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One of the country’s earliest naturalized athletes was London-born Alex Hua Tian, who competed for China in the equestrian triathlon in the 2008 Summer Olympics as part of the Chinese Olympic Committee’s bid to be represented in every event.
Until recently Hua, whose father is Chinese, was an outlier in a sports system... | null | null | null | null | null |
The ‘Miracle on Ice’ shaped the Olympics coverage we’re seeing every night
How rooting for American athletes became part of Olympic TV coverage
Silver medalists Karen Chen and Nathan Chen pose for a photo after the team event in the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP P... | null | null | null | null | null |
Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine may boost NATO
In times of transatlantic turmoil and drift, Russia has helped save the alliance from itself
The NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 7, before a visit by Polish President Andrej Duda. (Olivier Matthys/AP)
By Susan Colbourn
Susan Colbourn is associate director of the Tr... | null | null | null | null | null |
How leaders consolidate their power helps explain why soldiers depose governments.
People gather in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, on Jan. 25 to show their support for a coup.
By Kristen A. Harkness
Last week, soldiers in Guinea Bissau surrounded the government palace, attacking President Umaro Sissoco Embaló dur... | null | null | null | null | null |
Straddling the worlds of Silicon Valley and conservative politics has made Thiel a uniquely influential and polarizing individual, though he’s not as widely known as other well-documented political funders like the Koch brothers. That’s likely to change as he dives deeper into U.S. politics.
A spokesperson for Thiel di... | null | null | null | null | null |
Almost three years passed after Catton’s symptoms first emerged, during which she saw about 10 doctors. Then, in October, she collapsed in pain and took herself to the emergency room. From one of her ovaries, surgeons pulled a cancerous blob weighing roughly 4½ pounds and stretching nearly eight inches — about the size... | null | null | null | null | null |
Wednesday afternoon, Stevenson entered the Big Air Shougang unlikely to make the podium and tumbled on the first of his three jumps. He then executed a trick called a Nose Butter Left Triple 1620 Japan, three flips and 4½ spins dappled with technical flourish. He never had tried it before, not even in practice. But it ... | null | null | null | null | null |
He added: “In a conservative setting like Chinese sports, the tolerance for difference and the taste for diversity is still very limited.”
One of the country’s earliest naturalized athletes was London-born Alex Hua Tian, who competed for China in the equestrian triathlon in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as part o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Philip Marlowe, we thought we knew thee
Joe Ide reimagines Raymond Chandler’s classic sleuth in ‘The Goodbye Coast.’ Fans of both authors may be perplexed.
(Kaori Suzuki; Mulholland Books)
Perhaps I’m missing something.
“The Goodbye Coast,” by Joe Ide, is billed as a “reinvention” of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Even at a time of high vehicle prices and low levels of inventory, automakers have good reason to proceed cautiously. As previously mentioned, the industry is in a once-in-a-lifetime transition from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles. It’s an all-in moment for a capital-intensive industry that can
t afford to stumbl... | null | null | null | null | null |
9 ANXIOUS PEOPLE (Washington Square, $17). By Fredrik Backman. A failed bank robber holds a group of anxious strangers as hostages.
5 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN (Vintage, $16). By Joan Didion. A collection of the essayist’s works from 1968 to 2000.
7 MAUS II: A SURVIVOR’S TALE: AND HERE MY TROUBLES BEGAN (Pantheon, $1... | null | null | null | null | null |
Harvard did a bad, bad thing
Here’s what I know and what I don’t know about the latest lawsuit against Harvard for protecting its own
Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Jan. 20, 2015. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Today’s Spoiler Alerts is about a lawsuit that was filed on Tuesday against Harvard University by three o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Congressional staffers are pushing to unionize. Here's how they could do it.
with research by Marianna Sotomayor
Good morning, Early Birds. BRB, we’re moving to Taipei, where the garbage trucks play Beethoven and residents “enjoy taking out the trash because it’s a chance to catch up with” friends. Send us your tips be... | null | null | null | null | null |
When Flores was dismissed last month, after leading the Dolphins to an 8-1 finish and a 9-8 record, he was angered by murmurs that his firing came as a result of him being difficult to work with. On a personal level, this fight — prompted by a series of clumsily mistaken text messages that Belichick sent to another for... | null | null | null | null | null |
It came at age 36, in the latter stage of a long career that includes 30 individual World Cup wins, 10 X Games gold medals, six world championships and one silver medal from 2006. It made her the oldest snowboarder to medal at the Olympics and the oldest American woman to win gold — in any sport — at the Winter Games.
