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Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey speaks during a school board meeting last summer. Mackey said this week that some parents are complaining about how Black History Month programs constitute critical race theory. (Screenshot via YouTube/WSFA)
Even though critical race theory is not taught in K-12 classrooms in Al... | null | null | null | null | null |
The agreement “may have been intended to prevent the public release of certain information related to the investigation absent the agreement of both parties,” the Democrats wrote in a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell Friday, “meaning that either the WFT or the NFL could try to bury the findings of the investigation... | null | null | null | null | null |
Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde leads the season-long standings in Alpine’s two fastest disciplines. (REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)
BEIJING — The first couple of Alpine skiing is like most of us at these covid Olympics, together but apart. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Mikaela Shiffrin can dine with each other in the Olympic... | null | null | null | null | null |
But for LGBTQ people, that swell of pride has historically come with a gargantuan caveat, as queer athletes haven’t always been given a fair shake. LGBTQ Olympians have long had to hide in the closet in order to compete, or else been subjected to invasive and discriminatory poking and prodding, particularly if their pe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey says some parents are complaining that Black History Month programs constitute critical race theory. (Video still/YouTube/WSFA)
Even though critical race theory is not taught in K-12 classrooms in Alabama, the state has already approved a resolution banning the teaching of divis... | null | null | null | null | null |
Travis McMichael withdraws plea admitting guilt to federal hate crime charges in murder of Ahmaud Arbery
Travis McMichael, left, speaks with his attorney Bob Rubin at the sentencing of McMichael, his father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan in Brunswick, Ga., on Jan. 7, 2022. (Stephen B. Morton... | null | null | null | null | null |
“I put a bunch of pressure on myself, and to be honest, I didn’t enjoy it at all,” Langland said in December, sitting outside a Copper Mountain, Colo., coffee shop. “I wasn’t enjoying not getting the results I wanted. As I’ve grown over the last four years and how my riding has grown over the last four years, I know I’... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Post partners with Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting in new internship program
Applications will open Feb. 7 to join the Investigative team this summer
The Washington Post today announced a new summer internship program in partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporti... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Washington Redskins running back John Riggins (44) eludes a tackle-attempt by Miami Dolphins’ Don McNeal (28) during NFL football’s Super Bowl XVII in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 30, 1983. Washington was a power team, using running back — more like a fullback — John Riggins to batter defenses behind the original “Hog... | null | null | null | null | null |
Syrian emergency personnel work amid debris on a building destroyed during a counterterrorism mission conducted by the U.S. Special Operations forces in Atma, Syria, on Feb. 3, 2022. (Mohamed Aldaher/Via Reuters)
This was a more than sufficient basis for the deadly operation according to how Biden — and before him, Pre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Emergency personnel are seen Feb. 3, 2022, at a building heavily damaged early that day during a counterterrorism mission conducted by U.S. Special Forces in Atma, Syria. (Mohamed Aldaher/Via Reuters)
This was a more-than-sufficient basis for the deadly operation, according to how Biden — and before him, Presidents Don... | null | null | null | null | null |
Torch bearers Dinigeer Yilamujiang and Jiawen Zhao of Team China lit the Olympic Cauldron on Friday night in Beijing. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
During the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics, two Chinese athletes — cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang and Nordic combined athlete Zhao Jiawen — lit the Olympic c... | null | null | null | null | null |
Officials said they are aware of online threats made to schools in Montgomery but that they’re not credible
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Montgomery County Police and school officials said Friday that they were aware of “a number of online threats” made to public schools but did not consider them to be credible.
In a statement, of... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Beijing Winter Olympics won’t stir visions of a blissful tomorrow. The events may be an entertaining reprieve, if you can codify enough ignorance about all the trouble swarming society. But for all the spirit Zhang portrayed in directing the curtain-raiser, the night couldn’t shed an ominous feeling.
