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Joiner leads Iona against Siena after 22-point outing The Saints are 5-4 in home games. Siena has a 2-0 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer. The Gaels are 11-1 against MAAC opponents. Iona ranks seventh in the MAAC shooting 33.3% from 3-point range. The teams play for the second time in conference play this se...
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Kent State visits Akron following Freeman's 21-point game Kent State Golden Flashes (14-9, 9-4 MAC) at Akron Zips (16-6, 9-3 MAC) Akron, Ohio; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Akron plays the Kent State Golden Flashes after Enrique Freeman scored 21 points in Akron’s 70-64 victory over the Northern Illinois Huskies. The...
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BOTTOM LINE: Saint Bonaventure visits the Saint Louis Billikens after Dominick Welch scored 21 points in Saint Bonaventure’s 76-51 victory over the Fordham Rams. The Billikens are 11-3 in home games. Saint Louis is 2-0 in games decided by 3 points or fewer. The Bonnies are 5-4 against A-10 opponents. Saint Bonaventure ...
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UNLV visits Boise State following Degenhart's 23-point game BOTTOM LINE: Boise State hosts the UNLV Rebels after Tyson Degenhart scored 23 points in Boise State’s 76-60 win against the San Jose State Spartans. The Broncos are 9-2 on their home court. Boise State is seventh in the MWC with 29.0 points per game in the pa...
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Supply chain issues won’t improve quickly, Maersk chief says Clogs in the global supply chain are unlikely to improve in the near future, according to the chief executive of Maersk, the Danish shipping company that has the most container ships in the world. A combination of high demand for goods and a shortage of logis...
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Actor, writer and producer Pamela Adlon in Los Angeles. (Alyson Aliano) “Sometimes, I look at my show, look at the script, stand on the set and I’m like, ‘Wait a second; we’re not doing that,’” she says. “This is not a f---ing Nickelodeon show. This is ‘Better Things.’ We talk about uncomfortable s---, we say things th...
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The end of the pandemic won’t come from biology or medicine — it will come from us History indicates it is social behavior, not some epidemiological data point, that ends respiratory pandemics Respiratory therapist Joanna Bielski checks on a covid-19 patient in the ICU at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center on Jan...
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The history of seat-belt laws shows public health doesn’t have to be partisan Tennessee’s surprising role in the adoption of life-saving seat belt laws. Karen Kuehl, an emergency physician, displays equipment she wears while treating covid-19 patients as she urges the Roanoke County, Va., School Board to retain a mask ...
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Banning ‘Maus’ is just the latest case of sanitizing history for kids’ comfort Shielding children from ugly truths isn’t good for anyone Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust, “Maus.” (Maro Siranosian/AFP/Getty Images) By Gwen C. Katz A.R. Vishny The McMinn County, Tenn., Board of Education voted to remove...
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Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) listen during a meeting in October of the House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Republicans have voted to punish Cheney and Kinzinger for taking part in the investigation. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) As a Democratic pre...
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What ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ tells us about American hegemony Do not underestimate the power of legacy IP Boba Fett waits for tributes in the season premiere of “The Book of Boba Fett.” (Disney Plus) Full disclosure: I have never liked Boba Fett. I hold him responsible for my first moment of cynicism at a young age. I ...
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For centuries, Moscow has worried that foreign powers are scheming to separate Ukraine from Russia. A mural representing World War II in an underground pedestrian crossroad in Rostov on Don, a Russian city near the eastern border with Ukraine. (Arthur Bondar for The Washington Post) By Jeffrey Mankoff When Russia annex...
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Nick Baumgartner, center, races between Hagen Kearney of the United States and Takahara Yoshiki of Japan. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Nick Baumgartner was doing it for all the people back in Iron River, Mich. who supported him all these years in this lunatic pursuit of his. He was doing it for all th...
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Who could have seen another Russian doping issue coming? Everyone but the IOC. A picture taken on February 10, 2022 shows the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) logo at the entrance of the organization's headquarters in Moscow. (Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images) BEIJING — We ended up he...
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Why? State are reacting to falling cases and hospitalizations, but the CDC still recommends caution. (Deaths are high because they lag infections.) Next steps: States have until Aug. 1 to submit plans for using the money. Other U.S. news: Chloe Kim won gold for a second straight Olympics in the women’s snowboard halfpi...
