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Picking upsets in the NCAA men’s tournament is both an art and a science, and your selections can make or break your bracket. As we decipher the smartest upset picks in the first round, we are going to focus on the true underdogs — a No. 9 seed beating a No. 8 is technically an upset by seeding, but finding surprise wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Picking upsets in the NCAA men’s tournament is both an art and a science, and your selections can make or break your bracket. As we decipher the smartest upset picks in the first round, we are going to focus on the true underdogs — a No. 9 seed beating a No. 8 is technically an upset by seeding, but finding surprise wi... | null | null | null | null | null |
Quarterback Tom Brady’s retirement from the NFL lasted for a little less than six weeks. The seven-time Super Bowl winner announced Sunday he will continue playing and will return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2022 season.
The speculation about a prospective return intensified this weekend after Brady posted phot... | null | null | null | null | null |
Virginia Tech secures No. 11 seed, will face No. 6 seed Texas in round of 64
Less than 24 hours after an 82-67 upset of Duke, the ACC’s regular season champion, the Hokies learned they would be a No. 11 seed in the East Region and face No. 6 seed Texas on Friday in Milwaukee, extending the program-record streak of cons... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Bulldogs haven’t won a national championship . . . yet. (For the record, the Big Ten, which the committee has a love affair with every March, last won a national championship in 2000.)
The committee always throws at least one bouquet to a nonpower five team, and the beneficiary this season was Wyoming, which gets t... | null | null | null | null | null |
The single most important factor for winning the vast majority of March Madness bracket pools is picking the NCAA tournament’s eventual winner. For most contests, like ESPN’s, nailing the national champion nets the equivalent points of picking every first round game correctly. Not to mention, that title team is racking... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Bulldogs haven’t won a national championship … yet. (For the record, the Big Ten, which the committee has a love affair with every March, last won a national championship in 2000.)
Analysis: The most likely first-round upsets for the men’s NCAA tournament
Analysis: Three top seeds that could make an early exit from... | null | null | null | null | null |
There’s nothing more important in a NCAA tournament bracket pool than picking the eventual winner. For most contests, such as ESPN’s, nailing the national champion is equivalent to picking every first-round game correctly. Not to mention, that title team racks up points in every round leading up to the finale. So it’s ... | null | null | null | null | null |
For the first time, the women’s tournament will have 68 teams. The field was announced on Sunday night with 32 teams already in the field courtesy of automatic bids from winning conference tournaments. The other 36 at-large teams were chosen by the NCAA selection committee. The last four at-large teams chosen for the f... | null | null | null | null | null |
Note to self: Don’t bother paying attention to results over the final four days of college basketball’s regular season next year, unless an automatic bid is being allocated.
Based on this year’s tournament bracket, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee sure didn’t put a lot of stock into the last few days of the conf... | null | null | null | null | null |
Maryland Coach Brenda Frese and the Terrapins will get a fresh start in the NCAA tournament after an up-and-down regular season. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
“But the thing is, it's made this group really resilient. … It doesn’t really faze them because they know no one’s going to feel sorry for us. We’ve just ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Washington Commanders offensive coordinator Scott Turner has agreed to a new three-year contract with the team that will take him through the 2024 season, a person with knowledge of the deal confirmed Sunday night.
Turner, 39, joined Coach Ron Rivera’s Washington staff in 2020 after spending four seasons with him over ... | null | null | null | null | null |
The women’s NCAA tournament bracket reveal Sunday night had few surprises at the top. South Carolina, as expected, earned the No. 1 overall seed, with defending champion Stanford the top seed in the Spokane Region, Louisville the No. 1 in the Wichita Region and North Carolina State headlining the Bridgeport Region.
For... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nationals nearing agreement with all-star designated hitter Nelson Cruz
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Washington Nationals were on the cusp of their biggest move of the offseason Sunday night, working to finalize an agreement with designated hitter Nelson Cruz, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation... | null | null | null | null | null |
Note to self: Don’t bother paying attention to results over the final four days of college basketball’s regular season next year unless an automatic bid is being allocated.
