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Ukrainians and Taiwanese people attend a prayer event to pray for the end of the war in Ukraine at a temple in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 3, 2022. (Ann Wang/Reuters) “I believe that today’s Ukraine is tomorrow’s Taiwan,” said Lung ku, a 69-year-old retired soldier from the southern city of Kaohsiung. “Other countries inc...
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While the attacks on the plant did not trigger a release of radioactive material, Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, warned of the “risks that we may all incur” if fighting around nuclear sites rages on. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and surrounding a...
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Economists and entrepreneurs fear the Ukraine war will force Russia into an economic isolation not seen since the Cold War British Prime Minister Tony Blair chats with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an energy conference in London on June 26, 2003. (Ivan Sekretarev/AFP/Getty Images) He donned white tie and tails to...
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A county pulled police from schools six months ago. Now it wants to bring them back. Montgomery County students and community activists protest a proposal to bring police back into county school buildings, on Feb. 24 in Rockville, Md. (Young People for Progress) Less than six months after Maryland’s largest jurisdictio...
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CAIRO — The U.N.’s top official for Libya on Friday urged the country’s divided factions to refrain from violence and agree on a framework for the future. Libya is being pulled apart again, with two rival governments claiming power after tentative steps towards unity in the past year following a decade of civil war.
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Taiwan’s leaders try to calm fears over Ukraine invasion, but citizens worry their island will be next Ukrainians and Taiwanese people pray for the end of the war in Ukraine at a temple in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 3. (Ann Wang/Reuters) Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the slogan has been repeated in local headlines, d...
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In this photo taken on Feb. 18, 2022 Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe who was arrested on July 21, 2021, leaves the High Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Ericky Boniphace/AFP/Getty Images) NAIROBI — A Tanzanian court dropped terrorism-related charges on Friday against opposition leader ...
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While the attacks on the plant did not trigger a release of radioactive material, Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, warned of the “risks that we may all incur” if fighting around nuclear sites rages on. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and surrounding area earl...
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New movies to stream this week: ‘Huda’s Salon,’ ‘Fresh’ and more Ali Suliman, left, and Manal Awad in “Huda’s Salon.” (IFC Films) From Hany Abu-Assad, the Palestinian-Dutch writer-director behind the Oscar nominated films “Paradise Now” and “Omar,” “Huda’s Salon” tells two separate, yet intertwined tales. Set in the wa...
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The all-star musicians are coming to the Kennedy Center on March 7 behind their new recording, “Beethoven for Three” From left, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma, who will be performing at the Kennedy Center on March 7. (Shane McCauley) Three years after Tanglewood, they released their first acclaimed recording...
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Opinion: Putin has a huge advantage in the kind of nuclear weapon he would be most likely to use Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Russian Security Council meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on March 3. (Andrei Gorshkov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via AP) Vladimir Putin’s brandishing of his nuclea...
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Mikhail Klimentov Alexander Molodkin, one half of the Kyiv-based game developer Weasel Token, was never a political person. He didn’t follow the news. When the Russian troop buildup at Ukraine’s border began, he was optimistic — within reason. “Something will definitely happen,” he recalled thinking, though he anticipa...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of his country, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said Russia’s overnight attack on a nuclear power plant amounted to “a war crime.” Zelensky made his appeal despite saying he is living through “...
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Opinion: D.C. trails Maryland and Virginia in civil rights efforts By Chad Reese Inside the John A. Wilson Building, which houses the mayor's office and the chambers of the D.C. Council. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Chad Reese is the assistant direct of activism at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public ...
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Opinion: The National Mall has plenty of space for two new museums By Judy Scott Feldman The Lincoln Memorial and the reflecting pool on the National Mall. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) Judy Scott Feldman is chair of the National Mall Coalition. The Smithsonian is trying to identify locations for two new museum...
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Opinion: Youngkin can deliver the promise of environmental justice for underserved communities By Robert "J.R." Gurley Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Feb. 15 in Richmond. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Robert “J.R.” Gurley is president of the Virginia chapter of the Frederick Douglass Foundation. When Virginia Gov. Glenn You...
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The Ukrainian city, now under attack by Russia, was targeted by Hitler during the German onslaught of World War II The final Nazi assault on Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine on Oct. 8, 1941, which the Nazis entered as the Russians withdrew from the town. Here an advance party of shock-troops is seen assaulting a Russia...