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Petra Vlhova of Slovakia celebrates her gold medal in slalom. (Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
YANQING, China — After Petra Vlhova finished a blistering second run down the “Ice River” course at National Alpine Skiing Centre on Wednesday, the only thing she could do was stand around and wait. Seven skiers ha... | null | null | null | null | null |
Clothes dry outside houses in Jiangsu, the Chinese province where a mother was chained to a shed. ( Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
Appalled Internet users questioned whether the woman — who appeared unable to communicate with the blogger, suggesting a degree of cognitive impairment — was forced to have so many children o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Even at a time of high vehicle prices and low levels of inventory, automakers have good reason to proceed cautiously. As previously mentioned, the industry is in a once-in-a-lifetime transition from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles. It’s an all-in moment for a capital-intensive industry that can’t afford to stumbl... | null | null | null | null | null |
Clarksburg basketball star is a rarity in this area: a public school basketball player with a Power Five future
Clarksburg junior guard Riley Nelson has dominated Montgomery County and led her team to a 14-0 start. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)
The defender’s job seemed simple: Remain in front of Clarksburg gu... | null | null | null | null | null |
Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, of Germany, prepare to start the luge doubles run 1 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
BEIJING — Another day, another German Olympic luge threepeat. The best sliding nation in the world is leaving absolutel... | null | null | null | null | null |
From left: Julie Collins, Katie Paris and Julie Womack, the leaders of Red Wine and Blue, a group of about 300,000 liberal suburban moms. (Maddie McGarvey for The Washington Post)
The ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom recorded a record 330 challenges to books from Sept. 1 through Dec. 1, compared with 377 cases for... | null | null | null | null | null |
On Monday, the Supreme Court stepped in, in a way that was doubly extraordinary. First, divided 5 to 4, it said the lower court had acted too close to the election — even though the primary is not until May and the general election is nine months away. Second, several conservative justices appeared open to Alabama’s ra... | null | null | null | null | null |
Millennia before UFC, there was the brutal Olympic sport of pankration
Bas-relief on ancient Greek funerary stele from Kerameikos in Athens. Scene from Palaestra — wrestlers in action. On the left an athlete is ready to jump, on the right another one preparing the pit. (Zzvet/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
By Theo Zenou
On ... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Michael Politte. Politte, who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole and will be released on April 23, 2022. (Missouri Department of Corrections via A... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jefferson Mays, right, as River City’s Mayor George Shinn, and the musical’s barbershop quartet kick off the opening week of Broadway’s “The Music Man” outside the Winter Garden Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK — One of the first songs in “The Music Man” is “(Ya Got) T... | null | null | null | null | null |
First, a new battle has erupted between the White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), now that DeSantis has signaled support for the “Don’t say gay” bill advancing in the Florida legislature. The bill would restrict classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity, and President Biden just slammed it... | null | null | null | null | null |
As a series of top Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) rebuked the censures of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), the RNC suggested critics were merely stuck in the “D.C. bubble.”
“Outside of the D.C. bubble, our grass roots are very supportive of the decision to hold ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Russian Olympic Committee figure skating team, center, finished first in the team event this week but has yet to receive its medals. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters)
BEIJING — The Russian Olympic Committee won the gold medal in Monday’s figure skating team event, followed by the United States in second and Japan in th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Throckmorton said the idea to unionize the store she worked at, near the University of Memphis, came shortly after what unfolded in western New York. In her almost two years there, Throckmorton said workers regularly operated in what she described as “hazardous conditions,” with fridges leaking water and causing employ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Julie’s a bit of a mess. When we meet her, she has no sooner enrolled in pre-med courses at a Norwegian university than she’s shifted her major to psychology — no wait, art. She’s all over the map. Her love life is just as prone to last-minute switchbacks. To paraphrase the singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, she doesn’... | null | null | null | null | null |
First, a new battle has erupted between the White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), now that DeSantis has signaled support for what critics are calling the “Don’t say gay” bill advancing in the Florida legislature. The bill would restrict classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity, and Presid... | null | null | null | null | null |
That’s decidedly not where McConnell is. He has made a point to lend the committee legitimacy, saying that “what they are seeking to find out is something the public needs to know.” He also reinforced in his comments Tuesday that Joe Biden’s win was legitimate and that Jan. 6 was indeed a violent “insurrection” — somet... | null | null | null | null | null |
More than 100,000 people had signed a petition calling for Zouma to be punished after the video, which was first shared to Snapchat, was viewed by millions.