Based on this year’s bracket, the NCAA men’s tournament selection committee sure didn’t put a lot of stock into the last few days of the conference... | null | null | null | null | null |
Nationals, all-star DH Nelson Cruz agree to one-year deal with option for 2023
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Washington Nationals made their biggest move of the offseason Sunday night, agreeing with Nelson Cruz on a one-year deal worth $15 million guaranteed, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The c... | null | null | null | null | null |
The good on Sunday was that Stephen Strasburg is progressing toward the season, not still rehabbing from surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome last summer, and is expected to face hitters in a live batting practice session Tuesday. The bad was General Manager Mike Rizzo’s announcement that Joe Ross will be out for at le... | null | null | null | null | null |
Washington Commanders offensive coordinator Scott Turner agreed to a new three-year contract that will take him through the 2024 season, a person with knowledge of the deal confirmed Sunday night.
Turner, 39, joined Coach Ron Rivera’s staff in 2020 after spending four seasons with him over two stints with the Carolina ... | null | null | null | null | null |
TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady’s retirement lasted 40 days. He said Sunday he’s returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for his 23rd NFL season.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings and quarterback Kirk Cousins have agreed to a one-year contract extension.
PHOENIX — Anthony Davis had a few words to say about the Los Angeles Lake... | null | null | null | null | null |
Live updates:Russia-Ukraine live updates: Kyiv and Moscow, U.S. and China talk as Ukrain...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates haven’t been aligning with the U.S. — or Russia
By Cinzia Bianco
Oil tanks at an Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia in 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
Yemen’s Houthi movement stepped up its ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Russians could face war crimes tribunal. The first one, in 1474, ended in a beheading.
A 1483 illustration from Diebold Schilling the Elder’s “Bern Chronicle” depicting Peter von Hagenbach on trial. (Wuselig/Wikimedia Commons)
Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court announced it was investigating possible ... | null | null | null | null | null |
DOJ alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump?
Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland was a U.S. Attorney when domestic terrorists attacked the Murrah Federal Building in 1995. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)
The arrest of Tarrio, who says he is no longer the Proud Boys leader, is ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Congress is taking a good first step to address the mistreatment of LGBT veterans
The U.S. has long mistreated LGBT soldiers — and denied them veterans benefits
By Natalie Shibley
Natalie Shibley is a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University and is writing a book about race, homosexuality investigations and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Putin’s assault also targets Ukraine’s history
It is not only the country that faces erasure
By Alexandra Sukalo
Alexandra Sukalo is a historian of Russia and Eastern Europe and a postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current book project is a history... | null | null | null | null | null |
Their ‘unlimited’ partnership may have some limits after all
Andrew Taffer
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing last month. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin/Pool/AP)
China and Russia declared their friendship has “no limits,” codified in a Feb. 4 joint statement. But... | null | null | null | null | null |
Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump?
Attorney General Merrick Garland was a top Justice Department official when domestic terrorists attacked the Murrah Federal Building in 1995. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)
The arrest of Tarrio, who says he is no longer the Pr... | null | null | null | null | null |
Xi has one advantage over Putin. Let’s see if he exploits it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing last month. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo/AP)
Life must have looked so sweet to Chinese President Xi Jinping in early February. He had just cemented ties with Ch... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lizzo, onstage at the South by Southwest festival in Austin on March 13. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images)
During the 2019 Sacramento Pride festival, she stood onstage — sporting a sparkly hot-pink outfit — as people behind her held “trans rights” and “Black Lives Matter” posters.
