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#ForeignAid #USAID #GlobalHealth
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Column | A year after aid cuts, the image of American power shifts under Trump
An Oxfam billboard sits in front of the Capitol on Monday, around the anniversary of President Donald Trump dismantling USAID.
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#TransgenderRights #GenderTransition #HealthcarePolicy
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First major medical group opposes gender transition surgeries for youth
A person holds a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 13. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has issued a broad recommendation against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the United States to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care amid a crackdown by the Trump administration.
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#ScoutingAmerica #Pentagon #MilitarySupport
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Pentagon warns Scouts to restore 'core values' or lose military support
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The Pentagon issued a warning late Monday to Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, saying the organization risks losing its long-standing partnership with the U.
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#ViolenceIntervention #NonprofitAccountability #PublicSafety
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How D.C. allowed 'completely inappropriate' spending by anti-violence group
It was 2023, homicides in D. C. were spiking to levels not seen in a generation, and the city was spending millions of dollars to deploy violence interrupters to the neighborhoods where shootings were endemic.
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When his family was swept out to sea, boy swam and ran miles to save them
Austin Appelbee, right, poses with his brother, Beau, left, his mother, Joanne, and sister Grace, in Gidgegannup, Australia.
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#ElonMusk #SocialMedia #Cybercrime
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Paris police raid X offices as part of expanded criminal probe
Elon Musk attends the U. S. -Saudi Investment Forum in Washington in November. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
French investigators raided X's Paris headquarters on Tuesday as part of an expanded criminal probe involving seven alleged offenses including spreading Holocaust denial content and involvement in distributing child pornography.
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#WinterOlympics #ClimateChange #Sustainability
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Climate change is making the Winter Olympics harder to host
When the Milan-Cortina Winter Games were just weeks away, patches of bare ground peeking through Bormio's downhill ski course had top ski officials worried.
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#Olympics #LA2028 #GhislaineMaxwell
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The Winter Olympics are already overshadowed by the Epstein files
Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, has apologized for his association with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
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ESPN closes deal for NFL Network following regulatory approval
NFL Network reporter Jane Slater talks on air before an NFL divisional playoff football game between the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Jan.
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#DonaldTrump #AlfalfaClub #Politics
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Trump tries humor, gets some silence, at black-tie dinner with 'people I hate'
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels to Palm Beach after attending the Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington on Saturday.
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#WinterStorm #BombCyclone #Snowfall
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Bomb cyclone brings historic snow to North Carolina, flurries to Florida
A bomb cyclone developed offshore of North Carolina on Saturday night, where it brought significant winter weather impacts.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #SocialJustice #CivilRights
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Can you pass this quiz on Black history?
During the bicentennial celebrations in 1976, President Gerald Ford declared that February should be dedicated to highlighting the achievements of and challenges faced by Black Americans.
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#Immigration #FamilyDetention #ChildProtection
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Trump's immigration crackdown means more children detained by ICE
A protester outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday. (Moises Avila/AFP/Getty Images)
SAN ANTONIO -- The 5-year-old boy, in a blue knit bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, was returning from preschool when immigration officers detained him late last month in Minneapolis.
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#Immigration #LocalGovernment #MayorsConference
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Mayors look at Minneapolis with concern and wonder: Is my city next?
Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt (R), right, speaks during a panel discussion with Fresno, California Mayor Jerry Dyer (R), left, and Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr.
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#SupremeCourt #TrumpTariffs #PresidentialPower
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Opinion | The mysteriously delayed Supreme Court tariffs ruling
Outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 5 as the court heard arguments on the legality of the Trump administration's tariffs.
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#Google #AIethics #IsraeliMilitary
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Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleged in a confidential federal whistleblower complaint reviewed by The Washington Post.
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#KidneyHealth #HeartDisease #ChronicKidneyDisease
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Scientists finally may know why kidney patients die of heart disease
For years, scientists have been working to unravel the mystery of patients with failing kidneys dying from heart-related complications.
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#KidneyHealth #HeartDisease #ChronicKidneyDisease
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Scientists finally may know why kidney patients die of heart disease
For years, scientists have been working to unravel the mystery of patients with failing kidneys dying from heart-related complications.
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#Immigration #LegalRights #HomelandSecurity
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Trump administration fights judge's ban on green card interview arrests
Homeland Security Secetary Kristi L. Noem. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is weighing whether to overturn a lower court order in Maryland that bars immigration officials from arresting certain people during green card interviews with their U.
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#DCHomicides #CrimeTrends #CommunitySafety
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D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime drops
Four minutes after midnight on Jan. 21, D. C. police raced to a deadly shooting inside a residence in Northeast Washington.
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#Iran #USRelations #MiddleEastPolitics
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Iranian missiles pose deadly threat to region, Gulf allies warn U.S.
