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In 2014, the league actually got six NCAA tournament bids — matching the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12. Only the Big 12, with seven, had more. No non-power conference had gotten six bids before, and none has since.
A year earlier, the A-10 got five bids. In fact, it has been a multi-bid league for each of the past 15 tournam... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ukraine has supplied Beijing for years with critical military technology that it couldn’t get elsewhere, including China’s first aircraft carrier, technology for its naval antimissile radar, and advanced jet engines. It’s also a key supplier of agricultural products such as corn and sunflower oil to China.
“China would... | null | null | null | null | null |
Plane carrying Trump makes emergency landing in New Orleans
A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.
The plane carrying Trump was forced to immediate... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - This photo released by the North Las Vegas Police Department shows a Dodge Challenger following a crash in North Las Vegas on Jan. 29, 2022. A police report says the 59-year-old motorist’s sports car was at full acceleration when he caused a multi-vehicle wreck in North Las Vegas that killed him, his passenger a... | null | null | null | null | null |
The United States is back in an energy crisis, with record gas prices because of disruptions stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Many nations have rightly taken steps to halt or sharply reduce Russian energy purchases in an effort to choke off Vladimir Putin’s economy. But the shunning of Russian oil — which ac... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Why Doug Ducey and other GOP governors find the Senate such a resistible temptation
Gov. Doug Ducey speaks at a conference in Yuma, Ariz., on Feb. 17. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun/AP)
PHOENIX — Doug Ducey has given the nation three fine things: an abundance of ice cream, the rare example of eight years of good go... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Kyiv vs. Kiev, Zelensky vs. Zelenskyy, and the immense meaning of ‘the’
By Benjamin Dreyer
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a news conference in Kyiv on Feb. 23. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Benjamin Dreyer is Random House’s executive managing editor and copy chief and the author of “Dreyer’s English: An Utter... | null | null | null | null | null |
Robert Regan is far from the first politician or other public figure to try to make light of what a woman experiences during rape — specifically, to suggest that she likes it. As far back as 1976, a television weatherman in New York said pretty much the same thing that Regan did — after a stock market report and, inexp... | null | null | null | null | null |
The EU banned “broadcasting” Sputnik and RT. Now it’s arguing that applies to search results and social media re-posts from regular users.
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Google’s YouTube all said last week they would block posts from Russian state media accounts in Europe, responding to public pressure and government re... | null | null | null | null | null |
Robert Ryan, ambassador
Robert Ryan, 82, a career Foreign Service officer who served as ambassador to Mali from 1984 to 1987, died Jan. 10 at a hospital in Augusta, Maine. The cause was pneumonitis, said a daughter, Susan Ryan.
Mr. Ryan, a native Washingtonian, was in the Foreign Service from 1960 to 1992. In 1991 and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Demetrios Papademetriou, migration scholar
Demetrios Papademetriou, 75, a migration scholar who founded Migration Policy Institute think tanks in Washington and in Brussels, published 275 books, monographs and reports on global patterns of migration, and advised world leaders on immigration policies, died Jan. 26 at a ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Eileen Garner, administrator, realtor
Eileen Garner, 72, an administrator with the American Association of University Professors from 1996 to 2003, who then spent six years as a realtor with Coldwell Banker, died Jan. 31 at a hospice center in Washington. The cause was cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lawrence 'Larry' Slagle, USDA official
Lawrence “Larry” Slagle, 87, who spent 34 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture before retiring in 1994 as personnel director, died Jan. 10 at a hospital in Washington. The cause was pulmonary congestion, said a family friend, Garrett Peck.
Mr. Slagle, a District resident,... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sylvia Zagoria, jobs counselor
Sylvia Zagoria, 99, a jobs counselor who spent about 15 years with the Prince George’s County government before retiring in 1985, died Jan. 25 at her home in San Francisco. The cause was heart disease, said a son, Ron Zagoria.
