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Garvin leads Hampton against South Carolina Upstate after 28-point game South Carolina Upstate Spartans (9-11, 6-2 Big South) at Hampton Pirates (6-12, 2-5 Big South) BOTTOM LINE: Hampton plays the South Carolina Upstate Spartans after Najee Garvin scored 28 points in Hampton’s 78-74 victory against the Charleston Sout...
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NJIT takes on Vermont on 6-game losing streak NJIT Highlanders (8-11, 3-6 America East) at Vermont Catamounts (15-4, 8-0 America East) BOTTOM LINE: NJIT looks to stop its six-game skid with a win against Vermont. The Catamounts have gone 9-0 in home games. Vermont leads the America East with 13.5 assists per game led b...
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Spencer, Loyola (MD) Greyhounds take on the Army Black Knights Army Black Knights (13-9, 7-3 Patriot) at Loyola (MD) Greyhounds (12-9, 6-4 Patriot) BOTTOM LINE: Patriot foes Loyola (MD) and Army face off on Wednesday. The Greyhounds are 8-1 in home games. Loyola (MD) scores 68.7 points and has outscored opponents by 1....
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UNC Greensboro hosts VMI following Bonham's 21-point game VMI Keydets (12-10, 5-5 SoCon) at UNC Greensboro Spartans (12-9, 4-5 SoCon) BOTTOM LINE: VMI visits the UNC Greensboro Spartans after Trey Bonham scored 21 points in VMI’s 83-79 win over the East Tennessee State Buccaneers. The Spartans are 7-2 in home games. UN...
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Michigan takes on Nebraska following Dickinson's 25-point game Nebraska Cornhuskers (6-15, 0-10 Big Ten) at Michigan Wolverines (10-8, 4-4 Big Ten) Ann Arbor, Michigan; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Michigan -14.5; over/under is 144.5 BOTTOM LINE: Michigan hosts the Nebraska Cornhuskers after Hunter Dick...
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Austria’s vaccine mandate for all adults comes into force this week, in a rollout closely watched by other nations mulling whether to follow suit. Over a billion people will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Tuesday across Asia and globally, ringing in the Year of the Tiger. Before the pandemic, the holiday often prompte...
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In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Spc. Scottlin Bartlett of the 5-52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion signals to a colleague while working near a Patriot missile battery at Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 5, 2021. The U.S. military launched Patriot interceptor missiles du...
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Tabitha Peterson will lead the U.S. women's curling team at the Beijing Olympics. (Jeff Mcintosh/AP) One wouldn’t think a sport that’s been dubbed “chess on ice” would be one of the more popular Olympic competitions, but curling has overcome its bookish nickname to attract a sizable amount of attention every four years...
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The United States' David Wise will be seeking his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s halfpipe. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) Freestyle skiing first appeared at the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1988 and became a medal sport four years later at the Albertville Games — and it has evolved to include s...
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By Becky Meloan The doldrums of winter are here, but February brings something shiny and new for every kind of reader. If you’re looking for inspiration, you’ll find it here, with both true and fictional stories of bravery, defiance, self-acceptance and growth. If you’d rather escape, you’ll find stories that will open...
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Forty years of moral panics in Virginia help explain Gov. Youngkin Long after the cause of a moral panic fades from the spotlight, the battle can shape what is politically possible. Sonia Zawadsqi, left, and Brenda Bengtson, right, are seen as a rally for continuing the school mask mandate concludes outside the Loudon ...
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History shows why it’s time for Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court Black women have served admirably at every other level of the judiciary — helping to nurture the next generation of Black jurists. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall on Oct. 24, 1967, and Constance Baker Motley at her confirmation he...
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“I want to prepare for the worst scenario and escape somehow, if the war starts,” Ponomarenkotold The Washington Post in her apartment in the city of about 300,000 people, dotted with historical cathedrals and still bearing scars from its Nazi occupation during World War II. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary for Ukraine’s...
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Charlotte Bellis with her partner, Jim Huylebroek, in Kabul. (Courtesy of Charlotte Bellis) While many observers sympathized with Bellis’s case, some argued that she is benefiting from special treatment or criticized her for implying that the Taliban has treated her better than the government of New Zealand — even as t...
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The house was a hub of Black intellectual thought in the country. From its rooms, Woodson published journals and bulletins and wrote books. In 1933, he published “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” a collection of articles and speeches. The book would become a classic, advocating for excellence in the education of Black ...
