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April 24, 2025
Mom re-gifted my silver to brother’s fiancée. Give advice to this Hax question.
Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice to a question Carolyn Hax hasn’t answered.
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | All that RFK Jr. gets wrong about people with autism
Readers respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric about autism with their own experiences.
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April 24, 2025
Judge blocks part of Trump’s order requiring citizenship proof to vote
A commission is barred for now from changing the federal voter registration form to require people to provide passports or other documents.
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April 24, 2025
What is a ‘virga bomb,’ which blasted a Texas town with 111 mph winds?
Imagine winds the strength of a Category 2 hurricane — but without any rain.
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April 24, 2025
Former federal worker pleads not guilty to charges he defaced Tesla vehicles
Prosecutors declined to pursue related charges against his wife in a series of messages left on Teslas across D.C. in March.
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April 24, 2025
Federal judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from ‘sanctuary’ cities
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick said a presidential executive order violates the Constitution’s separation of powers principles and sp...
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April 24, 2025
Mexico moves to ban Noem ads on illegal migration
The ads, featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have been criticized for being highly discriminatory and have sparked outrage in Mexico.
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April 24, 2025
Pope Francis didn’t suffer before he died, his doctor says
After the pope suffered a massive stroke Monday morning, his medical team saw no point to sending him to a hospital. He died soon after.
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April 24, 2025
Analysis | Are things falling apart for Trump?
About 100 days in, the signs are almost uniformly negative for the second-term Trump project.
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April 24, 2025
Israeli military takes responsibility for attack on U.N. house in Gaza
The admission confirmed Post reporting that the blasts were caused by Israeli tank shells. The Israeli military previously denied its troops...
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April 24, 2025
D.C. loses coveted triple-A bond rating due to federal actions
Moody’s cited federal workforce and spending cuts, a sluggish commercial real estate market and uncertainty over whether Congress will cut M...
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April 24, 2025
For Russia, the U.S. peace deal could be a way of weakening Ukraine
Many of the elements of the U.S. proposal would be politically damaging to Zelensky, creating an opening Moscow could exploit, say analysts...
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April 24, 2025
Man died after airline delayed medical help until others left plane, suit says
The lawsuit, filed by John William Cannon’s son, says staff delayed seeking medical attention for his father until other passengers disembar...
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April 24, 2025
Migrant workers accuse U.S. PR firms of helping Qatar hide World Cup abuses
The lawsuit claims firms worked on Qatar’s behalf to refute reporting about workers’ conditions, including by taking journalists on misleadi...
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April 24, 2025
Judge orders return to U.S. of second migrant deported to El Salvador
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to return a Venezuelan man who was sent to a megaprison in El Salvador desp...
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April 24, 2025
Trump tariffs have Democrats seeing an outside chance in this red state
With two marquee statewide races in Iowa and a state economy that is especially rattled by Trump’s trade war, a party marginalized in the th...
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine rewards Russian aggression
Accepting Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea would upend a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy.
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April 24, 2025
‘Hell ant’ that impaled prey discovered in 113-million-year-old fossil
The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey with scythe-lik...
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April 24, 2025
Female bonobos, cousins to humans, collectively assert power over males, study shows
For decades it had remained a mystery why females of this primate species, though smaller than males, tend to claim high positions in their...
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April 24, 2025
Sam Hartman chugs a beer, Jayden Daniels meets Alex Ovechkin at Caps game
With Hartman’s Michelob Ultra moment at Game 2, the Washington Commanders continued a proud D.C. sports tradition.
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April 24, 2025
Man charged with starting New Jersey wildfire by burning wood pallets
A 19-year-old man faces arson charges in the Ocean County blaze, which has burned 15,000 acres and is sending smoke into New York City.
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April 24, 2025
Maryland commuter bus drivers on strike against contractor Martz
The strike, affecting six bus lines, began Thursday. The drivers’ union says Martz is refusing to compromise in negotiations over their expi...
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April 24, 2025
It is the very model of a silly show-off theater song
You know the one. It’s back on Broadway in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical” — but it’s never left our brains.
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April 24, 2025
Column | Asking Eric: ‘Is it normal for an unmarried man over 60 to want a baby?’
Where does a man over 60 find a “marriage-minded young woman” who will accept an age difference and give him children?