It seemed more... | null | null | null | null | null |
“CODA” A Conversation with Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin joins Washington Post Live on Friday, Feb. 4 (The Washington Post)
“CODA” is a coming-of-age film about Ruby Rossi, the only hearing member of her family. On Friday, Feb. 4 at 1:00 p.m. ET, Academy Award-winner Marlee Matlin joins the Washington Post’s Frances Stea... | null | null | null | null | null |
Biden’s legal justification for striking ISIS leader in Syria — and why not everyone agrees
Rescue workers are seen Feb. 3 at a building heavily damaged that day during a counterterrorism mission conducted by U.S. Special Forces in Atma, Syria. (Mohamed Aldaher/Via Reuters)
This was a more-than-sufficient basis for the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mothers from West Virginia meeting with lawmakers Feb. 2 about expanding the child tax credit program arranged 500 teddy bears on the National Mall, each representing 100 of the state's children who could slip back into poverty due to the end of the tax credit — 50,000 children in West Virginia alone. (Kyle Swenson/The... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Olivia Rodrigo performs “Good 4 U” at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2021, in New York. Rodrigo has been named Woman of the Year by Billboard, landing her in the same company as Taylor Swift, Cardi B and Billie Eilish. Rodrigo will be honored at the annual Billboard Women in Music Awards on March 2. (Ch... | null | null | null | null | null |
ROANOKE, Va. — For the second time in as many weeks a federal appeals court threw out a permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Thursday.
Last week, the same three-judge panel shot down a permit that would have allowed the pipeline to pass through a 3.5 mile (5.6 kilometer) section of the Jefferson National Forest. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Marriott recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros during a September job fair at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Marta Lavandier/AP)
If we overlay two ways of measuring how those numbers changed, we see two versions of the same story. The three-month average of new jobs added goes from over 75... | null | null | null | null | null |
Junior Erin Gemmell is the latest potential Olympian powering the Gators
Stone Ridge swimmer Erin Gemmell during a practice session for the Nation's Capital Swim Club at Lakewood Country Club on Jan. 27 in Rockville. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Most Olympians will go their whole lives without approaching Katie... | null | null | null | null | null |
Prosecutors say the base had to be evacuated and cleared for bombs twice on Feb. 22, 2021, because of the threats made by D’Carlo Nimis Deluca. A federal judge in Newport News, Va., sentenced him Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison.
While on pretrial release, he was arrested while allegedly trying to enter a feder... | null | null | null | null | null |
2022 Beijing Olympics - Alpine Skiing - Training - National Alpine Skiing Centre, Yanqing district, Beijing, China - February 4, 2022. Travis Ganong of the United States in action during training. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
YANQING, China — Every Olympic skier arriving in China this past week or ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Voters lined up in Cranberry, Pennsylvania on November 03, 2020. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
There are no more ordinary elections in America; every one seems like, to use the old cliché, “the most important election of our lifetimes.” If Democrats are not desperate yet as they grapple with how to win th... | null | null | null | null | null |
WASHINGTON, DC - July 14: The entrance to the auditorium in the newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on G St. in Washington, DC on July 14. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
But that prompted outrage from local activists and residents last week after DCist/WAMU reported that the board of trustees vo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Alpine skier Richardson Viano will become the first Haitian to participate in the Winter Olympics. (Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images)
Every Olympics seem to have a handful of nations making their first appearances at the Games, and the 2022 Beijing Olympics are no different. Here’s a quick look at Haiti and Saudi Arabi... | null | null | null | null | null |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
After months of stalled negotiations, the House on Friday passed a bill aimed at making the United States more economically competitive with China by boosting the nation’s manufacturing ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Americans again were outfitted by Ralph Lauren, and just like four years ago in PyeongChang, the designer has stuffed the coats with science.