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Now, at 98, Ebert is keeping that promise in a way no one could have imagined in 1945. With the help of her 18-year-old great grandson, Dov Forman, Ebert is telling her story to millions of people on TikTok. Since their inaugural video on Feb. 9, 2021, the two have posted more than 380 videos on the social media app, d...
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The political economy of crypto Harmless fad, pernicious fad or here to stay? A digital display for bitcoin in the central district of Hong Kong. (Paul Yeung/Bloomberg News) I want to talk about crypto, but first a quick question: Have you tried Wordle? Full disclosure: I was a relative latecomer to this variation on t...
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Why are two world powers so intent on controlling Ukraine? A Ukrainian serviceman, seen through a camouflage mesh, stands at a front-line position in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on Jan. 29. (Vadim Ghirda/AP) By Bear F. Braumoeller At first blush, the conflict between Russia and the United States over Ukraine s...
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Raiders 72, Gators 68 Atholton's Zach Callender, shoots over Reservoir's Matthew Brathwaite during the second quarter Monday in Columbia. Callender finished with a game-high 23 points. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) With under 30 seconds remaining Monday night, Atholton basketball guard Zach Callender peeked at th...
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Tuesday briefing: A coronavirus vaccine for kids under 5; Donald Trump’s ripped records; Wordle; Lunar New Year; and more A coronavirus vaccine for kids under 5 could be available in weeks. Pfizer plans to ask the FDA for emergency authorization as soon as today, according to Post reporting, which is far sooner than ex...
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“I want to prepare for the worst scenario and escape somehow, if the war starts,” Ponomarenko, 39, told The Washington Post in her apartment in the city of about 300,000 people, dotted with historical cathedrals and still bearing scars from its Nazi occupation during World War II. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary for Ukr...
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“Someone could have requested an ambulance had one on standby, just so the individual saw that that was an option,” Lynn said. “And it may have been there. Again, we’re very limited in what we can see from just the body cam.” Watch the full video released on Jan. 28:
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Taylor Lorenz joins The Washington Post as a columnist Taylor Lorenz named a columnist at The Washington Post. (Sara Kenigsberg) Announcement from Features Editor Liz Seymour, Deputy Features Editor David Malitz and Deputy Features Editor Mitch Rubin: We are thrilled to announce that Taylor Lorenz, whose dogged reporti...
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Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, is among those who have testified before the select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Short appeared before the committee last week, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly. Pence does not plan to appear befo...
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Now, at 98, Ebert is keeping that promise in a way no one could have imagined in 1945. With the help of her 18-year-old great-grandson, Dov Forman, Ebert is telling her story to millions of people on TikTok. Since their inaugural video on Feb. 9 last year, the two have posted more than 380 videos on the social media ap...
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Quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement Tuesday from the NFL after 22 seasons in which he established himself as perhaps the greatest player in pro football history. Brady’s official pronouncement came three days after Saturday’s confusion in which Brady’s health and wellness company announced that he was done p...
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Democrats finally managed to escape the “soft on crime” label in the 1990s in part because crime rates began to fall, but also because they took action to show that they could be tough, too. The centerpiece of their efforts was the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, authored by then-Sen. Joe Biden and ...
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Tom Brady ended the most decorated career in pro football history, and this time it’s official. The Hall of Fame-bound quarterback announced Tuesday that he is retiring after 22 NFL seasons in which he secured seven Super Bowl titles and became one of the most enduring icons across all of sports. Brady’s official prono...
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By Andrew Golden | Feb 1, 2022 The GOAT is finally, after 22 seasons of reigning over the NFL, striding into the sunset. Tom Brady, inarguably the most accomplished player the league has ever known — seven Super Bowl rings, five Super Bowl MVPs, three NFL MVPs — is retiring. His path to stardom was hardly direct. Calif...
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U.S forward Abby Roque is a first-time Olympian — and a pioneer for Indigenous people Abby Roque, right, hugs teammate Grace Zumwinkle before Tuesday's practice session. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) BEIJING — The players skated around Tuesday afternoon at Wukesong Sports Center without their helmets and — briefly, merci...
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Sebastián Fest is a correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo and editor of Around the Rings. He is the author of “Sin Red.” Nadal showed Spanish athletes the power of mental discipline, something the public also admired in the national soccer team when it won the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and the European Champ...