The singer also made several politic... | null | null | null | null | null |
The NCAA women’s tournament bracket reveal Sunday night had few surprises at the top. South Carolina, as expected, earned the No. 1 overall seed, with defending champion Stanford the top seed in the Spokane Region, Louisville the No. 1 team in the Wichita Region and North Carolina State headlining the Bridgeport Region... | null | null | null | null | null |
The recent outbreak comes weeks after Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics, taking great pains to make sure the event did not result in a new surge in cases. The country’s success over the virus compared with other countries has been held up by Chinese leaders as proof of the superiority of the Chinese system under Xi’s ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In the weeks since the invasion of Ukraine began, the Foreign Ministry formed a task force to investigate the influence some Russian business executives, including those with alleged ties to the Kremlin, have in Israel. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also warned his fellow cabinet members last month against granting the o... | null | null | null | null | null |
The portrait of Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky painted by Oleksa Novakivsky is the last painting to be taken down from the walls in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv on March 7, 2022. (Kasia Strek for The Washington Post)
“City centers are seriously damaged, some of which have sites and monuments... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the first McDonald’s restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, in Moscow, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1990. Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald’s. It was the first American fast-fo... | null | null | null | null | null |
Meteorologist and journalists (Ashley Cafaro, Nicole Sommavilla, Iris St. Meran and Kate Thornton) at NewsChannel 9 in Syracuse, NY wear purple for the 7th annual #DressforSTEM on Monday. (Nicole Sommavilla)
On Monday, you may notice a lot of purple on your social media feed. Why? To raise awareness about the continued... | null | null | null | null | null |
Meteorologist and journalists (Ashley Cafaro, Nicole Sommavilla, Iris St. Meran and Kate Thornton) at NewsChannel 9 in Syracuse, N.Y. wear purple for the 7th annual #DressforSTEM on Monday. (Nicole Sommavilla)
On Monday, you may notice a lot of purple in your social media feed. Why? To raise awareness about the continu... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘Why are Europe and the U.S. holding back?’: Post reporters answer your questions
Katya, center, joins other Ukrainians as they attend a training Tuesday, March 8, on how to use weapons in the event of the Russians attack the city of Odessa, Ukraine. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
Over the weekend, Russian forces... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: No mercy for the Boston bomber
Investigators on April 16, 2013, examine the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press)
James M. Doyle’s March 11 Friday Opinion essay, “Why Biden should commute Boston bomber’s death sentence,” was a metaphysical tour de force if ever there were one.... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: Putin’s bogus rationale neglects the larger part of history
A scene in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post). (Heidi levine/FTWP)
The March 9 news article “Putin is bombing the ‘Russian world’ he claims to protect” cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s view of Ukraine as part of ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Donald Trump, who isn’t known for subtlety, is not being coy about running for president again in 2024. At a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, he said, “In 2024 we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful White... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - The steamboat Sultana is docked on the Mississippi River at Helena, Ark, on April 26, 1865. A new book “Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana,” by Gene E Salecker, offers a comprehensive and at times compelling account of the disaster. (Library of Congress via AP, File) (Uncredited/Library of Congress Prints and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Jeff Bezos appears at the Baby2Baby Gala in West Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 13, 2021, left, and actor-comedian Pete Davidson appears at the premiere of “Big Time Adolescence” in New York on March 5, 2020. Davidson is heading to space. The “Saturday Night Live” star will be among the six passengers on the next launch of... | null | null | null | null | null |
While the Supreme Court is supposed to operate under regulations guiding all federal judges, including a requirement that a justice “shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned,” there’s no procedure to enforce that standard. Each justice can decide whether to rec... | null | null | null | null | null |
Boys’ basketball Top 20: Maryland, Virginia state champions rise in the final rankings of the winter
Guard Daryl Holloway and Hayfield captured the Class 6 boys' basketball championship last week. (Ryan M. Kelly/For The Washington Post)