As Vogue tells it: “To create the anoraks, for instance, Ralph Lauren used a high-tech, temperature-responsive fabric called Intelligent Insulation. It has the ability to ada... | null | null | null | null | null |
Wastewater samples from the Ballenger-McKinney wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Md., are collected twice a week and sent to a lab to screen for the coronavirus. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to expand a system that detects coronavirus in wastewater ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The investigation, details of which were briefed to the media Friday, was ordered after a member of Islamic State-Khorasan, the extremist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, detonated a suicide vest Aug. 26 in a crowded outdoor corridor at the international airport in Kabul, killing 13 U.S. troops and more than 170 Afgha... | null | null | null | null | null |
NASA and SpaceX are investigating spacecraft parachutes but say safety is not a concern
Officials said that one of the Dragon spacecraft’s parachutes sometimes inflates more slowly than others but doesn’t affect landing
This screenshot of the NASA broadcast of the Crew-2 return shows the Dragon spacecraft carrying the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The past three days have brought headaches for airlines and their customers, as more than 10,000 flights have been canceled since Wednesday. In recent weeks, airlines had begun to recover from a series of cancellations that began Christmas Eve and extended well into the new year.
On Friday, freezing rain caused new pow... | null | null | null | null | null |
Chasing Cancer: Women & Cancer
Every five minutes, a woman is diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer. Coupled with the outsized impact of COVID-19, the burden of cancer on women is only expected to rise in coming years, with breast cancer becoming the most common type of cancer diagnosed. On Wednesday, February 23, join r... | null | null | null | null | null |
A boy walks in the Puerta 8 shantytown in Buenos Aires, where laced batches of cocaine were found by authorities Feb. 3. (Tomas Cuesta/AFP/Getty Images)
Authorities in Argentina have urged residents to dispose of any cocaine after a batch laced with an unknown substance killed at least 23 people in the capital, Buenos ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Memphis activist Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years and one day in prison this week. Moses, who was convicted of trying to illegally register to vote, was told by officials in 2019 that she had regained her voting rights. They later acknowledged that they had made a mistake. (Screenshot via YouTube/WREG)
Pamela Mo... | null | null | null | null | null |
“The questions for entry had little to do with being Black and had more to do with being leftist,” said Cordoza, who won in November by fewer than 100 votes in what had seemed a safe Democratic seat.
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and the first woman of color elected statewide in Virginia... | null | null | null | null | null |
What’s more, the first winter Olympic athlete who identifies as nonbinary will be competing in the Winter Games: pairs figure skater Timothy LeDuc. LeDuc has given voice to what it means to have to work twice as hard and often settle for half as much, while being subjected to exponential scrutiny: “So often queer peopl... | null | null | null | null | null |
Voters line up in Cranberry, Pa., on Nov. 3, 2020. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
There are no more ordinary elections in the United States; each one appears to be, to use the old cliche, “the most important election of our lifetime.” If Democrats are not desperate yet as they grapple with how to win the m... | null | null | null | null | null |
2022 Beijing Olympics — Alpine skiing — Training — National Alpine skiing Centre, Yanqing district, Beijing, China — February 4, 2022. Travis Ganong of the United States in action during training. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
YANQING, China — Every Olympic skier arriving in China this past week or ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Biden extends tariffs on imported solar equipment but leaves exemption in place
Biden keeps solar tariffs, exemption
President Biden is extending tariffs on imported solar equipment but leaving in place a critical exemption, attempting a middle-ground approach that could boost domestic manufacturing as well as U.S. ren... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former Burke pastor charged with sex offenses in alleged contact with minors
A former Burke, Va., pastor has been charged with multiple sex offenses for allegedly having unlawful sexual contact with a minor at Pilgrim Community Church, Fairfax County police announced Friday.
Authorities are seeking the extradition of 3... | null | null | null | null | null |
“The questions for entry had little to do with being Black and had more to do with being leftist,” said Cordoza, who won in November by fewer than 100 votes in what had seemed a safe Democratic seat
With judges’ ruling in recount, GOP cements two-seat majority in Virginia House of Delegates
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Right on cue, Gingrich displayed his anti-democratic instincts. He said on — where else? — Fox News that if Republicans regain the majority in the House, lawmakers on the Jan. 6 investigate committee are “going to face a real risk of jail for the kind of laws they are breaking.”
