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President Biden speaks at the 70th National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
The National Prayer Breakfast was for decades a Washington tradition where politicians could set aside their partisan differences and find commonalities in their faiths. Ho... | null | null | null | null | null |
Internet service plans will soon come with ‘nutrition’ labels. Here’s what you need to know.
Last month, four members of the Federal Communications Commission unanimously agreed to move ahead with a proposal for broadband Internet “nutrition” labels. The idea is all about transparency — rather than make you dig around ... | null | null | null | null | null |
This is the challenge, a sort of bizarro Watergate: What did the president know and when did he know it … from this galaxy of derangements aimed at keeping him in office? Where were legal boundaries crossed and who on Trump’s team, including himself, might have crossed them? Unlike in the investigation into President R... | null | null | null | null | null |
“We had a great camp in Austin and now we need to see this group of players in game environments against highly motivated opponents,” Andonovski said in a statement. “Every player in the pool is focused on making the roster for World Cup and Olympic qualifying this summer, and every training session — and especially ev... | null | null | null | null | null |
The South Lake Tahoe, Calif., native called the past year “an absolute nightmare” as she continued to compete during a pandemic and watched her hometown smolder in a wildfire. Anderson thought about not coming to the Beijing Olympics to compete for a third straight slopestyle gold medal. She’s a person who, in normal t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Here are ISIS and al-Qaeda leaders killed in American strikes or raids
People check a destroyed house after an operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 3. (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)
The operation targeted a two-story house in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, nearby re... | null | null | null | null | null |
For Tesla, it’s the second recall in a matter of days after it said it would address the ‘rolling stop’ issue
Tesla vehicles lined up in Colma, Calif., on Jan. 26. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is issuing a safety recall of more than 817,000 vehicles over faulty seat belt chimes, according to the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The former Alaska governor claims the paper defamed her with a 2017 editorial that was later corrected, in a case that tests long-standing protections for publishers
Jury selection was set to begin on Jan. 24 in Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over a 2017 editorial. (Reuters)
Yet it’s also a... | null | null | null | null | null |
The new Kobe Bryant Trophy stands 31 inches tall, weighs approximately 15 pounds and features countless dual tributes to Bryant and the All-Star Game’s history. The trophy’s black base is composed of eight sides to represent Bryant’s early-career jersey number and the event’s eight decades of history. There are 18 star... | null | null | null | null | null |
“We had a great camp in Austin and now we need to see this group of players in game environments against highly motivated opponents,” Andonovski said in a statement. “Every player in the pool is focused on making the roster for World Cup and Olympic qualifying this summer, and every training session — and especially ev... | null | null | null | null | null |
This 2012 colorized electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a single human immunodeficiency virus, center, as it was budding from a human immune cell, which the virus had infected, and within which the HIV virus had been replicated. According to a repo... | null | null | null | null | null |
It’s another example of Republicans trying to maintain control in a pivotal battleground state that Democratic President Joe Biden won narrowly in 2020 and that elected two Democratic U.S. senators in 2021, giving Democrats control of that chamber. The local disputes follow a restrictive new voting law that lawmakers p... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar speaks during a joint press conference with European Union envoy in talks on normalizing relations between Serbia and Kosovo, Miroslav Lajcak, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Both Serbia and Kosovo have been told they must find common ground in order to move ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
MR. IGNATIUS: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m David Ignatius, a columnist for The Post. We have a special guest today, Senator Mitt Romney, senator from Utah, GOP presidential candidate in 2012, and now ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senat... | null | null | null | null | null |
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she hasn’t yet read the lawsuit, though she plans to, so she can’t comment on its allegations specifically.
In an interview, Denise Krepp, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for Hill East whose name allegedly appeared on the list, said the D.C. Council should act on the lawsuit’s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Man fatally shot inside Northeast Washington apartment building
D.C. police have identified a man who was fatally shot Tuesday inside an apartment building in the Edgewood neighborhood of Northeast Washington.