Mrs. Zagoria was born Sylvia Bromse in Brooklyn, N.Y., and mov... | null | null | null | null | null |
People steer their boat by the old Windsor Bridge under rising floodwaters along the Hawkesbury River in Windsor, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on March 9, 2022. (Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
Local residents gathered in the severely hit New South Wales city of Lismore ahead of a scheduled visit by the prime minist... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Netherlands has been perhaps the most prolific employer of strategic, weaponized flooding. A 2015 research paper found that, from 1500 to 2000, about one-third of floods in the country’s southwest were deliberately caused during wartime. The tactic was often ineffective, the study found, and had far-reaching conseq... | null | null | null | null | null |
David Solomon, highway engineer
David Solomon, 94, a civil engineer who retired in 1983 from the Federal Highway Administration after 30 years of service, died Dec. 22 at his home in Northbrook, Ill. The cause was colon cancer, said a daughter, Ruth Tupper.
Mr. Solomon was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He moved to the Washing... | null | null | null | null | null |
Navy falls one step short of NCAA tournament with loss to Colgate in Patriot League final
John Carter Jr. and his Navy teammates fell behind early and couldn't find a way past Colgate in the Patriot League tournament championship game Wednesday. (Hans Pennink/AP)
HAMILTON, N.Y. — Navy summoned enough energy to inject s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Virginia Tech's Darius Maddox, center, celebrates with teammates after his game-winning three-pointer advanced the Hokies into the ACC tournament quarterfinals. (John Minchillo/AP)
NEW YORK — Darius Maddox calmly took the inbounds pass with 6.7 seconds left in overtime, crossed into the frontcourt and created a little ... | null | null | null | null | null |
T.E. Lawrence’s memoir of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire -- the basis for ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ — offers a sweeping look at war and its consequences
Last month, when Vladimir Putin was still massing troops on the Ukrainian border, I decided to read “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” T.E. Lawrence’s memoir of the 191... | null | null | null | null | null |
In Carson Wentz, the Washington Commanders have arguably their best combination of talent and experience at quarterback since 2017, Kirk Cousins’s final season with the team. But Wentz is a complicated player who not only has struggled to use his physical skills judiciously but has gained a reputation as a player who m... | null | null | null | null | null |
New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) looks to pass against Dallas Mavericks forward Dorian Finney-Smith (10) and other defenders during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Dallas, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Mavericks: Doncic picked up his 14th technical foul with the game just about ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ships are docked at an oil and chemicals terminal at the Port of Rotterdam. Europe's biggest port is where the sharp end of sanctions against Russia looks likely to hurt the Netherlands. (Peter Boer/Bloomberg News)
E.U. officials cast the move as a way to hit the Kremlin’s war chest while also reducing Russia’s leverag... | null | null | null | null | null |
And despite multiple opportunities in the closing seconds, the Hoyas ended their season with a 57-53 loss to Seton Hall, closing a campaign 6-25 and on a program-worst 21-game losing streak.
Georgetown is first Big East tournament defending champion to lose their first game the following tourney since West Virginia in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jayden Gardner (1) scored a game-high 17 points to lead Virginia past Louisville. (John Minchillo/AP)
NEW YORK — The sixth-seeded Virginia men’s basketball team took a modest but necessary step toward securing a berth in the NCAA tournament with a 51-50 win against No. 11 seed Louisville on Wednesday night in the secon... | null | null | null | null | null |
Eleanor Roosevelt scores an upset, Churchill wins its semifinal to set up showdown for 4A boys’ crown
Churchill forward Tre Stott, shown last month, scored 18 points in the Bulldogs' semifinal win. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
When Parkville’s desperation three-point attempt fell to the floor Wednesday, the ga... | null | null | null | null | null |
Portland Trail Blazers forward Trendon Watford (2) turns to offload the ball away from Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 9, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Adam Fondren)
SALT LAKE CITY — Bojan Bogdanovic scored 27 points, hitting six 3-pointers, to lead ... | null | null | null | null | null |
And despite multiple opportunities in the closing seconds, the Hoyas ended their season with a 57-53 loss to Seton Hall to close out a 6-25 campaign on a program-worst 21-game losing streak.
