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Nov 12, 2024
With the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and throughout her career, Jamison kept faith in our continued capacity — and need — to feel deeply and honestly.
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Nov 12, 2024
A federal judge said the law was unconstitutional, but the state attorney general quickly promised to appeal the decision.
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Nov 12, 2024
A newborn siamang at ZooTampa has brought hope for survival of the endangered ape species.
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Nov 11, 2024
A jury convicted Richard M. Allen, 52, of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping.
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Nov 11, 2024
After scouring a lake in Wisconsin, authorities now say Ryan Borgwardt staged his drowning to abandon his wife and three children.
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Nov 11, 2024
At issue is a pre-Civil War law that would completely bar the procedure, with no exceptions for incest, rape or to save the life of a pregnant woman.
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Nov 10, 2024
Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California voters.
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Nov 10, 2024
Massachusetts's highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.
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Nov 10, 2024
Some who helped form the Trump resistance are ready to challenge him a second time. Others, exhausted and feeling hopeless, say they need a break.
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Nov 09, 2024
FEMA said it has fired an employee who told staff to avoid houses with signs supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign during hurricane relief in Florida.
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Nov 09, 2024
Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.
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Nov 09, 2024
Howard Lutnick, Trump's transition co-chair, has talked up Tether, which the government is looking into.
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Nov 09, 2024
Black women vote at some of the highest rates in the nation, but after Harris's defeat, they wonder whether they will ever see one of themselves leading the nation.
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Nov 09, 2024
Trump's win has sparked worries on social media about another rollback of women's rights, but the president-elect can do little to impact state divorce laws.
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Nov 09, 2024
The dogs, one deaf and the other skittish, were the shelter's longest residents.
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Nov 08, 2024
Thomas Eugene Creech, a serial killer on death row in Idaho, was granted a stay in execution months after a first execution attempt by lethal injection failed.
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Nov 08, 2024
Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge's ruling, which cites recent Supreme Court decisions on the Second Amendment.
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Nov 08, 2024
Trump soundly defeated Harris in 12 of 14 Texas counties touching the border. Concerns over immigration only partly explain it.
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Nov 08, 2024
Elon Musk's involvement in the conversation between Trump and Zelensky is the latest sign he intends to play a prominent role in the next U.S. administration.
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Nov 08, 2024
Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.
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Nov 08, 2024
They reconnected years later when their mothers set them up.
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Nov 08, 2024
Federal employee advocates fear Donald Trump's victory will lead to the politicization and weaponization of federal agencies, hurting public service.
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Nov 07, 2024
Black people in several states received racist texts, some that claimed to be affiliated with Donald Trump, ordering them to work as slaves on plantations.
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Nov 07, 2024
Breed was seeking a second full term but fell to Lurie's outsider campaign after multiple ranked choice rounds.
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Nov 07, 2024
Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.
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Nov 07, 2024
Ballot measures on abortion passed in seven states, further transforming the post-Roe landscape.
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Nov 07, 2024
Donald Trump vowed to deport the Haitians of Springfield during his campaign. Many in the Ohio community are worried and praying after he won the presidency.
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Nov 06, 2024
Elon Musk said recipients of his daily $1 million lottery would be selected randomly. Two lawsuits accuse America PAC of pre-selecting winners.
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Nov 06, 2024
Crisis hotlines catering to LGBTQ youths and adults have seen a staggering rise in calls from people distressed over Donald Trump's win.
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Nov 06, 2024
Crisis hotlines catering to LGBTQ youths and adults have seen a staggering uptick in calls from people distressed over Donald Trump's election victory.
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Nov 06, 2024
Donald Trump's win means that the tradition of electing a man to the nation's highest office remains unbroken after more than 200 years.
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Nov 06, 2024
Alaska and Maine already use ranked-choice voting, which supporters say could lead to more moderate politics. But it has been rejected in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
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Nov 06, 2024
It was an ostentatious and fearless rebuke to boarded-up Washington.
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Nov 06, 2024
Measures seeking to preserve, expand or restrict abortion rights were on the ballot in 10 states.
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Nov 06, 2024
At watch parties across the Atlanta suburbs Tuesday evening, Indian Americans waited anxiously to learn whether one of their own would become the next president.
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Nov 06, 2024
Washington Post journalists want to know how women feel about the election results. Share your thoughts with us through this form.
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Nov 06, 2024
Washington Post journalists want to know how women feel about the election results. Share your thoughts with us through this form.