Inside a locker room at the University of Maryland, not long after his team secured... | null | null | null | null | null |
Girls’ basketball Top 20: Madison wins Virginia title; Sidwell Friends goes wire-to-wire at No. 1
Madison guard Alayna Arnolie shoots over Osbourn Park's Danielle Darfour during the Class 6 girls’ state championship game on Friday. (Ryan M. Kelly/For The Washington Post)
Many of the D.C.-area’s public schools struggled... | null | null | null | null | null |
Built in 1888 on 16th Street NW, the Henderson Castle was the home of Mary Foote Henderson, a society figure who wanted to boost the prospects of 16th Street. The house was torn down in 1949. All that remains is it retaining wall, facing Meridian Hill Park. A new book by John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton traces t... | null | null | null | null | null |
At Sunday’s 9:30 Club show, tinkering with songs past, present and future
Editorial aide
From left, Deakin, Panda Bear, Avey Tare and Geologist of Animal Collective perform at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)
There’s only one way to travel through time on this shared rock ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Built in 1888 on 16th Street NW, the Henderson Castle was the home of Mary Foote Henderson, a society figure who wanted to boost the prospects of 16th Street. The house was torn down in 1949. All that remains is it retaining wall, facing Meridian Hill Park. A new book by John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton traces t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, said she left the rally before former president Donald Trump took the stage
Roth said it is not only Clarence Thomas who does not properly follow the recusal standard, noting as an example that Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil M. Gorsuch did not recuse wh... | null | null | null | null | null |
‘People’s Convoy’ to drive through D.C.; permit for organized demonstration downtown partially denied
The detour will bring the full convoy into the District for the first time since it began Feb. 23
Supporters cheer and wave as the “People's Convoy” departs Hagerstown Speedway for the Capital Beltway on March 11 in Ha... | null | null | null | null | null |
The detour from the Beltway brought the full convoy into the District for the first time since it began Feb. 23
Traffic is backed up Monday afternoon on the 14 Street Bridge between Arlington and Washington. (Virginia Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Police blocked interstate exits in Washington into downto... | null | null | null | null | null |
Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community attend the “Say Gay Anyway” rally in Miami Beach on March 13. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)
Being a parent often means navigating unstated — or even unrecognized — boundaries between the world of adults and the world of children. There’s a war in Ukraine, something that I’ve mention... | null | null | null | null | null |
Kentucky and Tennessee are both threats to reach the national championship game. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Since 1985, when the men’s tournament expanded to 64 teams, the national title game has averaged 143 total points when decided in regulation. The four overtime games in that spanaveraged 157 total points. The most... | null | null | null | null | null |
William Hurt was a serious actor, with all the baggage the term entails
Hurt, who died at 71, embodied the focus, commitment and occasional self-indulgence that make a great actor
William Hurt in “Jane Eyre,” 1996. (Miramax/Everett Collection)
I had one of the most memorable dinners of my working life with William Hurt... | null | null | null | null | null |
But Faye, chairman of the International Society of Camelid Research and Development who is based in Montpellier, France, said in an email Monday to The Post that camels can exhibit dangerous behavior under certain circumstances such as when they are stressed and frightened or, for males, during rutting season — an annu... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles. That keeps the Postal Service on track for taking delivery of the first of the... | null | null | null | null | null |
FILE - Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl celebrates the team’s Southeastern Conference regular season championship by cutting down the net after an NCAA college basketball game against South Carolina, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. Pearl is the The Associated Press coach of the year in the Southeastern Conference... | null | null | null | null | null |
All of Miyazaki’s games, from 2009′s “Demon’s Souls” to this year’s “Elden Ring,” are not stories told following a straightforward, cinematic formula. Instead, players are dropped into the middle of the story and asked to pick up the pieces of the narrative. At high risk of sounding pretentious, there are parallels bet... | null | null | null | null | null |
Lisa Ling’s new docuseries, “Take Out,” showcases the wide array of Asian restaurants across the country. On Thursday, March 24 at 10:00 a.m. ET, Washington Post Tokyo bureau chief Michelle Ye Hee Lee speaks with Ling about how food can be a way to explore history, identity and stories across generations.
