and announced his retirement from the Dew Tour. He is preparing for his final Olympics in Beijing. (Hugh Carey/AP)
“It was sort of like I was sad,” White says, recalling the story over the phone two ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Buenos días, Buenos Aires
The view of the Plaza del Congreso and the Argentine parliament building from Palacio Barolo. The 328-foot-tall, 22-story Palacio Barolo was inspired by Dante’s "Divine Comedy" and is divided into hell, purgatory and heaven. (Anna Mazurek for The Washington Post)
There was a line when we arriv... | null | null | null | null | null |
Oscar Mayer introduced a hydrogel face mask made to look like a slice of its signature bologna. Reporters at The Post test it out and share their experiences. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)
In a move that has prompted surprise, confusion and perhaps even a little revulsion, Oscar Mayer recently branched out from its... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Daniel Snyder might be about to rename his team, but he still has to acknowledge the harm the old name caused
FedEx Field, the home stadium of the Washington Football Team. (Susan Walsh/AP)
By Ahmar Zaman
Esther Fiore
Carter Comrie
Ahmar Zaman is interim director of clinical training in clinical psychology at ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Maryland’s communities of color need a swift end to cannabis criminalization
Workers separate cannabis flowers from stalks at Maryland's first legal outdoor marijuana harvest at Culta in October 2019 in Cambridge, Md. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
By Darryl Barnes
Darryl Barnes, a Democrat, represents ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: My son was abused in prison, but proposed Virginia legislation still wouldn’t give him a second chance
Razor wire along the security fences at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. (Robert A. Reeder/The Washington Post)
By Takeisha Brown
Takeisha Brown is the mother of Tyquine Lee, who was held in solitary confi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Virginia’s new lost cause
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) campaigned against critical race theory. (Michael Blackshire/The Washington Post)
By Atif Qarni
Atif Qarni is a former Virginia secretary of education.
In the opening days of the new administration in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) openly declared w... | null | null | null | null | null |
It feels like we’ve gotten worse at dealing with covid, not better
When I began experiencing covid-19 symptoms, I couldn’t find a PCR test within a two-hour drive of my home for at least a week. I bought one of those home tests you have to send back to get results, but when I went to drop it off at the localhealth depa... | null | null | null | null | null |
Burkina Faso’s coup-makers capitalized on wider grievances within the ranks
But the new military leadership may find it difficult to meet soldiers’ demands for more support in the fight against Islamist militants
Demonstrators gathering in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to show support for the military hold ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Pittsburgh is a great city. You’re probably familiar with its association with three rivers, but may not understand why. In short, it arose where two rivers (the Allegheny to the north and Monongahela to the south) merged to form the Ohio River. The Ohio then goes on to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. So the ju... | null | null | null | null | null |
Colder regions may experience more cases during the winter, while warmer regions may see spikes in the summer.
Pedestrians walk near the Obelisk in Buenos Aires during a heat wave amid a spike of coronavirus cases on Jan. 12, 2022. (Agustin Marcarian/Reuters)
Jutla and his colleagues found that covid cases in 19 hot sp... | null | null | null | null | null |
Teen fatally shot in Southeast Washington apartment
A 17-year-old male was found fatally shot Thursday evening inside a Southeast Washington apartment building, D.C. police said.
Officers responded to the 4400 block of E Street SE for the report of a shooting about 5:15 p.m., said Cmdr. Darnel Robinson. The victim, who... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jamal Khashoggi’s wife targeted with spyware before his death
The cellphones of murdered Saudi columnist’s fiancee and associate hacked after his murder
A police officer passes a portrait of Jamal Khashoggi near the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul before a 2019 ceremony marking the first anniversary of his murder. Several ... | null | null | null | null | null |
NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, licensed to governments around the globe, can infect phones without a click
Updated July 18 at 8:15 p.m.Originally published July 18, 2021
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37... | null | null | null | null | null |
Though falconry has historically been used for hunting, the modern practice has found a home at resorts across North America, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. The birds of prey function as a pseudo force field for resorts, providing an environmentally conscious form of pest control. According to the Los... | null | null | null | null | null |
Among 50,000 phone numbers, the Pegasus Project found those of hundreds of public officials
French President Emmanuel Macron, seen in Paris in 2015 when he was a cabinet minister, is among 14 current and former world leaders whose phone numbers appeared on a list that included numbers selected for surveillance by NSO G... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Writer-director Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the short film “All Too Well” at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in New York. Police say a Virginia man has been arrested for drunkenly crashing a car into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment building and trying to gain entry. Thirty-one-year... | null | null | null | null | null |
Brian Miller, left, and Dana Wade testify before a Senate panel in May 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Under the earlier stimulus law, known as the Cares Act, Congress set aside $25 million to SIGPR. The start-up investment allowed Miller to hire staff, bulk up on technical capabilities and set about ... | null | null | null | null | null |
A Port Authority bus and a car that were on a bridge when it collapsed Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, are visible in Pittsburgh's East End. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed early Friday, injuring 10 people just hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to talk about infrastructure.