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SBC President Ed Litton won’t run again, saying he will instead focus on racial reconciliation The Rev. Ed Litton speaks at the Southern Baptist Convention on June 15, 2021. (William DeShazer for The Washington Post) Saying he wants to spend his time focusing on racial reconciliation, Southern Baptist Convention Presid...
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The Babyn (Babi) Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv. Five people were killed in the March 1 attack on Kyiv's main television tower which is near Babyn Yar, the site of World War II's biggest slaughter of Kyiv Jews and a place of memorial and pilgrimage. (Dimitar DilkoffI/AFP via Getty Images) As soon as a projectile...
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By Emily McFarlan Miller A gay pride rainbow flag flies along with the U.S. flag in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan., in 2019. (Charlie Riedel/AP) The United Methodist Church has delayed its General Conference meeting for a third time because of the continuing coronavirus pandemic. I...
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Bear Grylls, Author, “Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild” Bear Grylls, known as one of the most recognizable faces of outdoor adventure worldwide joins Washington Post’s Dave Jorgenson on Thursday, March 10 at 1:00 p.m. ET to discuss his autobiography, “Never Give Up.” Grylls offers a behind the scenes look at the scar...
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The mayor of Mariupol warns that his city faces a ‘humanitarian catastrophe.’ This image from video shows a flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, in the early hours of March 4, 2022, as Russian forces shelled Europe’s largest nuclear plant. A fire broke out at the plant. (Zaporiz...
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On Nov. 2, Walmart recalled about 3,900 bottles of the “Lavender & Chamomile With Gemstones” spray and five other Better Homes & Gardens products. (Consumer Product Safety Commission) The cases led to the recall of thousands of products, and warnings went out telling consumers who had bought the sprays to immediately s...
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Opinion: RT is a terrible network. But don’t ban it. On Thursday, the production company behind RT America ceased its operations after the channel was dropped by several U.S. TV distributors. Such trends could continue. If technology companies decide to block RT content on their own, that is their call and should be pa...
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Dorothea Koehn Janine Prantl Displaced Ukrainians after arriving by train in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 3. (Jonathan Alpeyrie/Bloomberg) Michael Doyle is a professor at Columbia University and senior fellow of the Carnegie Council, where he directs its refugee and migration project. Dorothea Koehn is a master’s of interna...
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Opinion: Two legal developments show the Jan. 6 investigation is closing in on Trump’s inner circle By Randall D. Eliason The affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against Joshua James as seen on March 2. (Jon Elswick/AP) On Wednesday, Joshua James pleaded guilty in federal court to seditious conspiracy: consp...
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Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) attend a White House event Thursday. (Sarah Silbiger/For The Washington Post) For the second time in two nights Thursday, viewers of Fox News’s prime-time programming were greeted with a call to assassinate Vladimir Putin. First came Sean Hannity saying we n...
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One week of the Ukraine war, analyzed Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. An observation from Middlebury College political science professor (and friend of The Daily 202) Allison Stanger: “The Polish and Ukrainian national anthems — both countries sharing the experience of Russia periodically s...
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New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference in which he announced the scaling back of COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates within the city, Friday, March 4, 2022, in New York. (New York City Mayor’s Office via AP) (Uncredited/New York City Mayor’s Office) NEW YORK — New York City, which has long prided...
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Maria Glod named The Post’s Deputy Local Editor Announcement from Local Editor Mike Semel: We are thrilled to announce that Maria Glod will be the next deputy local editor, effective immediately. Maria, one of the newsroom’s strongest and most well-regarded leaders, has been at the center of some of The Washington Post...
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Severe storms and snow to target Plains and Upper Midwest Saturday It’s the first of two storm systems that will affect large parts of the country through Tuesday. Already the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has hoisted a level 2 out of 5 slight risk of severe weather across Iowa on Saturday, with rota...
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Opinion: College as a safe space for those wary of coming out Joel Mittleman’s Feb. 27 op-ed, “What gay men’s stunning success can tell us about the academic gender gap,” illuminated an interesting sociological phenomenon. I can personally — and through hundreds of stories from friends and acquaintances — verify the au...
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Opinion: Gendered pay discrimination isn’t limited to soccer U.S. women's national soccer team members Alex Morgan, left, and Megan Rapinoe during a news conference in New York in May 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP) Regarding Sally Jenkins’s Feb. 23 Sports column, “With payout, U.S. Soccer all but admits to its insults”: It’s im...
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Opinion: Insurrectionist’s sentence was too lenient Adam Johnson, seen here inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 75 days in jail and a $5,000 fine for his actions that day. Regarding the Feb. 26 Metro article, “Man who toted Pelosi lectern gets 75 days’ jail”: I was appalled to read that Adam Johnson, w...