Journalist, E... | null | null | null | null | null |
Protesters occupy London mansion linked to a Russian oligarch as U.K. seeks to help refugees
Protesters occupy a building reported to belong to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
LONDON — In the middle of the night, squatters on Monday broke into a white stucco mansion in central ... | null | null | null | null | null |
House leadership killed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage in a state known for its high maternal mortality rate.
The Associated Press reported that S.B. 2033 passed the state Senate 46 to 5 last month, and then passed the House Medicaid Committee on March 1. But on March 9 — the deadline for House and Senate c... | null | null | null | null | null |
By Julio Cortez | AP
Onlookers use cell phones to capture images as a crew removes the stone base of the Talbot Boys Statue, Maryland’s last public Confederate statue, on the grounds of the Talbot County Courthouse, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Easton, Md. The monument honors Confederates who fought for the South during ... | null | null | null | null | null |
NEW CASTLE, Del. — A Delaware woman is facing charges that include vehicular homicide after two carjackings left one pedestrian dead and four other people injured, Delaware State Police said Monday.
Semaan is being held on $47,000 cash bond, police said. It’s unclear if she has hired an attorney who can speak on her be... | null | null | null | null | null |
17 bodies found buried in yards, under patios
Searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and beneath patios of houses in a low-income housing development, prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said Sunday.
They said that t... | null | null | null | null | null |
Former Commanders guard Brandon Scherff planning to sign with Jaguars, per report
Brandon Scherff appeared in five Pro Bowls while playing in Washington. The free agent guard plans to sign with the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to ESPN. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
The Washington Commanders opened the early ... | null | null | null | null | null |
This world — the Port. St. Lucie complex, the Mets and increasingly baseball in general — belongs to him, after all. He is changing the rules, even as his fellow owners change them for him, pulling the game’s center of gravity to Queens with every splurge that most owners wouldn’t consider, seizing the spotlight with e... | null | null | null | null | null |
Across 49⅔ innings in 2021, he had a 4.53 ERA and walked too many hitters. ERA+, an advanced metric used to compare pitchers around the league, considered him a slightly above-average reliever. His first stint in Washington closed with him limping off the mound with an oblique strain, struggling to breathe in the quiet... | null | null | null | null | null |
After two years of discouraging crowds from gathering at the Tidal Basin during cherry blossom season, Metro announced Monday it will increase the number of trains operating over the next four weekends to help visitors restart their pilgrimage to the blooming flowers.
Metro will run the additional trains from March 19 ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: The Path Forward: David Malpass, President, World Bank Group
MR. IGNATIUS: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m David Ignatius, a columnist for The Post. My guest today is David Malpass, the president of the World Bank. The world economy has been a rollercoaster the last two years, first with the COVID pand... | null | null | null | null | null |
Transcript: World Stage: Ukraine with Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency
MS. LONG: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Heather Long, an economics columnist here at the Post.