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My copy of “Ulysses,” acquired during a summer spent in Kansas City in 1974, has traveled the world with me during 40 years in diplomacy — the last four in Washington as the Irish ambassador to the United States — and I’ve always deployed it liberally as an instrument of soft power. This began when I became a head of m...
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Attorneys for Tamir's mother Samaria sent four letters to top officials in the Justice Department and met with them last October in the hope of renewing federal interest in her son’s death, and again in December. One of the letters was signed by 50 scholars on constitutional, criminal and civil rights law who wrote tha...
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Washington Post Live “Race in America” series to spotlight pioneering Black women during Black History Month Washington Post Live today announced the “Race in America: History Matters” series will spotlight the contributions of Black women throughout American history this February. The upcoming conversations marking Bl...
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Punxsutawney Phil’s predictions over the years are filled with holes, but he does surprise us from time to time. Groundhog Club co-handler Al Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 132nd celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Feb. 2, 2018. (Gene ...
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A view of the building where journalist Roberto Toledo was killed, in Zitacuaro, Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 31, 2022. (Magda Alonso/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) A fourth journalist has been killed in Mexico in a month, drawing condemnation from freedom of the press groups. “One of our colleagues lost his life because t...
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“One of our colleagues lost his life because three people came and shot him in a vile way, in a cowardly way,” Linares said in the video, clearly distraught. “To our colleague’s family I say that we are not going to leave things like this and that we are going to take them to their last consequences.” Mexico’s governme...
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Shintaro Ishihara, fiery Japanese nationalist politician, dies at 89 Shintaro Ishihara, then governor of Tokyo, in 2003. (Koji Sasahara/AP) Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist politician remembered as Tokyo’s gaffe-prone governor who provoked a spat with China by calling for Japan’s purchase of disputed islands in t...
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Drone company DJI obscured ties to Chinese state funding, documents show The Chinese firm received funding from several state-backed investors, despite repeated claims that it hasn’t taken money from Beijing A DJI drone with a thermal-imaging camera is seen in 2018. (Menlo Park Fire Protection District/AP) Chinese dron...
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Remember the Atlanta schools’ cheating scandal? It isn’t over. (Michael Quirk-iStock) Back in 2015, an Atlanta jury convicted 11 teachers of racketeering and other crimes for cheating on student standardized tests, one of many such scandals reported in those years in most states and the District of Columbia. The fallou...
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The Domino’s delivery driver dearth isn’t an anomaly. Businesses across the country are struggling to meet their labor needs amid what analysts are calling the “Great Resignation,” a phenomenon that saw 8 percent of the country’s workforce quit their jobs between August and October of last year. Workers have more job o...
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In the largest opioid settlement for Native Americans, the country’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson will pay up to $665 million to the tribal communities devastated by the public health crisis that has killed them at a disproportionate rate compared with non-natives. Nationwide, from 2006 to 2014, ...
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An Olympic worker holds a paper with a Chinese character for fortune written on it as he poses with Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) BEIJING — Zhao Weidong, a spokesperson for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, called this event “an invitation from China.” ...
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In the largest opioid settlement for Native Americans, the country’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson will pay up to $665 million to tribal communities devastated by the public health crisis, which has killed them at a disproportionate rate compared with non-Indians. “This is epic,” said Lloyd Miller...
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Opinion: I was attacked with Pegasus. Inaction against spyware has put all of our phones, and data, at risk. A logo of the Israeli NSO Group company, near Sapir, Israel on Aug. 24, 2021. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP) By Lama Fakih Lama Fakih is the crisis and conflict director and Beirut office director at Human Rights Watch...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The water contained in California’s mountain snow is now lower than the historical average after a January without significant rain or snow. Snow totals updated Tuesday by the state Department of Water Resources show the amount of water in the Sierra Nevada mountain’s snowpack is at 92% of what's n...
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By Bruce Lowitt | AP LOS ANGELES — The only full season of NFL perfection in the Super Bowl era including winning the championship occurred in 1972. When the Dolphins took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field against Washington on Jan. 14, 1973, they were 16-0. But they were underdogs to the veteran opponent led by ...
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FILE - Vanessa Bryant arrives at the Baby2Baby Gala on Nov. 13, 2021, in West Hollywood, Calif. Bryant, the widow of the late Kobe Bryant, will be recognized as one of the leading women in sports at the Sports Power Brunch: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Sports during Super Bowl week on Feb. 8, 2022, in Beverly...