The video was first published Monday by British tabloid the Sun. In the footage, laughter can be heard as the 27-year-old, who also plays for the French national t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lisa Banks, the Washington attorney who represents Johnston and more than three dozen former employees, said it is “utterly absurd” that Snyder has hired a team “to investigate his own actions.” She said Johnston would not participate into what she called a “sham” investigation, and "the public will not be duped into b... | null | null | null | null | null |
The polling also found that people whose views were furthest from reality on the results of the 2020 election were also those most eager to downplay what occurred at the Capitol. For example, 7 in 10 Republicans who say Trump probably won in 2020 think that too much attention has been paid to Jan. 6. That position was ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The ID.me stance on facial recognition has also clashed with the leaders of the government’s own identity verification service, Login.gov, which has been used by more than 40 million people to access websites run by 28 federal agencies.
On Tuesday, six Republican senators — Mike Braun (Ind.), Ted Cruz (Tex.), Joni Erns... | null | null | null | null | null |
Smith said Microsoft plans to adapt the Xbox app store to embrace all of the competition principles, though it will take time to do so because of technical limitations. Sarah Bond, corporate vice president of game ecosystem for Xbox, said the company wants to enable “store within a store experiences” but that it requir... | null | null | null | null | null |
A protester holds gas cans near Canada's Parliament as truckers protest vaccine mandates in downtown Ottawa, Feb. 8, 2022. (Kadri Mohamed/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
By now, you’ve likely heard about the protest underway in the Canadian capital, Ottawa. A number of truckers, incensed at a mandate encouraging full vaccination... | null | null | null | null | null |
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) shifted her public position Wednesday on banning lawmakers and their spouses from owning and trading individual stocks, saying she would support that if members of her delegation wanted to do so.
“There are a number of senators with various proposals, and I have asked my Dem... | null | null | null | null | null |
Richard Bonsignore, Foreign Service officer, lawyer
Richard Bonsignore, 73, a Foreign Service officer from 1986 to 1993 who later worked as a senior counsel at Washington-area law firms and then was a CIA political analyst from 2009 to 2014, died Sept. 5 at his home in Bethesda, Md. The cause was posterior cortical atr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sylvester “Syl” Johnson, a leading Chicago blues and soul singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer whose music was widely sampled by top hip-hop rappers and DJs, died Feb. 6 at 85.
Parts of Syl Johnson’s 1967 single “Different Strokes” were sampled — reused in homage — on later recordings by Kanye West, Public... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Path to Gender Equity: Research and Design with Sara A. Jahnke, PhD
The omission of women from research, development and design has had a significant impact on women’s safety and health. Clinical drug trials are routinely performed on men, and the personal protective gear used across frontline industries are design... | null | null | null | null | null |
Bomb threats were made Wednesday against at least three D.C. public high schools and a charter school, forcing buildings to be evacuated of students and staff, according to police and school officials.
D.C. police said threats also were made against charter schools on Wednesday, but did not immediately identify them. O... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nor does he seem to care. At the top of his most recent episode, Rogan summoned the evasive calm that’s become his signature while telling his listeners, “You have to be very careful to not apologize for nonsense.” The word “nonsense” came freighted with the resentment you’d expect, but you’d hardly know it from the wa... | null | null | null | null | null |
The move by Belarusian officials forced Andryiuk to miss a qualifying event that could have allowed her to take part in the Beijing Olympics, she told Reuters. She also lost her state job, and said she was considering seeking refuge in Poland.
Darya is one of Belarus’s top junior cross-country skiers, according to Reut... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland man charged with murder in shooting of woman in Prince George’s, police said
A 31-year-old Maryland man has been arrested and charged in the shooting death last week of a woman with whom he had a previous relationship, Prince George’s County police said.
Marcus Mitchell of Landover is being held without bond a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nor does he seem to care. At the top of his most recent episode, Rogan summoned the evasive calm that’s become his signature while telling his listeners, “You have to be very careful to not apologize for nonsense.” The word “nonsense” came freighted with the resentment you’d expect, but you’d hardly know it from the wa... | null | null | null | null | null |
LOS ANGELES — Ally Sheedy’s career boasts hit movies including “The Breakfast Club” and “WarGames,” an award-wining turn in the indie film “High Art” and a string of TV roles scattered over the years.