As Jonathan Chait noted in New York maga... | null | null | null | null | null |
117th Congress: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Today at 4:22 p.m. EST|Updated February 8, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. EST
He’s the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, keeping a close eye on the Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border. Join Washington Post Live on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 3:00 p.m. ET, whe... | null | null | null | null | null |
A boy walks on Feb. 3 in the Puerta 8 shantytown in Buenos Aires Province, where authorities said laced batches of cocaine were sold. (Tomas Cuesta/AFP/Getty Images)
Authorities in Argentina have urged residents to dispose of any cocaine after a batch laced with an unknown substance killed at least 23 people in the gre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former attorney Michael Avenatti, representing himself, presents his closing arguments during his criminal trial at the United States Courthouse in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Feb. 2, 2022. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
NEW YORK — Michael Avenatti, an attorney who rose to national prominence representing adult... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Billionaires have the power to influence change
Leon Cooperman in his home office in Boca Raton, Fla., on Jan. 24 (Scott McIntyre for The Washington Post)
In the Jan. 30 front-page article “The moral calculations of a billionaire,” Leon Cooperman sounded like a kind and thoughtful gentleman. He has pledged to ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is concerned with employment, too
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell on Capitol Hill on Jan. 11. (Graeme Jennings/Bloomberg News)
Regarding George F. Will’s Jan. 30 op-ed, “The Fed doesn’t need two political activists”:
Mr. Will, an incisive writer, recently wrote that “the Fed, having ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Judge Srinivasan would be a great pick for the Supreme Court. But he’s not the only great pick.
Judge Sri Srinivasan in 2019. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Regarding the Jan. 28 news article “Activists mobilize to cheer on a Black woman, and fight for her if necessary”:
I refuse to be swayed by Ilya Shapi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: School systems are being pushed to their limits
Students at a public school in Miami Lakes, Fla., on Aug. 23, 2021. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg)
The Jan. 31 front-page article “Public schools facing a crisis of epic proportion” went into detail about how “schools are on the defensive” when it comes to their... | null | null | null | null | null |
Three charged with murder in fatal shooting last year in Prince George’s County
Three people, including a 17-year-old, have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Jether Bonds in Fort Washington in July, Prince George’s County police said in a news release.
Kyle Moorehead, 19, of Oxon Hill and Z... | null | null | null | null | null |
What is — and isn’t — in the joint statement by Putin and Xi
Russian President Vladimir Putin met face-to-face with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in nearly two years Friday. The leaders convened in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics — and issued a lengthy statement detailing the two nat... | null | null | null | null | null |
Prosecutors say the base had to be evacuated and cleared for bombs twice on Feb. 22, 2021, because of the threats made by D’Carlo Nimis Deluca. A federal judge in Newport News, Va., sentenced him on Friday to 2½ years in prison.
While on pretrial release, he was arrested while allegedly trying to enter a federal courth... | null | null | null | null | null |
WASHINGTON — In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added 467,000 jobs in January in a sign of the economy’s resilience even in the face of a wave of omicron infections last month. The government’s report also drastically revised up its estimate of job gains for November and December by a combined 709,000... | null | null | null | null | null |
Phyllis E. Oakley, who retired as an assistant secretary of state in 1999 after more than 25 years of federal service — and four decades after she quit the Foreign Service because her marriage to a fellow officer was unofficially prohibited at the time, died Jan. 22 at a hospital in Washington. She was 87.
The cause wa... | null | null | null | null | null |
Russian President Vladimir Putin met face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in nearly two years Friday. The leaders convened in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics — and issued a lengthy statement detailing the two nations’ shared positions on a range of global issues.