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Transcript: Race in America: History Matters with Michelle Duster MS. GIVHAN: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large for The Washington Post. And it is my pleasure to kick off Black History month with our series on Black women in American history. And we begin with a conver...
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Transcript: World Stage: Crisis in Ukraine with Estonia Prime Minister Kaja Kallas MR. IGNATIUS: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I'm David Ignatius, a columnist for The Post. Today my guest is Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia. We're going to be talking today about the crisis in her neighborhood, as more than...
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Man cited after TSA finds loaded gun at Reagan National Airport It’s the fifth time agency officers have stopped a person traveling with a gun at National this year This .40-caliber pistol loaded with eight rounds was confiscated at a security checkpoint at Reagan National Airport on Feb. 1. (TSA) A West Virginia man w...
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It’s the second recall to address issues with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software through an over-the-air update. Faiz Siddiqui It’s the second formal recall to address issues with an over-the-air update. Last fall, Tesla was forced to issue and update after its cars with Full Self-Driving beta began behaving erratica...
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All in-person classes at the University of California at Los Angeles were moved online Tuesday after a former lecturer made what were described as “specific threats” to members of the philosophy department in an 800-page manifesto and sent a video referring to a mass shooting. UCLA confirmed that police were watching a...
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New York cases down more than 90 percent as omicron wave recedes Democratic senators urge Justice Department to ramp up efforts to prevent sale of fraudulent face masks 6 questions about travel after recovering from covid-19, answered No indication new version of omicron causes more severe illness, WHO says Florida sch...
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Punxsutawney Phil’s predictions over the years are filled with holes, but he does surprise us from time to time Groundhog Club co-handler Al Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during a 2018 Groundhog Day celebration on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) On Wedne...
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Guinea-Bissau’s president says situation ‘under control’ after attempted coup The president of Guinea-Bissau posted a message to Twitter saying he was “fine” Tuesday after mutinous soldiers tried to overthrow the tiny nation’s government in an hours-long shootout. Video captured gunmen storming the main government comp...
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All in-person classes at the University of California at Los Angeles were moved online Tuesday after a former lecturer made what were described as “specific threats” to members of the philosophy department in an 800-page screed and sent a video referring to a mass shooting. UCLA confirmed in a letter to students that p...
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FILE - In this image made from Windsor, Va., Police video, a police officer speaks with Caron Nazario during a traffic stop on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. In a court filing Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, the town of Windsor asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring that allege...
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Wing Wa Hing store owner Tracy Tieu helps Ben Tang select tiger decorations for the Lunar New Year in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles on Friday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Lunar New Year, being celebrated on Tuesday, could become the United States’ newest federal holiday under a bill proposed by Rep. Grace Meng...
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Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) speaks during a hearing on children's online safety and mental health in September on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Luján, 49, began experiencing dizziness and fatigue on the morning of Jan. 27, according to his chief of staff, Carlos Sanchez. The senator checked himself into a h...
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Child-care worker Debbie James-Dean helps her young charges make dough at Kids Are Us Learning Center in Southeast Washington in 2017. At the time, James-Dean had been working in the field for nearly 20 years and earned $12.75 an hour. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) The council raised taxes on the city’s highest ...
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The last stands: Richmond starts taking down Confederate statues’ pedestals, too Workers dismantle the pedestal of the Matthew Fontaine Maury statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond on Feb. 1. The city is taking down the remnants of Confederate memorials for the next few weeks. (Gregory S. Schneider/The Washington Post) ...
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Child-care worker Debbie James-Dean helps her young charges make dough at Kids Are Us Learning Center in Southeast D.C. in 2017. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) The council raised taxes on the city’s highest earners last year, and the members voted at that time to set aside $53 million in the first year of that ta...
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Opinion: The U.S. is drowning in its own secrets. It’s overdue for a rescue. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in McLean on July 27, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP) Nearly a decade ago, a federal board warned in a report that practices for classification and declassification of national security information were “o...
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Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores sues NFL and its teams for discrimination Brian Flores, the former coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed a lawsuit against the NFL and all of its teams, accusing them of discrimination. Flores was a candidate for the Giants’ head coaching job but they hired Buffalo Bills offensive coordi...
