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Texas State hosts Little Rock following Harrell's 21-point game
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Texas State -14; over/under is 131.5
BOTTOM LINE: Texas State hosts the Little Rock Trojans after Mason Harrell scored 21 points in Texas State’s 84-67 victory against the Arkansas State Red Wolves.
The Bobcats have gone 11-1 at ho... | null | null | null | null | null |
Toledo hosts Central Michigan following Miller's 23-point showing
BOTTOM LINE: Central Michigan visits the Toledo Rockets after Kevin Miller scored 23 points in Central Michigan’s 75-70 loss to the Eastern Michigan Eagles.
The Rockets are 10-1 in home games. Toledo is fourth in the MAC at limiting opponent scoring, all... | null | null | null | null | null |
UC Davis hosts CSU Bakersfield following McCall's 25-point game
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: UC Davis -5.5; over/under is 131.5
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield takes on the UC Davis Aggies after Justin McCall scored 25 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 79-69 loss to the UC Riverside Highlanders.
The Aggies are 5-4 on their home cou... | null | null | null | null | null |
UC Riverside hosts Cal Poly after Pickett's 21-point outing
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: UC Riverside -10.5; over/under is 123.5
BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside faces the Cal Poly Mustangs after Dominick Pickett scored 21 points in UC Riverside’s 79-69 win over the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners.
The Highlanders have gone 8-3 at ho... | null | null | null | null | null |
UIC plays Robert Morris after Franklin's 23-point outing
BOTTOM LINE: UIC takes on the Robert Morris Colonials after Damaria Franklin scored 23 points in UIC’s 88-79 loss to the Youngstown State Penguins.
The Colonials have gone 4-9 at home. Robert Morris is 1-12 against opponents over .500.
The Flames have gone 6-10 a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Western Kentucky faces Old Dominion following McKnight's 22-point showing
BOTTOM LINE: Western Kentucky takes on the Old Dominion Monarchs after Dayvion McKnight scored 22 points in Western Kentucky’s 77-67 win against the Charlotte 49ers.
The Hilltoppers are 11-4 in home games. Western Kentucky ranks fifth in C-USA wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Williams leads UAPB against Prairie View A&M after 28-point performance
BOTTOM LINE: UAPB takes on the Prairie View A&M Panthers after Shawn Williams scored 28 points in UAPB’s 74-69 loss to the Alabama A&M Bulldogs.
The Golden Lions have gone 4-5 in home games. UAPB averages 12.9 turnovers per game and is 5-8 when it ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Program aims to put GPS-tracking collars on mother bears to help biologists learn more about their species and habits
A female bear cradles one of her young cubs in the spring forest in Virginia. (Bill Lea/Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources)
Try walking into the den of a roughly 200-pound mother black bear while... | null | null | null | null | null |
Meyers Taylor, No. 1 in the World Cup standings this season in two-woman, is the only American driver ranked in the top three in any team bobsled event heading into Beijing. Hunter Church, No. 10 in four-man, is the only male driver ranked in the top 10.
For Team USA, van den Berg’s motivating principle will be efficie... | null | null | null | null | null |
The vice president and secretary of state are both highlighting the U.S. presence at the high-profile event unfolding in the shadow of war. The double billing creates a complicated dynamic.
Vice President Harris speaks Friday during a meeting with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
MUNICH,... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Next Gen car represents a major gamble for NASCAR, the country’s most popular form of auto racing. But it’s a gamble the sport had to take as the automotive industry steers away from four-door sedans, internal combustion-engines and the old-school design principles at the heart of the 1970s-era stock cars NASCAR’s ... | null | null | null | null | null |
80 percent of us have quit them by now. One researcher says we’ve been going at it all wrong.