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Opinion: The link between national security and climate change Firefighters watch as a helicopter drops water on a wildfire in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Feb. 10. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP) In separate editorials published on Feb. 25 [“Why Ukraine matters”] and Feb. 28 [“A tipping point”], The Post opined about climate change ...
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Opinion: Racist ideology runs counter to our foundational principles In his Feb. 27 op-ed, “Bigotry is reprehensible, but it’s not a federal offense,” George F. Will asserted that prohibiting the distribution of racist ideology is policing thought. As Mr. Will should know, speech has never been entirely free. I was tau...
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Opinion: Russia’s economic struggles will likely limit its military operations Russian armored vehicles are loaded onto railway platforms at a railway station in the Rostov-on-Don region not far from the Russia-Ukraine border on Feb. 23. (AP) Regarding the Feb. 27 news article “West vows to punish Russia with blow to i...
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Lights illuminate the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery plant, operated by Rosneft PJSC, in Novokuibyshevsk, Samara region, Russia. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) This is not the position of President Biden, however. The White House has repeatedly declined not only to halt imports of oil from Russia, but the drastic sanctions t...
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Fox Sports television, which employed Mr. Warne as a commentator, quoted a family statement saying the cause was a suspected heart attack at his villa in Koh Samui. Police in Thailand said Mr. Warne’s body was transferred to a hospital for an autopsy. Police added they did not find any wounds on Mr. Warne’s body. Known...
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As the Epstein case did, Kizer’s circumstances have brought international attention to the realities of sex trafficking, highlighting the way that vulnerable people can be groomed into abusive relationships. After being championed by celebrities and the organizers of the #MeToo movement, Kizer’s case received renewed a...
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The program will start in hundreds of locations next week with the goal of increasing access to lifesaving treatments, say Biden officials. Thousands of pharmacy locations, such as CVS MinuteClinics, are expected to implement the one-stop, test and treat program beginning later this month. Photo by Amanda Voisard/for T...
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The Ukrainian city, now under attack by Russia, was targeted by Hitler during the German onslaught of World War II. The final Nazi assault on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on Oct. 8, 1941. Here an advance party of shock troops is seen assaulting a Russian position, already burning furiously, just before the entry into ...
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Opinion: How to beat Putin, for real Lights illuminate a gas-drilling rig in the Lensk district of the Sakha Republic in Russia on Oct. 13. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) The battle has been joined. Now, all that remains to be seen is who will win. President Biden has rallied not just the West but also much of the world. H...
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The pandemic knockdown came following uncertain decades for the guidebook industry. After reaching 19,005,029 in 2006, U.S. travel book sales halved over the next decade. In 2013, BBC Worldwide sold Lonely Planet, a move followed by massive layoffs. Then, having acquired Frommer’s, Google quietly stopped all production...
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FILE - This April 7, 2019 file photo shows Reba McEntire on stage at the 54th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. Amazon has seen solid returns from its investment in streaming live sports, but its upcoming bet on the Academy of Country Music Awards is more of a gamble. The show will air exclusively on...
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For years, right-wing nationalist politicians pronounced a dewy-eyed admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a strongman they couldn’t resist. It wasn’t only Donald Trump who rhapsodized about Mr. Putin’s supposed "strength” and “traditional” values. It was also leaders of similarly inclined movements in France, Italy,...
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PARIS, FRANCE — FEBRUARY 03: In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Meta logo on February 03, 2022 in Paris, France. (Chesnot/Photographer: Chesnot/Getty Imag) The Roskomnadzor, the country’s Internet censorship agency, announced the decision in a Telegram po...
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Lights illuminate the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, operated by Rosneft, in the Samara region of Russia. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg News) This is not the position of President Biden, however. Not only has the White House repeatedly declined to halt imports of oil from Russia but the drastic sanctions Moscow has faced si...
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Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) attend a White House event Thursday. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post) For the second time in two nights Thursday, viewers of Fox News’s prime-time programming were greeted with a call to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. First came Sea...
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President Biden sent a powerful message at his State of the Union, proclaiming: “We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.” The White House has been quick to send humanitarian and some military aid and to enact punishing sanctions on Russia to cut off Vladimir Putin’s ability to easily finance ...
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For years, Republicans have prided themselves, and lectured others, about the primacy of local control. Yet in prohibiting counties and cities from enforcing mask mandates regardless of community conditions, Mr. Youngkin has neutered local authority. He did so, ostensibly, in the name of parental choice. Yet parents do...
