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Negotiating over Trump's peace plan for Gaza
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is now Day 2 of peace talks in the region, with delegations from Israel and Hamas meeting in Egypt in an attempt to end the conflict. The peace dea...
Talking to ChatGPT drains energy. These other things are worse.
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A single Q&A session with a large language model can consume more than a half-liter of fresh water to cool servers. Asking ChatGPT one question re...
The Diddy Trial: Sean Combs’s 4-year sentence
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a two-month trial this summer, Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution – but acquitted ...
The group diving for beer cans and baby doll heads
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a cold muddy pond in Cape Cod, a group of self-proclaimed “old ladies” dives for garbage — and unexpectedly finds joy.This is a story from Th...
Sen. Cory Booker on the Democrats’ risky shutdown bet
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats are making a gamble that voting against a Republican plan to fund the government will be worth the pain of the current shutdown.New Jersey’...
The health care debate behind the government shutdown
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The effects of the government shutdown – which started early Wednesday morning – are already being felt. Some national parks are closed, federal j...
MAHA's fight against food dyes, corn syrup and seed oils
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During confirmation hearings to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that “highly chemical-...
Why Hegseth ordering generals to meet is so unusual
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, the top U.S. generals will meet at Quantico for an audience with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump. Hegseth’...
Meet the man who invites 1,000 people to his house every month
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Weiner is washing dishes. It’s the 21st of the month, which means his D.C. rowhouse is full of people. Some are friends he’s known for decad...
Could a government shutdown benefit Trump?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Potential government shutdowns seem to happen every few months. But this time, the stakes feel especially high. Democrats are getting pressure from th...
Why does everyone want your 5-star rating?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The request for five stars — from airport parking lots, orthopedists or even your local liquor store — seems to be filling our inboxes more and mo...
Trump’s pressure on Pam Bondi and the DOJ
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As soon as he lost the presidential election in 2020, Donald Trump vowed he would go after his perceived political opponents. Now that he’s presiden...
The confusion over Tylenol, pregnancy and autism
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has made the search for finding a “cure” for autism a centerpiece of his public health agenda. This week he shared major de...
Brendan Carr, the FCC muscle behind Trump's anti-media crusade
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the abrupt suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week over comments host Jimmy Kimmel made following the killing of Charlie Kirk, many cre...
How to be a ‘super ager’
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to age gracefully. Social isolation, physical immobility, mental decline — these are all problems that most people struggle with as they...
Jimmy Kimmel, free speech and the crackdown after Charlie Kirk’s death
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week since Charlie Kirk’s death, public officials including Vice President JD Vance and Attorney General Pam Bondi have called for Kirk’s c...
How fan fiction went mainstream
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In fan fiction, nothing is off limits. Writers create stories about popular media like “Twilight,” while others envision romantic relationships be...
Kash Patel’s contentious leadership of the FBI
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
FBI Director Kash Patel had a tough week. He’d already been slated to appear before both the House and Senate judiciary committees – hearings...
The Fed is expected to cut rates. Here's why.
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the coronavirus pandemic, the United States economy has been in flux. While high inflation has slowly cooled off in recent years, consumers are ...
Why the U.S. military is striking boats from Venezuela
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump recently celebrated the destruction of a boat that was allegedly carrying illegal narcotics from Venezuela to the United States...
Deep Reads: L.A. fires burned their block. For each, the disaster was just beginning.
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Eaton Fire tore through the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, part of a storm that killed 19 people. It became one of the most expensive natural dis...
The political divides after political violence
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Kirk’s shooting has left both Republicans and Democrats worried about more political violence. How are prominent leaders in both parties res...
Charlie Kirk’s killing and a new age of political violence
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday at Utah Valley University. As officials seek details on the identity and motive of th...
Meet the people signing up for Trump’s ICE
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Arlington, Texas, thousands waited in line at a career fair in the hopes of getting hired as an ICE officer. Criminal justice reporter Robert Klemk...
Confused about fall vaccines? We have answers.