People on motorbikes drive past banners in Tehran bearing anti-U. S. and anti-Israel messages. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
As the Trump administration pressures Iran with a massive military buildup in the region, Persian Gulf states are warning U.
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#ImmigrationReform #HumanRights #JusticeSystem
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Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minneapolis
People protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday. (Joel Angel Juarez/Getty Images)
A federal judge has ordered 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, to be released from federal immigration custody after the pair were detained in their driveway in Minnesota last week, sparking outrage nationwide and protests at the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, where they have been held.
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#GovernmentFunding #Bipartisanship #ShutdownAvoidance
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Column | Republicans relearn the lesson that shutdowns go poorly for them
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in October. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Just two-and-a-half months removed from a painful government shutdown, Republicans have learned a lesson that these standoffs almost never break their way politically and should be avoided whenever possible.
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#EnergyPolicy #CoalIndustry #UtilityBills
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Opinion | Trump's pro-coal directives could raise energy prices by billions
President Donald Trump is protecting the coal industry from market forces, driving up utility bills for Americans.
On energy policy, the administration's most obvious sin has been picking losers.
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#ICEwatchers #CommunityActivism #ImmigrationReform
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Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Neighbors turn to introduce themselves during a constitutional observer training at St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Wednesday.
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#Wastewater #EnvironmentalImpact #SewageSpill
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Millions of gallons of sewage spilled into the Potomac. Here's what we know.
More than a week after part of a major D. C. Water sewage pipeline collapsed, causing more than 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater to spill into the Potomac River, concerns are rising about the impact on wildlife and experts warn that the cleanup and emergency repair costs will likely be several million dollars.
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#ImmigrationReform #ICE #Democrats
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Democrats want to 'reimagine' immigration enforcement. Just don't say 'abolish ICE.'
After a year of relative silence on immigration, Democrats in tough races across the country are now making President Donald Trump's aggressive enforcement tactics the focus of their campaigns.
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#CivilRights #ConfederateStatues #VirginiaHistory
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Confederate statues remain at Virginia's Capitol. This bill would remove them.
In Virginia's Capitol Square in Richmond, a civil rights memorial stands in the foreground while three statues to Confederate figures stand behind it in the background.
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#TechIndustry #JobMarket #AIImpact
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Some of the most coveted jobs in America aren't safe anymore
After years of working as a recruiter, Justin Kirkwood landed in tech, eventually becoming a technical project manager for a vendor inside Meta's Seattle campus.
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#SkilledTrades #CareerPaths #Welding
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For the first time in 50 years, college grads are losing their edge
George Momplaisir, a welding lab technician at Goodwin University in Connecticut, demonstrates welding techniques in October.
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#China #FertilityRate #Women'sRights
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China's efforts to boost the birth rate have failed. Is coercion next?
A woman and a child last September in Shenzhen, China. The nation's fertility rate hovers around one child per woman of childbearing age, about half the rate needed to maintain a stable population.
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#FigureSkating #Olympics #GriefAndHealing
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How Maxim Naumov learned to embrace his grief to earn a spot at the Olympics
Figure skater Maxim Naumov at the U. S. championship on Jan. 8 in St. Louis. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP)
The ice rink at the base of the lush mountains of northern Italy became Maxim Naumov's sanctuary.
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#MeaslesOutbreak #Vaccination #PublicHealth
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What South Carolina's soaring measles outbreak means for the rest of the U.S.
Parkside Pediatrics providers, Chandler Hash, left, and Nathan Heffington, assessing a patient with measles symptoms in Spartanburg, South Carolina on Friday.
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#ArmsSales #MiddleEast #USForeignPolicy
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U.S. approves more than $15 billion in arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia
An Apache helicopter at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in June 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The United States on Friday approved arms sales worth more than $6.
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#GovernmentShutdown #ImmigrationPolicy #BipartisanNegotiations
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Most of the federal government shuts down, but a quick end is in sight
The Capitol on Thursday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
The second government shutdown of President Donald Trump's second term began early Saturday, as aggressive immigration enforcement in Minneapolis derailed congressional negotiations to fund the agencies driving the administration's policies.
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#UnitedNations #GlobalDiplomacy #FinancialStability
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U.N. secretary general says global body is at risk of fiscal collapse
U. N. Secretary General António Guterres speaks at U. N. headquarters in New York on Thursday. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
The United Nations is on the verge of "imminent financial collapse," in large part due to the failure of member states to pay their mandatory dues, Secretary General António Guterres said in a letter sent this week to the 193 U.
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#Protest #Immigration #Justice
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Protesters take to streets nationwide to decry ICE tactics in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS -- For the second frigid Friday in a row, thousands of demonstrators skipped work or school, and businesses shuttered, as a march took over downtown to protest President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in this city.
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#Politics #Immigration #GovernmentShutdown
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Is Minneapolis a turning point in Trump's presidency? - The Washington Post
Since the killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, President Donald Trump and his administration are feeling the pressure -- not only from Democrats, but also from members of their own party.