Police said Matthew Murphy, 31, of Northeast was found shot about 2:30 p.m. in the building in the 2300 block ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Phillips and others named in the suit sought records from D.C. police related to some of the most controversial issues in policing, including alleged brutality by officers and D.C.'s stop-and-frisk policy.
In 2019, for example, Phillips attended a hearing for a D.C. police officer who allegedly “conducted unnecessarily... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation forcing Apple and Google to allow people to download apps outside of their stores
On Thursday, The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation that would force Apple and Google to allow people to download apps outside of their stores, and allow them to install alt... | null | null | null | null | null |
A man walks in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow on Feb. 3. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)
As the Biden administration pursues diplomatic options to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, officials have loudly talked up a favored tool of coercive foreign policy: sanctions.... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden removes his mask before speaking Jan. 11 in Atlanta.
Then came omicron, which undercut our existing tools for combating the virus. Cloth masks weren’t as effective against it and the variant was better able to infect even the vaccinated. Case totals surged, breaking the scale of what we’d come to expect... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bill Fitch, Hall of Fame NBA coach, dies at 89
Boston Celtics coach Bill Fitch in 1981. (AP)
Bill Fitch, who guided the Boston Celtics to the 1981 National Basketball Association championship during a Hall of Fame coaching career spanning three decades, died Feb. 2 in Conroe, Tex. He was 89.
Indiana Pacers coach Rick C... | null | null | null | null | null |
To those measures of success we would add a third: Apparently, U.S. personnel completed the raid with few civilian casualties. Indeed, it seems that Mr. Qurayshi died at his own hand, detonating a bomb rather than fight Americans — or surrender to them — killing much of his family. Mr. Baghdadi similarly killed himself... | null | null | null | null | null |
One of the staffers who left Thursday has been directly implicated in Partygate. Martin Reynolds, the prime minister’s principle private secretary, was responsible for an email encouraging Downing Street staffer to “bring your own booze” to a party on May 20, 2020 — at a time when the public was banned by law from meet... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Chip shortage adversely affects health-care capabilities, too
(Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News)
The Jan. 26 news article “Manufacturers have less than five days’ supply of some computer chips” missed the critical public health impact of the semiconductor chip shortage.
Without an adequate supply of semiconducto... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: A diagnosis for our misinformation problems
Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before Congress on Jan. 11.
Regarding the Jan. 28 Style article “Up against more than a pandemic”:
Anthony S. Fauci is right: “There is no truth. There is no fact.”... | null | null | null | null | null |
4 top Johnson aides resign in shake-up
Four top aides to embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced their resignations on Thursday, as the British government continues to be rocked by a scandal dubbed “Partygate.”
Johnson’s office is under investigation for a string of gatherings over the past two years t... | null | null | null | null | null |
It took too long — far too long — for the National Football League franchise to recognize how deeply offensive, inappropriate and ultimately divisive its former name was. “We’ll never change the name. ... NEVER — you can use caps,” team owner Daniel Snyder once said about the demands for a name change that predated his... | null | null | null | null | null |
While companies are not required to hold earnings calls, it’s rare for a major tech or gaming company to cancel its call ahead of an acquisition. For example, Glu Mobile held earnings calls throughout 2020, ahead of its completed acquisition by Electronic Arts last April. In 2016, Yahoo skipped its earnings call ahead ... | null | null | null | null | null |
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta is putting a lot of virtual eggs — and billions of dollars — into the metaverse basket, and Wall Street is spooked. Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook saw a historic plunge Thursday after it reported a rare profit decline due to a sharp rise in expenses, shaky ad revenue growth and fe... | null | null | null | null | null |
A person cycles past tents set up along a pathway in Portland, Ore. in Sept. 2017. Brookings, a city in Oregon several hours to the south, is the center of a dispute about how often a church can serve the homeless. (Ted S. Warren, File)
An Oregon church has sued a city government after it issued an ordinance that limit... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Detainee is providing a lot of information,” said one of the interrogation reports, which was published in the summer by the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, a Pentagon-funded academic institution at the U.S. Military Academy. A terrorism expert who analyzed the documents described Qurayshi as “a so... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Path Forward: Consumer Protection with Rohit Chopra
Rohit Chopra is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the government agency responsible for protecting families and businesses in banking, housing, lending and financial technology. Chopra, a former Federal Trade Commissioner, will discuss consumer... | null | null | null | null | null |
Baltimore is like Haiti? Why yes, Tucker Carlson, it is.