Pit... | null | null | null | null | null |
While the two-year-old law was struck down by a majority on the five-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) and the state’s Attorney General, Josh Shapiro (D), promised a swift appeal, criticizing the court’s opinion as being “based on twisted logic and faulty reasoning.”
The Pennsylvania... | null | null | null | null | null |
Pittsburgh is a great city. You’re probably familiar with its association with three rivers, but may not understand why. In short, the city arose where two rivers (the Allegheny to the north and Monongahela to the south) merged to form the Ohio River. The Ohio then goes on to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. So ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Parks, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning “Topdog/Underdog,” enjoys a good provocation, particularly when addressing the unpardonable sin of slavery — as impossible to wash out of America’s collective system, it seems, as the spots on Lady Macbeth’s hands. The dramatist explored the subject in her Civil War epic, “Fa... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Pastor Tony Evans leads his flock toward danger with anti-vaccine rhetoric
Activists and faith groups protest against vaccine mandates in Washington on Jan. 23. (Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post)
As we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, it is the religious objections to routine vaccination t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Why Boris Johnson’s ‘Partygate’ scandal has Brits in a rage
Protesters demonstrating against Boris Johnson hold placards on Jan. 26 in London. (Matt Dunham/AP)
Britain’s prime minister is facing the biggest political crisis of his career — over a few workplace parties. Americans might find the scandal, now dub... | null | null | null | null | null |
Colder regions may experience more cases during the winter, while warmer regions may see spikes in the summer
Pedestrians walk near the Obelisk in Buenos Aires during a heat wave Jan. 12 amid a spike of coronavirus cases. (Agustin Marcarian/Reuters)
“We need to basically design the intervention or mitigation strategies... | null | null | null | null | null |
Which masks are safest? Schools around the country struggle to answer.
Students board a bus outside of Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington County, one of several school districts that sued to stop the mask-optional order by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
It was a promising idea. With c... | null | null | null | null | null |
New movies to stream this week: ‘Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster,’ ‘Confession’ and more
“Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster” is a documentary look at the life and career of the actor best known for playing Frankenstein’s Monster. (Abramorama/Shout! Studios)
An earlier version of this story incorrectly... | null | null | null | null | null |
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
One hundred and fifteen Americans have sat on the Supreme Court. Of those, 110 have been men and 112 have been White. But now that President Biden has the chance to follow up on the promise he made to appoint a Black woman to serve on the court, conservativ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In addition to allegedly making antisemitic comments during the staged reenactment, the school librarian, responding to a child who asked why the Germans did it, reportedly said: “because the Jews ruined Christmas.”
Demanding that he recheck, Gutierrez emailed several minutes later, “no information was shared with me, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Belfast” A Conversation with Kenneth Branagh
“Belfast” is the story of a working-class family grappling with the start of The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s. Join Washington Post Live on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 2:30 p.m. ET for a conversation with the film’s director, Kenneth Branagh, about his own childho... | null | null | null | null | null |
I figured the ailment would disappear, but it didn’t. After a month of fiddling with my food, unable to work up an appetite because of the stench, a tweet led me to discover that I was suffering from a condition that made me a “covid long-hauler.” I barely understood what that meant at the time, but I knew it would be ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Capitol physician says coronavirus infection rate has dropped
Analysis: Boosters exacerbate the Republican-Democratic vaccine gap
A D.C. bar violated vaccine rules. Its liquor license is being suspended.
Poll finds covid fatigue, worries about the economy and difficulty finding at-home tests
Anti-vaccine Canadian truck... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The cakes of Britain are hot on Boris Johnson’s trail
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a Royal Air Force station in Wales on Jan. 27. (Carl Recine/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Usually, I am in favor of the American Revolution. One possible argument against it, though, is that now we are forced to have our... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: U.S. presidential debates have set a democratic example abroad. Republicans should not destroy it.
Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump participate in a debate at Belmont University in Nashville on October 22, 2020. (Jim Watson/ AFP)
On Jan. 13, the Republican National Committe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The Federal Reserve should stop saying the United States is at ‘maximum employment’
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell speaks at a news conference on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in September 2021. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
The term “maximum employment” is supposed to signify that as many Amer... | null | null | null | null | null |
Health economist and professor Christopher J. L. Murray, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and a large team of collaborators found that bacterial resistance to drugs “is a major global health problem” that “poses the largest threat to human health in sub-Saharan Africa ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Updates: Snow to increase amid falling temperatures this evening with roads turning slick
Amounts should range from 1 to 3 inches near and west of Interstate 95 to 2 to 4 inches to the east. At least 3 to 6 inches are expected over the Delmarva.
Steady, mostly light snow is continuing over most of the D.C. area with so... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: I once told a Supreme Court justice that affirmative action got me into Harvard and Yale. Today they wouldn’t listen.
The U.S. Supreme Court building on Jan. 24 in D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
By Paul Butler
I got into Yale University and then Harvard Law School because of affirmative action. Some 20 years... | null | null | null | null | null |
Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a leading contender to replace Stephen G. Breyer on the Supreme Court. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
One hundred and fifteen Americans have sat on the Supreme Court. Of those, 110 have been men and 112 have been White. But now that President Biden has the chance to follow thr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Updates: Snow to increase as temperatures fall this evening and roads turn slick
Amounts should range from 1 to 3 inches near and west of Interstate 95 to 2 to 4 inches to the east. At least 3 to 6 inches are expected over the Delmarva Peninsula.
Steady, mostly light snow is continuing over most of the D.C. area with s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Calif. net neutrality law upheld in court
A U.S. court of appeals on Friday upheld California’s net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission to reverse federal Internet protections could not bar state action.
In February 2021, the Justice Department withdrew its legal challenge to... | null | null | null | null | null |
In the current sociopolitical climate, he views the Tennessee vote as no anomaly. “It’s part of a continuum, and just a harbinger of things to come,” says Spiegelman, adding: “The control of people’s thoughts is essential to all of this.”
Amid the controversy, Spiegelman embraces the fact that “Maus” has an afterlife. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Those dueling perspectives are playing out as the United States set a record for new coronavirus infections this month, surpassing 800,000 a day for the first time, according to The Post’s seven-day tracking average. The number has fallen to just below 600,000 as of Thursday. Hospitalizations have plateaued but deaths ... | null | null | null | null | null |
WEIRWOOD, Va. — A 12-year-old girl died and a 13-year-old suffered life-threatening injuries following a crash Friday morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, state police said.
“The initial impact caused massive damage to the Toyota sedan, killing the 12-year-old female seated in the back seat,” state police said in a sta... | null | null | null | null | null |
LAUREL, Del. — Dozens of people have been displaced after a fire destroyed a Delaware apartment building, fire officials announced Friday.
The fire broke out in the 16-unit apartment building on North Central Avenue in Laurel around 7 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Delaware Office of the State Fire... | null | null | null | null | null |
Keeping Hines-Allen was a top priority for the organization, Coach/GM Mike Thibault said before WNBA free agency, and multiple other teams offered her during the negotiating period. Contracts can officially be signed on Feb. 1.
Hines-Allen was a second-round pick in 2018 and a member of Washington’s 2019 championship t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The Canadian government can do more to shine light on Indigenous graves
A makeshift memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Sept. 1. (Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images)
The Jan. 27 news article “Indigenous leader says 93 possible graves found near Canada... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: College education is not necessary for most jobs
In the Jan. 24 Education article “Drop in college enrollment could have long-term impact,” various education specialists bemoaned the recent significant drop in college and university enrollments.
