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The right to joy and pleasure is a crucial element of racial justice
Addressing systemic racism and state violence is not enough.
Clockwise from rear left: Nipsey Russell, Harry Belafonte, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King at an Alabama airport in 1963. (Ivan Massar/Take Stock/The Image Works/HBO)
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Research suggests partisan views — not the added costs of U.S. tariffs — shaped how firms responded
The Savannah, Ga., port on Sept. 29. (Stephen B. Morton/AP)
By Lindsay Dolan
Robert Kubinec
Daniel Nielson
Jiakun Jack Zhang
The trade war has negative impacts on U.S. businesses and contributed to the supply chain woes ... | null | null | null | null | null |
For two years, Hong Kong held off the pandemic. Then, everything fell apart.
Patients with covid-19 symptoms wait at a temporary holding area outside Caritas Medical Center on Feb. 15 in Hong Kong. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
HONG KONG — Cocooned in mylar and fleece hospital blankets, the nearly two dozen elderly patie... | null | null | null | null | null |
A man died Monday in a crash in Maryland, police said. (iStock)
A driver died in a crash Monday along Kenilworth Avenue in Prince George’s County.
Local police said the crash happened about 5 a.m. in the 2100 block of Kenilworth Avenue near Landover Road. Officials later identified the driver as William Hill Jr., 56, o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Historically Black colleges and universities are being attacked as their success becomes more visible
The campus of Howard University in Northwest Washington. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean
Pearl K. Dowe
Duchess Harris
Françoise Cromer
These threats are reminiscent o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jessie Diggins finished exactly how she wanted: With absolutely nothing left
Rosie Brennan, left, assists Jessie Diggins after she crosses the finish line near Finland's Krista Parmakoski, assisted by Kerttu Niskanen. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — At the finish line, Jessie Diggins summoned the same effo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Mikaela Shiffrin skies the fastest downhill training run of the day Wednesday in Yanqing. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
Her start Thursday in the women’s Alpine combined at National Alpine Skiing Centre will mark her fifth individual event — as many as are available to her — and Saturday, she will add a sixth event, the mi... | null | null | null | null | null |
But Eric Dresselhuys has put on hold ESS’s plans to expand production by as much as eightfold, fearing the projects will pay off for developers and his company only if Democratic lawmakers enact the clean-energy tax credits they proposed as part of the Build Back Better bill. The legislation’s uncertain future has froz... | null | null | null | null | null |
I’m aware that the United States is not Iran. Its government is not an Islamic regime, and it is not a totalitarian state. But totalitarian tendencies are unquestionably on the rise within segments of this country. We see this in the attempts to curtail women’s rights, in the rise in racism and antisemitism, and in the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Foreign dignitaries pay respects at a memorial honoring Ukrainian soldiers that have fallen in the years since Russia attacked and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine during a government-declared “unity day” on Feb. 16 in Kyiv. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
KYIV — Ukrainians woke up on not knowing if ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Inside the National Aquatics Center, where Michael Phelps swam to eight gold medals in 2008, the nursing Olympians are credible athletes worthy of their current platform. Hear them speak, and they outshine the dangerously contrarian thoughts of Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rodgers and Kyrie Irving. Watch them play, and they h... | null | null | null | null | null |
The erosion of American trust hits the U.S. military
For decades, trust in the U.S. military had bucked a trend. No longer.
U.S. troops deployed to Poland because of Russia-Ukraine tensions set up camp at a military airport in Mielec on Feb. 12. (Beata Zawrzel/AP)
On Tuesday, Pew Research Center released yet another su... | null | null | null | null | null |
On Friday, special counsel John Durham, tasked by former attorney general William P. Barr with evaluating the legitimacy of the investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election, filed a document as part of an indictment targeting attorney Michael Sussman. In it, Durham hinted at evidence related to a story t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Father Andres Arango distributes Holy Communion while wearing a mask amid the covid-19 pandemic at Gordon Hall at St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona on May 10, 2020. (Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic)
The bottom line is, historically the words of baptism have changed. To make suddenly a big deal of whether ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In two high-profile incidents since Friday, airline passengers terrified fellow travelers when they tried to open a plane door during their flight. It’s been a repeated move by unruly passengers in the past year.