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The warning comes as law enforcement officials are under pressure to use tougher measures to disperse demonstrations, including those that continue to clog traffic arteries between the United States and Canada. So far, two major ports of entry — the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, and the Cout...
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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...
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Pre-deadline deal: Pacers continue teardown by trading Domantas Sabonis to Kings for Tyrese Haliburton Pre-deadline deal: Trail Blazers ship CJ McCollum to Pelicans as rebuilding effort deepens The Wizards find themselves in a particularly tricky situation. The team is faltering, and star Bradley Beal was just lost for...
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Chicago rapper Saba. (Dawit N.M.) But the curtains have been replaced with tattered plastic. The house sits vacant, another sign of a bygone era. Gentrification, financial stability and survivor’s guilt are at the heart of Saba’s new album, his first since the critically acclaimed “CARE FOR ME” almost four years ago. B...
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Happy 50th anniversary, women’s legislative caucuses! Here’s how to be even more effective. Black women legislators can point out policy blind spots others might overlook Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaks at the National Council for Incarcerated Women and Girls “100 Women for 100 Women” rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza on...
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The research suggests this rarely works. But countries keep trying anyway. One of three Russian ships, the Ivan Gren class large landing ship "Pyotr Morgunov," sails through the Bosphorus Strait en route to the Black Sea past Istanbul on Feb. 9, 2022. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images) By Alexander B. Downes As the world wat...
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The end of the combined? Alpine officials contemplate the future of the event Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde passes a gate during the slalom part of the men's combined. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) YANQING, China — Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde arrived at the National Alpine Skiing Centre on Thursday morning...
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Images from a remote-controlled submersible robot show damaged areas inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Fukushima, Japan. The robot captured images of what appears be mounds of damaged fuel that had melted and fell to the bottom of the hardes...
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Compared to 2021, the energy index rose 27 percent, and food rose 7 percent. The cost of food rose in January compared to December, with cereals and baked goods increasing the most. . Fruits and vegetables also edged up. Several categories posted their largest price increases ever, including frozen and freeze dried pre...
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Congress Actually Seems to Be Working Again I hate to shock you, but Congress is currently … legislating?Item: A bipartisan group of senators has agreed to a new version of the Violence Against Women Act. The 1994 law was one of President Joe Biden’s biggest achievements as a senator, but it had lapsed after the partie...
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As The Post first reported earlier this week, he and other military leaders involved in the effort also told investigators that senior White House and State Department officials had failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance on Afghanistan’s capital and resisted efforts by the Pentagon to prepare the evacuation of em...
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Irene Schouten of the Netherlands reacts after winning the gold medal and setting an Olympic record in the women’s speedskating 5,000-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) BEIJING — Irene Schouten already had a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, so she was ...
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Stephen Hawking’s doodle-filled blackboard goes on display, a window into the theoretical physicist’s mind Hawking, who lived with a debilitating motor neuron disease for decades, helped bring advanced science into popular culture and met with world leaders, becoming a household name internationally before he died in 2...
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Former president Donald Trump says it was an “a great honor” to give back documents to the National Archives (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman) The Washington Post reported this week that the National Archives had to go down to Florida and recover 15 boxes worth of documents, emails and mementos that it said belong to the ar...
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About a year after mostly wealthy nations began rolling out coronavirus vaccines, more than half of the world’s population has been fully vaccinated — a logistical feat without precedent in human history. But the global rollout remains uneven, with poor countries reporting much lower vaccination rates than rich countri...
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It found that 10.4 percent of Canadians surveyed felt they had “a great deal” of freedom of choice and control. Meanwhile, almost 14 percent of Canadians expressed a preference for military rule, while more than half felt that “rule by experts or a technocratic government” was “very good” or “fairly good.”
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Todd Howard Ezrin is the principal of TOBE DesignGroup, a boutique interior architecture and design studio in Bethesda, Md. In his 25 years in the business, Ezrin’s projects have included designing small urban condos and houses, as well as remodeling and furnishing homes where he had to make the most of every inch of s...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is now supporting a measure on banning members from trading individual stocks. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) 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 dis...