Georgetown is the first Big East tournament defending champion to lose its first game the following year since West Virginia in 2... | null | null | null | null | null |
Philippines to proceed with purchase of Russian helicopters despite war in Ukraine
The Philippines will proceed with the purchase of 17 Russian transport helicopters for about $250 million despite Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine, the Southeast Asian nation’s defense secretary said Wednesday, poking a hole in the Un... | null | null | null | null | null |
George Washington meets UMass in A-10 Tournament
BOTTOM LINE: The George Washington Colonials and UMass Minutemen square off in the A-10 Tournament.
The Colonials are 8-5 on their home court. George Washington has a 5-14 record against teams over .500.
The Minutemen are 7-11 in conference matchups. UMass has a 4-1 reco... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sam Houston aims for 20th victory this season in matchup with Grand Canyon
Sam Houston Bearkats (19-13, 13-5 WAC) vs. Grand Canyon Antelopes (23-7, 12-5 WAC)
BOTTOM LINE: Sam Houston will aim for its 20th win of the season when the Bearkats visit the Grand Canyon Antelopes.
The Antelopes have gone 15-2 at home. Grand C... | null | null | null | null | null |
Washington visits No. 21 USC following Mobley's 20-point performance
Washington Huskies (16-15, 11-9 Pac-12) vs. USC Trojans (25-6, 14-6 Pac-12)
BOTTOM LINE: No. 21 USC hosts the Washington Huskies after Isaiah Mobley scored 20 points in USC’s 75-68 loss to the UCLA Bruins.
The Trojans have gone 13-3 at home. USC is th... | null | null | null | null | null |
NEW YORK — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred canceled 93 more games, appearing to cut off the chance to play a full 162-game schedule and threatening locked out players with loss of salary and service time.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The greatest of his generation, Tiger Woods took his place among the best of all time w... | null | null | null | null | null |
LONDON — The U.K. on Thursday announced sanctions on seven wealthy Russians with connections to the Britain, including the most high profile of them all, Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club.
Like all of those on the list, Abramovich’s assets in the U.K. will be frozen and he faces a travel ban. He also f... | null | null | null | null | null |
Roman Istomin and Olga Petrova protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at Lafayette Square in D.C. on March 3. The Russian couple has joined numerous antiwar protests since the conflict began. (Joe Heim/The Washington Post)
And they cannot stay quiet here, they say, when speaking against the war is outlawed in Russia. Mor... | null | null | null | null | null |
Anti-trans laws weaponize child protection systems that have long harmed kids
Overly broad definitions of abuse have invited coercive intrusions into families’ lives
By Mical Raz
Mical Raz is a professor of history and health policy at the University of Rochester, and a practicing physician.
Val Benavidez, Texas Freedo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Foreign volunteer fighters can greatly assist Ukraine. But there will be challenges, too.
The Spanish Civil War’s history points to what Ukrainians and the thousands volunteering to fight with them should know
By Ariel Mae Lambe
Fraser Raeburn
A man who said he wants to join the fight against the Russian army in Ukrain... | null | null | null | null | null |
My March 2022 book recommendations
The interwar period, so hot right now.
A glass of red wine and a book on the bed at home. (iStock)
The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts went on vacation recently. Sure, the current global crisis might have created a demand for individuals with a passing familiarity with econo... | null | null | null | null | null |
The war, which has divided Muslim clerics, threatens to destabilize the Caucasus and Central Asia
By Robert D. Crews
Robert D. Crews is a professor of history at Stanford University.
Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, addresses service members while making a statement on the military conflict in Ukraine, in ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Film can be a powerful weapon in warfare
By Christopher B. Daly
Christopher B. Daly, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is the author of "Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism."