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The new nose-only “kosk” from South Korea allows eating with some degree of protection, unlike this fully masked customer in 2020, picking up a takeaway bag from a robot at No Brand Burger in Seoul. (Ahn Young-Joon/AP) The mask has gone viral on social media and in various online forums, after it was recently unveiled ...
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So they were. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) declared Trump’s idea to be “inappropriate,” the equivalent of a robust indictment from one of Trump’s regular champions. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) was more blunt when asked whether those arrested should be pardoned: “Of course not,” he said on CNN on Sunday. Even wh...
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FILE - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks in Lafayette, Ga., Jan. 7, 2022. Kemp’s campaign announced Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, that it had raised $7.4 million over the last seven months for Republican incumbent’s reelection bid. (Matt Hamilton /Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, file) ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said ...
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Brian Flores, the former coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed a lawsuit against the NFL and all of its teams, accusing them of racial discrimination. Flores was a candidate for the Giants’ head coaching job but they instead hired Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll for the job last week. In the complaint, Fl...
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So they were. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) declared Trump’s idea to be “inappropriate,” the equivalent of a robust indictment from one of Trump’s regular champions. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) was more blunt when asked whether those arrested should be pardoned: “Of course not,” he said on CNN on Sunday. Even...
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Democrats, who hold a narrow 50-50 majority in the Senate — with Vice President Harris as the tiebreaking vote — will need a unified front if they want to confirm Biden’s nominee without the help of Republicans. Two other sitting senators have suffered strokes in recent history, leading in both cases to extended absenc...
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Alexei Navalny, the Russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition leader, often said President Vladimir Putin runs a party of “crooks and thieves.” Mr. Putin’s security forces subsequently attempted to assassinate Mr. Navalny with a military-grade chemical weapon; when he survived, the regime unjustly handed him a ...
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Opinion: Disney needs to work on the heart of the story, not just the color of the characters Actor Peter Dinklage. (Monica Almeida/Reuters) As Peter Dinklage mentioned in the article, in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the greatest pitfall is the stereotypical portrayal of dwarfs. In the new remake, Disney had the ...
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Opinion: It’s time for the Supreme Court to truly reflect America The Supreme Court on Jan. 27. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Ruth Marcus, in her Jan. 28 op-ed, “The inaccurate carping over Biden’s Supreme Court pledge,” made a great case for President Biden’s explicit endorsement for a Black female justice. But...
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Opinion: Triage all covid patients as normal, even unvaccinated ones A health-care worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the covid-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo., on Aug. 3, 2021. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News) The arguments in Govind Persad and Emily Largent’s Jan. ...
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The lead plaintiffs, Christopher Seaman and Elizabeth Allison Lyons, have an 8-year-old son in third grade in Crozet who just underwent a bone-marrow transplant and chemotherapy for leukemia. There were recently two positive cases in his younger brother’s class, they said, underscoring their concerns. A Washington Post...
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Sensing an opportunity, city leaders in Annapolis, Md., tasked their trio of Washington lobbyists last year to focus their time and attention on bringing some of the new federal bucks back home. The coastal city has long struggled with flooding in its historical district, as rising tides from the nearby Chesapeake Bay ...
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While the omicron variant, which made up 95 percent of covid cases in early January, has reportedly been less severe for adults, children (many of whom are still not eligible for vaccination) might not be as lucky. “Rates of hospitalization for children have skyrocketed to the highest levels of the pandemic,” Aldrovand...
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A view of a skiing venue at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China. (Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The U.S. government may be boycotting the Olympics, but American corporate sponsors aren’t. Global business reporter Jeanne Whalen says, “China is the world's second biggest economy, and for many of t...
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LONDON — British police have taken into custody convicted burglar Jonathan Cahill, whose mug shot they posted on social media last week — in the hopes of sending him back to prison after a suspected parole violation — sparked 95,000 comments, largely from women offering to help find him for, um, totally different reaso...
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The NFL franchise’s new name — and its controversial old one — have created a novel experiment in the sports merchandising and memorabilia markets Washington football fans come with their share of baggage: the pileup of losses, the churn of starting quarterbacks, the front office scandals, that polarizing mascot. They ...
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WASHINGTON — How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to the Fed’s influential Board of Governors. The Fed is already moving...
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Fourth journalist killed in a month Mexico’s government spokesperson, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, initially condemned the killing on Twitter, saying: “We will work together with the state and municipal government to clarify the case. We will not allow impunity. We defend freedom of expression and the right to information.” A...
