G-7 summit set to end amid Trump’s mixed messaging on the trade war
There is no indication world leaders have made any progress on tackling such major global challenges as climate change, a slowing world economy or nuclear proliferation.
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Analysis Trump finds himself on his heels and fumbling
The president is used to throwing his weight around at gatherings of world leaders such as the G-7 summit, but that has not been the case in France.
Environmentalists filmed Iran’s vanishing cheetahs. Now they could be executed for spying.
Nine researchers, all Iranian, worked with the government and secured the right permits. But they soon drew suspicion from the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful branch of Iran’s armed forces, and were arrested last year.
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The Past, Rediscovered George Washington owned slaves and ordered Indians killed. Will a mural of that history be hidden?
The San Francisco school board wants to cover the 1936 mural, saying the images promote offensive stereotypes. Historians say the opposite is true.
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Veggie burgers had an idyllic little existence. Then they were swept into a battle over the future of meat.
Many of the country’s 800,000 cattle ranchers have declared war on Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. “First-generation” veggie burgers and similar products are caught in the crossfire.
Campaign 2020Before his turn as a presidential critic on social media, the one-term congressman was calling Barack Obama a Muslim and pushing the birther conspiracy theory.
Critics have chastised Mayor Nan Whaley for turning a tragedy into political capital but she says she sees it as an opportunity to use her bully pulpit for good.
Strikes in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq suggest Israel is widening its efforts to curb Iran’s expanding regional reach.
Virginia Tech’s preliminary head count for its freshman class exceeded projections by more than 1,000. That forced the school to try all kinds of dorm-maximizing tricks and place more than 500 students in a pair of hotels.
As the Trump administration seeks to end time limits on holding migrant children, ICE opened one detention facility to news cameras.
The women said they were aggressively and physically kicked out of a Los Angeles bar after defending themselves against a couple who insulted them for being transgender. “Why didn’t they keep us safe?” one said. “Why did they kick us out like we were trash?”
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For Andrew Luck, football had wrecked his body, stolen his joy
The star NFL quarterback’s bombshell retirement at the age of 29 was a calculated and rational decision, a Post columnist writes.
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