The English ver... | null | null | null | null | null |
Medical emergency leads to death of off-duty police officer in Gaithersburg crash
A Montgomery County police officer died in a car crash that followed a medical emergency, officials said. (iStock)
An off-duty Montgomery County police officer died in a car crash Friday after he had a medical emergency while driving his ... | null | null | null | null | null |
How to pitch stories to Launcher
Launcher is looking for original reporting — features, profiles, reported analysis and more — and we want to hear from you. Launcher aims to be an authoritative, clarifying voice on the video game industry and the culture and mass audience that has developed around it. We hope you’ll he... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Ballenger-McKinney wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Md. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to expand a system that detects the coronavirus in wastewater to better predict surges and declines of the virus and, eventually, wants to harness the network’... | null | null | null | null | null |
The investigation, details of which were presented to the media Friday, was ordered after a member of Islamic State-Khorasan, the extremist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, detonated a suicide vest Aug. 26 in a crowded outdoor corridor just outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing an estimated 170 Afghans a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Phyllis E. Oakley, who retired as an assistant secretary of state in 1999 after more than 25 years of federal service — and four decades after she quit the Foreign Service because her marriage to a fellow officer was unofficially prohibited at the time — died Jan. 22 at a hospital in Washington. She was 87.
The cause w... | null | null | null | null | null |
MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of a 22-year-old Black man shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a predawn, no-knock raid early Wednesday said their son had been “executed” by an officer and called for charges to be filed.
The raid took place just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, and the footage captures officers shining a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former vice president Mike Pence. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The reaction on Friday seems to largely be an example of a very common reaction in the Donald Trump era of American politics. From the outset, critics of the former president have been on the watch for a signal moment in which it all collapses, a have-you-no-sh... | null | null | null | null | null |
Juli Briskman, who was fired after a photo showed her flipping off President Donald Trump's presidential motorcade while riding a bicycle, campaigns in her Sterling, Va., neighborhood in 2019 during a successful run for a seat on Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
He was maskle... | null | null | null | null | null |
MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of a 22-year-old Black man shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a predawn no-knock raid early Wednesday said their son had been “executed” by an officer and called for charges to be filed.
The raid took place just before 7 a.m. Wednesday, and the footage captures officers shining a bri... | null | null | null | null | null |
Right on cue, Gingrich displayed his anti-democratic instincts. He said on — where else? — Fox News that if Republicans regain the majority in the House, lawmakers on the Jan. 6 investigative committee are “going to face a real risk of jail for the kind of laws they are breaking.”
As Jonathan Chait noted in New York ma... | null | null | null | null | null |
China courted the world the last time it hosted the Olympics. Not now.
A security official looks on during an ice hockey practice session at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing on Feb. 3. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
China’s attitude toward the world has undergone a transformation since Beijing hosted the Summer Olympi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde leads the season-long standings in Alpine skiing’s two fastest disciplines. (REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)
Their entire life, their entire relationship, is a balance. On the globe-trotting World Cup circuit, the men and women most often exist on parallel planes — the men in, say, Kitzbuehel,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hundreds died in the ensuing battle. Here’s how it played out.
HASAKAH, Syria — The militants of the Islamic State announced their most brazen attack in years with a truck bombing that blasted a hole in the exterior wall of a Syrian prison holding thousands of their comrades. The Jan. 20 attack triggered a 10-day battl... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a 4-3 decision divided by party lines, the state’s highest court found that Republican lawmakers drew maps that deprived voters of their “substantially equal voting power on the basis of partisan affiliation,” according to the 40-page order. The ruling is the latest in consequential redistricting wins for Democrats ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cadets 6, Cubs 5
St. John's goalie Amelia Haywood makes one of her many stops during the third period against Georgetown Visitation in the Mid-Atlantic Girls Hockey League championship at Gardens Ice House. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
St. John’s goalie Amelia Haywood had been tested all night, making more tha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Beijing Winter Olympics live updates U.S. women’s hockey returns; first medals to be awarded
Weather halts men’s downhill training at Alpine skiing course
Who is Dinigeer Yilamujiang, the Uyghur athlete who lit the Olympic cauldron?