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#CatherineOHara #Comedy #ActingLegend
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Catherine O'Hara's greatest roles, from 'Home Alone' to 'Schitt's Creek'
The actress Catherine O'Hara, who died Friday, conjured up comedy wherever she went, as an at-wit's-end mom in "Home Alone," a quirky former soap opera star on "Schitt's Creek," a core member of director Christopher Guest's repertory ensemble and a go-to guest star in pretty much any funny TV show in recent decades ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "30 Rock," "Modern Family," "The Larry Sanders Show," the list goes on).
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#CatherineOHara #Comedy #ActingLegend
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Catherine O'Hara's greatest roles, from 'Home Alone' to 'Schitt's Creek'
The actress Catherine O'Hara, who died Friday, conjured up comedy wherever she went, as an at-wit's-end mom in "Home Alone," a quirky former soap opera star on "Schitt's Creek," a core member of director Christopher Guest's repertory ensemble and a go-to guest star in pretty much any funny TV show in recent decades ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "30 Rock," "Modern Family," "The Larry Sanders Show," the list goes on).
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#PotomacRiver #WaterPollution #EnvironmentalImpact
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Opinion | A 'geyser' of sewage turns back the clock on the Potomac
Raw sewage floods a service building after a massive sewage pipe rupture in Glen Echo, Maryland, on Jan. 23. (Cliff Owen/AP)
Charlotte Taylor Fryar is the author of the essay collection "Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River.
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Belarusian balloons full of cigarettes pose NATO's latest security threat
At first, they might not seem like much of a threat: weather balloons, filled with helium or hydrogen, carrying bundles of cigarettes from Belarus.
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#ImmigrationPolicy #BorderSecurity #PoliticalStrategy
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Opinion | DHS misread what voters want on deportation. Trump's paying a price.
Protesters and law enforcement clash outside South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday. (Moisés Ávila/AFP/Getty Images)
Brad Todd is a Republican campaign strategist and a political commentator for CNN.
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#FederalReserve #KevinWarsh #InterestRates
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What a new Fed chair could mean for the economy
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would nominate Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve to succeed Jerome H.
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#Murdoch #MediaEmpire #Succession
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'Bonfire of the Murdochs' unspools a story even stranger than TV
Rupert Murdoch at a state banquet at Windsor Castle in 2025, where the guest of honor was Donald Trump. Gabriel Sherman's new book, "Bonfire of the Murdochs," is a history of the family and the bequeathing of its patriarch's media empire.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #EmbodiedAI #GlobalEconomy
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Opinion | China is winning the race for embodied AI
Scott Singer is a fellow and Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi is a research analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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#GrönaLund #rollercoaster #safety
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Swedish amusement park fined over fatal roller coaster derailment
STOCKHOLM -- A Swedish amusement park was fined nearly $590,000 on Wednesday in connection with a roller coaster derailment that left one passenger dead and nine others injured, including several children.
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#Volunteering #Retirement #HealthyAging
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Column | Here's a proven way to slow aging. Any volunteers?
SPERRYVILLE, Virginia -- Doug Ward didn't have a plan when he stopped working four years ago at age 72: "I was just going to retire.
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#ColoradoRiver #WaterManagement #Drought
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Fate of Colorado River hangs in balance as political battle brews
A boat moves around Horseshoe Bend along the Colorado River in Page, Arizona. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
For a life-sustaining natural resource relied on by tens of millions of people and fought over by seven states and two countries, the fate of the Colorado River often flies under the national political radar.
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#GhostForests #ClimateChange #CoastalEcosystems
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'Ghost forests' are even more widespread than we thought
A view of a live oak "ghost forest" in Yscloskey, Louisiana, in March 2023. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
From above, there's no mistaking the loss.
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#GhostForests #ClimateChange #CoastalEcosystems
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'Ghost forests' are even more widespread than we thought
A view of a live oak "ghost forest" in Yscloskey, Louisiana, in March 2023.
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#ClimateChange #Sustainability #HFCs
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Why companies are phasing out these super-pollutants despite Trump
Air conditioning units on a roof in Tokyo. (Richard A. Brooks/AFP/Getty Images)
There's one big bright spot in the fight against climate change that most people never think about.
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#Immigration #DetentionCenters #LocalConcerns
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ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals
Jonathan O'Connell can be reached securely on Signal at jonathanoc. 76. Douglas MacMillan can be reached at douglasmac.
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#ElectionIntegrity #NationalSecurity #Accountability
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Tulsi Gabbard's appearance at Fulton County FBI raid raises questions
At a televised Cabinet meeting last August, President Donald Trump turned to his top intelligence official, noting that she had evidence of "how corrupt the 2020 election was," and asked when she'd produce it.