For many people, the top of mind right now is what's going on in the energy sector. The gas prices at the pump hit a re... | null | null | null | null | null |
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Oct. 19, 2021, in D.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
That seems to be what some prominent anti-Trump Republicans are considering. The Associated Press reports that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) are all ... | null | null | null | null | null |
This world — the Port St. Lucie complex, the Mets and increasingly baseball in general — belongs to him, after all. He is changing the rules, even as his fellow owners change them for him, pulling the game’s center of gravity to Queens with every splurge that most owners wouldn’t consider, seizing the spotlight with ev... | null | null | null | null | null |
Once Doolittle and designated hitter Nelson Cruz join the team, the Nationals will need to clear two spots on their 40-man roster. Doolittle was with the Nationals from July 2017 to September 2020, initially arriving from the Oakland Athletics via trade. In those three years and change, he thrived as a closer, struggle... | null | null | null | null | null |
Fairfax school board appeals judge’s invalidation of Thomas Jefferson admissions system
A judge recently ruled that Thomas Jefferson High School's admissions system is discriminatory. Fairfax County school system is appealing that ruling. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The Fairfax County School Board is appealing... | null | null | null | null | null |
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Coast Guard said efforts were underway Monday to refloat a 1,000-foot container vessel that ran aground in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Coast Guard said in a statement that initial reports of the ship’s grounding came in around 9 p.m. Sunday. There were no reports of injuries, po... | null | null | null | null | null |
Contributing college basketball reporter
Tennessee's win in the SEC tournament didn't seem to matter much to the NCAA selection committee. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Just a day after the NCAA basketball committee appeared to place minimal value on the results of the final three days of the season, Tennessee Coach Rick B... | null | null | null | null | null |
Confederate statue removed from Talbot County Courthouse
‘Talbot Boys’ thought to be the last such monument left on state or local public land in Maryland
Crews remove the stone base of the “Talbot Boys” statue on the grounds of the Talbot County Courthouse on March 14 in Easton, Md. (Julio Cortez/AP)
Workers removed a... | null | null | null | null | null |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Drawn by a myriad of factors that include the team’s winning tradition, a record-breaking season, the West Coast location and a positive reputation for working with pitchers, left-hander Carlos Rodón and right-hander Jakob Junis passed their physical exams and were officially added to the San Franci... | null | null | null | null | null |
Opinion: What the shocking images of Ukraine’s dead say about the media — and our biases
The war in Yemen, now in its eighth year, has been every bit as brutal. The war in Syria has been far deadlier, and both regime forces and Islamist militants have employed chemical weapons. Yet in those and other conflicts, we were... | null | null | null | null | null |
Two men fatally shot in Southeast Washington
Two men were killed in a shooting in Southeast Washington on Monday afternoon, D.C. police said.
About 3:22 p.m., the men were found shot in the 700 block of 13th Street SE, police said. One man was pronounced dead and the second man was taken to a hospital, police said. The... | null | null | null | null | null |
In this image taken from video provided by Free Burma Rangers, a Myanmar military helicopter fires rockets west of Loikaw in Kayah State, Myanmar on Feb. 21, 2022. While Russia’s war in Ukraine dominates global attention, Myanmar’s military is targeting civilians in air and ground attacks on a scale unmatched in the co... | null | null | null | null | null |
Brooklyn's Kyrie Irving, left, watches teammate Patty Mills and the Nets play the Knicks at Barclays Center. (Seth Wenig/AP)
The NBA fined the Brooklyn Nets $50,000 for allowing Kyrie Irving into their locker room at Barclays Center on Sunday. The fine was “for violating local New York City law and league health and sa... | null | null | null | null | null |
PHILADELPHIA — Nikola Jokic had 22 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Denver Nuggets past Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers 114-110 on Monday night in a battle of MVP contenders.
CLEVELAND — Rookie Evan Mobley scored a season-high 30 points and Darius Garland had 24 points and 13 assists as Cleveland beat Los Ange... | null | null | null | null | null |
Hall, who joined Fox News in 2015, works primarily as a Washington-based State Department correspondent. But according to his Fox bio, he has also reported from conflict zones in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza.
His injury, which was first publicly reported Monday afternoon by Fox News anchor John Roberts, comes days... | null | null | null | null | null |
For astronauts like me and my cosmonaut colleagues, the International Space Station is a powerful symbol of peaceful cooperation.
By Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly is a former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain. He spent nearly a year aboard the International Space Station in 2015-2016. His latest book, “Ready for L... | null | null | null | null | null |
U.N. chief says nuclear conflict ‘now back within the realm of possibility’
Nine countries in the world have a combined nuclear arsenal containing 12,700 warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists. About 90 percent of them are held by Russia and the United States, which have almost 6,000 and more than... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, says she attended Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally before Capitol attack
Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas, said she left the rally before President Donald Trump took the stage
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas arrives with her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for a 2019... | null | null | null | null | null |
Punishing young Russians will only alienate potential opponents of the current regime
By Anton Barbashin
Anton Barbashin is a political analyst and the editorial director of Riddle.