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Not long afterward, the mayor of Brussels, where several groups planned to converge on Feb. 14, announced that a procession modeled on Canada’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” would not be allowed in. Vehicles arriving to protest will be “diverted,” the mayor said. Though it is not clear whether authorities in either city w...
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Kinzinger chided McCarthy as “a feckless, weak, tired man, who is doing the bidding of whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks is going to raise her money that day,” referring to the congresswoman from Georgia. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), fresh from getting slammed by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson for describing Jan. 6 as a “vi...
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Students, parents and critics have blasted Huntington High and the district for what they say was a violation of religious freedoms. Those frustrations erupted Wednesday when students walked out of the school during their homeroom period, chanting “Separate the church and state” and “My faith, my choice.” Jedd Flowers,...
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Much to Dr. Montagnier’s dismay, his findings also plunged him into a decade-long battle for scientific glory, national pride and millions of dollars in blood-test patent royalties, as he and an American team led by National Cancer Institute researcher Robert C. Gallo vied over who discovered what, and when. But Dr. Mo...
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Not to get too into the particulars — assuming that I probably don’t need to, since we are all adults here — but there is a reason that toilet paper breaks apart in water. Our sewer systems are not garbage disposals and our pipework isn’t a trash chute. Putting paper in a toilet yield a predictable outcome to anyone fa...
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There’s no lack of cold for this year’s Olympics, but limited natural snow is an enduring challenge for the games. A person works at a snow-making machine on a hill overlooking cross-country skiing practice before the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 2 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Aaron Favila/AP) While there’s been plenty of c...
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The world’s overall score fell to 5.28 out of 10, setting “another dismal record” with the lowest rating since the EIU started producing the index in 2006. It was also the biggest annual decline since 2010. The survey found that just 6.4 percent of the world lived in a “full democracy” last year, while more than a thir...
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But is this the way a Boba Fett series should be handled? Sharing so much of the limelight with other prominent Star Wars characters? Since Star Wars arrived on Disney Plus there’s been nothing but high praise for story architects Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, but “The Book of Boba Fett” was met with some discontent fan...
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Not to get too into the particulars — assuming that I probably don’t need to, since we are all adults here — but there is a reason that toilet paper breaks apart in water. Our sewer systems are not garbage disposals, and our pipework isn’t a trash chute. Putting paper in a toilet yields a predictable outcome to anyone ...
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Former president Donald Trump says it was an “a great honor” to give back documents to the National Archives (Michael Kunzelman/AP) The Washington Post reported this week that National Archives officials had to go to Florida and recover 15 boxes worth of documents, emails and mementos that it said belong to the archive...
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Prince Charles, who tested positive for coronavirus, recently met with Queen Elizabeth II Prince Charles speaks at a reception to celebrate the British Asian Trust at the British Museum in London, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (Tristan Fewings/Pool Photo/AP) LONDON — Prince Charles, who has tested positive fo the coronaviru...
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Dr. Montagnier’s reputation later plummeted as colleagues accused him of spreading pseudoscience and threatening public health through his opposition to vaccine mandates. But for decades, he remained best known for his HIV research and his work to prevent AIDS. Much to his dismay, his early findings plunged him into a ...
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Lawmakers on Thursday advanced the Earn It Act, a controversial bill purporting to hold tech companies responsible for posts exploiting children Lawmakers on Thursday advanced a controversial bill that aims to hold tech companies responsible for the spread of posts exploiting children, the latest bipartisan salvo targe...
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Race in America: Giving Voice with Aasif Mandvi Judge Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary and the only woman on the NAACP legal team who won the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, discusses her new book, “Civil Rights Quee...
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There’s no lack of cold for this year’s Olympics, but limited natural snow is an enduring challenge for the games A worker monitors a snow-making machine on a hill overlooking cross-country skiing practice on Feb. 2 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Aaron Favila/AP) The monsoon-related flow contributes to the largest and most in...
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Russia begins military exercises in Black Sea and Belarus, stoking fears of... Members of the Ukrainian military take part in drills in the Kherson region, in the south of the country, on Feb. 10. (Ukrainian Armed Forces Press Ser/Via Reuters) Tensions between NATO and Russia have risen to their highest level in years,...