Gerald Rameau, left, and Garry Bien Aime, far right, drum with the Rara Haitian Orchestra in Baltimore in 2021. (Ashley Michel/Komite Ayiti)
As he stepped onto the covered porch of his home in Northeast Baltimore for drive-by after drive-by that day — people comi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The MLB lockout began in early December. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
With spring training hurtling ever nearer and negotiations screeching to frustrating halts, Major League Baseball on Thursday requested the assistance of a federal mediator to help the league and the players’ union reach an agreement on a new collective ba... | null | null | null | null | null |
WNBA gets $75 million from high-profile investors
The WNBA says it will use $75 million to invest in a long-term transformation of the league. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The WNBA has added $75 million to its coffers through a capital raise that brought in new investments from some of the biggest names in busi... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Detainee is providing a lot of information,” said one of the interrogation reports, which was published in the summer by the Combating Terrorism Center, a Pentagon-funded academic institution at the U.S. Military Academy. A terrorism expert who analyzed the documents described Qurayshi as “a songbird of unique talent ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In Virginia, an officeholder can be subjected to recall with a number of signatures totaling just 10 percent of the votes cast in that official’s last election. Unlike in other states that hold recall elections when voters petition for a recall, the matter is sent to a circuit court judge to determine if the complaints... | null | null | null | null | null |
The MLB lockout began in early December. (Matt Slocum/AP)
With spring training hurtling ever nearer and negotiations screeching to frustrating halts, Major League Baseball on Thursday requested the assistance of a federal mediator to help it and the players’ union reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agree... | null | null | null | null | null |
People without masks visit the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen on Feb. 1, 2022, after the lifting of most coronavirus restrictions in Denmark. (Carsten Snejbjerg/Bloomberg)
It is becoming the mantra of 2022, the most optimistic formulation for the end of the pandemic — less ambitious than “stop covid” but m... | null | null | null | null | null |
Full disclosure: Early last year, when Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus was being debated, I supported it. I cheered on the American Rescue Plan’s investments in children, rental assistance, vaccinations and relief for the unemployed. I also worried about the health of state and local finances if they didn’t get sufficie... | null | null | null | null | null |
This image shows the “Ad Astra 2” congressional redistricting plan for Kansas drafted by the Kansas Legislative Research Department for Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled Legislature, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The blue represents the new 1st Congressional District, and it takes in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Protecting women, a partisan divider. Ain’t that America.
Much like Commanders owner Daniel Snyder, the Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are refusing to stand up as leaders to ensure true accountability.
If there was any, Snyder would have long ago been removed from the franchise. And if every... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Robin Herman, sports writer for the New York Times, is confronted by Chicago Black Hawks doorman Gordon Robertson outside the Black Hawks dressing room in Chicago, on Jan. 24, 1975. Herman, a gender barrier breaking reporter who was the first female sports journalist to interview players in the locker room after... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: “Belfast” A Conversation with Kenneth Branagh
MS. HORNADAY: Good afternoon, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Ann Hornaday, chief film critic at The Washington Post, and I am delighted to be joined today by a titan in the entertainment world, someone whose career has spread across acting, directing, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The reason: The omicron variant rendered the coronavirus vaccines significantly less effective at stopping the spread. “What’s the point of vaccines or vaccine mandates?” a bunch of powerful people asked. They did so while deliberately ignoring both the vaccines’ continued assistance in slowing the spread (albeit at a ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The National Butterfly Center is closing indefinitely. A fringe Va. candidate is partly to blame.