That’s the door a Delta passenger tried to open during a flight from Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore., on F... | null | null | null | null | null |
Foreign dignitaries pay respects at a memorial honoring Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in the years since Russia attacked and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine during a government-declared “Unity Day” on Feb. 16 in Kyiv. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
KYIV — Ukrainians woke up not knowing if Feb.... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - People wear Jewish skullcaps, as they attend a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin April 25, 2018. The leading dictionary of standard German has changed its definition of Jew, or “Jude” in German again, after a recent update caused an uproar in the country’s Jewish community. (AP Photo/Markus ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Father Andres Arango distributes Holy Communion while wearing a mask amid the pandemic at Gordon Hall at St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Phoenix on May 10, 2020. (Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic)
The bottom line is, historically the words of baptism have changed. To make suddenly a big deal of whether a priest uses “I” ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Inside the National Aquatics Center, where Michael Phelps swam to eight gold medals in 2008, the nursing Olympians have been credible athletes worthy of a platform. When they spoke, they outshined the dangerously contrarian thoughts of Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rodgers and Kyrie Irving. When they played, they honored medic... | null | null | null | null | null |
In two high-profile incidents since Friday, airline passengers terrified fellow travelers when they tried to open a plane door during their flight. It has been a repeated move by unruly passengers in the past year.
That’s the door a Delta passenger tried to open during a flight from Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore., on... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Investors are waiting in the wings to deploy capital for clean energy, with this industry poised to be the major engine of 21st-century prosperity,” said Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. “Without these government incentives, that capital won’t g... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nighttime fire intensity in the western United States has increased by 28 percent over the past two decades.
Flames from the Cameron Peak Fire, the largest wildfire in Colorado history, burn trees along a ridge outside Estes Park, Colo., in October 2020. (Bethany Baker/AP)
When the Cameron Peak fire ignited in northern... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Post first reported that the inspector general referred the matter to the Justice Department in 2018. But the case remained open until last summer, when prosecutors declined to press criminal charges.
With Trump’s endorsement and strong name recognition in a swath of western Montana Trump carried by seve... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2021 file photo, pedestrians walk near a poster of Alex Saab that reads in Spanish “Alex Saab Free. They haven’t been able to bend him,” in Caracas, Venezuela. Newly unsealed court records show that the Colombian businessman linked to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was secretly signed up by... | null | null | null | null | null |
Qi Guangpu of China won the country’s second gold in men’s aerials by finally landing a trick he’d been practicing for a decade. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Chris Lillis crouched low and held his face in his hands when he skied to a stop, knowing what he’d done was not nearly as good as what he can do.
... | null | null | null | null | null |
''That’s what we play for,'' said Granato before the gold medal game. ''When we play Canada, it’s just a battle. We just don’t like each other on the ice.''
Canada won the battle and an Olympic gold medal in its national winter sport for the first time since the men’s team won in 1952. It was the beginning of a 24-game... | null | null | null | null | null |
That’s the consensus opinion of royal commentators, public relations experts, lawyers, biographers of the monarchy, victims rights groups and social media users in Britain — the day after the news broke that the son of Queen Elizabeth II had settled a sexual abuse lawsuit brought by a woman who says she was trafficked ... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Biden has ordered visitor logs from the White House during President Donald Trump’s tenure to be turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — an order the National Archives said Wednesday it would carry out by March 3.
The former president claimed that... | null | null | null | null | null |
Then reality finished getting its boots on. The Washington Post’s fact-checkers submerged the story in cold water as did the New York Times. A filing from Sussmann’s legal team and statements from others involved in the situation like the researchers who analyzed the data state, for example, that the period in which th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Journalist Maria Bartiromo, center, appears before President Donald Trump speaks at the Economic Club of New York on Nov. 12, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
Oh, in case you were wondering, Tuberville agreed that “they’re scrambling, there’s no doubt about it.” To his credit, he did not explicitly agree that the Biden adminis... | null | null | null | null | null |
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it is seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement
The company is pushing towards 100 billion images in its “index of faces,” even as lawmakers worry the company poses a dangerous threat to Americans’ privacy rights.
A facial recognition entry gate at the World A... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Washington Post first reported that the inspector general had referred the matter to the Justice Department in 2018. But the case remained open until last summer, when prosecutors declined to press criminal charges.
Zinke, 60, a former Navy SEAL who rode to work on horseback on his first day at Interior, served one... | null | null | null | null | null |
Then reality finished getting its boots on. The Washington Post’s fact-checkers submerged the story in cold water, as did the New York Times. A filing from Sussmann’s legal team and statements from others involved in the situation like the researchers who analyzed the data state, for example, that the period in which t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Clearview is battling more than 30 lawsuits in state and federal court, including litigation from attorneys general in New Jersey and Vermont and class-action suits in California, Illinois, New York and Virginia. The company is also facing a class-action suit in a Canadian federal court, government investigations in Ca... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nighttime-fire intensity in the U.S. West has increased by 28 percent over the past two decades.
