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Cheney considering a White House run after drubbing in Wyoming primary

By Paul Kane and Hannah Knowles

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Takeaways: Cheney lost big, while Murkowski and Palin saw their careers hang in the balance

By Aaron Blake

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Liz Cheney for president? Why it could actually matter.

By Aaron Blake

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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘no’

The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking garage company and a former host at far-right One America News.

By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig, Jacqueline Alemany and Rosalind S. Helderman

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Doyle, center, produces a podcast with sister Amanda Doyle, right, and wife, Abby Wambach. (Allison Schott)

Glennon Doyle chose honesty and hit the eject button on her life. Now fans are following her lead.

The Christian parenting writer turned feminist icon bares even more of herself on her podcast — inspiring listeners to do the same.

By Ellen McCarthy

Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’

By Hannah Natanson and Lori Rozsa

Giuliani appears before Georgia grand jury in probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election

By Matthew Brown and Tom Hamburger

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Hundreds of kids see parents shot to death. This is what it does to them.

For the often-overlooked victims present when their moms and dads are gunned down, the trauma is unique and immense. Three Chicago cases reveal the depths of sadness, anger, guilt and dread that child witnesses endure.

By John Woodrow Cox

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Monkeypox

Inside America’s rapidly unfolding monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse

Early mistakes by the Biden administration left hundreds of thousands of gay men facing the threat of an agonizing illness and the potential for broader circulation of monkeypox.

By Dan Diamond, Fenit Nirappil and Lena H. Sun

CDC vows changes after facing criticism for coronavirus, monkeypox responses

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How effective is the vaccine, and who should be taking it?

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WAR IN UKRAINE

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Zelensky says his response to warnings of Russia’s invasion was, ‘We will fight them’

During an hour-long, wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post at the presidential office in Kyiv, Zelensky discussed U.S. warnings about Russia preparing to launch a full-scale invasion — and if he believed them.

By Isabelle Khurshudyan

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They played baseball together as kids. Now they’re on the same MLB team.

Tony Douglas coached Cleveland Guardians teammates Xzavion Curry and Will Benson for six years on the Sandtown Red Sox.

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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’

The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking garage company and a former host at far-right One America News.

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