“’How did you figure out what to do on a film set? How did you know how to do this, that or the other thing?’” Sheedy r... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Donald Trump shows a letter he said was from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the National Archives, said this week that reports about torn and missing ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland Head Coach Mike Locksley has filled out his coaching staff. (Scott Taetsch for The Washington Post)
Maryland football has promoted Brian Williams to defensive coordinator after he served as the Terrapins’ outside linebackers coach, defensive line coach and co-defensive coordinator over Coach Michael Locksley’s... | null | null | null | null | null |
“U. S. Soccer had the obligation to protect its players — yet it stood by as abuse continued to occur unchecked,” the players wrote in a letter addressed to federation president Cindy Parlow Cone and former president Carlos Cordeiro. In the case of Dames and other NWSL coaches accused of abuse last year, the players al... | null | null | null | null | null |
Denmark's Frans Nielsen scores on a penalty shot Wednesday. (Bruce Bennett/Pool Photo via AP)
BEIJING — As soon as Denmark was awarded a penalty shot on Wednesday night, in the country’s first-ever Olympic men’s hockey game, there was no question who was going to take it. Out came 37-year-old Frans Nielsen, the first p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nathan Chen's musical choices have run the gamut from “La Boheme” to “Rocketman.” (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Don’t be surprised to hear Daft Punk, “Fly Me to the Moon,” the theme from “Schindler’s List” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” during the free skate. But entertainment is only a secondary goal.
“The free skate ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Light to moderate snow could fall in the D.C. area on Super Bowl Sunday. However, it’s still not clear whether it will snow hard enough or be cold enough for it to amount to much and have serious effects on the region.
As in two previous storms this winter, one which produced substantial snowfall in early January and a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Darya Dolidovich is one of Belarus’s top junior cross-country skiers, according to Reuters, which first reported on her flight to Poland.
Her father told The Post that Belarusian sports authorities cited what they described as unsportsmanlike conduct by his daughter. But the two believe the real motivation was politica... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ratings for almost every kind of TV programming have been falling in recent years, but few have slid as far, as fast or from such commanding heights as the Olympics. NBC has lost nearly half the viewers who tuned in to opening night as recently as eight years ago. Once a towering TV event, the games now look merely … p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sally Jenkins: NFL owners are committed to diversity — until it’s their turn to make a hire
When Flores was dismissed last month, after leading the Dolphins to an 8-1 finish and a 9-8 record, he was angered by murmurs that his firing came as a result of him being difficult to work with. On a personal level, this fight ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“U. S. Soccer had the obligation to protect its players — yet it stood by as abuse continued to occur unchecked,” the players wrote in a letter addressed to federation president Cindy Parlow Cone and former president Carlos Cordeiro. In the case of Dames and other NWSL coaches accused of abuse last year, the players al... | null | null | null | null | null |
Light to moderate snow could fall in the D.C. area on Super Bowl Sunday. But it’s still not clear whether it will snow hard enough or be cold enough for it to amount to much and have serious effects on the region.
As in two previous storms this winter, one which produced substantial snowfall in early January and anothe... | null | null | null | null | null |
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob has issued a subpoena to Peter Navarro, who was the White House trade adviser under President Donald Trump.
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the bipartisan committee, said in a statement Wednesday that Nav... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, 2nd left, talks with Professor Ian Chapman, CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, left, Nanna Heiberg, 2nd right, and Joseph Milnes, head of engineering design unit, right, alongside the MAST Upgrade chamber, during his visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)... | null | null | null | null | null |
Pedestrians in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. This month, as Broadway theaters, Lincoln Center, and other stages reopen, New Yorkers will see if the city’s famous love for the arts has held strong enough to play a starring role in its economic revival. (Bloomberg)
By Amanda... | null | null | null | null | null |
Raaheela Ahmed to resign from the Prince George’s County school board
She is planning to run for Maryland Senate’s 23rd District
From left, Prince George's school board members Raaheela Ahmed, David Murray, Edward Burroughs III and Joshua Thomas in November 2018 in Upper Marlboro, Md. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)... | null | null | null | null | null |
Plastic pollution in oceans to rise for decades even with immediate action
Already at significant levels, plastic pollution will continue to grow, research review says.
A Hawksbill sea turtle found dead in the United Arab Emirates is shown with the plastic materials, top, it ate in addition to food, bottom. A review of... | null | null | null | null | null |
This photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute shows the baby Sumatran orangutan born on Christmas Eve 2021. The zoo in New Orleans is asking fans of endangered orangutans to help name the baby orangutan. The infant has been getting round-the-clock care since a few days after his birth because his mother wasn’t pr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police allegedly urged death for U.S. suspects
Several members of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police force called for the deaths or beatings of two U.S. men arrested in the hours after an officer’s slaying, Italian media reported Wednesday.