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Flag bearers for Team Belarus carry their flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 4. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) Darya Dolidovich was not a contender to compete in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, which kicked off last week. But another Belarusian cross-country skier, Sviatlana Andry...
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What all this means is that the markets increasingly see the only way for the Fed to get inflation under control is to engineer a sharp slowdown in the economy, and perhaps even force a recession. This would be the hard landing that policy makers have wanted to avoid. As recently as Wednesday, Federal Reserve Bank of C...
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Protestors against Covid-19 vaccine mandates sit on a couch as the group blocks the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on February 9, 2022. (Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images) The “Freedom Convoy” protest of Canadian truckers angry over a requirement that they be vaccinated in ...
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Edmonton Oilers’ Duncan Keith (2) is helped off the ice after being injured during the first period of the team’s NHL hockey game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) EDMONTON, Alberta — The struggling Edmonton Oilers have fired coach...
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It is February, and love is in the air this month — or, at least, probably in your inbox. It seems like brands are leaning hard into Valentine’s Day this year. In the time it took me to write this, I received two emails reminding me to act fast and secure a gift because February 14th is right around the corner. “Shortl...
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When schools went virtual, online bullying declined Researchers used Google search trends to track bullying — both in-person and online — during the pandemic (ljubaphoto/iStock) By Christopher Shea Christopher Shea is an assistant editor for Outlook and PostEverything. Before joining The Washington Post, he ran the Per...
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Liz Sly to take on a new role as a correspondent-at-large covering global affairs, based in London WASHINGTON DC-NOVEMBER 01 Washington Post staff writer Liz Sly photographed in Washington Post studio Washington, DC on November 01, 2017. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Announcement from Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl,...
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First Look with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart, Ashley Parker, Hugh Hewitt & Eugene Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart has been a member of The Washington Post editorial board since 2007. He writes about politics and social issues, hosts the podcast “Capehart” (formerly named “Cape Up”) and anch...
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It is February, and love is in the air this month — or, at least, probably in your inbox. It seems like brands are leaning hard into Valentine’s Day this year. In the time it took me to write this, I received two emails reminding me to act fast and secure a gift because Feb. 14 is right around the corner. “Shortly befo...
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What all this means is that the markets increasingly see the only way for the Fed to get inflation under control is to engineer a sharp slowdown in the economy, and perhaps even force a recession. This would be the hard landing that policy makers have wanted to avoid. As recently as Wednesday, Federal Reserve Bank of C...
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Children look on as President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cavalcade is expected at the City Hall in Cape Town, South African, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 Ramaphosa will deliver his State of the Nation address at the City Hall instead of at the Parliament building which was gutted by fire last month. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht,Pool...
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Contee said they found a female passenger inside a vehicle who had been struck by gunfire and was gravely injured. She died a short time later at a hospital. Authorities later identified the woman as Pamela Thomas, 54, of Northeast. Police said there was at least one other person inside the vehicle at the time. They “w...
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Nick Baumgartner, center, races between Hagen Kearney of the United States and Yoshiki Takahara of Japan. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Nick Baumgartner was doing it for all the people back in Iron River, Mich., who supported him all these years in this lunatic pursuit of his. He was doing it for all t...
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Opinion: Expectations about inflation are settling in. That’s a big problem. A customer shops in the dairy section of a grocery store in San Francisco on Nov. 11. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Consumers and businesses tend to shrug off even rapid price rises if they believe they are temporary. That’s why dramatic incre...
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Following her second stumble, Shiffrin’s response was a memorable image of solitary suffering. For 20 minutes she sat beside the track, head down, waiting for nonexistent solace. Anyone untouched was working extra hard to be a cynic. These are important considerations for a country where, in 2020, about 30 percent of A...
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GENEVA — A senior Swiss diplomat who met Thursday with a visiting delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders in Switzerland said they showed an interest in dialogue with the international community. He also noted that they realize “that they must take the first step” to unblock more aid desperately needed in the war...
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ORLANDO — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred calls it optimism, that with less than a week until pitchers and catchers are due to report, and baseball still mired in a lockout, he has yet to formally announce that spring training will be delayed. MLB plans to make an offer to the players union Saturday, he ...