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Nov 06, 2024
Donald Trump's win means that the tradition of electing a man to the nation's highest office remains unbroken after more than 200 years.
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Nov 05, 2024
Rafael is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Nov 05, 2024
It was an ostentatious and fearless rebuke to boarded-up Washington.
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Nov 05, 2024
A Tennessee man was arrested Saturday and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility.
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Nov 05, 2024
The survey found Leslie Knope and Carrie Bradshaw among the most likely Harris supporters, while Archie Bunker and Walter White appeared on the Trump side.
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Nov 05, 2024
Gabrielle Ludwig is a trans woman who played on a college sports team a decade ago. Now she is being featured in Republican ads that have upended her life.
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Nov 05, 2024
Gabrielle Ludwig is a trans woman who played on a college sports team a decade ago. Now she is being featured in Republican ads that have upended her life.
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Nov 05, 2024
Voting in the 2024 presidential election has started. A look back at key moments as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump seek to become the next president.
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Nov 05, 2024
"I'm hanging on BY A THREAD ELMO," wrote one of Elmo's followers.
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Nov 04, 2024
Jessica Long and her daughter sued Shasta County, California, officials in 2022 after sheriff's deputies seized the girl's goat, Cedar, who was later killed.
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Nov 04, 2024
The prolific music producer and arranger had an incalculable impact on American popular music, from bebop to hip-hop.
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Nov 03, 2024
Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are expressing much more election anxiety than people voting for former president Donald Trump, experts said.
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Nov 03, 2024
Competition among Native gambling interests is heating up as the Biden administration seeks to relax restrictions.
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Nov 03, 2024
A Venezuelan mother and her sons braved a dense jungle, perilous waters and menacing traffickers for a better life in New York. The election could decide their fate.
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Nov 02, 2024
Mayor Eric Adams is urging New Yorkers to fix leaks, take shorter showers and only flush when necessary, as the city endures the longest dry spell in recent memory.
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Nov 02, 2024
Dustin Kjersem's act of kindness, offering another Montana camper a beer, led to his alleged killer's capture, according to authorities.
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Nov 02, 2024
Donald Trump has pledged, if reelected, to purge the government of bureaucrats suspected of being insufficiently loyal to him and his agenda.
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Nov 02, 2024
"When I saw John, I thought, why not be a positive role model to this kid as he's growing up?" said Craig Hodges, a garbage truck driver.
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Nov 02, 2024
Declining attendance at traditional activist churches may be one reason for weaker Black alliances with Democrats.
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Nov 02, 2024
The decision by Gov. Jay Inslee comes after ballot boxes were burned in his state and in Oregon, and amid broader concerns about election-related violence.
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Nov 02, 2024
A judge's order would apply to at least 14,000 in the crucial swing county of Erie, Pennsylvania, who say they never got their requested mail-in ballots. Both major parties hailed the move.
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Nov 01, 2024
Its residents saw themselves reflected in the team, deemed too battered to succeed but refusing to quit.
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Nov 01, 2024
The body of Sgt. Sarah Roque was discovered in a dumpster at Fort Leonard Wood Army base in Missouri. Army Spec. Wooster Rancy was arrested.
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Nov 01, 2024
Erik and Lyle Menendez's push for resentencing in the murders of their parents comes as the courts and public take sexual abuse of boys more seriously, experts say.
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Nov 01, 2024
Animal shelters and rescues are flooded, destroyed and overcrowded after Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the Southeast.
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Nov 01, 2024
"Hoary Potter and the Guano of Fire" from Oregon won the Bureau of Land Management's annual Bat Beauty Contest that runs around Halloween time each year.
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Nov 01, 2024
Under plea agreement, the con man behind the most extensive corruption scandal in U.S. military history could be released from prison in as little as one year.
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Nov 01, 2024
The city always treats politics as a blood sport, but the first mayoral election after the pandemic has been especially fierce.
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Nov 01, 2024
The city always treats politics as a blood sport, but the first mayoral election after the pandemic has been especially fierce.
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Oct 31, 2024
A new exemption to a 1998 law will allow third-party technicians to repair McDonald's ice cream and McFlurry machines.
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Oct 31, 2024
The surprise plea was at least a partial victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office led the high-profile racketeering case.
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Oct 31, 2024
Leaving "I voted" stickers on Susan B. Anthony's tombstone has become a tradition. Now New Yorkers can cast their early ballots at her longtime Rochester home.