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#GovernmentShutdown #Redistricting #VirginiaPolitics
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Analysis | A redistricting gambit tests a newly minted Democratic star
In today's edition . A tale of two governors in Virginia on redistricting . We want your thoughts on Iran . but first .
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#CivilSociety #StatePower #Democracy
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Opinion | The real 'civilizational erasure' is happening in America
Posters depicting Alex Pretti and Renée Good are displayed on a wall in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
Donald Trump, JD Vance and other MAGA luminaries often proclaim that the grave danger facing the West is "civilizational erasure," which they claim is happening in Europe: Through its dangerously misguided approach toward identity and immigration, Europe is destroying the West's distinctive legacy.
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#PrisonReform #Censorship #InmateRights
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Arkansas moves to ban books in prisons as a drug-fighting measure
A cell block at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections. (Danny Johnston/AP)
The Arkansas Department of Corrections is set to ban all physical books, magazines and newspapers sent directly to inmates -- a restriction, pushed as a drug-fighting measure, that would be strictest of its kind in prisons across the country.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #Copyright #DataEthics
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The quest to 'destructively scan' all the world's books - The Washington Post
In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.
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#Immigration #Surveillance #PrivacyRights
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The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects -- and protesters
Federal immigration officers fanning out across Minnesota and other parts of the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill passed last summer that transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the country's most highly funded law enforcement agency.
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#NationalGuard #MilitaryBudget #TrumpAdministration
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National Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars
Members of the Mississippi National Guard walk along a snow-covered 3rd Street NW in Washington on Jan. 25. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine personnel to U.
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#Homelessness #Advocacy #SocialImpact
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Shirley Raines, who fed and cared for the homeless of Skid Row, dies at 58
Shirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit organization Beauty 2 the Streetz, served as grand marshal of the 2022 Long Beach Pride parade in California.
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#Homelessness #Advocacy #SocialImpact
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Shirley Raines, who fed and cared for the homeless of Skid Row, dies at 58
Shirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit organization Beauty 2 the Streetz, served as grand marshal of the 2022 Long Beach Pride parade in California.
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#Immigration #LegalSystem #HumanRights
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Judge slams ICE while backing off contempt threat for agency's director
Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in Minneapolis on Wednesday. (Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Minnesota's chief federal judge on Wednesday called off his threat to potentially hold the head of U.
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#PoliticalViolence #Polarization #Empathy
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Opinion | Shared reality risks becoming a casualty of polarization
A man is tackled after spraying an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) during a town hall in Minneapolis on Jan.
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#Trump #Economy #MidtermElections
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Opinion | Trump struggling to find a winning message for a bipolar economy
President Donald Trump departs the White House on Tuesday for a quick trip to Iowa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump kicked off his midterm campaign travel this week with a bipolar economy: huge growth but plummeting consumer confidence.
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#BruceSpringsteen #ProtestMusic #ImmigrationPolicy
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Bruce Springsteen releases searing protest song in 'Streets of Minneapolis'
Bruce Springsteen performs in Clarkston, Georgia, in October 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Bruce Springsteen released a pointedly emotional protest song Wednesday, amid widespread outrage over sweeping immigration raids that have led to violence and fatal shootings at the hands of federal agents.
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#EmergencyResponse #PublicAccountability #911System
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After son's death, mother's quest for D.C. 911 records leads to lawsuit
After Stephanie Clemans's 28-year-old son, William Ostertag, experienced sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed in his D. C.
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Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) walks through the U. S. Capitol on Sept. 30. A partial government shutdown is set to begin this weekend if lawmakers don't pass additional spending measures.
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Opinion | A year after DCA crash, an easy fix to prevent more mid-air collisions
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks to reporters on Tuesday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A year ago Thursday, 67 people died when a military helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight attempting to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Fed holds rates steady, signaling patience despite Trump pressure
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell in December. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged Wednesday, hitting the pause button at its first meeting this year despite pressure from President Donald Trump to slash rates further.
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Two federal agents involved in Alex Pretti shooting placed on administrative leave
The two federal immigration agents involved in the shooting of Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave, per standard agency protocol, according to a U.
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Russia strike hits Ukraine passenger train amid new push for talks
A Ukrainian rescuer inspects a damaged residential building after a drone attack in Bilohorodka in the Kyiv region on Wednesday.
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#Literature #BookReview #Diversity
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Review | 'Every Exit Brings You Home' is a work of magic
For too long, Naeem Murr's name has been whispered among judging panels instead of toasted in book clubs.
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Smithsonian Asian art museum to return three stolen bronzes to India
"Shiva Nataraja," Chola period, circa A.
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#IranRevolution #Photojournalism #HumanRights
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Opinion | I saw the birth of the Islamic Republic. Its dying days are even bloodier.
Billboard with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini. Tehran, February 1979. (David Burnett/Contact Press Images)
David Burnett is a photojournalist based in New York.