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Tex., in 2019. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
Kimberly Lowe, a fringe candidate running against Rep. H. Morgan Griffith in Virginia’s 9th Congressional District Republica... | null | null | null | null | null |
To those measures of success we would add a third: Apparently, U.S. personnel completed the raid with few civilian casualties. Indeed, it seems that Mr. Qurayshi died at his own hand, detonating a bomb rather than fighting Americans — or surrendering to them — and killing much of his family. Mr. Baghdadi similarly kill... | null | null | null | null | null |
Protecting women, a partisan divider. Ain’t that America?
Much like Commanders owner Daniel Snyder, the Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are refusing to stand up as leaders to ensure accountability.
If there were any, Snyder long ago would have been removed from the franchise. And if every mem... | null | null | null | null | null |
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — When the world met Jamie Anderson eight years ago, she became the eccentric Olympic champion, the woman whose candles, crystals and essential oils stirred as much curiosity as her snowboarding prowess. She was the alpha free spirit in a sport of unorthodox characters, musing about chi and chakras, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Winter Games are often tests of design and engineering. May the best gear win.
Jamie Anderson stayed focused on wellness. The world finally caught up.
Mr. T is putting his muscle behind curling
Earlier Thursday: U.S. women’s hockey team beats Finland but loses a key player
U.S. men's figure skater Nathan Chen speaks to... | null | null | null | null | null |
They describe the thunder of helicopters and a terrible clatter of gunfire ‘from the sky’
A destroyed building in the aftermath of a counterterrorism mission conducted by U.S. armed forces in Atma, Syria, on Feb. 3. (Mohamed Al-Daher/Reuters)
Ahmed, who for safety reasons spoke on the condition that he be identified by... | null | null | null | null | null |
Montgomery council asks planning board to ‘encourage transparency’
The focus on the board’s practices has intensified as the county council begins to consider the Thrive Montgomery long-term growth policy
Montgomery County Council's president, Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large), asked the county's planning board to “create an ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2022 Man of the Year, actor Jason Bateman, left, kisses the Pudding Pot during a news conference after being presented with the theatrical award, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
By Stephanie Morales | AP
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “Ozark” actor... | null | null | null | null | null |
Robin Herman, who broke sports journalism barrier, dies at 70
Robin Herman, sportswriter for the New York Times, outside the Chicago Black Hawks dressing room in 1975. (AP)
Robin Herman, a sports reporter at the New York Times in the 1970s who was among the first female journalists to interview players in the locker ro... | null | null | null | null | null |
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In 58 previous meetings spanning more than four decades, Florida’s often-feeble women’s basketball program never did anything like this to mighty Tennessee: A complete beatdown.
“It was an onslaught coming right at us,” Harper said. “These turnovers resulted in wide-open layups. ... We could play th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ex-officer who killed Laquan McDonald released after serving less than half his sentence
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, left, attends his January 2019 sentencing hearing in Chicago for the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald. (Antonio Perez/AP)
The former Chicago police officer who was convicted of murdering ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hoyas drop 10th straight, crumble at home against St. John’s
What to know from Georgetown’s 90-77 loss
Dante Harris walks past a celebrating St. John's bench during Georgetown's 90-77 loss, the Hoyas' 10th straight. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
The Georgetown men’s basketball team, staring at the prospect of a ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ashley Owusu exits early, but Maryland battles for a win at Michigan State
What to know about the Terps’ 67-62 win over the Spartans
Maryland Coach Brenda Frese was pleased with her team's play, grinding out a road win at Michigan State: “I thought we grew as a team on both ends of the floor. … That was just a 40-minut... | null | null | null | null | null |
Chicago Bulls’ DeMar DeRozan drives past Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet (23) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
TORONTO — Pascal Siakam had 25 points and 13 rebounds, Chris Boucher added 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Toron... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — On Friday morning, American skating star Nathan Chen came into the Capital Indoor Arena with four years of burden and expectation on his shoulders. His disastrous 2018 Olympics was followed by a near-perfect run since, which only raised expectations — and tension — as he entered the men’s short program at t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jaguars hire Super Bowl winner Doug Pederson as their next head coach
Doug Pederson will return to the NFL, while the Jacksonville Jaguars’ meandering head coaching search has ended. The Jaguars announced Thursday night that they’ve hired Pederson as their next coach.