Beijing 2022 announces 26 confirmed positive tests at airport, 19 inside ‘closed loop’ ... | null | null | null | null | null |
This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows the explosion, behind he two U.S. Marines in the foreground, by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan e... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - This file photo provided on Jan. 15, 2022, by the North Korean government shows a missile test from railway in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, on Jan. 14, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mothers from West Virginia meeting with lawmakers Feb. 2 about expanding the child tax credit program arranged 500 teddy bears on the National Mall, each representing 100 of the state's children who could slip back into poverty. (Kyle Swenson/The Washington Post)
They had already tried so much. They had collected signa... | null | null | null | null | null |
Great Chocolate Showdown (CW at 8) The bakers are tasked with making impressions in chocolate using household tools.
48 Hours (CBS at 10) Investigators thought they were assessing the wreckage of a fire in 1991 at an Austin frozen yogurt shop but were shocked to uncover a quadruple murder case of four teenage girls.
Sh... | null | null | null | null | null |
In this photo provided by ESPN Images, from left to right, ESPN’s Barry Melrose, Steve Levy, Mark Messier and Chris Chelios do a pregame segment at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., before the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL hockey game on Oct. 12, 2021. ESPN has returned to televising the NHL for th... | null | null | null | null | null |
People go to hospital after shots reported in Blacksburg, Va.
Va. Tech campus told briefly to “secure doors.”
Blacksburg is the home of Virginia Tech, and the university told the campus in a Twitter message early Saturday to “stay inside” and to “secure doors.” The instruction about doors was rescinded about 3:15 a.m.,... | null | null | null | null | null |
The United States' Mikaela Shiffrin returns after winning a gold medal in the giant slalom four years ago in PyeongChang. (Marco Trovati/AP)
Alpine skiing is one of the signature disciplines of the Winter Games, having been part of the Olympic program since 1936. Historically, it has been dominated by Alpine countries,... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘Very Cold People’ relays the realities of girlhood with stunning clarity
By Michele Filgate
“How much of human life is lost in waiting!” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote — and perhaps no stretch of time can feel like more of a slog than the endless years of childhood and adolescence, two decades when every trivial and c... | null | null | null | null | null |
Students from BASIS DC entertain themselves after school Thursday in the auditorium of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, in downtown D.C. (Amanda Voisard/Amanda Voisard/for The Washington Post)
But local activists and residents were outraged last week after DCist/WAMU reported that the board of trustees had ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Cate Le Bon’s ‘Pompeii’ helped her find light in the darkness of the pandemic
Welsh musician Cate Le Bon. (Cate Le Bon)
In the early, dystopian days of the pandemic, Welsh artist Cate Le Bon received an unexpected gift. It was a painting of a female figure — stoic, saintly, and in possession of a quiet power — that her... | null | null | null | null | null |
Biden marks 900,000 covid-19 deaths and urges: 'Get vaccinated, get your ki...
Birthday balloons float next to one of thousands of white flags in Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's “In America: Remember,” a memorial for Americans who died due to the coronavirus, next to the Washington Monument on October 1, 2021. (Leah Mill... | null | null | null | null | null |
Conditions were sunny but frigid and blustery midday at Genting Snow Park, adding difficulty to what riders agreed is already a technically challenging course. At 12:30 p.m., the wind chill measured on an iPhone read minus-12 degrees, with 13-mph gusts blowing at the bottom of the slopestyle run.