They are especially concerned that this will hurt the economy by ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Metro’s Wiedefeld was a leader who listened as he took on hard work
Paul J. Wiedefeld, Metro's general manager, takes a Metro train from Braddock Road Metro stop in Alexandria to King Street Metro stop to look at the new platform on Sept. 9, 2019. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)
Regarding the Jan. 19 ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: School resource officers are not the solution to school shootings
Magruder High School in Derwood on Jan. 22. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
After the recent shooting at Magruder High School [“Student in Md. is shot at school,” Metro, Jan. 22; “17-year-old charged as adult in shooting at Magruder Hig... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Songwriters deserve the tax break for their work
Bruce Springsteen in a recording studio at his home in Colts Neck, N.J., in 2019. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
In his Jan. 26 op-ed criticizing the taxation of sales of song catalogues at capital gains rates, “An apparent perk for aging rockers: T... | null | null | null | null | null |
The American Library Association tells me that there were 330 “challenges” in the three months between Sept. 1 and Dec. 1, 2021, with December still to be tallied. That compares to just 156 in all of 2020, and 377 in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year. This means book bannings are happening at roughly quadruple the previ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Every now and then an individual or occasion comes along to remind us of the many reasons to love this country. Jason Rivera was one of those individuals and his funeral Friday was one of those occasions.
Although dozens of stories have been aired and written since the shooting, Friday’s service provided a more-complet... | null | null | null | null | null |
D.C. police identify Days Inn shooting victim
Dasha Cleary, a 20-year-old from Southern Maryland, was fatally shot early Thursday.
Five people were shot, one fatally, at this Days inn on Connecticut Avenue NW early Thursday. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III identified the wom... | null | null | null | null | null |
Killings by Islamist militia up almost 50%
An Islamist militia in eastern Congo killed more than 1,200 people in 2021, up almost 50 percent over the previous year, the United Nations said Friday, even as the government imposed martial law and joined with Uganda to root it out.
The surge in killings occurred as the Alli... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: A 12-year-old’s prophetic warning: ‘People will be murdered’
A stuffed teddy bear at a memorial for Melissa Ortega, 8, in Chicago on Jan. 24. (Paul Beaty/AFP/Getty Images)
The letter, printed by hand on a sheet of white notepaper, is tragically prophetic. “I am a 6th grader at Sherwood Middle School,” Artemis ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Coach/General Manager Mike Thibault said before WNBA free agency that keeping Hines-Allen was a top priority for the organization, and multiple other teams offered her during the negotiating period. Contracts can officially be signed Tuesday.
Hines-Allen was a second-round pick in 2018 and a member of Washington’s 2019... | null | null | null | null | null |
But of all the numbers that should be worrying Democrats nine months before the election, the one that may be most ominous is a figure that suggests their voters are far less energized than Republican voters. An NBC News poll found that where 61 percent of Republicans say they are highly interested in the upcoming midt... | null | null | null | null | null |
WASHINGTON — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 5.8% last year, the sharpest increase since 1982, as brisk consumer spending collided with snarled supply chains to raise the costs of food, furniture, appliances and other goods. The report Friday from the Commerce Department also sai... | null | null | null | null | null |
“There will be consequences to not fueling your body how it should be fueled, maybe not right away, but over time,” said Nicole Lund, a NYU Langone Health clinical nutritionist who works with USA Nordic athletes. “They’re young and they may not understand that quite yet, but that is something to kind of keep in mind.” | null | null | null | null | null |
Another global health crisis is unfolding in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. Antimicrobial resistance, the tendency of bacteria and other pathogens to evolve so they fight or evade lifesaving drugs, is a long-term threat to modern medicine. A new study, drawing from a vast array of data, estimates that 1.27 mil... | null | null | null | null | null |
In addition to allegedly making other antisemitic comments during the staged reenactment, the school librarian, responding to a child who asked why the Germans did it, reportedly said: “Because the Jews ruined Christmas.”
After I demanded that he recheck, Gutierrez emailed several minutes later, “No information was sha... | null | null | null | null | null |
The American Library Association tells me that there were 330 “challenges” in the three months between Sept. 1 and Dec. 1, 2021, with December still to be tallied. That compares with just 156 in all of 2020, and 377 in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year. This means book bannings are happening at roughly quadruple the pre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Every now and then, an individual or occasion comes along to remind us of the many reasons to love this country. Jason Rivera was one of those individuals, and his funeral Friday was one of those occasions.