Flames from the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire, the largest wildfire in Colorado history. (Bethany Baker/AP)
When the Cameron Peak Fire ignited in northern Colorado in August 2020, few could foresee its longevity. As it burned, sum... | null | null | null | null | null |
A major storm system is set to charge across the Lower 48 on Wednesday through Friday, causing temperatures to spike before crashing as winter eradicates the first breaths of spring. The clashing air masses will wage war, bringing an assortment of inclement weather, with severe thunderstorms, flooding, heavy snow and s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Foreign dignitaries pay respects Feb. 16 at a Kyiv memorial honoring Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in the years since Russia attacked and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine during a government-declared Unity Day. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians woke up not knowing whethe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Kevin Brasler is executive editor of Consumers’ Checkbook. He directs the editorial, research and publishing operations for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group, which for more than 40 years has been advising consumers on how to get the best service and prices on plumbers, veterinary care and much more. His work has p... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE— New York Observer editor Ken Kurson, right, publisher Jared Kushner, center, and CEO Joseph Meyer, attend The New York Observer’s 25th anniversary party, in New York, March 14, 2013. Kursen, who received a pardon from former President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, to state cyberstalking c... | null | null | null | null | null |
Choi Min-jeong (center) won her third medal of these Games, and her first gold, defending her 1,500-meter short track title. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP)
BEIJING — Scroll back a year on Choi Min-jeong’s Instagram and you’ll find a video of one of the South Korean short track star’s workouts. In the clip, she’s jump... | null | null | null | null | null |
The company said in the presentation that it is hoping to raise $50 million in a third round of investment, known as a “Series C.” The company raised $30 million in a similar funding round last summer that valued the company at $130 million.
The presentation included the logos for a number of companies, including Airbn... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Race in America: History Matters with Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) & Janai S. Nelson
MR. CAPEHART: Good morning. I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post Live in another in our series Race in America: History Matters. February is Black History Month, so we’re c... | null | null | null | null | null |
In the southern and southeastern United States, unseasonable warmth 25 degrees or more above average will set the stage for strong to severe thunderstorms that present the risk for damaging winds and an isolated tornado or two.
It all comes as an intense high-altitude disturbance that dropped into Southern California o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Facial recognition companies have traditionally built algorithms that can be used to search through their clients’ photo databases, such as driver’s license images or jail mug shots. But Ton-That has argued in testimony to public officials that swiping photos from the Internet has allowed the company to create a powerf... | null | null | null | null | null |
Taffy Abel, a pathbreaking Native American hockey player, hid his Chippewa identity to avoid being sent to an Indian boarding school
Because of his appearance, Abel was able to blend in. “He wasn’t like Willie O’Ree or Jackie Robinson, who would have been judged by the color of their skin,” Stubbs said, referring to th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Because the two were never able to marry legally, payment from VA stopped when Gannoe died, and Martin wasn’t eligible for survivor benefits paid through the Social Security Administration. Martin’s monthly income decreased to $800 and mostly came from federal welfare, he said. For heterosexual couples, the only provis... | null | null | null | null | null |
''That’s what we play for,'' said Granato before the gold-medal game. ''When we play Canada, it’s just a battle. We just don’t like each other on the ice.''
Canada won the battle and an Olympic gold medal in its national winter sport for the first time since the men’s team won in 1952. It was the beginning of a 24-game... | null | null | null | null | null |
When it comes to the sport of mixed martial arts, Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson has just about done it all. He holds the record for most title defenses in Ultimate Fighting Championship history. He won the flyweight grand prix in ONE Championship, the MMA organization in which he now competes. He’s finished opponen... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: For a more perfect union, start at the beginning
Holly Metcalf Kinyon's 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
And the key starting point can be found in the Declaration of Independence. President Abrah... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.S. judge in D.C. is weighing whether to keep the most high-profile defendant charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack behind bars until trial.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. (Aaron Davis/TWP)
Rhodes’s attorneys, James Lee Bright and Phil... | null | null | null | null | null |
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Five Virginia state troopers were injured during a chase on Interstate 95 on Wednesday morning, state police said.