By Steven Petrow
It’s that time again — the February day by which approximately 80 percent of us, according to one estimate, will have abandoned our New Year’s resolutions — whether we vowed to lose weight, stop drinking, lear... | null | null | null | null | null |
Signalman First Class U.S. Navy veteran Carl Felton holds the French Legion of Honor medal inside of a family home in New Market, Md., on Feb. 15, 2022. More than 75 years after he served during the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France, Frederick County resident Felton received an official commendation from the count... | null | null | null | null | null |
Segregated schoolhouse found in woods on way to being saved
By Cathy Free, The Washington Post | AP
“This is my family’s history,” said Morris, a genealogy hobbyist from Richmond, who is working on a book about her family going back to the early 1800s, when her ancestors were enslaved.
“My great-grandfather and my grea... | null | null | null | null | null |
Police arrested more than 100 protesters Friday, but small standoffs remained in the minus-24-degree weather Saturday as law enforcement pushed in from east to west to disperse straggling demonstrators and tow trucks slowly pulled away the parked big rigs that have paralyzed the city.
As their numbers dwindled early Sa... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘Greetings from a dead man’: They were strangers, until a dying man brought them together
Rick Massumi, a former SEC attorney and known figure in the music and art scene, had no family in D.C. when he learned he had terminal liver cancer.
Duggan, who owns the D.C. bar Madam’s Organ, laughs now at the wryness and lack o... | null | null | null | null | null |
Across the country, enrollment in charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately operated schools, increased by 7 percent — around 240,000 more students — during the 2020-2021 academic year, according to a report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy organization. D.C.'s charter s... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE- This early 1900s photo provided by the The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows the front of the Dudley Digges House in its original location on Prince George Street, in Williamsburg, Va. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given a $5-million boost to efforts to preserve the colonial-era schoolhouse where ensla... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Santé prison in Paris. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
Jean-Luc Brunel, the former head of a French model agency who was accused of rape in the 1990s and later of supplying young girls to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanged in his Paris prison cell early Saturday. The French Penitentiary Administrat... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Trump’s political committee, offered a statement only touting the former president’s golf courses when aske... | null | null | null | null | null |
NEWARK, Del. — A 30-year-old Maryland man was killed when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Delaware, police said.
The man — who was not immediately identified — was riding his bike on Salem Church Road in Newark at about 10:15 p.m. Friday when the driver of a 2008 Chevrolet Malibu behind him attempted... | null | null | null | null | null |
Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman won bronze in two-woman bobsled at the Beijing Games. (Christian Bruna/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
YANQING, China — It was almost 11 p.m. on Saturday, and a bitter winter wind howled through the Yanqing National Sliding Centre. As temperatures, with the gale, dropped below zero, Ame... | null | null | null | null | null |
Americans nurtured Afghanistan’s economy. Now they’re gutting it.
Biden’s decision to seize central bank assets is part of a pattern of abandonment
President Biden’s recent decision to seize the frozen reserves of the central bank of Afghanistan came as a shock to starving Afghans battling a harsh winter coupled with a... | null | null | null | null | null |
BALTIMORE — A woman and two children were seriously hurt in a house fire in Baltimore early Saturday morning.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the woman is in critical condition and the two children are in serious condition at a hospital.
Firefighters arrived to flames showing from the top floor of a three-story occupied... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The best way to beat cancer is to prevent it
Thirty percent of all cancer deaths in the United States are caused by tobacco. (Dave Martin/AP)
In his Feb. 15 op-ed, “How to save lives from cancer with tools we already have,” Edward Abrahams wrote of improving the lives of cancer patients by providing better acc... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Decriminalizing drugs, especially cannabis, throughout the U.S.
Chris Alexander, then policy coordinator for Drug Policy Alliance and now New York's Office of Cannabis Management's executive director, speaks as advocates urge New York state legislators to support the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act at th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rick Massumi, a former SEC attorney and known figure in the music and art scene, had no family in D.C. when he learned he had terminal liver cancer
Duggan, who owns the D.C. bar Madam’s Organ, laughs now at the wryness and lack of lament in those texts. But at the time, Duggan responded in the only appropriate way to t... | null | null | null | null | null |
And then Childs reenrolled her daughter for first grade.