Demonstrators watch an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the big screen during a rall... | null | null | null | null | null |
If European nations want to welcome these refugees, here’s what they can learn from our research
By Nazita Lajevardi
Jacob Sohlberg
Peter Esaiasson
A child on a train that carried her from Iasi, Ukraine, to Bucharest, Romania, on March 9. (Robert Ghement/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate outside the party office in Lucknow on March 10, when votes were counted for the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
In the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP was ahead in 245 seats out of 403, according to early resu... | null | null | null | null | null |
TEL AVIV — Russian-Israeli oligarch Leonid Nevzlin announced Tuesday that he plans to give up his Russian passport in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In the years following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, a new wave of wealthy Russian citizens, including former Chelsea Premier Leagu... | null | null | null | null | null |
But anecdotal evidence suggests the number is at least in the tens of thousands, amid reports of burgeoning Russian-speaking emigre communities arising in Dubai, Istanbul and other places where air service from Russia still exists. More than 20,000 Russians have entered Georgia in recent days, the country’s economic mi... | null | null | null | null | null |
The group’s leaders gave no indication of how long Cruz will stay with them and said he’ll be riding in one of the lead trucks.
Though many pandemic-related restrictions at the federal and local levels have been blocked or rescinded, organizers have rallied supporters by calling mandates an infringement on their freedo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Anna Galicina, 38, and her son, Sheerbak Semen, 5, are shown in Korczowa, Poland, on March 3, 2022, after fleeing their home city of Kyiv. They are Ukrainian Jews who are heading to refuge in Israel with the help of the Jewish Agency for Israel. (Kasia Strek for The Washington Post)
Last week, Wolff was at home in Odes... | null | null | null | null | null |
Brian Brase, the group’s organizer, said they plan to take the lead truck, with Cruz as a passenger, into the District for a press conference at noon.
“There ain’t no ignoring a senator riding in the lead truck,” he told the crowd. “That’s basically an endorsement of what we’re doing.”
He said the convoy will continue ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Department Stores Should Keep a Close Hold on Their Websites
Department stores have been under some pressure to split off their e-commerce operations. It’s an idea that should be left on the shelf.
Macy’s Inc. has felt the push from activist investor Jana Partners LLC, but says it won’t spin off its e-commerce business... | null | null | null | null | null |
Tiger Woods wept as he spoke of his parents' sacrifices during his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
With his son Charlie and mother Kultida looking on, Woods’s 14-year-old daughter set the tone, speaking of the 2021 car crash and his lengthy recovery.
“Nothing is ever going ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The meeting at the Palace of Versailles, site of the 1919 treaty that established the post-World War I order, was supposed to focus on the continent’s post-pandemic future. Instead it will carry echoes of the past, as European leaders once again chart a course through conflict.
Moved by the urgent appeals of President ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Sen. Cruz rides with ‘People’s Convoy’ truck to D.C.
The Texas senator is riding in the lead truck, which organizers say will head into D.C.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sits in a truck while meeting with the People's Convoy on Thursday in Hagerstown, Md. (Karina Elwood/The Washington Post)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Tiger Woods wept as he spoke of his parents’ sacrifices during his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
With Woods’s son, Charlie, and mother, Kultida, looking on, Woods’s 14-year-old daughter set the tone, speaking of the 2021 car crash and his lengthy recovery.
“It’s actually a team award. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ukrainian emergency employees work at a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol on March 9. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
The latest shelling hit near a theater and a university building, the city council said Thursday after the airstrike buried hospital patients under rubble. One of the dead was a child, and some ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“It’s not about the feel. We can’t control how a person feels about a topic,” said Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., a Republican from Miami-Dade who shepherd the proposal through the Senate. “But what we can control is to have a teacher not go to a student … and impose on male student that they are sexist simply because they are a... | null | null | null | null | null |
The decision comes amid a broader rollback in restrictions elsewhere in the country as coronavirus cases have fallen.