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Opinion | A student asked how to improve government. My reply was disappointing.
Protesters march through downtown Minneapolis on Sunday, a day after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
A thoughtful high school student in Texas reached out to me last Friday with questions about the country and the precarious state it's in -- questions many adults are quietly asking themselves, too.
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#AffirmativeAction #Discrimination #HigherEducation
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White biologist sues Cornell, alleging illegal race-based hiring
An evolutionary biologist filed a lawsuit against Cornell University this week that alleges the Ivy League school used unlawful race-based hiring practices and intentionally discriminated against qualified candidates by refusing to consider White people.
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#ParkinsonsDisease #Neurology #HealthAwareness
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4 Parkinson's disease symptoms that can show up decades before a diagnosis
Many people think of a tremor as the quintessential warning sign of Parkinson's disease. But other symptoms -- many of them not involving changes in movement -- can appear much earlier than what's known as a resting tremor.
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ICE would still operate in a partial government shutdown
People in D. C. last week protest federal immigration officials' killing of a man in Minneapolis. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)
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#Amazon #JobCuts #TechIndustry
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Layoffs are up, hiring is down as Amazon cuts reverberate through the economy
An Amazon delivery vehicle makes its way through downtown San Francisco this week. (Carlos Barria/Reauters)
Job cuts and other changes at Amazon, the country's second-largest private employer, rippled through the economy this week, throwing workers at the company and some of its partners into a tough job market.
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Opinion | Watching another killing on our phones
People watch as federal agents detain a person on Tuesday in Minneapolis. (Adam Gray/AP)
Before I watched the footage of Alex Pretti shot to death in the street, YouTube decided that I should first watch a commercial for makeup.
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Column | Voter support for Trump's immigration strategy is eroding, and the GOP knows it
Federal immigration agents detain a man Tuesday during an operation in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
A critical bloc of voters has taken a look at the harsh tactics deployed by federal agents in cities far from the U.
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Analysis | Trump is dealing with an immigration mess of his own making
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing to Iowa on Tuesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump's partial retreat on immigration enforcement in Minneapolis is a mess of his own making.
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#Tesla #ElonMusk #ElectricVehicles
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Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it.
When Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk last year, they bet on Musk's ability to drive up the stock price, hit new performance milestones and establish Tesla as a robotics and artificial intelligence juggernaut.
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The rise and fall of Border Patrol 'commander at large' Greg Bovino
U. S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino walks to his vehicle at a gas station in Minneapolis on Jan. 21. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
One year ago, Gregory Bovino was a low-profile Border Patrol chief overseeing a relatively small stretch of the U.
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#Immigration #HumanRights #DetaineeConditions
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Viral video shows overcrowded conditions inside ICE facility in Maryland
Immigration activists attend a news conference at the CASA Welcome Center in Baltimore, March 2025. (Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post)
A viral video has reignited concerns about overcrowding in federal immigration holding cells in Baltimore, where lawyers and Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly alleged that detainees are being kept for as long as 10 days at a time in a site designed for much shorter stays.
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#Ukraine #YouthUnemployment #HybridWarfare
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Inside the shadow war between Russia and Ukraine that exploits teens
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine -- She'd applied for job after job, but none of them had worked out. Not the gig in her uncle's restaurant.
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#CPR #MedicalAccuracy #HealthEducation
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What 'The Office' and other TV shows get wrong about CPR
(Illustration by The Washington Post; The Office/NBC; Chicago Med/NBC; Riverdale/The CW)
You've seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television -- the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their chest, shouting, "Stay with me.
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What 'The Office' and other TV shows get wrong about CPR
(Illustration by The Washington Post; The Office/NBC; Chicago Med/NBC; Riverdale/The CW)
You've seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television -- the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their chest, shouting, "Stay with me.
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#PredictionMarkets #PoliticalBetting #MarketIntegrity
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Millions in bets ride on what Trump will say, do or invade next
predictionsmarket MAIN (Michael Domine/The Washington Post)
Caleb Davies, a Democrat who lives in the Minneapolis area, says he's furious that federal immigration personnel have killed two people this month in his hometown.
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#PoliticalRhetoric #CapitolPolice #ThreatAssessment
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Thousands more threats were looked into in 2025, Capitol Police say
Curbing violent rhetoric would help cut the number of threats against members of Congress and the Capitol, the agency says.
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#WorldCup2026 #DonaldTrump #FIFA
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Column | Clamor is growing in Europe to boycott Trump's World Cup
President Donald Trump is presented with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Dec. 5 by FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
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Bill Belichick won't be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Six titles weren't enough.
Bill Belichick had six Super Bowl victories as coach of the Patriots. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
The New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for the first time since the end of their dynastic run that featured six Super Bowl victories with Bill Belichick as their coach and Tom Brady as their quarterback.