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One week ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found a 67 percent majority of Americans supported the U.S. and European allies imposing sanctions on Russia for its military invasion of Ukraine. But that finding came with a caveat: Support dropped to 51 percent if the sanctions led to higher energy prices in the United S...
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Fox Sports television, which employed Mr. Warne as a commentator, quoted a family statement saying the cause was a suspected heart attack at his villa in Koh Samui. Police in Thailand said Mr. Warne’s body was transferred to a hospital for an autopsy. Police added that they did not find any wounds on Mr. Warne’s body. ...
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By Phil Klay President Biden delivers remarks during his State of the Union address at the Capitol on March 1. (Jim Lo Scalzo/AP) Phil Klay is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and a member of Veterans for American Ideals. The last time we spoke, the Afghan engineer I’ll call “Omar” was still stuck in Kabul, ...
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The move, coupled with the broader tech blockade underway as a result of Western sanctions and corporate decisions, will deprive Russia of key tech tools that are vital to its economy. Key U.S. provider of Internet to Russia cuts service there Computer-chip manufacturers have begun halting deliveries to Russia to compl...
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Key U.S. provider of Internet to Russia cuts service there, citing ‘unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' Cogent Communications alerted Russian customers that it would begin terminating connections at noon Eastern time on Friday Cogent chief executive Dave Schaeffer said the company did not want to keep ordinary Russians off...
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When I listed Arbery in a June 19, 2020, column among the names of unarmed Black people killed in America, I only knew enough to state that he was a jogger who was chased down and shot by White men in Glynn County, Ga. That isn’t to say suspicion of racial violence did not hang over the case.
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On Wednesday, the House committee investigating the riot that day filed a legal document articulating how it believed Trump was probably culpable in the commission of several crimes. A central part of that articulation was that Trump had every reason to know that his claims of election fraud — as false as they were inc...
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Gas prices are displayed on a sign at a gas station March 3, in Hampshire, Ill. Increasing demand and global supply uncertainty driven by the war in Ukraine have driven gas prices over $4 per gallon in many parts of the country. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The added expenses could have sweeping impacts for U.S. consumer...
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The program will start in hundreds of locations next week with the goal of increasing access to lifesaving treatments, Biden officials say Walgreens stores like this one in San Francisco may be offering "test to treat" services by the end of March. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Consumers will be able to walk into ...
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“We are watching in slow motion the murder of thousands of people,” Temnycky said as Russia President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their assault on several cities in Ukraine. “I don’t see how he is going to stop.” Marina Shepelsky, 45, a Ukrainian-born lawyer in Brooklyn, said her fiance is a Soviet Jew who escape...
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Transcript: World Stage: Ukraine with John Bolton, Former U.S. National Security Advisor MR. DUFFY: Good morning, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Michael Duffy, opinions editor at large here at The Post. Our guest this morning is John Bolton, an influential voice in American foreign policy for the last three d...
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While definitely an isolationist with an exceptional ability to withstand both cold and darkness, you appreciate fresh starts. Unfortunately, you always come to the conclusion that this so-called “fresh start” is really just a continuation of the last start’s ending. You also Google “Polar Vortex” a lot. No one knows y...
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A worker changes the numbers of a price at the Lukoil fuel station, after local officials voted to suspend the business license of local Lukoil gas stations following the Russian's invasion of Ukraine. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) One week ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found a 67 percent majority of Americans support...
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The Anaheim Police Department has refused to disclose reports concerning Moynihan’s death to The Post. An autopsy report released by the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner showed that Moynihan’s death was determined to be a suicide via “ligature hanging.” Following the filing of the DFEH lawsuit, which alleged a “frat boy c...
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In the past two days, Russia’s warships have been spotted near Odessa’s Chernomorsk and Zatoka beaches, where an amphibious landing is most likely due to favorable geographical conditions, said Alexander Velmozhko, the press secretary of the local Territorial Defense forces. Heavy fighting continues in Mariupol, the ma...
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Chicken producers face antitrust probe The U.S. Justice Department is investigating employment practices of Pilgrim’s Pride and other chicken producers to determine whether the companies violated antitrust laws. Pilgrim’s, the second-biggest U.S. poultry company, disclosed the civil investigation in a securities filing...
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At a bond hearing later in the day, a prosecutor reading a proffer detailing the crime spree, said that Tellez’s daughter, after hearing her father scream, saw one of the men beat her father in the head with the bat before the two ran away. Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said that the evidence agai...