Across the country, enrollment in charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately operated schools, increased by 7 percent — around 240,000 more students — during the 2020-2021 academic year, according to a report from the National Alliance for Public Ch... | null | null | null | null | null |
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 14, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Gary Williams, a longtime golf commentator who owns 5 Clubs Golf, said the PGA Tour has aggressively moved to keep its players with higher purses and other incentives but i... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nuclear talks at key point, Scholz warns
Efforts to revive Iran’s nuclear agreement are still bogged down over disagreements despite high-level diplomacy, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warning that it’s now or never to save the accord.
“Now is the moment of truth,” Scholz said Saturday at the Munich Security Confe... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘Homer at the Bat’ at 30: The landmark ‘Simpsons’ episode that pushed the show’s boundaries
“When I do an autograph show for baseball, I feel like I’m at a Comic-Con,” Boggs says last week by phone from Tampa, while recounting his guest appearance on a beloved episode of “The Simpsons,” titled “Homer at the Bat,” that ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Did Travers rise to Whitman’s almost unattainable level? That is for the public to decide. But the faraway eyes are present here, and the iron mask is gone. It’s an arresting portrait, better than the others, and worthy of a wider audience. Washington is filled with mediocre paintings of Lincoln, including an undisting... | null | null | null | null | null |
The fear of the banana republic is hardly an idle one — and here Trump is a central figure, too. He has boasted of his willingness to go that route: In 2016, he ran by pledging that he intended to use the power of federal law enforcement to help his friends and pay back his enemies. His rallies routinely erupted with c... | null | null | null | null | null |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tylor Perry made a 3-pointer with two seconds remaining to lift North Texas to a 58-57 win over UAB on Saturday, the Mean Green’s 12th consecutive victory. On the subsequent possession for the Blazers, Jordan Walker missed a 3-pointer, allowing the Mean Green to hold on for the victory. | null | null | null | null | null |
Adam Silver on Kyrie Irving, trade demands and the play-in tournament
Skills challenge participants and how it works
NBA All-Star Game lineups
CLEVELAND — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver conducted his annual All-Star Weekend address before Saturday’s festivities, painting a relatively rosy picture of the league’s progress... | null | null | null | null | null |
People take part in a rally Feb. 19 in the center of the western Ukraine city of Lviv to show their unity as fears mount that Russia could invade the country in the coming days. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images)
By Scott Gehlbach
Zhaotian Luo
Has Russian President Vladimir Putin decided on a “catastrophic” war, as Pr... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: New Mexico State visits the Seattle U Redhawks after Teddy Allen scored 30 points in New Mexico State’s 82-66 win against the Grand Canyon Antelopes.
The Redhawks are 16-1 on their home court. Seattle U averages 76.5 points while outscoring opponents by 10.3 points per game.
The Aggies have gone 11-2 again... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana visits the No. 18 Ohio State Buckeyes after Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 30 points in Indiana’s 74-69 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers.
The Buckeyes are 11-1 on their home court. Ohio State is 2-3 in games decided by less than 4 points.
The Hoosiers are 7-8 against Big Ten opponents. Indiana is 2-2 in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lafayette hosts Holy Cross after Gates' 24-point game
BOTTOM LINE: Holy Cross faces the Lafayette Leopards after Gerrale Gates scored 24 points in Holy Cross’ 55-50 win against the Navy Midshipmen.
The Leopards have gone 5-7 in home games. Lafayette is seventh in the Patriot scoring 66.5 points while shooting 42.7% fro... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: Marist hosts the Quinnipiac Bobcats after Jao Ituka scored 23 points in Marist’s 62-53 victory over the Siena Saints.
The Red Foxes have gone 5-6 in home games. Marist is 6-10 against opponents with a winning record.
The Bobcats are 7-8 against MAAC opponents. Quinnipiac has a 4-9 record in games decided b... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: Southern Miss hosts the Marshall Thundering Herd after Isaih Moore scored 25 points in Southern Miss’ 84-70 loss to the UTEP Miners.
The Golden Eagles are 3-8 on their home court. Southern Miss is 3-17 in games decided by at least 10 points.