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since taking over as health and human services secretary earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired members of a key vaccine panel, signaled s...
Trump promised to end DEI. Then, rural teachers lost money.
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Montgomery County is a small, rural area in the middle of North Carolina. The county has struggled financially for years, and its school district depe...
Deep Reads: A songwriter had part of his brain removed. The music flowed.
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The songwriter was unconscious, but his voice filled the operating room. Mike Frazier’s dirty-blond locks had been partially shaved and his head san...
Congress returns to Epstein drama, shutdown threats, 2026 plans
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress has less than a month to figure out how to fund the government. But instead of that pressing business, calls for greater government transpare...
RFK Jr.'s showdown with the Senate
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sparks flew in Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing. Senators – Republicans and Democrats alike – grilled Health and Human Servi...
What happens when fake AI celebrities chat with teens
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Character.AI became one of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence apps by letting tens of millions of users, many in their teens, text and...
They were deported to El Salvador's megaprison. What happened inside?
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March, as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the United States sent more than 250 migrants, the majority being Venezuelan na...
Labubus: China's plushy, soft power tool
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Labubus — small plush toys that look like mischievous monsters — have taken the world by storm. Chinese toymaker and retailer Pop Mart has sold mi...
Trump firings spark CDC chaos, Fed uncertainty
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Monarez says she refused to restrict access to vaccines as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It wasn’t long unti...
Taylor and Travis: It's a love — and business — story
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce announced their engagement Tuesday. Fans mobilized, groups chats lit up, and social media posts of Swifties c...
'These kids were literally praying': The Minneapolis school shooting
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday morning, students from Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were in church for an all-school Mass when a shooter opened fire throu...
Trump makes the government Intel’s largest investor
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late last week, President Donald Trump announced the federal government will now own 10 percent of the chipmaker Intel. The move is just one in a patt...
Inside Trump’s plans to send troops into more American cities
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Defense Department is outlining plans to send troops to Chicago as soon as September. These plans have been in the works for weeks – long b...
Deep Reads: A last lifeline in ‘detention alley’
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Kinnison, 46, worked at his own one-man law firm in the central Louisiana city of Alexandria, putting him within a two-hour drive of the s...
Trump's peacemaking dreams and D.C. pizza party
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Donald Trump claimed he’s ended six — or maybe even seven — wars. But his efforts to bring about peace in Ukraine, three ye...
The Texas-California showdown over redistricting
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With a vote of 88 ayes and 52 nays, the Texas House passed a controversial new election map on Wednesday night. If approved in the state Senate, the r...
The presidential fitness test: An exercise in humiliation?
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of July, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the presidential fitness test. The test was administered in public sc...
Fear, confusion, resistance: One night under Trump's D.C. crackdown
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A team of “Post Reports” producers join Post reporter Olivia George for a Friday night out on U Street NW, a major hub for nightlight in the natio...
Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump stunned the international community when he invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Alaska for a high-stakes summit on the ...
Trump’s D.C. police takeover was planned and the Putin meeting stakes
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump began his second term with a playbook in hand for how he might take control of aspects of D.C.’s government, according to Pos...
Why is Trump so obsessed with the Kennedy Center?
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has long been an important cultural landmark in D.C., bringing a variety of arts programming to the...
In the job market, Gen Z is cooked
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gen Z is having a rough go at finding a job. AI tools are making it easier for companies to downsize. In an effort to cut costs, many workplaces are l...
Netanyahu’s plan to take over Gaza City
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has announced a plan that could eventually allow it to take military control of the entire Gaza Strip. But the announcement has been met with w...
What Trump’s D.C. police takeover means
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is putting Washington, D.C., under federal control and deploying the National Guard to fig...
Trump's battles with data, DC, and world trade
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the past week, President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries – and made moves to suppress signs of a weakening econo...
Trump’s tariffs are finally here. Now what?
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Lynch covers trade for The Post, and he joins us to explain how the tariffs will affect consumer prices and the broader economy. David is t...