Virginia State Police said Fairfax County police tried to stop a Ford Fiesta reported stolen in New York near the American Legion Bridge around 5 a.m, but it sped off at more than 100 mph... | null | null | null | null | null |
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In February 2020, Fuentes traveled to Miami and visited the condominium complex where the informant lived. During that visit, Fuentes’s traveling companion — his other wife — took a close-up photo of the informant’s car, according to court papers.
The surveillance effort unraveled when a securit... | null | null | null | null | null |
Top public defender for Maryland to retire
Maryland public defender Paul DeWolfe will retire this summer after more than 12 years at the helm of the state agency charged with providing legal representation to those accused of crimes who can’t afford private attorneys.
DeWolfe’s tenure as public defender has seen his ad... | null | null | null | null | null |
A donation hub set up in Ottawa provides Freedom Convoy demonstrators with fuel, food and money in an effort keep the occupation going. (Zoeann Murphy, James Cornsilk/The Washington Post)
But even as the vocal group of truckers, known as the “Freedom Convoy,” grabbed the world’s attention, many of Canada’s truck driver... | null | null | null | null | null |
It took a while to get things warming up this morning, but we still managed to make it to the low and mid-50s this afternoon. A south wind is beginning to blow increasing moisture into the area. That’ll mean some more cloudiness heading into tonight, and eventually even some humidity you might feel tomorrow. Also, some... | null | null | null | null | null |
Al-Shabab militants strike police stations
Al-Shabab militants attacked several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, early on Wednesday, officials and the militants said, a show of force as the nation prepares for a much-delayed presidential election.
State TV reported that five peo... | null | null | null | null | null |
National Cathedral, St. Albans capture titles at inaugural DCSAA swim meet
National Cathedral emerged at the DCSAA swimming championships on Wednesday. (Cory F Royster/Courtesy of DCSAA)
It only took one event, at the outset of the D.C. State Athletic Association swimming championships, for the St. Albans boys to emerg... | null | null | null | null | null |
“1883” with Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw & Isabel May
In “1883,” the Dutton family embarks on a journey west through the last bastion of untamed America. A Paramount+ original, this new series is the origin story to Academy Award® nominee Taylor Sheridan’s hit show, “Yellowstone.” Join Washington Post Live on Wednesday, Feb... | null | null | null | null | null |
Last year, investors bought nearly one in seven homes sold in America’s top metropolitan areas, the most in at least two decades, according to the realty company Redfin.
Neighborhoods where a majority of residents are Black have been heavily targeted, according to a Washington Post analysis of Redfin data. Last year, 3... | null | null | null | null | null |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
“The scale of the need is in literally the tens of billions of dollars,” said Tiana Epps-Johnson, executive director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that distributed more than $300 million in grants to election... | null | null | null | null | null |
The doors to the U.S. Capitol are opened ahead of the inauguration of President Biden in Washington, D.C. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has not been in the House of Representatives for long (at least by congressional standards) but she has a very clear sense of the institution... | null | null | null | null | null |
Joe Snively has three goals in the last three games. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
PHILADELPHIA — The Washington Capitals have had little positives to grasp onto in recent weeks, as their woes have often overshadowed their minimal strides. But there have been a few bright spots in this stretch, including Norther... | null | null | null | null | null |
The second best option for the Fed is a half-point increase at the March meeting, a decisive move, the size of which has not been seen since 2000. The latest consumer and producer inflation reports both point to the fact that inflation is headed in an ominous direction, and provide yet more proof that the time for “gra... | null | null | null | null | null |
The beginning of the school year in Afghanistan is March 23, less than six weeks away. The Taliban told the world that all girls might be allowed to return to school. But now, it’s “a question of capacity,” a Taliban official says. It’s not that teenage girls shouldn’t be educated; it’s that they need to be fully segre... | null | null | null | null | null |
Juan Soto's offer from the Nationals did not include payment deferrals, according to a person with knowledge of the terms. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The biggest question of the Washington Nationals’ present and future is whether they can keep Juan Soto beyond the next three seasons. And while the answer is n... | null | null | null | null | null |
The doors to the U.S. Capitol are opened ahead of the inauguration of President Biden in D.C. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has not been in the House of Representatives for long (at least by congressional standards) but she has a very clear sense of the institution. It is, she... | null | null | null | null | null |
States delay pandemic loan repayments; Zuckerburg promotes top aide at Meta
States delaying pandemic loan repayments
New York, New Jersey and several other U.S. states are delaying repayment of $40 billion in federal pandemic unemployment loans, saddling businesses with higher payroll costs instead.