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Oct 31, 2024
Leaving "I voted" stickers on Susan B. Anthony's tombstone has become a tradition. Now New Yorkers can cast their early ballots at her longtime Rochester home.
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Oct 31, 2024
Halloween-themed festivities in Des Moines usually take place on Oct. 30, in a "Beggars' Night" tradition dating to 1940 with an exception in 1978. This year, it changes.
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Oct 31, 2024
Thousands of people have cast their votes to decide which small toothy winged creature is the best looking among the contestants.
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Oct 31, 2024
As incidents of road rage escalate across the country, aggressive drivers in Texas try to understand what triggers anger.
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Oct 31, 2024
The Commonwealth Fund found that the rate of firearms deaths in Mississippi is nearly twice that of Haiti, an impoverished nation stricken by gang violence.
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Oct 30, 2024
Context box for trafficking
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Oct 30, 2024
Six college students, far removed from the day 26 people were shot to death in their Connecticut elementary school, choose to try to impact the gun-control debate rather than forget.
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Oct 30, 2024
As the Asian American population grows across the nation, Republicans have aggressively pursued this traditionally Democratic voting base.
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Oct 30, 2024
They are faceless. They are implied. They are the amorphous core of TikTok conspiracy theories. "They" are to blame for almost everything, according to Donald Trump.
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Oct 30, 2024
A group of LGBTQ activists spread out across Missouri in the final days before the presidential election. Residents had viewpoints that did not fit in neat partisan boxes.
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Oct 30, 2024
A group of Connecticut veterans has taken on the task of repairing damaged tombstones in their town's 23 cemeteries. They call themselves the "Cemetery Troopers."
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Oct 30, 2024
Executives at companies founded by the billionaire Post owner have sought contact with Trump. He argues he didn't end presidential endorsements out of self-interest.
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Oct 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris came to the Ellipse on Tuesday night to remind Americans to remain vigilant. Democracy isn't certain.
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Oct 30, 2024
Hundreds of ballots were burned. Authorities say the arson acts in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are linked to a third incident earlier this month.
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Oct 29, 2024
Patience Frazier said she had a miscarriage in April 2018. A month later, police were at her door, asking about a Facebook post and a cross in her backyard. Today, the story of Frazier, and what happens when someone is prosecuted under an abortion law.
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Oct 29, 2024
A constitutional amendment on the state ballot would protect "the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care."
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Oct 29, 2024
Satellite imagery analyzed by The Washington Post shows damage to two air defense installations and at least three sites associated with missile production.
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Oct 29, 2024
After the Apalachee High shooting, 14-year-olds worried they'd be next. Sought places to hide. And fixated on one fact: The alleged killer, and both slain students, were their age.
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Oct 29, 2024
The 1911 Nevada statute is one of a wide variety of laws that have been used in rare cases across the country to prosecute women for trying to end a pregnancy.
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Oct 28, 2024
In recent years, "Dixie" has been banned by a number of institutions because of its history.
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Oct 28, 2024
Hinchcliffe, who has a popular podcast and performs with Joe Rogan, drew criticism from both parties for his comments on Puerto Rico.
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Oct 28, 2024
RowVaughn Wells talks about feeling helpless and frustrated during the trial of three former Memphis police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols, her son.
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Oct 28, 2024
Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial expertise. Months of work lie ahead.
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Oct 28, 2024
Parents of fentanyl victims are divided on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris can effectively curb the epidemic and have emerged as powerful voices on the campaign trail.
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Oct 28, 2024
Teens say activities and classes they're taking have influenced how they will cast their first ever vote.
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Oct 27, 2024
Jon and Carie Hallford were exposed when neighbors reported "an abhorrent smell" coming from their Colorado funeral home, authorities said.
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Oct 27, 2024
The office of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said the removals are intended to prepare New Orleans for major events, including hosting Super Bowl LIX.
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Oct 27, 2024
"The world is designed for sighted people, but nature is a place where it's okay to be blind," said Donna Posont, founder of Birding by Ear and Beyond.
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Oct 27, 2024
The tightening relationship between Donald Trump and Space X CEO Elon Musk has caught the attention of space policy analysts wondering about U.S. aspirations to get to Mars.
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Oct 27, 2024
The place where the president is expected to spend much of his time after he leaves office in January has not escaped the rancor fracturing the country.
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Oct 26, 2024
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump have responded to special counsel Jack Smith's appeal of Judge Cannon's decision to toss the classified documents case.
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