What an oncologist wants us to know about everyday chemicals
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with the complex system that produces and interacts with our hormones. Research suggests they ca...
Democrats are ready to fight dirty over Texas
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump is asking for five more Republicans in the House of Representatives, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to give them to him. ...
The government is paying 154,000 people not to work
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This spring, the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service drastically reduced the federal workforce, all in the name of cost-cutting. ...
Deep Reads: Cracks in the dream
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Vitals had settled in Springfield from Haiti during President Donald Trump’s first term and saved money through the Biden administration. Busine...
What Trump wants: More tariffs, less Epstein
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After months of threats, the Trump administration announced this week a slew of heavy tariffs, taxes on imported goods, for major trading partners suc...
Sydney Sweeney's jeans and an American (Eagle) controversy
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, clothing brand American Eagle released a series of short clips and images featuring “Euphoria” and “White Lotus” star Sydney Sweene...
Why more immigrants are being tracked with ankle monitors – and who profits
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ICE is expanding a controversial surveillance program. Today, our reporter shares how he learned about it, and what The Post uncovered about the compa...
Inside the system burning out air traffic control trainees
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Aviation Administration has been trying to solve the air traffic controller shortage for years, and recently, they’ve made a variet...
Gazans are starving. Will aid get in?
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As hunger reaches new levels in Gaza, society is on the brink of collapse. Even doctors are struggling to find the energy to treat patients without en...
Deep Reads: Chasing ghosts with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2023, Junior turned 49. That’s the same age his dad was in 2001, when, before the last turn on the last lap of the Daytona 500, Dale Earn...
Trump keeps trying — and failing — to move on from Epstein
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is President Donald Trump losing control of his MAGA base? Despite his best efforts, congressional Republicans continued to pressure him to release fi...
Mosquitoes are deadly. Should we kill them all?
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on earth. They carry diseases, including malaria, which killed more than half a million people in 2023, according ...
The antisemitism task force carrying out Trump’s anti-DEI agenda
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, conservatives have criticized American universities for being too woke, too liberal, and too focused on DEI – diversity, equity and inclu...
Congress cut public media funding. Now what?
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KYUK is the oldest Native American-owned radio station in the country. It broadcasts morning newscasts in both English and Yup'ik, the local Indigenou...
Was he given up for adoption? Or was he taken?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the weekend, South Korea announced it would end private adoptions in the country. This comes after an investigation found human rights abuses by ...
Does Vogue still matter?
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of its influence, American Vogue set the standard for taste and fashion. Now, after nearly 40 years at its helm, Editor in Chief Anna Wi...
How Trump’s Epstein woes nearly derailed his spending cuts
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress passed a rescissions package early Friday. The package formally withdraws funding for foreign aid, as well as for public television and radio...
What happened at Camp Mystic
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the devastating flooding over the Fourth of July weekend in Texas, Washington Post journalists have been piecing together what went wrong at Cam...
Trump's grudge against the Fed's Jerome Powell
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Firing Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, has long been on President Donald Trump’s wish list. Despite nominating Powell to run the co...
Trump’s “Epstein files” problem
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier, was found dead in his jail cell in 2019 following his arrest on child sex-trafficking charges. The c...
Inside ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's fight to stay out of prison
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in a moment of reckoning. In January 2023, after his election loss, thousands of his supporters atta...
Trump was shot a year ago. Why do we still know so little?
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One year ago in Butler, Pennsylvania, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get onto a nearby roof and take shots at Donald Trump. In the afte...
Trump ran to save himself in 2024. He won back America.
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump left the White House in 2021 with a historically low approval rating. After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, his a...
How AI is changing dating
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence can help you draft better emails, summarize long documents and now it could even be your online dating coach. Dating app compa...
The Supreme Court opens the door to mass federal layoffs
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday the Supreme Court lifted an order by a lower court that prevented the Trump administration from laying off thousands of federal workers. Wh...