An influx of stimul... | null | null | null | null | null |
By 2050, sea levels in the United States will be 10 to 12 inches higher, a new government report warns.
High tide laps against the sea wall in Charleston, South Carolina. A new U.S. federal government report, says seas will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050 with major U.S. Eastern cities regularly hit with cos... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Ted Wafer, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., testifies in his own defense during his second degree murder trial in Detroit on Aug. 4, 2014. Wafer, who fatally shot a young woman on his porch will get a new sentencing hearing after the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, unanimously threw out part of hi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Law enforcement get ready for a search after a small plane crash in Carteret County, N.C., on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. Authorities say four teenagers and four adults returning from a hunting trip were on board a small plane that crashed off the coast of North Carolina over the weekend. (WCTI-TV via AP) (Uncredited/WCTI-T... | null | null | null | null | null |
Under the law, children and younger adolescents are considered “protected persons,” and claims against them may be adjudicated more leniently than those against older adolescents and adults. Many have focused on 15-year-old Valieva’s protected status, suggesting that it’s the reason she has escaped punishment for alleg... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: The Path to Gender Equity: Research and Design with Sara A. Jahnke, PhD, Rowena Johnston, PhD & Catherine Sanz
MS. CASEY: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Libby Casey, anchor covering politics and accountability. Thank you so much for joining me today for two important conversations about gender equity.... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a matter of seconds, most of the birds flew upward. But scores of others were left as black and yellow corpses on the ground.
The eerie and bizarre scene, captured by a surveillance camera on Feb. 7, has since gone viral. It has also sparked an online debate over what could have possibly caused the birds to so abrup... | null | null | null | null | null |
Historic rain and mudslides in Brazil city kill at least 78
Rubble is left by heavy rains, flooding and mudslides, in Petrópolis, a Brazilian city in Rio de Janeiro state. (Antonio Lacerda/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
The devastation was most acute in Petrópolis, a city of about 300,000, which was hit by a historic deluge on ... | null | null | null | null | null |
I’m aware that the United States is not Iran. Its government is not an Islamist regime, and it is not a totalitarian state. But totalitarian tendencies are unquestionably on the rise within segments of this country. We see this in the attempts to curtail women’s rights, in the rise in racism and antisemitism, and in th... | null | null | null | null | null |
The second-best option for the Fed is a half-point increase at the March meeting, a decisive move, the size of which has not been seen since 2000. The latest consumer and producer inflation reports both point to the fact that inflation is headed in an ominous direction, and provide yet more proof that the time for “gra... | null | null | null | null | null |
Under the law, children and younger adolescents are considered “protected persons,” and claims against them may be adjudicated more leniently than those against older adolescents and adults. Many have focused on 15-year-old Valieva’s protected status, suggesting it’s the reason she has escaped punishment for alleged do... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Mazars disavowal of Trump’s financial statements points to the folly of all those earlier attempts to pry loose details about Trump’s finances, such as his tax returns. He and his aides lied to the public, the media, Congress, the FBI and the courts. Why would he tell the truth in these filings? The question isn’t ... | null | null | null | null | null |
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), right, endorsed Joe Biden for president days before the South Carolina primary, turning around Biden's political fortunes. (Luke Sharrett for The Washington Post)
Most nights when he’s in Washington, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) sits down to dinner with Ce... | null | null | null | null | null |
Newsom nominates 1st Latina to California Supreme Court
Newsom nominates
1st Latina to high court
An appeals court judge who is the daughter of Mexican immigrants was nominated Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) as the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court.
Justice Patricia Guerrero, 50, of San Diego grew... | null | null | null | null | null |
The plant sprawls flat along the ground as it grows, with arrowhead-shaped leaves that radiate from the middle and that can grow to the size of a dinner plate. That’s if they even sprout. The prostrate milkweed, a rare plant found in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, spends much of its time dormant and below the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Proud Boys member Henry “Enrique” Tarrio in 2020 in Portland, Ore. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former attorney general Loretta E. Lynch has previously worked with the NFL. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Loretta E. Lynch, a former U.S. attorney general, will be among the lawyers representing the NFL as it defends itself in the racial discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores.