The mandate, which first was put into place by the Biden administration in early 2021 as a public health measure during the coronavirus pandemic, has been extended multiple times. It had been set to exp... | null | null | null | null | null |
A sign promoting Native American participation in the U.S. Census in Lodge Grass, Mont., on Aug. 26, 2020. (Matthew Brown/AP)
People who identified as Hispanic or “some other race” were undercounted three times more in the 2020 Census compared to the 2010 Census. The 2020 count was beset by challenges including the pan... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud appears at his Hampstead home in London on June 6, 1938. Andre Aciman, Colm Toibin and Rick Moody are among the authors contributing to an essay collection on the legacy of Freud. “On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud,” conceived and edited by the literary agent Andrew B... | null | null | null | null | null |
But in Mariupol, people sheltered in basements, bodies littered the streets, and the one functional hospital was at capacity, an adviser to the mayor’s office said Thursday. Local authorities have sought for days to deliver aid to the city and to open a corridor for civilians out of Mariupol, but they say shelling has ... | null | null | null | null | null |
“It’s not about the feel. We can’t control how a person feels about a topic,” said Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., a Republican from Miami-Dade who shepherd the proposal through the Senate. “But what we can control is to have a teacher not go to a student … and impose on male student that they are sexist simply because they are a... | null | null | null | null | null |
But let’s be clear-eyed about what the U.S. government prefers but cannot say: For the long-term security of Europe, the preservation of the international order and the restoration of Russian self-determination, Putin must go. The 69-year-old, who has paved the way to stay on as president indefinitely, harbors grandios... | null | null | null | null | null |
A Feb. 20-24 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that White evangelical Christians were just as negative toward Russia and supportive of sanctions as Americans overall. Among White evangelicals, 47 percent said Russia is an enemy of the United States and another 33 percent said it is unfriendly. Similarly, 68 percent s... | null | null | null | null | null |
Companies are releasing images that once were seen only by intelligence agencies
One image shows a bombed-out hangar at a Ukrainian air base where a massive cargo airplane was destroyed. In the next photo a bridge connecting Ukraine to Belarus lies in pieces. The next: a trail of smoke along the Russian-Ukrainian borde... | null | null | null | null | null |
The decision comes amid a broader rollback in restrictions elsewhere in the country as coronavirus cases have fallen
The mandate, which was first put into place by the Biden administration in early 2021 as a public health measure during the coronavirus pandemic, has been extended multiple times. It had been set to expi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Russian forces disconnected Ukraine’s closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant from the nation’s power grid, Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo said Wednesday. The move potentially jeopardizes the cooling of nuclear fuel still stored at the site.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said that U.N. mo... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a video released on Telegram on March 10, the Ukrainian president celebrated Ukraine's defenders and promised to rebuild “after our victory.” (Telegram)
“Thanks to our military, the National Guard, the border guards, the police, the Territorial Defense Forces and everyone who joined the defense of the state, we did ... | null | null | null | null | null |
He made it out just before a barrage pounded neighborhoods in the northeastern Ukrainian city.
“It was a nice place to live, to settle. It was great,” he said of Kharkiv, where he moved more than a year ago. But, the engineering student said: “I left everything behind.” He asked for his full name not to be published as... | null | null | null | null | null |
Surveillance footage shows a missile hitting a residential building in Kyiv, Feb. 26, 2022, in this still image taken from a handout video. (Vitali Klitschko/Via Reuters)
We take for granted our access to near-real-time documentation of international events, including the war in Ukraine. Since even before the full Russ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Previewing a suite of new fossil-fuel rules, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said more needs to be done to clean up the air and water around power plants.
Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks during the 2022 CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston ... | null | null | null | null | null |
NEW YORK — A prosecutor cast an ex-convict Thursday as a mobster-like figure who coerced his daughter’s college friends to join his “family” as he accumulated power, sex and money, forcing one woman into a sex work enterprise so lucrative that she gave him $1 million in a single year. | null | null | null | null | null |
Far-right figures are newly embracing a scary symbol: The gallows
It’s trolling — but it’s not just that.