How Trump's media war came for CBS
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has spent the past decade waging war on the media. That has included filing frequent lawsuits against media organizations whose coverage ...
Why devastation struck Texas's 'flash flood alley'
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In just three hours, water levels in Central Texas rose over 30 feet, surprising local communities that say they had little time to prepare and no war...
Deep Reads: Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As an American farmer, JJ Ficken, 37, was perpetually subject to weather, labor, loans, overhead, markets, health, politics. None of it was predictabl...
Understanding your gut with 'Try This'
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gut microbiome acts as a key player in our overall health; but what exactly is it, and how does it work?In the first class in our course on the gu...
How Trump got his One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump is poised to sign the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, after the House and Senate passed the bill in two all-night sessions...
The Diddy trial: How the jury reached its verdict
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After weeks of deliberation, a jury has found Sean “Diddy” Combs not guilty on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges. While this spares Combs f...
Inside RFK Jr.'s push to change vaccines in America
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) gathers to discuss vaccinations and make recommendations to the Centers for Diseas...
Who wins and loses with Trump's tax bill?
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate is voting on President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, which includes tax cuts for a broad swath of Americans. But who stands to be...
The Afghans at risk of deportation
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the administration’s termination of temporary protected status, or TPS, for Afghans, ex...
The Diddy trial: How Sean Combs's lawyers mounted a defense
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After six weeks of intense testimony and cross-examination, the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs is coming to a close. This week, both the prosecution ...
Mamdani's win and the future of Trump's war powers, tax bill
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mamdani’s primary win in New York excited progressives as the Democratic Party tries to find its footing after its 2024 losses. Host Colby Itkowitz ...
Can’t stop scrolling on Zillow? You’re not alone.
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many people who visit Zillow aren’t even buying houses — they’re just looking, sharing and daydreaming about their ideal home. The site has such...
Netanyahu’s long game in Iran
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today: a view of the war from Israel. Elahe Izadi sits down with Jerusalem Bureau Chief Gerry Shih to discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...
Trump’s gamble in Iran
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. His proxies insisted this was a simple one-and-done miss...
How to cope with grief and find wonder as Earth's climate changes
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Marvel watches the world end all the time. She’s a physicist who works with climate models, so it’s her job to run experiments in computer si...
The Diddy trial: Race, consent, and why the trial matters
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean “Diddy” Combs is a master imagemaker and influencer who rose to the top of multiple industries. But now he is on trial facing federal charges...
Listen to ‘The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop’
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every 19th of October, Grenadians mark a somber anniversary: the 1983 execution of the country’s former prime minister and revolutionary leader, Mau...
Will the U.S. bomb Iran?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Six days into the exchange of blows between Israel and Iran, President Donald Trump is weighing a direct attack on Iran. The decision would have ...
A major turning point in the Israel-Iran conflict
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel launched attacks on Iran last week. Iran quickly retaliated. The fighting has left many feeling both fearful and hopeful. Now, it is unclear wh...
A manhunt and search for a motive in Minnesota
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last night, police arrested Vance Boelter, the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses. One couple died. The ot...
The Diddy trial: “Jane,” the government’s sleeper witness
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Until the past week, not much was known about “Jane,” one of the alleged victims at the center of the government’s case against Sean Combs. Jane...
Gov. Josh Shapiro on antisemitism and Trump's 'sanctimonious B.S.'
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) faced a violent attack on his home in April. A man with a history of mental illness, 38-year-old Cody Balmer, ...
He's dying of cancer. They chose to start their family.
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2000, the rate of new cancer diagnoses for people ages 15 to 49 has climbed by 10 percent. This year, more than 200,000 people in that age group...
Serving ‘dead time’
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Washington’s juvenile justice agency appeared to finally be reformed. After decades of court monitoring, a judge declared in late 2020 that the long...
How Trump tried to build a lawsuit-proof travel ban
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, President Donald Trump restricted the entry of travelers to the United States from more than a dozen countries, resurrecting and expanding ...