Le... | null | null | null | null | null |
Beijing Winter Olympics live updates Mikaela Shiffrin skis before women’s hockey, figure skating take stage
Eileen Gu posts highest score in halfpipe qualifying; three Americans through to final
Eileen Gu takes lead after first run of women’s halfpipe qualifying
Perspective: After their Olympics, these nurses will go b... | null | null | null | null | null |
Historic rain and mudslides in Brazilian city kill at least 94
Rubble is left by heavy rains, flooding and mudslides in Petrópolis, a Brazilian city in Rio de Janeiro state. (Antonio Lacerda/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Castro said it was “the greatest rain since 1932,” characterizing the catastrophe as so rare that it was di... | null | null | null | null | null |
A migrant begins a hunger strike with her mouth sewed shut during a protest to demand free transit through the country in Tapachula, Mexico, on Feb. 15. (Jose Torres/Reuters)
A group of migrants at Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut Tuesday to demand that immigration authorities grant them passage toward ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Anne Arundel County school board lifts system’s mask mandate
More than 80 percent of the county’s residents have been vaccinated against covid-19, the school system’s superintendent said
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education voted Feb. 16 to make masks optional for its school system. (iStock)
Anne Arundel County P... | null | null | null | null | null |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Washington Wizards faced a cause-and-effect situation with two centers in street clothes Wednesday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The injuries left defensively challenged Thomas Bryant as Washington’s lone big man to patrol the paint. The effect was the Indiana Pacers relentlessly attacking the bask... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.S. men’s curling takes advantage of Danish miscue, advances to semifinals
The United States' John Shuster, John Landsteiner and Christopher Plys celebrate the victory that advanced them to the semifinals. (Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)
BEIJING — John Shuster had been curling at the Olympics long enough to understand the stak... | null | null | null | null | null |
Women’s hockey live updates Team USA and Canada, the sport’s biggest rivals, meet with gold on the line
The two teams line up before the gold medal game. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
For the sixth time in seven Olympic women’s hockey tournaments, Canada and the United States are meeting in the gold medal. Canada has romped... | null | null | null | null | null |
Women’s hockey live updates Canada leads Team USA, 2-0, after first period
Canada leads 2-0 after the first
Canada takes a 2-0 lead late in the first
Sarah Nurse gives Canada a 1-0 lead
Canada nearly takes an early lead, goal waived off on review
Marie-Philip Poulin notched the game's second goal. (Jonathan Ernst/Reute... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE-This Feb. 5, 2021 photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Gilbert Postelle. Oklahoma is preparing to execute Postelle for his role in a quadruple slaying in Oklahoma City in 2005. Postelle is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAle... | null | null | null | null | null |
Indiana scored 74 points in the paint and shot 54.2 percent as Washington simply couldn’t defend the interior. The Pacers knew it, and so did Wizards Coach Wes Unseld Jr., who went with a small lineup during a long stretch of the third quarter. At one point, Terry Taylor attacked the rim with his left hand and dunked o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Warriors: C James Wiseman, recovering from right knee surgery, has put together a few solid weeks of on-court work and the plan is to continue to push him to see when he might be closer to a return. “It’s great news,” Kerr said. ... The Warriors committed just three first-half turnovers but 11 total. | null | null | null | null | null |
Early Thursday, a separatist leader in Ukraine’s contested eastern territories told Russian state media that Kyiv government forces had been firing on them and seeking to escalate conflict. He did not provide evidence for his claim and Ukraine denied shelling Kremlin-backed militants in its east, according to Reuters. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
France announces withdrawal of troops from Mali, reshaping the fight against Islamist groups in West Africa
Troops will shift to neighboring countries as the conflict deepens, the announcement added. “We all reaffirm our strong will to continue our partnership with and commitment to the people of Mali over the long ter... | null | null | null | null | null |
A rally in New York's Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 14 in response to the killing of Christina Yuna Lee. (Seth Wenig/AP)
The authorities in both cases have not said the killings were hate crimes or motivated by race, but the episodes have put Asian Americans across the country on high alert, amid an increase in anti-A... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Black press provides a model for how mainstream news can better cover racism
Digging deeper, offering historical context and going beyond official narratives will better serve the audience
By Olivia Paschal
Olivia Paschal is a PhD student in History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on land, econo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states helps explain the Whiteness of winter sports
Erin Jackson of the United States holds an American flag after winning the gold medal in the speedskating women's 500-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, on Feb. 13. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)
By Sherri Sheu
Sherri Sheu is a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Miho Takagi of Japan reacts after setting an Olympic record which stood for the gold medal during the women’s speedskating 1,000-meter finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
“I remember what my older sister said to me this morning,” Miho Takagi said through a t... | null | null | null | null | null |
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