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INDIANAPOLIS — Former University of Georgia D-lineman Jordan Davis said that despite all the star power boasted by the Bulldogs last season, “we wanted to call ourselves a no-name defense.” “It’s not about the stars,” Davis insisted. “... That was one of the things that drove us as a defense. We wanted to call ourselve...
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Some were famous, such as Coretta Scott King, the widow of the civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley. Others, such as the Green sisters — Bloomie, Dotty and Minnie, who never lived more than 10 minutes away from one another — were not. In an interview with CBS’s “The E...
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While definitely an isolationist with an exceptional ability to withstand both cold and darkness, you appreciate fresh starts. Unfortunately, you always come to the conclusion that this “fresh start” is really just a continuation of the last start’s ending. You also Google “Polar Vortex” a lot. No one knows your intere...
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INDIANAPOLIS — A year after the surgery that could have prevented him from being at the NFL scouting combine, Carson Strong finally was facing his toughest tests. The Nevada quarterback shuffled from room to room, with each full of team doctors seemingly whispering amongst themselves about him and his right knee. “Ever...
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Liliia Akhaimova, Viktoriia Listunova, Angelina Melnikova and Vladislava Urazova celebrate after winning the team gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP) Russian and Belarusian gymnasts and officials were banned from international competition indefinitely, the sport’s global governing body announced Fr...
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56 killed at mosque; ISIS claims attack The Islamic State in a statement posted to the group’s media outlet claimed an attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque in central Peshawar that killed at least 56 people Friday in the deadliest assault in the northwestern Pakistani city in more than seven years. A blast struck the mosqu...
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By Mike Feinsilber and Calvin Woodward | AP Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Walter R. Mears, shown March 12, 1999 in Washington. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it,...
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The Aircraft Ownership Transparency Act, a bill Lynch first introduced in 2017, is meant to address that. It requires the FAA to obtain the identity of a plane’s “beneficial owners,” meaning the people who actually control the entity seeking to register the plane, or those who have an interest in its assets. Kalman sai...
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The complaint, dated Thursday and filed by the parents of Kerri Moynihan, a 32-year-old finance manager at Activision Blizzard when she was found dead during a company retreat in 2017, claims that sexual harassment was a “significant factor” leading to her death. The Anaheim Police Department has refused to disclose re...
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“It’s time to remind the government, not just here in the U.S. but across the world, that they work for us.” Brian Bass, one of the organizers, said. “This convoy, and these truckers, believe in freedom and your right to do, to think, to act and say what you feel. At this point, it is the civic duty of the American peo...
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“We don’t necessarily tell you exactly what, where, when and how," one British official said. “There are stockpiles in Poland,” where much of the weaponry coming from outside is being gathered, said Ed Arnold, a research fellow of European security at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute. From there, “there are on...
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As Ukraine struggles to count war casualties, families bury the dead one by one Oksana Shlonska and a family member at the funeral of her husband, Volodymyr Nezhenets, in the Church of the Holy Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul in Kyiv, Ukraine, a week after the invasion. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) “The Russi...
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It’s the first of two storm systems that will affect large parts of the country through Tuesday The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has hoisted a Level 2 out of 5 slight risk of severe weather across Iowa on Saturday, with rotating thunderstorms or supercells likely in a narrow corridor during the even...
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Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, told the Security Council on Friday that the discussion about the Zaporizhzhia plant was “a false information attack, as if Russia had fired against the power plant.” The “plant and the surrounding areas have been placed under the protection of the Russian mil...
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Katie Benzan, left, went scoreless for the first time at Maryland in a loss Friday to Ali Patberg and Indiana. (Robert Scheer/Indianapolis Star/AP) The Terrapins earned a double-bye as the No. 4 seed with a win over Indiana in the final game of the regular season. The Hoosiers got the No. 5 seed and defeated 13th-seede...
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The phrase has become a rallying cry. A journalist for the Guardian in the region said on Twitter that the slogan can be seen emblazoned on highway signs, painted on checkpoints and written in dust on trucks. At a pro-Ukraine gathering in San Francisco last weekend, Zina Pozen, a 49-year-old woman in Oakland, Calif., w...
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President Biden sent a powerful message at his State of the Union address, proclaiming: “We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.” The White House has been quick to send humanitarian and some military aid and to enact punishing sanctions on Russia to cut off Vladimir Putin’s ability to easily ...