By Thomas Lecaque
Thomas Lecaque is an associate professor of history at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. His work focuses on the nexus of apocalyptic religion, religious violence and politics, from the c... | null | null | null | null | null |
“It was a nice place to live, to settle. It was great,” he said of Kharkiv, where he moved more than a year ago. But, the engineering student added: “I left everything behind.” He asked for his full name not to be published as he worried it may affect his asylum prospects in Europe. | null | null | null | null | null |
Roman Istomin and Olga Petrova protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., on March 3. The Russian couple has joined numerous antiwar protests since the conflict began. (Joe Heim/The Washington Post) (Joe Heim/The Washington Post)
And they cannot stay quiet here, they say, when speakin... | null | null | null | null | null |
In some of the cases, suspects wrongfully obtained federal loans to bolster companies that didn’t actually exist. In others, large, transnational crime syndicates stole workers’ identities to receive generous unemployment benefits under someone else’s name. And in a series of additional allegations that struck at the v... | null | null | null | null | null |
“Nine days without food, warmth and dead bodies everywhere on the street,” Andryushchenko told The Washington Post. “What can be worse than this? The only hospital that’s left [is] filled to the brim with people.”
Vice President Harris said Thursday during a visit to Poland that the United States is “absolutely prepare... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Downtown will survive without commuters
There were more pigeons than people outside the Metro station in D.C.’s Chinatown during the pandemic. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
The March 4 editorial “There’s no place like not home” got it wrong.
For more than 30 years, the federal government has been tryin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: A few more months of due diligence won’t hurt Virginia’s stadium chances
Fans look at team merchandise after the Washington Football Team announced its new name, the Washington Commanders, at an event at FedEx Field on Feb. 2 in Landover. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Regarding the March 7 Metro article... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: We need more trains, not more lanes
A train pulls out of Metro Center in October. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Regarding the March 6 Metro article “Commuter rail lines struggle to fill seats”:
The Feb. 27 Local Opinions essay “Maryland can’t wait for traffic relief” said Maryland desperately needed to ad... | null | null | null | null | null |
Surveillance footage shows a missile hitting a residential building in Kyiv on Feb. 26. (Vitali Klitschko/Reuters)
We take for granted our access to near-real-time documentation of international events, including the war in Ukraine. Since even before the full Russian invasion began, social media users in Ukraine and Ru... | null | null | null | null | null |
“We faced a lot of criticism, but when the previous board entirely stepped down, that allowed us to say everything was on the table,” said Emily Wines, the appropriately named chair of the new board of directors. Wines earned her pin in 2008 and is vice president of the beverage program for the Cooper’s Hawk Winery res... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: The Path Forward: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen
MR. CAPEHART: Good morning, I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post Live and another in our series on the path forward. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to significant sanctions on Russia, its ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Path Forward: Gen. David H. Berger
Gen. David H. Berger is the 38th commandant of the United States Marine Corps and has served in a variety of command positions in Iraq, Kosovo and Afghanistan. On Wednesday, March 16 at 1:30 p.m. ET, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius speaks with the commandant on the latest... | null | null | null | null | null |
117th Congress: Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.)
117th Congress: House Majority Whip Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.)
117th Congress: Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)
117th Congress: Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.)
117th Congress: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
117th Congress: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)
117th Congress: Rep. John Curtis (R... | null | null | null | null | null |
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson climbs into a military airplane on Feb. 17. (Afp Contributor#afp/AFP/Getty Images)
In a pair of new polls, YouGov noted to respondents what this would likely entail: Shooting down Russian planes. But curiously, that seemed to depress support in one poll, while making very little dif... | null | null | null | null | null |
Washington Wizards forward Rui Hachimura, left, is playing with confidence coming off the bench. (Nick Wass/AP)
LOS ANGELES — In his third season with the Washington Wizards, Rui Hachimura remains one of the quietest players on the roster. He watches games stoically when he’s not playing, dialed into the action from hi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan calls to suspend state gas tax amid rising prices at the pump
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Thursday he’s seeking to lift the state’s gas tax to blunt rising fuel prices that have surged past $4 per gallon.