The Thundering Herd have gone 3-11 against C-USA opponents. Marsh... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: Norfolk State visits the Morgan State Bears after Joe Bryant Jr. scored 29 points in Norfolk State’s 89-59 victory against the Coppin State Eagles.
TOP PERFORMERS: Sheryn Devonish is averaging 6.7 points and 3.2 assists for the Bears. De’Torrion Ware is averaging 14.2 points over the last 10 games for Morg... | null | null | null | null | null |
BOTTOM LINE: West Virginia looks to break its three-game skid with a victory against TCU.
The Horned Frogs are 9-4 in home games. TCU averages 68.3 points and has outscored opponents by 4.9 points per game.
The Mountaineers are 3-10 in conference games. West Virginia ranks eighth in the Big 12 with 30.4 rebounds per ga... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Tigers are 10-4 against SWAC opponents. Texas Southern is 3-2 in one-possession games.
The teams play for the second time this season in SWAC play. The Tigers won the last matchup 90-71 on Jan. 9. Bryson Etienne scored 21 points to help lead the Tigers to the victory.
TOP PERFORMERS: Williams is averaging 14.9 poin... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — On the last day of the Winter Olympics, cross-country skier Jessie Diggins won Team USA’s final medal in the hell marathon also known as the women’s 30-kilometer mass start final while battling ferocious winds and brutal temperatures a day after waking up with food poisoning. In other words, it was the produc... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior. A new Chinese champion — from California. An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed. The end of the Olympic line for the world’s most renowned snowboarder. All inside an anti-COVID “closed loop" enforced by China’s authoritari... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — Their plight had become one of the biggest stories of the Olympics, and in the hours before the Closing Ceremonies, the United States figure skaters who had yet to receive their team event silver medals here would not depart quietly Sunday afternoon.
It seems an odd group to be taking a stand against doping i... | null | null | null | null | null |
A new push to censor Internet pornography could harm marginalized groups
History shows that anti-porn laws become weapons against LGBTQ Americans, feminists and others
By Quinn Anex-Ries
Quinn Anex-Ries is a Ph.D. candidate in American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research examine... | null | null | null | null | null |
During the meeting, the queen was heard responding to a question about how she is. The monarch pointed to her leg or her cane, and quipped, “Well, as you can see, I can’t move.”
Charles tested positive on Feb. 10. He had met with the queen two days before the test. Then, on Feb. 14, Clarence House confirmed that Charle... | null | null | null | null | null |
Or think of former House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who now sits on the board of directors for Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News. (Disclaimer: I am an MSNBC contributor.) I suppose he would rationalize his decision to stay on the board despite its news outlet’s central role in spreading a web of conspiracy the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Snow covers a charred vehicle after wildfires ravaged the area in Superior, Colo., on Jan. 2. The blaze in a suburban area near Denver destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings. (Jack Dempsey/AP)
By Jonathan S. Comer
When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychologi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The study adds cardiac ailment to a list of potential health effects of loneliness and isolation that include dementia and mental health issues
For older women, being lonely and socially isolated can increase the chance of developing heart disease by as much as 27 percent, according to research published in the journal... | null | null | null | null | null |
Portland police investigate a shooting they said left one dead and five others injured, on Feb. 19, 2022 in Portland, Ore. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
One person died and five others were injured in a shooting that took place late Saturday in northeast Portland, Ore., authorities said.
Local news organizations reporte... | null | null | null | null | null |
BEIJING — Their plight had become one of the biggest stories of the Olympics, and in the hours before the Closing Ceremonies, the United States figure skaters who had yet to receive their team event silver medals would not depart quietly Sunday afternoon.
Washington Post reporters recall notable moments from the 2022 W... | null | null | null | null | null |
Gregory McMichael sits during opening statements last fall in the state murder trial of him, William “Roddie” Bryan and Travis McMichael in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Gwynn County, Ga. (Octavio Jones/Pool/Reuters)
McMichael offered that oversight to explain why he did not immediately call police to report Arbery, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
A truck is towed from in front of Parliament Hill as Canadian police work to restore normality to the capital after trucks and demonstrators occupied the downtown core for more than three weeks to protest pandemic restrictions in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on February 19, 2022. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
Ottawa — Canadian a... | null | null | null | null | null |
Olympics Closing Ceremonies begin without breaking China’s carefully enforc...