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The NFL franchise’s new name and its controversial old one have created a novel experiment in the sports merchandising and memorabilia markets Washington football fans come with their share of baggage: the pileup of losses, the churn of starting quarterbacks, the front-office scandals, that polarizing former team name....
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N.M. senator recovering from stroke; thousands flee as fertilizer plant burns Sen. Luján suffers stroke, his office says Luján, 49, began experiencing dizziness and fatigue Thursday morning, said his chief of staff, Carlos Sanchez. The senator checked himself in to a hospital in Santa Fe and was transferred to the Univ...
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Delle Donne will participate in the 2022 USA Basketball women’s national team training camp this week in D.C., but won’t play in the FIBA World Cup qualifying tournament. The plans are to do individual drills and some five-on-one, but no full contact with an eye on being full-go for the Mystics training camp in late Ap...
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Meanwhile, a separate group of three Loudoun County parents filed a lawsuit against the county’s School Board on Tuesday saying it was violating the law by requiring universal masking in defiance of Youngkin’s order. Loudoun County schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. In the fede...
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The house was a hub of Black intellectual thought in the country. From its rooms, Woodson published journals and bulletins and wrote books. In 1933, he published “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” a collection of articles and speeches. The book would become a classic, advocating for excellence in the education of Black ...
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Delle Donne will participate in the 2022 USA Basketball women’s national team training camp this week in D.C., but won’t play in the FIBA World Cup qualifying tournament. The plans are to do individual drills and some five-on-none, but no full contact with an eye on being full-go for the Mystics training camp in late A...
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Hopes for a two-state resolution to the decades-long conflict rose following the 1993 Oslo peace accords, when Palestinians received limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under plans for long-term Palestinian sovereignty. But in the years since, amid continued violence and the growth of Israeli settlements,...
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House panel says nonprofit Everglades College enriches its owner House Education Committee chair Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) is calling on the Education Department to review the nonprofit status of Everglades College. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) A House Education Committee probe into Everglades College Inc...
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Covid infections surge in immigration detention facilities Workers are shown in the kitchen of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Wash., on Sept. 10, 2019. (Ted S. Warren/AP) Coronavirus infections in federal immigration detention centers have surged to record highs, with at leas...
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Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte awarded first place in Cronkite School’s inaugural Shaufler Prize in Journalism contest Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte (The Washington Post) Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication awarded The Washington Post’s Toluse “Tolu” Olorunnipa ...
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Kevin Steele set to become Miami defensive coordinator after accepting Maryland job Kevin Steele, seen coaching Auburn's defense, is moving on to Miami after a short tenure in College Park. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) (ME/Getty Images) Maryland will again be looking for a new defensive coordinator after Kevin Steele ba...
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In this photo of a video monitor, Julio Cesar Segura appears remotely in Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver, Wash., on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in connection with a Jan. 29, 2022, police pursuit that ended with the mistaken shooting of an off-duty Vancouver Police Department Officer by a deputy from the Clark Count...
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PITTSBURGH — Tuesday night’s matchup of the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins had all of the ebbs and flows you would expect from a heated Metropolitan Division rivalry. Both teams were flying up and down the ice, quick goals came left and right, and special teams play was pivotal in a chippy game. After eras...
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PITTSBURGH — The Washington Capitals found themselves fighting through adversity throughout Tuesday night’s game at the Pittsburgh Penguins. In a wild back-and-forth affair, Washington not only lost its starting goaltender six minutes in but had to erase a pair of one-goal deficits en route to a 4-3 overtime victory. T...
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Maryland comeback thwarted in final seconds against Michigan State What to know from the Terps’ 65-63 loss to the Spartans at Xfinity Center. Eric Ayala and Maryland couldn't get past Michigan State during a 65-63 loss at Xfinity Center. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) Maryland offered one of its most raucous cro...
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Man fatally shot in Prince George’s, police say The victim was found in a car, according to police A man was found fatally shot early Wednesday in Prince George’s County, police said. He was found suffering from gunshot wounds around 12:30 a.m. in a car in the the 6500 block of Hil Mar Drive, police said. The man died ...
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Teenager slain in Greenbelt, Md., police say Youth was hit in apparent double shooting Tuesday night, according to police A male teenager was fatally wounded Tuesday night in Greenbelt, Md., police said. The 15-year-old died after an apparent shooting about 9 p.m. in the 7800 block of Mandan Road, police said. Another ...
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