Pederson replaces Urban Meyer, who was fired by the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Doug Pederson will return to the NFL, and the Jacksonville Jaguars’ meandering coaching search has ended. The Jaguars announced Thursday night that they’ve hired Pederson as their next coach.
Pederson replaces Urban Meyer, who was fired in December. Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell took over as interim coach and fi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Emilien leads Saint Francis (BKN) against Sacred Heart after 20-point game
Sacred Heart Pioneers (7-14, 3-5 NEC) at Saint Francis (BKN) Terriers (7-15, 4-7 NEC)
BOTTOM LINE: Saint Francis (BKN) faces the Sacred Heart Pioneers after Patrick Emilien scored 20 points in Saint Francis (BKN)’s 81-64 victory over the Fairlei... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jacksonville visits Jacksonville State after Nolan's 20-point game
BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville visits the Jacksonville State Gamecocks after Kevion Nolan scored 20 points in Jacksonville’s 56-50 victory over the North Alabama Lions.
The Gamecocks are 7-2 on their home court. Jacksonville State has a 0-1 record in one-pos... | null | null | null | null | null |
For around three days, he has been stuck more than 100 feet underground in a village in northern Morocco, after he fell into a dry well and became stuck between its narrow walls.
The dramatic efforts to save him have gripped Morocco and neighboring countries, as rescuers work around-the-clock to pull him to safety and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — On Friday morning, U.S. figure skating star Nathan Chen came into Capital Indoor Stadium with four years of burden and expectation on his shoulders. His disastrous 2018 Olympics were followed by four years of international dominance, raising expectations — and tension — for these Olympics.
But instead of stum... | null | null | null | null | null |
A Santa Fe, N.M., couple told the sheriff's office they found a stranger in their home when they returned there on Sunday. The man, who apologized for breaking in, had a rifle and a duffle bag, according to an incident report. (Jennifer A Smith/Getty Images)
As the owners of a Santa Fe, N.M., home opened their front do... | null | null | null | null | null |
They level social critiques in an accessible way
Two books of the graphic novel “Maus” by the American cartoonist Art Spiegelman are pictured in this illustration in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 27, 2022. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
By Viola Burlew
Viola Burlew is a graduate student of history at the University of Colorado, r... | null | null | null | null | null |
Will the diplomatic boycott of the Olympics push China on human rights?
The United States may be emboldened to take a harder line thanks to the state of play in East Asia
The Olympic Rings on Feb. 3 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
By Meghan Herwig
Meghan Herwig is a PhD candidate in History and the Bri... | null | null | null | null | null |
Photos are a powerful reminder of the struggles of the civil rights movement, still relevant today
Farm workers at the Grand Marie Vegetable Producers Cooperative in Louisiana in 1968. From “A Civil Rights Journey” by Doris Derby (Mack, 2021). (Doris Derby)
Life is always undergoing some sort of upheaval. It’s like a p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Anonymous testimonials about workplace culture grip Capitol Hill
A viral Instagram account has become a safe space for congressional aides to anonymously call out congressional members and share their experiences on the Hill.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan 31. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg (Al Drago/Blo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Games will begin — without American dignitaries
In December, the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Games. The United States was followed in that move by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and others, with India this week the latest country to join the boycott.