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After scrambling to field a team, U.S. men’s hockey dominates China in Olympics opener Less than two weeks later on Thursday night, they were halfway across the world in an unfamiliar arena in Beijing, celebrating together after each had played a hand in Team USA’s 8-0 win over China to open the Olympics. There was Bri...
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But is this the way a Boba Fett series should be handled? Sharing so much of the limelight with other prominent Star Wars characters? Since Star Wars arrived on Disney Plus, there’s been nothing but high praise for story architects Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, but “The Book of Boba Fett” was met with some discontent fa...
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ORLANDO — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred calls it optimism, that with less than a week until pitchers and catchers are due to report, and baseball still mired in a lockout, he has yet to formally announce that spring training will be delayed. MLB plans to make an offer to the players union Saturday, he ...
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London Metropolitan Police commissioner resigns after scandals LONDON — London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was leaving her job as head of the force after it became clear that London Mayor Sadiq Khan no longer had confidence in her leadership. In a statement, Dick said that it was with “huge ...
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Attacking books has been an American tradition since 1650, when Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony seized William Pynchon’s “The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption,” labeling it blasphemous for saying obedience, and not suffering, led to atonement. In 1885, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was banned for “co...
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James Mernin, Marine Corps sergeant James Mernin, 94, a retired Marine Corps staff sergeant who worked as a standardization specialist for the General Services Administration from 1968 to 1995, died Jan. 12 at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. The cause was pneumonia, said a son, Michael Mernin. Sgt. Mernin, who lived in...
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Opinion: A highly qualified Black female Fed nominee opens a spigot of GOP vitriol Economist Lisa D. Cook is a leader in her field. She has a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a tenured professor of economics at Michigan State University. She served as a senior adviser to the Treasu...
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The biggest news, however, may have been the move the Wizards didn’t make as franchise cornerstone Bradley Beal was not traded. His situation is complicated as he is out for the rest of the season due to upcoming wrist surgery and has the right to become an unrestricted free agent after the season. He has yet to sign a...
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London Metropolitan Police commissioner resigns amid scandals In a statement, Dick said it was with “huge sadness” that she was quitting the commissioner post she has held since 2017, but that London Mayor Sadiq Khan made it clear he “no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership” and “left me no choice but to s...
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Opinion: Tunisia’s democracy can be saved with U.S. help Tunisian President Kais Saied at the new government's swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace outside the capital Tunis, on Feb. 27, 2020. (Fethi Belaid/Pool via Associated Press) In his Feb. 4 Friday Opinion column, “Tunisia’s democracy is disappearing befor...
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Protesters block the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ontario, on Feb. 9. (Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images) The “Freedom Convoy” protest of Canadian truckers angry over a requirement that they be vaccinated to cross the U.S. border has taken a consequential turn. It has become nothing less tha...
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Kinzinger chided McCarthy as “a feckless, weak, tired man, who is doing the bidding of whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks is going to raise her money that day,” referring to the congresswoman from Georgia. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), fresh from getting slammed by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson for describing Jan. 6 as a “vi...
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The biggest news, however, may have been the move the Wizards didn’t make as franchise cornerstone Bradley Beal was not traded. His situation is complicated as he is out for the rest of the season due to upcoming wrist surgery and has the right to become an unrestricted free agent after the season. He has yet to sign a...
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London Metropolitan Police’s first female commissioner resigns amid scandals In a statement, Dick said it was with “huge sadness” that she was quitting the commissioner post she has held since 2017 but that London Mayor Sadiq Khan made it clear he “no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership” and “left me no c...
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Sutter Health in California faces class-action lawsuit alleging abuse of market power Calif. company faces lawsuit over high bills A lawsuit over high health-care bills filed on behalf of more than 3 million employers and people seeks as much as $1.2 billion from a large Northern California health system in an antitrus...
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This combo of images show Rene Sanchez, left and Peter Kovacs. Sanchez, a Louisiana native and award-winning journalist, will be the next editor of The Times-Picayune, The Advocate and NOLA.com, the media outlet announced, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Kovacs, the current editor, who led the paper to an unprecedented expans...
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Federal judge restores protections for gray wolves in much of the U.S., reversing a Trump policy The decision doesn’t restore protections to wolves in the northern Rockies, where they are being aggressively hunted A male Gray Wolf in fresh falling snow in Montana. (Dennis Fast/VWPics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images...