Hogan (R) said he will work with the Democrat-controlled General Assembly to quic... | null | null | null | null | null |
The amount of gas that has escaped from the Alpine oil development on Alaska’s North Slope is unknown.
. Pipelines extend across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, on May 29, 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
For nearly a week, natural gas has been leaking from a ConocoPhillips project outside an Alaska N... | null | null | null | null | null |
Two years ago, long before vaccines and boosters, we cautioned that it would be reckless to go back to normal too soon. Now, with the omicron variant passing, with widespread vaccine and natural immunity, with greater knowledge about the virus and how to mitigate it, a new normal is in sight. But a smart group of publi... | null | null | null | null | null |
MLB and the players union have a tentative deal to end the lockout. Here’s what comes next for the Nationals.
The Nationals are expected gather for spring training in West Palm Beach, Fla., soon. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
With the owners and players union having tentatively agreed to a deal on a new collecti... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: Bear Grylls, Author, “Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild”
MR. JORGENSON: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Dave Jorgenson, a video producer here at The Washington Post.
My guest today is probably the world's most famous outdoorsman and adventurer, at least in my opinion, Bear Grylls. He has ju... | null | null | null | null | null |
These images show the town of Beenleigh, Queensland on Feb. 29 compared to March 2 (after flooding). The images were captured by the Nearmap proprietary aerial camera system attached to planes. (Nearmap)
Compared to two weeks ago, portions of eastern Australia look almost unrecognizable. Over 16 days, unprecedented amo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland leaders plan 30-day suspension of state gas tax amid rising prices at the pump
ANNAPOLIS, MD - FEBRUARY 8: Governor Larry Hogan provides Marylanders with a COVID-19 update, while also putting to rest any speculation that he would run for the US Senate at a press conference in Annapolis, MD. (Bill O'Leary/The W... | null | null | null | null | null |
Harris and Polish president seek to move beyond disagreement over jets
Vice president is visiting Poland and Romania amid Ukraine war to reassure NATO allies who are worried they might be next in Russia’s crosshairs
Vice President Harris prepares to board Air Force Two on March 9 for a three-day trip to Poland and Roma... | null | null | null | null | null |
WASHINGTON — Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come. The increase reported by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The logo of online news channel TV Rain, also known as Dozhd, is seen Aug. 20 at a studio in Moscow. (Denis Kaminev/Reuters)
Independent journalists in Russia have been fleeing since Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a ban on “fake news,” which bars reporters from calling the war in Ukraine a “war” or re... | null | null | null | null | null |
In a telephone interview Thursday, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred (D-Tex.) said Griner’s arrest occurred Feb. 17, a week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which means she has been in Russian custody for more than three weeks. She’s accused of illegal crossing of a border with illegal narcotics, which in Russia can carry a p... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: WP Subscriber Exclusive: Albert Bourla, Author, “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible”
MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon. I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post. Welcome to this Washington Post Live subscriber exclusive interview with the chairman and C... | null | null | null | null | null |
Trump’s former national security adviser had been subpoenaed to answer questions about a White House meeting held after the 2020 election.
Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to former president Donald Trump, listens during a news conference for the America Project on Feb. 25 in Orlando. (Jabin Botsford/The... | null | null | null | null | null |
The launches earlier this year involved a “relatively new intercontinental ballistic missile system” that the country is developing and testing, according to the senior U.S. official
In an undated photo provided by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un visits an aerospace development facility. (AP)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson climbs into a military airplane on Feb. 17. (AFP/Getty Images)
In a pair of new polls, YouGov noted to respondents what this would was likely to entail: Shooting down Russian planes. But curiously, that seemed to depress support in one poll, while making very little difference in th... | null | null | null | null | null |
Previewing a suite of new fossil fuel rules, Michael Regan said more needs to be done to clean up the air and water around U.S. power plants.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston on March 10. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg News)
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mi... | null | null | null | null | null |
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