In 2008, when the Summe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Short-track speedskating was expanded to include nine events ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. (Vincent Jannink/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Short-track speedskating, a 1992 addition to the Winter Olympics program, encompasses a series of events contested on a rink about four times smaller than long track,... | null | null | null | null | null |
At the time, said Hirasaki, practically everyone — Democrats and Republicans — seemed in support of the amendment, which would bar any state from denying or abridging someone’s rights on the basis of sex. The Texas state legislature ratified it in March 1972, the same month it passed the U.S. Senate. President Richard ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Yet, not even he is immune to China’s new climate, and there were gasps when his film “One Second” was pulled at the last minute from the Berlinale festival in 2019. A version of the film, set during the politically sensitive Cultural Revolution, finally made it out last year.
Even as censorship is tightened, Zhang has... | null | null | null | null | null |
Judge John McBain rejected in 2016 a jury's findings when he issued a prison sentence to a woman convicted in a 2015 murder. He took a similar action in 2020 after he was ordered to resentence her. (J. Scott Park/MLive.com/Jackson Citizen Patriot/AP)
Michigan judge John McBain — thinking jurors blundered in convicting ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Gorsuch is scheduled to speak to the right-wing Federalist Society. Americans find such speeches inappropriate.
Americans don’t approve of justices appearing with politicians, our research finds.
Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
By Nathan T. Carrington
Logan Strother
Supreme Court J... | null | null | null | null | null |
Friday briefing: An alleged Russian plot; Olympic Opening Ceremonies; healthier school lunches; ‘super emitters’; and more
The U.S. accused Russia of planning a fake attack by Ukraine.
Why? Russia would then use “graphic” video of the attack as justification to invade, U.S. officials said yesterday, although they didn’... | null | null | null | null | null |
An economist at home in many cultures
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in 2017 in New Delhi. “Our ability to learn from each other must not be underestimated,” he writes in his memoir. (Raj K. Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)
By Mythili G. Rao
Mythili G. Rao is an audio journalist and book critic in London.
“Where do you co... | null | null | null | null | null |
A more sympathetic perspective on Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists
An Apple billboard in San Francisco in 2018. Author Sebastian Mallaby shares fresh details about venture capitalists' investments in the tech firm in its early days. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News)
By Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean is a contributi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Laura Coates at a radio event in Washington in 2017. Coats worked for four years as a federal prosecutor, and in her book she grapples with how her substantial powers in that role ran up against issues of race, gender, class and bias. (Larry French/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
Ronald S. Sullivan... | null | null | null | null | null |
By the time of that pronouncement, the charmingly goofy celebration concocted by Bengals running back Elbert “Ickey” Woods had already been banished from the end zone, leaving him to perform it on Cincinnati’s sideline. But even that was not enough for a stodgy corporation that, when confronted with an act of individua... | null | null | null | null | null |
Judge John McBain ignored court orders in 2020 when he resentenced a woman convicted in a 2015 murder. (J. Scott Park/MLive.com/Jackson Citizen Patriot/AP)
Michigan judge John McBain — thinking jurors blundered in convicting a woman of second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend twice in the heart on Valentine’s Da... | null | null | null | null | null |
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is embroiled in a protracted political saga dubbed “Partygate” over a string of gatherings alleged to have violated his government’s own coronavirus restrictions. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg News)
Is the house of cards falling in? Several top aides to embattled British Prime Minister Bor... | null | null | null | null | null |
The U.S. economy added 467,000 jobs in January as the omicron variant spiked to record heights, with the labor market performing better than many expected two years after the pandemic began.
But the labor market, according to the new data, performed very well during that stretch.
In addition to the robust January, the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Professor Carolyn Chun has twice been denied tenure at the U.S. Naval Academy, and she believes the reason is bias. Now she says she is seeking justice.
Assistant Professor Carolyn Chun.