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April 24, 2025
Column | Ask Sahaj: ‘If I don’t do it, nothing gets done.’ My husband says deal with it.
Husband of over 35 years refuses and says “he’s always been this way” when the letter writer asks for help doing something.
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April 24, 2025
India and Pakistan escalate diplomatic tensions after deadly Kashmir attack
Pakistan said it was suspending trade and closing its airspace to Indian airlines, while India suspended a water-sharing treaty, after Tuesd...
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April 24, 2025
Analysis | Elon Musk, stung by Tesla’s woes, doubles down on self-driving
The Washington Post’s essential guide to tech policy news.
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April 24, 2025
You can read with a cat on your lap at this bookstore, then adopt the cat
Since Literary Cat Co. opened in Kansas about a year and a half ago, 32 of the store’s foster cats have been adopted by bookstore customers.
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April 24, 2025
At a first-of-its-kind basketball clinic, ‘inclusion’ wasn’t a bad word
Jason Collins, who was once the first publicly gay active NBA player, participated in the clinic for LGBTQ youth at the Final Four, then ref...
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | No, Trump can’t legally send Americans to prison in El Salvador
A landmark Eighth Amendment case found rendering someone stateless unconstitutional.
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | Voice of America is back, for now. China won’t be pleased.
A less-informed global public is good for autocrats, who want people uninformed.
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April 24, 2025
As Trump softens his tone on the trade war, China refuses to budge
Beijing continues to be willing to endure economic hardship to put pressure on the U.S., even as the Trump administration hints at a more co...
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | Let’s have more babies and less eugenics
The pronatalism movement often contains more than a hint of great replacement theory rhetoric.
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April 24, 2025
Analysis | Jimmy Butler’s hard fall could complicate Warriors’ playoff hopes
Butler suffered a pelvic contusion in Game 2 of a first-round series against the Rockets on Wednesday. Golden State’s chances of advancing h...
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | Big Tech’s big disappointment
Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to win over Donald Trump hasn’t helped him with antitrust regulators.
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April 24, 2025
Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | Elon Musk’s lack of math skills is making me nervous
Surprising for a high-tech multibillionaire, he appears to not have a solid grasp on numbers.
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | It’s not hard to see through RFK Jr.’s ‘radical transparency’ pledge
So far, what’s been released is little more than tactics in pursuit of Kennedy’s own agenda.
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April 24, 2025
He murdered their loved ones. Their response: forgiveness
From El Paso to Charleston, the families of marginalized victims extending forgiveness to perpetrators of hate crimes is both powerful and p...
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April 24, 2025
Trump aides look at shrinking at least 6 national monuments for mining, oil
Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development...
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April 24, 2025
Army pilot sold LSD hundreds of times on dark web, prosecutors say
Kyle Riester, a Black Hawk pilot with a security clearance, argued in federal court that his religion gives him the right to sell LSD.
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April 24, 2025
Analysis | It’s not just ‘leftist’ judges. GOP appointees have many sharp words for Trump.
Three times in the last 16 days, Republican-nominated judges have pitched the administration’s actions as brazen, lawless — and even dangero...
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April 24, 2025
Opinion | The five forms of Democratic ‘moderation’
To win elections, the party needs to appeal to independents. The real question is how.
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April 24, 2025
Hegseth defended his Signal leak. Others lost clearances for similar lapses.
Records show that defense contractors lost or were denied security clearances in cases where they had no apparent intention to leak informat...
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April 24, 2025
Elon Musk had the government in his grasp. Then it unraveled.
The billionaire head of the U.S. DOGE Service clashed with Trump Cabinet officials well before he announced he would soon head back to Tesla...
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April 24, 2025
Chesapeake Bay’s oysters make a steady comeback
The Maryland mollusks have survived decades of overharvesting, disease and drought.
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April 24, 2025
The lawyers pushing back on Trump’s campaign to corral big law firms
As President Trump cracked down on law firms, many big firms remained silent or cut deals. Many lawyers and groups across the legal communit...
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April 24, 2025
Trump vs. BMW trade spat has rattled this South Carolina county
Republican leaders here face an awkward dilemma: How do they defend the foreign firms propelling the state’s economic growth against the Ame...
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April 24, 2025
Democrats urge Social Security Administration to keep field offices open
Lawmakers sent a letter to the agency’s acting commissioner asking to keep open field offices and demanding transparency about potential clo...
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April 24, 2025