It felt windier. And a... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Such an accident is a rare occurrence and in this case was caused by the unexpectedly large size of the fish caught,” the Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association said in a statement Friday. It added that the vessel had recorded the quantities of lost fish with the authorities of its flag state, Lithuania, and that they wo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Shop makes, sells clothes for Baltimore’s top public schools
Ricky Herman, owner of Herman’s Discount on Greenmount Avenue, chats with customer Camira Black, a 9th grader at City College, Jan. 27, 2022 in Wavely, Md.. The sale of school uniforms is a large part of his business, but survival during the pandemic depended... | null | null | null | null | null |
Wayne M. Crocker, director of library services for Petersburg Public Library, is shown on Jan. 18, 2022 in Petersburg, Va. Crocker, is a primary leader in the effort to transform the old Petersburg Public Library in the McKenney House, which has been vacant since 2014 when a new library opened, into a Black history mus... | null | null | null | null | null |
He really did want to overturn the 2020 election and he never meant it when he said those who broke the law on Jan. 6 should have to pay
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 29 in Conroe, Tex. At the rally, Trump said: “If I run [for president in 2024] and I win, we will treat those people from Janua... | null | null | null | null | null |
A view on Oct. 1, 1935, of the Maples, 630 South Carolina Ave. SE. (Library of Congress)
I grew up in D.C. and have fond memories of Friendship House in the late 1940s. It was in Southeast, a block off Pennsylvania Avenue. It was a great place for kids: a quiet room for homework, lessons of all kinds for a quarter. I t... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - A busload of arrested Jewish men are questioned by government officials before being taken away in Berlin on April 11, 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler’s takeover of power in Germany. The notion of being Jewish is complicated and includes a combination of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, culture and histo... | null | null | null | null | null |
By Dave Goldberg | AP
PASADENA, Calif. — Phil Simms grabbed the spotlight after usually operating in the shadow of Lawrence Taylor and the New York defense and passed the New York Giants to a 39-20 victory over the Denver Broncos in their first Super Bowl. Simms was unanimously voted the game’s Most Valuable Player aft... | null | null | null | null | null |
To open the evening, in classic short-track style, France’s Tifany Huot-Marchand was knocked off balance and sent flying into the safety padding halfway through the first lap of a women’s 500-meters heat. No crowd exasperation. Huot-Marchand spent the past four years training to make it here. She doesn’t have a sponsor... | null | null | null | null | null |
Said U.S. alternate Tess Johnson, "I want to be clear that the other girls are not undeserving. … I just believe I deserve a spot as well." (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
BEIJING — The night before she was to head home from the Beijing Olympics, Tess Johnson turned on the TV in the hotel room and flipped the channels until s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Earth to GOP: All of Biden’s top Supreme Court candidates are qualified
From left: U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger, and U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. President Biden is considering all of them for the U.S. Supreme Court. (Charles Dharapak,... | null | null | null | null | null |
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 ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Trucks are parked near Parliament Hill in Ottawa as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates on Feb. 4, 2022. (Lars Hagberg/Reuters)
OTTAWA — Canada’s capital on Saturday was bracing for a surge of demonstrators to join a week-long protest of public health measures and Prime Minister Jus... | null | null | null | null | null |
Canadian officials are expressing cautious optimism that meetings with their American counterparts in Washington last month might have broken a deadlock and that at least some Prince Edward Island potatoes could be heading to parts of the United States and its territories in the coming weeks.
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Rogan made the apology in response to a compilation video shared widely on social media this week showing various moments over 12 years in which Rogan said the n-word on his show. The video was posted by singer India. Arie, who recently removed her catalogue from Spotify in response to Rogan’s “language around race.”
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Rogan, already under fire in recent weeks after medical professionals and musicians decried him for helping spread misinformation on the coronavirus, posted a video on Instagram to address what he described as “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.”
Rogan made the apology in r... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hilary Knight and the U.S. beat the Russian Olympic Committee on Saturday. (Brian Snyder/Pool Photo via AP)
BEIJING — On Saturday night, Hilary Knight found Savannah Harmon during Team USA’s pregame skate and cracked a joke. “Just find yourself down there on the dots,” she told Harmon. “It’s coming through.”
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