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#DomesticTerrorism #ImmigrationPolicy #DHS
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How Kristi Noem transformed immigration enforcement - The Washington Post
After both Renée Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by Department of Homeland Security officers in Minneapolis this month, the story from the agency's secretary, Kristi L.
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#Policing #LawEnforcement #ImmigrationEnforcement
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Five moments in the Alex Pretti shooting that raise red flags for policing experts
The tactics U. S. Border Patrol agents used against Alex Pretti in Minneapolis probably violate modern policing guidelines, several experts said, and add to a growing body of evidence that federal immigration officers are deviating from professional norms.
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GOP backlash on Minnesota signals a tougher landscape for Trump
A woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti, who was shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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#UPS #JobCuts #Amazon Partnership
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UPS will slash 30,000 jobs amid ongoing split with Amazon
United Parcel Service plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs in 2026 as it untangles its partnership with Amazon, signaling another year of deep job cuts in a bid to turn around its business.
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#Snowstorm #WeatherRecords #ExtremeWeather
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See how much snow fell -- and where it broke records
Maps show where snowfall reached extreme levels and broke records across the U. S.
Bringing widespread power outages and travel disruption from crippling ice, the winter storm that swept across the country this weekend left behind another mark: extraordinary snow totals.
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#Holocaust #SurvivorStories #MemoryPreservation
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Man, 29, races against time to preserve voices of Holocaust survivors
Jiri Kluc, left, and Holocaust survivor Rosalie Simon in New York in August 2025. (Jiri Kluc)
Jiri Kluc volunteered to help a group of Holocaust survivors living near his home in the Czech Republic when he was just 16 years old.
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#Immigration #Justice #Protest
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U.S. judge orders ICE chief to appear in court, threatens contempt ruling
People are detained by police during a protest at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on Friday. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of U.
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#UKChinaRelations #GlobalDiplomacy #TradeNegotiations
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As Trump shuffles global order, U.K. prime minister heads to Beijing
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Rio de Janeiro in November 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool/Reuters)
LONDON -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to visit China this week, aiming to forge a more consistent, pragmatic relationship with Beijing as the United Kingdom and other intermediate powers reassess their interests in an increasingly unstable global order and with an unpredictable administration in Washington.
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#AviationSafety #NTSB #AirTrafficControl
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A year later, federal authorities will reveal what caused fatal DCA crash
Nearly a year after a deadly midair collision near Reagan National Airport took the lives of 67 people, federal investigators will offer new details Tuesday about the factors that contributed to the fatal encounter and outline recommendations for preventing future tragedies.
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#Politics #Immigration #VotingRights
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Trump administration uses ICE to pressure blue states
Democrats have accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of blackmailing and bullying them into ceding more power to the Trump administration.
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Can eating meat increase your UTI risk? What experts want you to know.
Getting recurrent urinary tract infections.
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#DHS #UseOfForce #ImmigrationEnforcement
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In 16 shooting incidents since July, no DHS officers have faced charges
Department of Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July, and as in the recent shootings in Minneapolis, in each case the Trump administration has publicly declared their actions justified before waiting for investigations to be completed.
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#SecondAmendment #GunRights #Protests
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Analysis | This is a prove-it moment for gun rights activists
In today's edition . The sentiment toward ICE and DHS on Capitol Hill is shifting . You respond to ICE actions in Minnesota .
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#AIBrowsers #TechReview #DataPrivacy
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Opinion | Where AI browsers fall short
I tested four new versions. The promise is real, but major issues still need to be addressed
The browser wars are back -- and this time they're supercharged by artificial intelligence.
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#SalmanRushdie #Documentary #SundanceFilmFestival
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Harrowing Salman Rushdie doc 'Knife' leaves Sundance gasping
Salman Rushdie appears in "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" by Alex Gibney, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
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Harrowing Salman Rushdie doc 'Knife' leaves Sundance gasping
Salman Rushdie appears in "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" by Alex Gibney, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
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#Challenger #SpaceFlight #Education
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40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster
Christa McAuliffe's flight as the "teacher in space" lasted 73 seconds. A reporter who witnessed the tragedy returned to the story and found an engineer still trying to spread its lessons.
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#Challenger #SpaceFlight #Education
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40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster
Christa McAuliffe's flight as the "teacher in space" lasted 73 seconds.
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#economy #jobgrowth #consumer spending
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The 'one-legged stools' holding up a fragile economy
On paper, the economy is booming.
Low unemployment, strong consumer spending and steady business investments have helped fuel the largest expansion in years.
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#NationalParks #ClimateChange #NativeAmericanHistory
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Trump's censors hit Grand Canyon and 16 other national parks
A view of the Rocky Mountain Front of Glacier National Park in Montana, which contains a tribute to the Blackfoot Native American tribe.
