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Stock trades early in the pandemic brought Justice Department scrutiny of potential insider trading by at least five senators, including Georgia Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
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Tech Review
The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful.
The unmanned rocket was supposed to fly to an altitude of nearly eight miles, then fall back through the atmosphere in a bellyflop position before reorienting itself, reigniting its engine and touching down softly. It appeared to complete all of those milestones, except for the landing.
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The legislation has divided socially liberal but predominantly Roman Catholic Argentina.
Many residents and citizens are unable to return because of the island continent’s extreme limits on mandatory quarantine slots.
North Korean defectors prepare to release balloons carrying leaflets and a banner condemning Kim Jong Un during a rally in the border city of Paju, South Korea, on April 29, 2016. (AP)
Today’s WorldViewAnalysis
World leaders have their part to play in reassuring vaccine skeptics, but they could end up skipping the line.
The effort to stymie a $23 billion sale of fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates failed on a procedural motion, likely making Abu Dhabi the first Arab nation to get advanced F-35s.
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Maskless residents walk past storefronts in Mitchell, S.D., on Nov. 22. (KC McGinnis for The Post)
A city council member in Mitchell, S.D., tried to introduce a mask mandate in October and was ridiculed. Since then, the town has been inundated with the coronavirus and the council is trying again.
Viral testing, contact tracing, quarantine housing and creative public health campaigns have become the go-to tools of higher education.
For weeks, health officials warned that a record surge in infections would be followed by rising hospitalizations and deaths. Their fears materialized in late November, as rampant community spread and Thanksgiving travel gave way to a return of the virus to the region’s nursing homes and a steady uptick in fatalities not seen since the spring.
Archie Djabatey bought this building in Northeast Washington and rents to Section 8 tenants. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Many small landlords, an important source of affordable housing in the District, don't have enough reserves to survive a prolonged drop in rental income.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky speaks during a 2018 event in San Francisco. (Eric Risberg/AP)
Airbnb's anticipated IPO comes on the heels of a successful debut from food delivery service DoorDash.
Perspective
The electric car company’s impending inclusion in the S&P 500 is doing wonders for its share price. It could also influence your investment portfolio.
The company said it will test cars without a driver in the Sunset District, a neighborhood on the western edge of the city.
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The Buckeyes merited inclusion in the title game, the Big Ten said, regardless of whether they had lost to Michigan in a contest that was canceled because of the pandemic.
The 19-year-old is one of a handful of players in the running for the Wizards’ lone open starting spot. He’s not fretting about the competition.
James Harden has become a prisoner of his own greatness. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
Perspective
James Harden is addicted to getting away with whatever he can, whether it is a traveling violation or, now, doing everything in his power to compel the Houston Rockets to carry out his trade request.
Its 30 big league franchises will extend invitations to four farm teams apiece — shifting affiliations among franchises, league and levels, and leaving nearly a dozen teams in the cold.
See where every team stands in the NFL playoff picture entering Week 14.
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Santa Claus wears a face shield and sits behind a clear protective barrier at the holiday photo station at the Bass Pro Shops store in Bridgeport, Conn. (Amy Lombard for The Post)
With coronavirus cases and deaths persisting at jaw-dropping levels, children who want to convey their Christmas wishes directly, but don’t want to kill Santa or be infected by him, will have to do so through a plexiglass divider, an inflatable plastic bubble or a computer screen.
He doesn’t like being around her friends when they’re high. Now the state is legalizing pot.
Reader’s ex-husband, who dated before moving out, now says he’s lonely.
Respect the recipients and the original sender as you are contemplating.
An archival photo of MOVE members from the film “40 Years a Prisoner.” (HBO)
Movie review
"40 Years a Prisoner" proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Perspective
Lifetime’s “The Christmas Setup” and Hallmark’s “The Christmas House” show why inclusiveness is a real gift.
It may seem strange to see a fried chicken mascot in a campy Lifetime romance, but KFC has done this kind of thing before.
Book Review
Glass’s protagonist, like the author, is a nurse, veering between the emotional highs and enervating lows of emergency medicine.
Movie Review
The actress portrays a self-absorbed novelist in this slightly off-center literary yarn.