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From left, Vladislava Urazova, Angelina Melnikova, Viktoria Listunova and Lilia Akhaimova celebrate after winning the team gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP) Russian and Belarusian gymnasts and officials are banned from international competition indefinitely, the sport’s global governing body anno...
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The Aircraft Ownership Transparency Act, a bill Lynch first introduced in 2017, was meant to address that. It would have required the FAA to obtain the identity of a plane’s “beneficial owners,” meaning the people who actually control the entity seeking to register the plane, or those who have an interest in its assets...
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Emma West (24) and Georgetown Visitation beat St. John's on Friday in the DCSAA semifinals, setting up a meeting with top-ranked Sidwell Friends. (Doug Kapustin for The Washington Post) Less than a week ago, Georgetown Visitation saw its conference tournament run end in tears. The Cubs had been upset by Maret in the In...
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INDIANAPOLIS — A year after the surgery that could have prevented him from being at the NFL scouting combine, Carson Strong finally was facing his toughest tests. The Nevada quarterback shuffled from room to room, with each full of team doctors seemingly whispering among themselves about him and his right knee. “Everyo...
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Katie Benzan went scoreless for the first time in her Maryland career in a loss Friday to Ali Patberg and Indiana. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) The Terrapins earned a double bye as the No. 4 seed with a win over Indiana in the final game of the regular season. The Hoosiers got the No. 5 seed and defeated 13th-s...
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“We are watching in slow motion the murder of thousands of people,” Temnycky said as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their assault on several cities in Ukraine. “I don’t see how he is going to stop.” Marina Shepelsky, 45, a Ukrainian-born lawyer in Brooklyn, said her fiance is a Soviet Jew who escap...
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China state media censors Paralympics opening ceremony speech on Ukraine By Eva Dou2:10 a.m. China’s state-run broadcaster censored part of the Winter Paralympics Opening Ceremonies in Beijing on Friday, when an official speech turned critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking emphatically, International Paraly...
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Who Wants to be a State Secretary of State? Everyone. The once-sleepy, down-ballot elected office has suddenly become one of the most vital roles in the nation In the turbulent weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger faced the media so many times that he felt he must ha...
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Fresno State hosts Maldonado and Wyoming Fresno State Bulldogs (18-11, 8-8 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (23-7, 12-5 MWC) Laramie, Wyoming; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Wyoming hosts the Fresno State Bulldogs after Hunter Maldonado scored 22 points in Wyoming’s 64-57 loss to the UNLV Rebels. The Cowboys have gone 13-1 i...
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Gainey leads South Carolina Upstate against Longwood after 20-point performance South Carolina Upstate Spartans (14-15, 10-6 Big South) vs. Longwood Lancers (24-6, 15-1 Big South) Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 12 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: South Carolina Upstate plays the Longwood Lancers after Jordan Gainey scored 2...
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Gardner-Webb visits Winthrop after Hightower's 21-point game Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (18-12, 11-5 Big South) vs. Winthrop Eagles (22-8, 14-2 Big South) BOTTOM LINE: Winthrop takes on the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs after Cory Hightower scored 21 points in Winthrop’s 68-51 victory against the High Point Panthers...
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Drake Bulldogs (23-9, 13-5 MVC) vs. Missouri State Bears (23-9, 13-5 MVC) BOTTOM LINE: Missouri State will attempt to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory over Drake. The Bears have gone 12-4 at home. Missouri State is 1-2 in games decided by less than 4 points. The Bulldogs have gone 13-5 against MVC oppon...
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Murphy and the South Florida Bulls take on conference foe Temple South Florida Bulls (8-21, 3-14 AAC) at Temple Owls (16-11, 9-7 AAC) Philadelphia; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Temple takes on South Florida in a matchup of AAC teams. The Owls are 10-3 in home games. Temple averages 12.2 turnovers per game and is 6-4...
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New Hampshire Wildcats and Binghamton Bearcats play in America East Tournament Binghamton Bearcats (11-16, 8-10 America East) at New Hampshire Wildcats (15-12, 10-8 America East) Durham, New Hampshire; Sunday, 1 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: The New Hampshire Wildcats play in the America East Tournament against the Binghamton ...
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No. 22 Murray State plays Morehead State, looks for 70th win of season Morehead State Eagles (22-10, 13-5 OVC) vs. Murray State Racers (29-2, 18-0 OVC) Evansville, Indiana; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 22 Murray State will try to earn its 30th victory this season when the Racers play the Morehead State Eagl...
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