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#HistoricPreservation #AmericanHistory #GunboatPhiladelphia
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America's oldest warship, sunk in 1776, is getting a 250th-birthday makeover
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Texas A&M University research assistant Marissa Agerton works on a conservation project of the Gunboat Philadelphia at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on Tuesday January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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#SocialMedia #PoliticalActivism #ImmigrationPolicy
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Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces
(Washington Post illustration; 8_guy on Reddit; John Young on Instagram)
The moderator of r/catbongos, an 800,000-member subreddit devoted to videos of people playing their cats like drums, never posted about politics before Saturday.
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Poland built the E.U.'s biggest army, but the threat has changed
Volunteers take part in basic training with the Polish army in Nowogrod, Poland, in June 2024. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, countries across Europe pledged to become more like Poland.
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#TradeRelations #Tariffs #SouthKorea
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Trump threatens to raise tariffs on South Korea to 25%
SEOUL -- South Korean officials found themselves scrambling on Tuesday morning after waking up to a social media post from President Donald Trump announcing a fresh hike in tariffs on their country.
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#Impeachment #HomelandSecurity #DHS
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House Democrats to investigate Kristi Noem with eye on impeachment push
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem appears during a television interview outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Jan.
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#Minneapolis #Protests #FederalInvestigation
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Body-camera footage of shooting being preserved, U.S. officials say
Federal agents fire tear gas at protesters in Minneapolis on Jan. 14. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
ST. PAUL -- A Trump administration lawyer assured a federal judge Monday that investigators have preserved body-camera footage and other evidence from the fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Alex Pretti, but he stopped short of promising to share that evidence with state investigators.
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#Minneapolis #GunDebate #JusticeForAlexPretti
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After Alex Pretti's killing, a battle of narratives - The Washington Post
The killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday morning marks a dramatic escalation of what was already a very tense moment for Minneapolis.
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#WinterStorm #DCHomelessness #SnowEmergency
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Frozen D.C. region sees messy roads, closed schools and a weather-related death
The storm that hit the D. C. region this weekend brought so much snow and icy sleet that it forced people to close schools, cancel flights and even call off a massive snowball fight that was planned for the National Mall.
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What to know about Super Bowl LX: It feels like the 2010s again
The 2025 NFL season felt in many ways like the dawning of a new NFL era. First-year coaches transformed teams, second-year quarterbacks emerged as the ascendant kings of the league and a fresh batch of contenders rose.
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#Vaccines #PublicHealth #HealthcarePolicy
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Opinion | The next front in RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine campaign
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the White House on Jan. 16. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already inflicted great damage upon America's vaccine infrastructure, yet the health and human services secretary is only getting started.
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#HealthEquity #RacialDisparities #ChronicStress
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New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities
Nearly half of the mortality gap between Black and White adults can be traced to the cumulative toll of a lifetime of stress and heightened inflammation, a new study published Monday shows.
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#USSAbrahamLincoln #MiddleEast #MilitaryOperations
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Aircraft carrier reaches Middle East, bolstering Iran options for Trump
Operations on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea in 2019. (Jon Gambrell/AP)
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Israel confirms remains of last hostage, Rani Gvili, returned from Gaza
Israel confirmed Monday that the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza, Israeli police officer Rani Gvili, 24, have been returned, marking an end to a particularly dark and painful chapter for Israelis that began when Hamas and allied militants attacked on Oct.
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#PlaneCrash #EmergencyResponse #WinterStorm
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Private jet carrying eight people crashes at Maine airport
Emergency responders at the scene of the plane crash at Bangor International Airport in Maine, in an image taken from video.
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#Tariffs #Economy #TrumpAdministration
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Opinion | Trump's tariff promises don't add up. Here's the math
Every time a big expense comes up, President Donald Trump assures Americans that all the money raised from tariffs will take care of it.
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#Cannabis #Legalization #Crime
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Opinion | Why the black market is beating legal weed trade
Scott Eden is an investigative reporter and author of "A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed.
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#WuTangClan #HipHop #Documentary
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The bizarre story behind the world's most expensive album
The RZA, Cilvaringz, and Moongod Allah appear in "The Disciple" by director Joanna Natasegara, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
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#WuTangClan #HipHop #Documentary
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The bizarre story behind the world's most expensive album
The RZA, Cilvaringz, and Moongod Allah appear in "The Disciple" by director Joanna Natasegara, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
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#Immigration #GunControl #PoliticalTension
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Analysis | Minneapolis shooting prompts bipartisan blowback
In today's edition . The death of Alex Pretti intensifies scrutiny of federal immigration agents . The Canada-U. S. relationship appears to be on thinning ice .
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#ColdWeather #WinterStorm #RecordLowTemperatures
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The massive storm has passed, but deep cold remains a danger
Many northern parts of the country will have freezing temperatures for a week straight or much longer. (Ben Noll/The Washington Post)
As a massive storm that brought heavy snow, crippling ice and widespread power outages to millions of Americans this weekend departs, surges of dangerous and record-breaking cold are arriving -- and forecasters are closely watching the potential for another storm next weekend.