A Carabinieri officer has been charged with using unjustified measures in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Zucker chapter is a reminder of the yawning gap between the way average Americans and the media elite live. It’s a chasm that has been widening for years. There’s not much overlap left. While the great unwashed struggle to survive amid social and economic unrest, anchors and many correspondents are typically comfor... | null | null | null | null | null |
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was asked about whether she’d support a bill banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks at all, she was dismissive. “We’re a free market economy,” she said, “and they should be able to participate in that.”
But now, perhaps responding to strongly worded opinion... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The deadly threat of antibiotic resistance could be met with vaccines
Brightly colored pharmaceutical medications. (Bloomberg Creative Photos/Bloomberg)
The Jan. 29 editorial “The shadow pandemic” raised the alarm about the persistent and growing problem of infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwi... | null | null | null | null | null |
PM Update: Not as cold tonight, and it will be another warm day Thursday
A night on P Street NW. (Mike Maguire/Flickr)
On days like today, it’s not hard to believe warmer times are around the corner. Highs in the mid-50s and light winds made for one of the nicer days in a while around here. We’ve got more of that ahead... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington. (J. David Ake/AP)
The private contractor ID.me says it will drop the facial recognition requirement in the identity-verification software used by 30 states and 10 federal agencies, a major reversal following a backlash due to the technology’s accuracy and privacy... | null | null | null | null | null |
The rules come as Microsoft is attempting to win regulatory approval for the largest deal in the company’s history
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith and other company executives at a Washington news conference outlined 11 new principles that would apply to the company’s app stores. The rules parallel th... | null | null | null | null | null |
A protester holds gas cans near Canada's Parliament in Ottawa on Feb. 8. (Kadri Mohamed/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
It’s important to note (as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has) that most truckers are already fully vaccinated. The Canadian Trucking Alliance estimates that 10 percent of the country’s truckers have not been va... | null | null | null | null | null |
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., will host Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13, 2022. (Morry Gash/AP)
So I threw scenarios at Stabbe. With the first, I asked what might happen if I tweeted a link to The Post’s subscription page with the lure, “Buy The Washington Post the day after the Super Bowl to see the score.” And his unsa... | null | null | null | null | null |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) shifted her public position Wednesday on banning lawmakers and their spouses from owning and trading individual stocks, saying more readily that she would support a ban if members of her caucus wanted to do so.
In January, Pelosi signaled that she could be open to a ban but seemed ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland owes prison staff nearly $500,000 in overtime
A U.S. Labor Department investigation found that Maryland shortchanged correctional officers and other staff at the Jessup Correctional Institution by nearly a half-million dollars in wages over a two-year period.
The federal labor department mailed notices last mo... | null | null | null | null | null |
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., will host Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13. (Morry Gash/AP)
So I threw scenarios at Stabbe. With the first, I asked what might happen if I tweeted a link to The Washingotn Post’s subscription page with the lure, “Buy The Washington Post the day after the Super Bowl to see the score.” And his... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mitch McConnell has at least picked a side in the brewing internecine GOP conflict; McCarthy, as usual, just hopes it goes away
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) address reporters outside the White House in May. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Say what you wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The demographics of the people fatally shot have remained largely constant since The Post started tracking after police in Ferguson, Mo., killed Michael Brown in 2014, gathering information from news coverage, social media posts and police records. Although the FBI launched its own data collection program to track poli... | null | null | null | null | null |
The demographics of the people fatally shot have remained largely constant since The Post started tracking after a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., killed Michael Brown in 2014, gathering information from news coverage, social media posts and police records. Although the FBI launched its own data collection program to ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 1, authorities said, Painter and Jefferson were responding to a call about a suspicious man on the grounds of Bridgewater’s Memorial Hall. “After a brief interaction … the subject opened fire and shot both officers,” a Virginia State Police spokeswoman said. The alleged gunman, identifi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Inside a vehicle, Contee said, they found a female passenger who had been struck by gunfire and was gravely injured. She died a short time later at a hospital. Her name and age have not been released.