BEIJING — On the last day of the Winter Olympics, cross-country skier Jessie Diggins won Team USA’s final medal in the hell marathon also known as the women’s 30-kilometer mass start final while battling ferocious winds and brutal temperatur... | null | null | null | null | null |
Pedestrians pass a Wall Street subway station near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. Equities retreated from near-record highs as U.S. trading resumed after the Labor Day holiday. (Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg)
Sarah Green Carmichael: When I started reading your new b... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: After the pandemic, long covid may unleash a tidal wave of health troubles
Eve Efron, who has been struggling with long covid for nearly a year, goes through the pills and supplements she takes to help manage her symptoms in Fairfax, on Feb. 3. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
Slowly, researchers are u... | null | null | null | null | null |
Or think of former House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who now sits on the board of directors for Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News. (Disclaimer: I am an MSNBC contributor.) I suppose he might rationalize his decision to stay on the board despite its news outlet’s central role in spreading a web of conspiracy the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Fireworks during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony.
The 2022 Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony.
The national flags are paraded during the closing ceremony.
The Olympic Cauldron is seen alongside the flags of the competing countries.
The Olympic Rings are seen in front of flag bearers.
Performers take pa... | null | null | null | null | null |
MADRID — The last-minute scramble to secure the signing of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has started to pay off for Barcelona.
De Jong had added to Barcelona’s lead from inside the area by completing Dembélé’s right-flank pass in the 32nd, and Pedri sealed the victory with a long-range strike in the 63rd which ahd a slight... | null | null | null | null | null |
The recruit’s death is also being investigated as a possible suicide, police said, and did not immediately release the name of the recruit or his wife because they were still notifying next of kin on Sunday afternoon.
In an internal email to the department, Davis wrote he wants to “determine if our leadership performan... | null | null | null | null | null |
The recruit’s death is also being investigated as a possible suicide, said police, who did not immediately release the name of the recruit or his wife because they were still notifying next of kin on Sunday afternoon.
In an internal email to the department, Davis wrote that he wants to “determine if our leadership perf... | null | null | null | null | null |
Fans are packed in at Daytona International Speedway
Jusan Hamilton takes over as Daytona’s first Black race director
NFL Hall of Famer Charles Woodson will be the Daytona 500′s grand marshal
A full house returns for Daytona this year
What is different about NASCAR’s new racecars?
Why did NASCAR move to the Next Gen ca... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Olympics managed to stage a weekend in Beijing that turned on the lights in Scotland
Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan, Grant Hardie and Ross Whyte of Team Great Britain show off their silver medals. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
BEIJING — Before the Beijing Olympics closed down, they spent the weekend causing the lights ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Military is accused
of killing children
The Nigerian military has killed and wounded children in an airstrike in neighboring Niger, a local governor in Niger, state television and an aid agency said Sunday, although Nigeria’s armed forces said they were still investigating.
“As a matter of policy, the Nigerian air forc... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dozens of pro-Ukrainian activists and Ukrainian Americans rally outside the United Nations as world leaders gather there to discuss the increasing tension with Russia on Feb. 17, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
CHICAGO — The screen inside the Ukrainian National Museum flashed with images of gunfire,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Building health systems for all
Catherine Hopkins, director of Community Outreach and School Health at St. Joseph's Hospital, performs a test on a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 20, 2020. (John Minchillo/Associated Press)
The Feb. 14 editorial “Hope amid the covid whirlwind” pointe... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Let’s not celebrate cruelty
A southwest view of the stockade at the Confederate-run prison in Andersonville, Ga., on Aug. 17, 1864. (Library of Congress)
The Feb. 17 Metro article “A descendant on defense” brought more attention to the atrocities committed at Andersonville, Ga.