Although dozens of stories have been aired and written since the shooting, Friday’s service provided a more compl... | null | null | null | null | null |
Whether he's lined up as a receiver or in the backfield, Deebo Samuel can do it all for the 49ers. And for San Francisco to advance to the Super Bowl, he probably has to. (Aaron Gash/AP)
He had given the Green Bay Packers one, too. The play began, after all, with the 49ers’ best wide receiver lined up in the backfield.... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jeff Fisher returns to pro football as a head coach in the fledgling USFL
Jeff Fisher’s 173-165-1 NFL record leaves him tied for the most losses by a head coach in the league but also 12th in wins. (Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Bears hire Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus as next coach
Broncos hire Packers offensiv... | null | null | null | null | null |
A lone survivor found sitting on a capsized boat off Fort Pierce Inlet, Fla., earlier this week was identified Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, as a Colombian named Juan Esteban Montoya Caicedo. His sister, María Camila, was among the more than 30 people who were believed to have drowned. (U.S. Coast Guard via EPA-EFE/REX/Shutte... | null | null | null | null | null |
Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court, during her nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 16, 2010. (Charles Dharapak/AP)
The statement is the first time the White House has publicly confirmed a name under consideration to replace Just... | null | null | null | null | null |
The team announced Friday night that Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll will be New York’s next coach. Daboll, 46, has spent the past four seasons in charge of the Bills’ high-powered offense.
Friday’s move comes a week after the Giants hired former Bills assistant general manager Joe Schoen to become their new g... | null | null | null | null | null |
This January 2021 photo provided by the Houston Police Department shows Roland Caballero. Caballero, who was hospitalized in stable condition Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, with a gunshot wound to the neck, has been charged with three counts of attempted capital murder of a police officer and an aggravated robbery count after ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mustafa Acikgoz is 32 and an entrepreneur. His dream date is with a “scientist that is also a yoga instructor.” Hibbah Kaileh is 27 and a research associate for the government. She is looking for someone who is “smart, excited about life, witty and slightly nerdy.” (Daniele Seiss for The Washington Post) | null | null | null | null | null |
The Wide Angle
This photographer thrives on creating art spontaneously
Katherine Copeland.
By Marvin Joseph
I first picked up a camera at 14 years old, fueled by an obsession and love of photography. And I’ve had that same drive ever since.
These images are excerpts from my ever-growing personal work. Images that don’t... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘The richest 10 percent consume as much as the bottom 40 percent combined’
— William Spriggs is a professor of economics at Howard University and former assistant secretary for policy at the Labor Department. Follow him on Twitter: @WSpriggs.
Today’s supply shortages were entirely foreseeable. Beginning in the 1970s, w... | null | null | null | null | null |
Man is fatally shot in Prince George’s County, police say
Victim was found on the ground in the afternoon.
A man was fatally shot Friday in Prince George’s County, police said.
They said he was found on the ground about 2:40 p.m. in the 7000 block of Kent Town Drive in the Kentland area after a shooting was reported.
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The group which includes leaders of the Northern Virginia and Prince George’s County chambers of commerce, Greater Washington Board of Trade, Tysons Partnership and Coalition for Smarter Growth, was assembled in 2018, campaigning successfully to help Metro receive annual, dedicated capital funding from Maryland, Virgin... | null | null | null | null | null |
“I ran for the Florida legislature to deal with real issues, and to have a seat at the table to address them in a responsible way,” said Alexander, who represents Gadsden County and part of Leon County in the Florida panhandle. “I think a lot of my frustrations have built up over the years where it's not about addressi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police in Colorado have identified the man who killed three women and a teenage girl more than forty years ago, with the help of genetic genealogy and DNA.
Between 1978 and 1981, three of the women were stabbed to death in Denver, while the fourth was found dead in a field with stab wounds in Adams County, police said.... | null | null | null | null | null |
ROME — As squabbling Italian political leaders on Saturday struggled to clinch a deal to elect Italy’s next president, momentum appeared to be building for President Sergio Mattarella to reconsider his refusal to serve a second term as head of state, a role which is meant to unify the nation. | null | null | null | null | null |
Andrew Wiggins, K-Pop star BamBam, and the NBA’s all-star voting problem
Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins earned a starting spot in the 2022 NBA All-Star Game after getting a big assist in the voting from a K-pop star. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Andrew Wiggins was awakened from his pregame nap Thursday by his dau... | null | null | null | null | null |
Amtrak announces Northeast cancellations ‘for the safety of our customers and employees’
More than 100,000 homes in Massachusetts without power as wind, snow wallop state
D.C. area grazed by storm
Blizzard conditions expand amid escalating snow and wind
Thousands of flights canceled as East Coast storm upends travelers... | null | null | null | null | null |
Those dueling perspectives are playing out as the United States set a record for new coronavirus infections this month, surpassing 800,000 a day for the first time, according to The Post’s seven-day tracking average. The number has fallen to just below 550,000 as of Friday. Hospitalizations have plateaued but deaths ar... | null | null | null | null | null |
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