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NEWS – The Washington Post wins 3 Pulitzers. abortion coverage; for feature writing in a post-pandemic America; and and for the Post book, “His Name is George Floyd.”
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The celebrates three Pulitzers, with winners Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels (left of pillar), Eli Saslow (checked shirt) and Caroline Kitchener (brown dress), applauded by Executive Editor Sally Buzbee.
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Congratulations to the ’s amazing for her extraordinary coverage of abortion.
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One man tried to help a girl who was shot outside H&M.
“I felt for a pulse,” he recalled. “There was none. I pulled her head back. There was no face.”
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An Arizona official who was targeted by election deniers is now in therapy for PTSD.
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Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork. wapo.st/3LzCGpM
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once interviewed a luxury goods authenticator who admitted it's nearly impossible to spot fakes now. as "super fakes" have become nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, i think "authenticity" is more nakedly about status anxiety than actual quality
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Charges from DeSantis’s election police have stumbled in court. But the consequences are felt: One man who was arrested lost his job and health insurance. His adult child has decided not to vote. Via
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My analysis found that states with stand-your-ground laws had a 55 percent higher homicide-by-firearm rate in the past two years than the states that didn’t have these laws
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Guinea, one of the poorest countries on Earth, has become a crucial player in the world’s green-energy transition.
But people there aren't benefiting from that "gold rush." Quite the opposite, reports:
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"She hated to think about more children dying and the thousands of others, like her, who had lost their friends and would never understand why."
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"Why are people so quick to pull the trigger on strangers?"
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Two years ago I set out to write a book about post-Trump Washington. I wanted to know how it worked and didn’t, and what characters were trying to take advantage of the new normal.
Here is the first excerpt, the wild tale of Sean McElwee, The Gambler.
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"If a child sold for sex is always a victim, what happens when that child is accused of selling someone else?"
Gripping work, as always, by :
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Reports of similar hate propaganda are surging to record-highs nationwide, and the most authorities can usually do is issue a littering citation.
“That s--- is going to create the next mass shooter,” said. “And we’re supposed to do nothing?”
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The men had stood across the street during the Daytona 500, raising their arms in Sieg Heil salutes.
Then they scattered hundreds of fliers promoting a fringe conspiracy theory referenced in the online rants of mass shooters.
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Sheriff Chitwood’s battle with the neo-Nazis began when a group of men laser-projected “Hitler was right” on the Daytona International Speedway.
Things got personal — and genuinely scary — when I rode along with him in Volusia County, Florida:
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Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
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A powerful compilation of Evan's coverage of wartime Russia, by the
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"The Washington Post will not pay for Twitter Blue service as an institution or on behalf of our journalists," a spokesperson says. "It's evident that verified checkmarks no longer represent authority and expertise."
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We've dropped the paywall on this important story about intensifying rhetoric against a marginalized community. I will not be intimidated for reporting this reality.
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Conservatives are exploiting the Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric.
A school shooting researcher told me, “This is not a good-faith effort at trying to address school shootings and mass shootings. This is a cynical, bigoted attack.” wapo.st/3M3AfNX
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being a journalist is weird bc you call a source back just to be like "wanted to confirm – was your porch made out of wood?"
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The inventor of the AR-15 had no interest in civilians using the gun and would have been horrified to know it has become a tool of carnage in schools, according to a gunmaker who knew him.
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The parents of two children who died by AR-15 gunfire consented to having The Post visually reconstruct what the bullets did to their bodies.
A spokesman for the family of Peter Wang, a Parkland victim, said the "parents want people to know the truth"
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What could the operators do about the n-word carved onto a car? A spray-painted swastika? Antisemitic fliers?
As hate crimes + speech surges, Oregon's hotline is trying to help (without necessarily involving the police):
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You think all the Jimmy Carter stories have been told. But once he became Georgia's governor, did "Grits" throw some subtle weight around on behalf of his childhood friend? Read this engaging piece – I'm gifting it – and judge for yourself
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3. Then I tracked down A.D.'s son and niece, who live less than a mile from where Carter now resides. They had quite the story to tell:
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2. A.D. was a beloved character in the stories Carter told in his memoirs, but few people knew much about his life outside Carter's orbit.
Then I met a local historian who asked me: Did you know Carter got A.D. out of a prison for murder?
Turns out, almost no one did.
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1. When I visited Jimmy Carter’s hometown recently, I wondered: What ever happened to A.D. Davis, the former president's childhood best friend?
The boy who, because he was Black, was not allowed to sit at the dinner table in Jim Crow-era Georgia with Carter’s family?
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"My journey started on a boat. I ended up in a refugee camp ... They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream!" - Ke Huy Quan #Oscars
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Six months ago, a 17-year-old girl living in Delhi's crowded Nawada neighbourhood decided to block her 20-year-old neighbour on social media.
“He was trying to be too friendly. I did not approve of his advances. So I blocked him.”
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“It’s just hard sitting and waiting,” Jimmy Carter's niece said said, tears streaking her cheeks. “You just want it to be peaceful.”
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Allow me to introduce you to Robin Graham.
She rises before dawn each morning with a single goal: give children a safe path to the classroom.
She works in one of the most treacherous places in the country to be a pedestrian.
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"She’s been an adult for only nine months, but she is a veteran of school shootings."
Read on a young woman forced into a grim, uniquely American club:
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Super excited for this new project and working with to support critical reporting on Muslim arts and culture in the United States!
Have proposals that align? Reach out!
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In earthquake-battered Turkey, help poured in. But no one came to devastated parts of Syria, reports:
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