The article reported that Heinri... | null | null | null | null | null |
It took a sexual abuse scandal of epic proportions to finally force the beginning of real change in our country, though there is still much work to do. The gymnasts themselves have been the catalysts. “We are here,” Olympian Ali Raisman said in her victim statement in 2018. “We have our voices, and we are not going any... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The whole truth on drug store closures
In her Feb. 17 op-ed, Megan McArdle asked, “Why are drugstores closing?” She said the right blames shoplifting and the left blames corporate consolidation, but the only people who really know why are the drugstore executives, and they “aren’t necessarily going to tell the... | null | null | null | null | null |
Dozens of pro-Ukrainian activists and Ukrainian Americans rally outside the United Nations in New York City as world leaders gather there to discuss the increasing tension with Russia on Feb. 17, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
CHICAGO — The screen inside the Ukrainian National Museum flashed with images of gunfire,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Yes, Georgetown should fire an academic for a racist tweet
A student ascends the steps to the McDonough building on campus of Georgetown Law School in D.C. on Oct. 12. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Yes, you should be fired for a tweet if that tweet reveals you do not have the ability to do your job.
Last ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Washington, Lincoln and the work they left behind
The likenesses of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are carved into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The coincidence of Black History Month and the Presidents’ Day holiday is not an accident. I... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Recent presidential history gives us little reason to relax on Presidents’ Day
Tourists outside Lafayette Park in D.C. on Sept. 30. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)
In seeking to account for the surprising popularity of this very conservative president, we ventured that perhaps it was owed to the fact that ... | null | null | null | null | null |
It took a sexual abuse scandal of epic proportions to finally force the beginning of real change in our country, though there is still much work to do. The gymnasts themselves have been the catalysts. “We are here,” Olympian Aly Raisman said in her victim statement in 2018. “We have our voices, and we are not going any... | null | null | null | null | null |
“It was just one of those days. I felt like we were getting open looks and we were getting good shots — they just weren’t falling,” Sellers said. “So we started attacking in the second half and started attacking a little bit too much and we didn’t kick the ball out.”
All-Big Ten guard Ashley Owusu returned from an ankl... | null | null | null | null | null |
The first U.S. goal ended a 180-minute drought for a team known over the decades for scoring in bunches. The Americans also had been shut out in five of their previous 13 games.
Naeher is, by far, the most experienced, but with Murphy on the rise and Washington’s Aubrey Kingsbury (nee Bledsoe) also in the mix, the batt... | null | null | null | null | null |
Gregory McMichael sits during opening statements last fall in the state murder trial of him, William “Roddie” Bryan and Travis McMichael in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Gwynn County, Ga. (Octavio Jones/Reuters)
McMichael offered that oversight to explain why he did not immediately call police to report Arbery, a Bla... | null | null | null | null | null |
Naeher is by far the most experienced, but with Murphy on the rise and Washington’s Aubrey Kingsbury (nee Bledsoe) also in the mix, the battle for the top spot is likely to continue into the summer.
Note: Washington’s Trinity Rodman, a 19-year-old forward who made her U.S. debut Thursday, entered in the second half but... | null | null | null | null | null |
St. John's swept the DCSAA indoor track and field meet Sunday. (Aaron Credeur/The Washington Post)
“Being scrappy means just getting out there no matter how you’re feeling,” said senior Joshua Thompson, the long jump winner. “Obviously you know your body, but you still give everything you got and you leave it all on th... | null | null | null | null | null |
“It was just one of those days. I felt like we were getting open looks and we were getting good shots — they just weren’t falling,” Sellers said. “So we started attacking in the second half and started attacking a little bit too much, and we didn’t kick the ball out.”
All-Big Ten guard Ashley Owusu returned from an ank... | null | null | null | null | null |
As a winter day exactly four weeks from the spring equinox, Sunday seemed to share aspects of both seasons, bright enough to lure us outdoors, cold enough to chill us once there.
In Washington, the high temperature as of 7 p.m. was 43 degrees, six below average.