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“I was caught off-guard because we’re in 2022 and still facing the same problems as our grandparents and their grandparents,” Marian Turner, an international studies major at Spelman College in Atlanta told The Guardian after her school was targeted by bomb threats this year. “It just really brings to light everything ...
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Iran nuclear talks head toward finish line, but outcome is unclear Negotiations are both ‘closer than we have been to a deal,’ in that some progress has been made, and ‘closer than we have been to breakdown,’ as time for agreement runs out, a U.S. official said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran...
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Workers load boxes of newspapers and other items into a truck outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) While it was unclear how many classified documents were among those received by the Archives, some bore markings that...
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This image from U.S. Capitol Police body-worn video that was in government sentencing memorandum in the case, shows Mark Leffingwell inside the U.S. Capitol near the Senate Wing Doors on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Leffingwell, a 52-year-old military veteran who served in Iraq, who punched two police officers during t...
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Race in America: History Matters with Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) & Janai S.... Race in America: History Matters with Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) & Janai S. Nelson Throughout American history, Black women have played a central role in the fight for civil and women’s rights. Their work paved the way for future generations...
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U.S. forces had been monitoring Qurayshi’s house since the fall, including the “the pattern of life of all the occupants there,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the operation remains highly sensitive. [U.S. military admits ‘horrible mistake’ in Kabul drone strike that killed 10 Afghan...
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Federal judge restores protections for gray wolves in much of U.S., reversing Trump policy The decision doesn’t restore protections for wolves in the northern Rockies, where they are being hunted aggressively A gray wolf in Montana. (Dennis Fast/VWPics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) A federal judge on Thursday re...
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In Boy Scouts bankruptcy case, lawyers for some alleged victims now urging them to accept settlement A statue outside the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Tex. (LM Otero/AP) The lawyers represent some of the more than 84,000 people who allege they were sexually abused as children by Boy Scout leaders. In A...
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But aid groups believe that some of the dead — particularly children — may be going uncounted. On the day of the strike, UNICEF stated that at least six children had been killed in Atma on the night of the strike “due to heavy violence” and that “civilian-populated areas were severely damaged.”
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Victims’ attorneys back revised Boy Scouts settlement Victims' lawyers back revised settlement The lawyers represent some of more than 84,000 people who allege they were sexually abused as children by Boy Scout leaders. In August, a U.S. bankruptcy judge approved an $850 million settlement proposed by the Boy Scouts to...
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Retail gas prices are determined primarily by crude oil prices set by a global market, which is not controlled the U.S. president or Congress or governors. President Biden can release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to show he’s Doing Something, such as the 50 million barrels announced in November. But that ex...
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Ex-NFL player Justin Bannan sentenced to 16 years for 2019 shooting “I just want you to know I’m going to do everything I can to make things right,” Justin Bannan, shown in 2012, said in court, “no matter what that looks like.” (Harry How/Getty Images) Former NFL player Justin Bannan was sentenced Thursday to 16 years ...
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The National Women’s Soccer League champions are almost two weeks into training camp at an indoor venue in Northern Virginia before operations move to Bradenton, Fla., this weekend. Veterans are regaining fitness and prospects are seeking to make their mark before roster cuts begin. The players had publicly supported K...
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Transcript: Coronavirus: Impact on Hospitals with Shereef Elnahal, MD & Anne Zink, MD MR. DIAMOND: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Dan Diamond, a national health reporter at the Post, and today we are looking at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on hospitals. My guests today are Dr. Anne Zink, chie...
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Democratic senators urged President Biden on Thursday to announce his Supreme Court nomination as soon as possible, and Biden signaled he was moving quickly, as the president and his party prepare for a potentially bitter confirmation battle that Democrats hope galvanizes their supporters. “We encouraged him to do it t...
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Kelly is the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head while greeting constituents outside a Tucson supermarket in 2011. Six people were killed in the shooting rampage and many others were injured. Former president Donald Trump, whom Lamon supports, also frequently alluded t...
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“I was caught off-guard because we’re in 2022 and still facing the same problems as our grandparents and their grandparents,” Marian Turner, an international studies major at Spelman College in Atlanta, told The Guardian after her school was targeted by bomb threats this year. “It just really brings to light everything...
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