At the U.S. Naval Academy, assistant professor Carolyn Chun stood alongside a memorial outside of the academic building where she tea... | null | null | null | null | null |
Except it wasn’t. While both described their conversation as easy overall, it wasn’t long after they sat down that the seams began to show. Genevieve said that while she was happy to put the surveillance out of her mind, Max checked in to make sure his rating would be above a 4. “A couple of times he apologized for bei... | null | null | null | null | null |
A pack of peacocks at an intersection in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami on April 27, 2017. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/AP)
The magnificent jeweled-toned birds, which are not native to Florida, have become an intriguing fixture across Miami’s neighborhoods. But what began as an exotic mystery has quickly turned into ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Golden Gate Funeral Home owner and director John Beckwith Jr. looks through a window during a double funeral in Dallas on July 30, 2020. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)
“Some families … were forced to view their loved ones in a grotesque state of decomposition,” Ryan Sellers, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
A shattered glass window in 2018. (Jennifer A Smith/Getty Images)
As the owners of a Santa Fe, N.M., home opened their front door on Sunday after a few days away, they were hit with the stench of rotting food. Dirty dishes were soaking in the sink and empty beer bottles had been tossed in the trash, an incident report ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Abby Roque, right, hugs teammate Grace Zumwinkle before Tuesday's practice session. (Petr David Josek/AP)
BEIJING — The players skated around Tuesday afternoon at Wukesong Sports Center without their helmets and — briefly, mercifully — without their masks, stopping and smiling for the camera that would capture the offi... | null | null | null | null | null |
A City of Westminster worker cleans on Feb. 4 outside 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain's prime minister. (Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images)
She followed other top aides who quit Downing Street on Thursday night as the fallout from a scandal dubbed “Partygate” continues to engulf the British government a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Covid-19 live updates Despite omicron surge, U.S. added 467,000 jobs in January
Job seekers speak with representatives at a job fair in Detroit. (Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg)
The rapid spread of the virus during that period upended many parts of the economy, closing schools, day cares and a number of businesses, and fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Travis McMichael withdraws plea of guilty to federal hate crime charges in ...
Travis McMichael withdraws plea of guilty to federal hate crime charges in murder of Ahmaud Arbery
Travis McMichael, left, speaks with his attorney Bob Rubin at the hearing where McMichael and his father father, Greg McMichael, and their nei... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: D.C. is a leader on affordable housing
By Stephen Glaude
Stephen Glaude is chief executive and president of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development.
As D.C. contends with the ever-evolving challenge of the pandemic, it is hard to believe we are on the verge of a third consecutive budget cycl... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Maryland is wasting its pensioners’ money
By Jeff Hooke
Jeff Hooke, the author of “The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street’s Transformative Investments,” is a senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and a former investment banker and private investment executive.
Se... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Protecting transgender students is essential to creating safe Virginia schools
School buses are parked at the Arlington County Bus Depot on Jan. 26 in Arlington. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
By Jennifer B. Boysko
Jennifer B. Boysko, a Democrat, represents parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties in the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Virginia film crews can’t do their jobs if elected officials don’t do theirs
Michael Keaton in a scene from "Dopesick." (Gene Page/Hulu via AP)
By Beau Cribbs
Beau Cribbs is a Richmond-based writer and media consultant.
This time last year, I was Michael Keaton’s personal assistant while he worked in Virginia ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Support has been growing across all parts of Ukraine — not just regions close to Europe.
U.S. troops deploy for Europe from Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Thursday. (Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images)
By Olga Onuch
Javier Pérez Sandoval
The Biden administration sent additional U.S. troops to Eastern Europe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Coronavirus: Impact on Hospitals with Shereef Elnahal, MD & Anne Zink, MD
As the United States enters its third year of the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals and health systems remain strained for resources and support services. On Thursday, Feb. 10 at 3:00 p.m. ET, Washington Post’s national health reporter Dan Diamond ... | null | null | null | null | null |
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