And the low temperature was one of the colder readings fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
The sweep and vagueness of a Chinese official's threat before the Games of “certain punishment” for “any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit” appeared to have a particularly sobering effect on Beijing-bound teams. Campaigners who met with athletes in the United States in the weeks before their departu... | null | null | null | null | null |
The boos rained down on Stephen Curry and wife, Ayesha, when they took the stage during All-Star Saturday night to promote their new television show, animosity borne of four straight NBA Finals matchups between the two-time MVP’s Golden State Warriors and the hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. The boos came again during All... | null | null | null | null | null |
The boos rained down on Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha, when they took the stage during All-Star Saturday night to promote their new television show, animosity born of four straight NBA Finals matchups between the two-time MVP’s Golden State Warriors and the hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. The boos came again during ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ukrainian soldiers take shelter after shelling in the area controlled by Russian-backed separatists, on Feb. 19, in Novoluhanske, Ukraine. Ukraine, with the assistance of NATO countries, is looking for a diplomatic solution with Russia, which has massed scores of troops on the restive border. (Michael Robinson Chavez/T... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Kremlin hasn’t yet commented publicly on the call, the second that day between the two leaders. In a readout of the earlier call published on the Russian president’s website, Putin supported the resumption of diplomatic discussions through the Normandy Format talks — with the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Kremlin says Putin could meet Biden ‘at any moment’ but no concrete plans
President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed “in principle” to meet, U.S. and French officials said — even as troops continue to gather near the Ukraine border, suggesting the window for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis i... | null | null | null | null | null |
At Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, Abhijeet Dhoble, an associate professor of cardiovascular medicine, said they are seeing an increase in arrhythmia, an abnormality in the timing of the heartbeat, and cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease. The patients, who previously had covid, range in age from th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Happy birthday, George Washington
How Washington’s birthday could help revive his vision for the country
The Federal Hall statue of George Washington overlooks the New York Stock Exchange on June 7. (Richard Drew/AP)
By Samantha Baskind
Samantha Baskind is a professor of art history at Cleveland State University and au... | null | null | null | null | null |
More involvement from Black churches could increase the success of liberal activism
Black churches have long been the backbone of advances in civil rights and economic justice
The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, president of the North Carolina NAACP, demands justice after the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. last year in E... | null | null | null | null | null |
This photographer set out to document U.S. divisiveness but ended up finding connectedness
‘Niagara Falls, Ontario’, from "A Pound of Pictures" (MACK, 2022). (Alec Soth)
Why create art? Why make photographs? There are many answers to those questions, but one seems to be universal: to share our visions with our fellow h... | null | null | null | null | null |
Monday briefing: The next move in Ukraine; why hundreds of Family Dollar stores closed; Truth Social; All-Star MVP; and more
Biden and Putin agreed “in principle” to a meeting about Ukraine.
The setup: French President Emmanuel Macron proposed the summit yesterday during calls with President Biden and Russian President... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Internal Revenue Service is no longer functioning properly. The agency reported a backlog of about 8 million unprocessed returns at the start of the year; it turns out the actual figure is nearly 24 million, according to data obtained by The Post. About half of that backlog is paper returns that the IRS doesn’t hav... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population live in counties on the coast. If NOAA’s projection materializes by 2050, the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates 140,000 homes would be at risk of flooding on average once every two weeks. Ports and other commercial infrastructure along the coasts could also see serious dam... | null | null | null | null | null |
The opinion is not a decision on the merits, but in allowing the cases to go forward, it sets the stage for what could be a nightmarish trial for Trump. Trump may refuse to testify, but unlike a criminal proceeding, taking the Fifth could be used against him in a civil hearing. (Plus, in his flurry of post-presidential... | null | null | null | null | null |
CBP officials say the efforts will be initially focused on southern Arizona’s Tucson sector, including remote and ecologically fragile areas where the most destructive blasting occurred, such as Guadalupe Canyon, as well as the dry creek beds and channels that surge during summer “monsoon” thunderstorms. Segments of th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: The Justice Department is right to challenge Missouri’s absurd gun law
From the beginning of our history, there has been a tug of war between federal and state power — and between states and localities, and between the federal government and localities. These different levels of government can have different p... | null | null | null | null | null |
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