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#AbolishICE #JusticeForAlexPretti #GunViolenceAwareness
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Breanna Stewart holds 'Abolish ICE' sign as sports world reacts to Minneapolis
"We're so fueled by hate right now instead of love," said Breanna Stewart, pictured during Sunday's game. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
WNBA star Breanna Stewart showed a sign reading "Abolish ICE" Sunday to a crowd at a Miami-area arena before a game with her Unrivaled league team.
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#AirSafety #AviationAccident #HelicopterRegulations
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After the deadly DCA crash, some airspace rules have changed. Is it enough?
Nearly a year after 67 people were killed in a midair collision in the skies above the nation's capital, all but the most critical helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport have been banned.
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#JafarPanahi #IranianCinema #FilmCensorship
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The Iranian director who risked his freedom to make his Oscar-nominated film - The Washington Post
A conversation with legendary Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on his latest Oscar-nominated film "It Was Just an Accident" and on being jailed and censored for his art.
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The Iranian director who risked his freedom to make his Oscar-nominated film - The Washington Post
A conversation with legendary Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on his latest Oscar-nominated film "It Was Just an Accident" and on being jailed and censored for his art.
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U.S. crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here's where it stands.
The United States remains in a multiyear trend of falling rates of homicides and other crimes in cities nationwide, ushering in a period of relative safety that rivals the years before the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from more than 100 police departments.
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Immigration visas for people from these 75 countries are paused
The countries affected span every region of the globe with countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East impacted the most.
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What happened after the Trump administration upended childhood vaccine planning
Mayank Amin administers a vaccine to Aurora Dockray, 2, as she sits with her mother, Ashley Dockray, at Skippack Pharmacy in Skippack, Pennsylvania.
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How EPA ethics officials cleared former industry insiders for regulatory roles
Soybeans are harvested near Wamego, Kansas. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
Environmental Protection Agency ethics officials have interpreted impartiality guidelines in a way that has allowed several former industry insiders to oversee dramatic changes to chemical regulations, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.
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Civil rights leaders discuss the lessons of the '60s for the Trump era
In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested political and economic terrain, from affirmative action to affirmative actions.
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Civil rights leaders discuss the lessons of the '60s for the Trump era
In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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#Immigration #ICE #BorderSecurity
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Opinion | The White House kept flexing its ICE power. Now Americans are recoiling.
U. S. Border Patrol agents make an arrest in Minneapolis on Jan. 11. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
Nine days before Renée Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Hennepin County, Minnesota, an ICE operation took place in the same county 20 minutes away.
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Opinion | Trump was right about price controls, until he embraced them
Cars lined up at a New York City gas station in December 1973. (Marty Lederhandler/AP)
Brian Albrecht is chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics and co-writes the newsletter Economic Forces.
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Ukrainian battlefield success denies Russia a key city as a bargaining chip
Heavy snowfall in Ukraine has made for difficult conditions on the front line. In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian soldiers have seen how Russian troops are wearing white camouflage to try to blend in.
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Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them. Some feel betrayed.
A man stands in the wreckage of a burned bus in Tehran on Thursday in the wake of a protest movement across Iran. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
ISTANBUL -- Reeling from a crackdown on protesters in Iran that left thousands dead, Iranians are now grappling with feelings of betrayal, confusion and uncertainty after President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to intervene on their behalf and then declined to do so.
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Long-standing GOP support for democracy in Myanmar crumbles under Trump
Voters line up to cast ballots during the second phase of general election voting on Jan. 11 in Yangon, Myanmar. (Thein Zaw/AP)
The democracy movement in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar has for decades found powerful champions in the Republican Party.
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Court to hear Prince Harry's case alleging illegal acts by Daily Mail
LONDON -- Prince Harry's third, and perhaps final, major legal showdown with Britain's tabloid press is set to begin Monday with the opening 0f a closely watched trial involving claims of widespread, illegal information-gathering by the company that owns the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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'60 Minutes' story held for lacking interview with Trump official airs without one
The CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan.
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The Patriots are back to their old January ways
Coach Mike Vrabel celebrates during the Patriots' win Sunday over the Texans at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 20
MADRID -- A high-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into an oncoming train Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.
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FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
Federal agents in Minneapolis on Wednesday. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights investigation into the actions of the immigration officer who shot her, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
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Trump plans to charge $1 billion for permanent seat on 'Board of Peace'
Displaced Palestinians gather at a temporary camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Saturday. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)
President Donald Trump has sent a flurry of invitations this weekend to world leaders to join a new "Board of Peace," being marketed as an international peace-building organization.
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Syria says it has reached ceasefire with U.S.-backed Kurdish militia
Government forces walk past a burning vehicle as they enter the Syrian city of Raqqa, which until Sunday was controlled by the U.
