Governments are scrambling to close their borders to travelers from southern Africa, where a potentially dangerous new variant was first found.
School nutrition directors are battling a lack of cafeteria workers, supply trucks arriving half full and equipment upgrades that do not show up.
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Sunday’s presidential election reflects an intense political fight in a country U.S. prosecutors call a “narco-state.”
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The tribes are getting help from the environmental nonprofit Conservation Fund to buy back part of their homelands. The lands will be held under conservation easements with the state so they can’t be developed into housing.
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Karen K. Jankowski, at home in Peachtree City, Ga., shows a photo of herself from the Vietnam War, when she was one of the “Donut Dollies” who visited troops. (Michael A. Schwarz for The Post)
An Army veteran finally got his wish to say thank you to the young women who visited the troops.
“Gun owners are not going to tolerate being ignored,” warns one gun-rights figure, but others in Virginia signaled they would give the Republican governor-elect space to first tackle less controversial issues.
Homeowners neighboring this open green space in Northwest Washington are angry with plans by a private school in another part of town to build a sports complex here. (Bill O'Leary/The Post)
Residents push back on Maret’s proposed project, as the school looks toward acquiring greener pastures for its athletics.
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After a nutty weekend, apparently six teams remain viable for the College Football Playoff.
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Washington’s homegrown program, broadcast on WOOK-TV, broke new ground in the 1960s. It’s the focus of a work — with book and lyrics by Jiiko Ozimba and music by Tony Berry and Peter Chatmon — streaming on Vimeo pay-per-view.
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At any mention of something he could help with or improve on, this husband reacts like he's being told "he is the worst person in the world.”
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Jan van Eyck's “Saint Francis of Assisi” painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a miniature masterpiece of visionary thinking.
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