Police said there was at least one other person inside the vehicle at the time. Contee said they “were not the intended... | null | null | null | null | null |
Consequently, right now, the fates of Multiracial Multicultural Social Fuller-Democracy and the Democratic Party are conjoined in the United States — and that’s a big problem for Multiracial Multicultural Social Fuller-Democracy. Because to prevent further erosion, Bush/Romney Republicans will have to back most Democra... | null | null | null | null | null |
These reflections are stirred by the death last weekend of Todd Gitlin, one of the world’s truly good, thoughtful and committed people. Gitlin was president of SDS from 1963 to 1964 and wrote the best account of the era in which he played an important role. “The Sixties,” published in 1987, captured a kaleidoscopic tim... | null | null | null | null | null |
Toyota said Wednesday that it was facing “shortages affecting production at our North American plants,” including in Canada, but the Japanese automaker said it did not “anticipate any impact to employment at this time.”
Magna International, an Aurora, Ontario-based supplier of vehicle components including chassis and s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mr. Trump broke the law. After President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, Congress passed a number of laws intended to preserve the integrity of documents and other materials from Nixon’s presidency, and made the laws applicable to all future presidents. The Presidential Records Act of 1978 ended the practice of records... | null | null | null | null | null |
Consequently, right now, the fates of Multiracial Multicultural Social Fuller-Democracy and the Democratic Party are conjoined in the United States — and that’s a big problem for Multiracial Multicultural Social Fuller-Democracy. Because to prevent further erosion, Bush/Romney Republicans will have to back most Democra... | null | null | null | null | null |
South Carolina officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting, killing of unarmed man
Police officer charged in fatal shooting
A small-town police officer of nearly 30 years in South Carolina was charged Wednesday in the shooting and killing of an unarmed man who led her on a high-speed chase and then tried to run f... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: “Capehart” with Al Franken
MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon. I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post. Welcome to the Capehart podcast on Washington Post Live. As I said, I am Jonathan Capehart.
My guest today was made famous by his role as a writer and performer on "Saturday Night Live" fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
“They are getting into the room and they’re getting the interviews,” Goodell said. “In fact, they’re exceeding anything in the Rooney Rule, as far as the interviews. What we want to try to see is the outcomes, right? We want to see Black head coaches in the NFL — coaches and people of color and eventually gender.” | null | null | null | null | null |
Figure skating live updates Nathan Chen continues his quest for gold in men’s free skate
For Mexico’s Donovan Carrillo, the dream is real
The men’s free skate is underway in Beijing
Without a quad, Evan Lysacek was last American man to win individual Olympic gold
Nathan Chen controls his own destiny
Here’s when the top... | null | null | null | null | null |
Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, said that researchers haven’t found that providing glass pipes works as intended, in part because of the difficulty of tracking infectious diseases spreading among drug users. But addiction, like other health problems, requires solution... | null | null | null | null | null |
“They are getting into the room, and they’re getting the interviews,” Goodell said. “In fact, they’re exceeding anything in the Rooney Rule, as far as the interviews. What we want to try to see is the outcomes, right? We want to see Black head coaches in the NFL — coaches and people of color and eventually gender.” | null | null | null | null | null |
Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, said researchers haven’t found that providing glass pipes works as intended, in part because of the difficulty of tracking infectious diseases spreading among drug users. But addiction, like other health problems, requires solutions bey... | null | null | null | null | null |
This image provided by the Costa Mesa, Calif., Police Department shows a 1962 Chevy II Nova owned by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. Thieves made off last weekend with Armstrong’s pearl white-finish Nova in Costa Mesa, south of Los Angeles. Acting on tips, authorities found it abandoned Tuesday night, Feb. 8, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - This photo provided by the North Korean government shows missiles during a military parade marking the ruling party congress, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 14, 2021. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean g... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland women win sixth straight with rout of Wisconsin, brace for a brutal stretch run
What to know from the Terrapins’ 70-43 win
Maryland's Diamond Miller shoots between Wisconsin's Brooke Schramek and Julie Pospisilova during Wednesday's win at Xfinity Center. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
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“I just was so proud of myself. I had the worst practice, ever,” Kim said. “I probably landed my run twice when I’m used to landing it eight times normally. And so that kind of puts you in a weird head space, and it just felt so inconsistent. I was like, I don’t want to feel all this pressure of not being able to land ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“I just was so proud of myself. I had the worst practice ever,” Kim said. “I probably landed my run twice when I’m used to landing it eight times normally. And so that kind of puts you in a weird head space, and it just felt so inconsistent. I was like, ‘I don’t want to feel all this pressure of not being able to land ... | null | null | null | null | null |
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. He is also scheduled to head to Warsaw for meetings with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is also in Moscow for talks.
Kyiv’s political leadership has ar... | null | null | null | null | null |
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