Police officers detain a man in Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow during a protest on March 13 against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Muslim students arrive to attend classes as a policewoman stands guard outside a government girls school after the recent hijab ban, in Udupi town in the southern state of Karnataka, India, Feb. 16, 2022. (Staff/Reuters)
The ruling from the Karnataka high court came after Muslim students challenged a ban on headscarves... | null | null | null | null | null |
2 men killed in shooting on edge of Capitol Hill
Two men were fatally shot Monday afternoon on the edge of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, according to D.C. police.
The men were shot about 3:20 p.m. in the 700 block of 13th Street SE, said Officer Hugh Carew, a police spokesman.
One man died at the scene, and the other ... | null | null | null | null | null |
PHOENIX — Patience is often rewarded for both free agents and general managers during most Major League Baseball offseasons. But probably not this one.
VEGREVILLE, Alberta — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is front and center in hockey communities in Northern Alberta and across Canada.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid tribute Monday to U.S. journalist Brent Renaud, who was killed while reporting outside Kyiv, writing a letter to the family of the second journalist believed to have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion more than two weeks ago.
Renaud, a 50-year-old, award-winning j... | null | null | null | null | null |
More ‘Bidi Bidi Bom Bom’ to come: Selena’s father announces new album nearly 27 years after the singer’s death
Selena Quintanilla performs for the crowd during a dance following the Feria de las Flores queen's contest at Memorial Coliseum Aug. 12, 1989, in Corpus Christi, Tex. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller Times, FIL... | null | null | null | null | null |
Renaud, a 50-year-old, award-winning journalist and documentarian from Little Rock, was shot Sunday in a car while at a checkpoint in Irpin, a besieged suburb of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said. He was the second journalist killed in the conflict, as confirmed by the Committee to Protect Journalists, highlighting the da... | null | null | null | null | null |
By Bobby Caina Calvan and Ashraf Khalil | AP
These images taken from surveillance video and provided by the New York Police Department show a man suspected of shooting two homeless people on Saturday, March 12, 2022 in New York. A search is underway for the gunman who has been stalking and shooting homeless men sleepin... | null | null | null | null | null |
Is Russia still a great power?
Yes, of course it is. But it’s not the great power everyone thought it was a month ago.
A Ukrainian soldier holds a an antitank weapon that was used to destroy a Russian armored personal carrier in Irpin, Ukraine, on Saturday. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
Over the past week, Russia ... | null | null | null | null | null |
Teaching Asian American history in its complexity can help fight racism
Asian Americans have been both the victims — and perpetrators — of racial discrimination.
By Kathryn Gin Lum
Kathryn Gin Lum is associate professor of religious studies in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity ... | null | null | null | null | null |
In Colombia, abortion is no longer a crime. But rural women will still find it hard to get one.
Women in rural areas already have a hard time getting ordinary health care
Kiran Stallone
Abortion rights activists celebrate in Bogotá on Feb. 21 after Colombia’s Constitutional Court approved the decriminalization of abort... | null | null | null | null | null |
Patriotic attitudes run high in Russia, our research finds
By Michael Alexeev
William Pyle
Russian President Vladimir Putin awaits Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s arrival for talks in Moscow on March 11. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool/Sputnik/Kremlin/AP)
Western officials worry openly that there are no clear off-... | null | null | null | null | null |
The Nationals are excited to welcome Nelson Cruz to the club. (Jim Mone/AP)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — On Feb. 17, 1998, Nelson Cruz, then a 17-year-old from Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Dominican Republic, signed with the New York Mets as an amateur free agent. Eight months and eight days later, across the island in Santo Do... | null | null | null | null | null |
Leeds United’s Joe Gelhardt celebrates scoring their side’s second goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against Norwich City at Elland Road, Leeds, England, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (Tim Goode/PA via AP)
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A multi-million dollar transfer dispute caused by the COVID-19 p... | null | null | null | null | null |
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