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The Obama administration bypassed the standard public bidding process and agreed to a four-year, $1 billion contract with Corrections Corporation of America to build a massive detention facility for Central American women and children seeking asylum.
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They still want the GOP nominee to win the White House but are frustrated as Donald Trump's unforced errors pile up.
“The North Star has always been ... about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way.”
“Our goal has never been to make the most. It’s always been to make the best.”
“A lot of consumer company CEOs — they’re not really interacting with consumers.”
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The Apple CEO sat down with The Post to discuss his first five years in one of Corporate America’s most glaring spotlights.
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Ever since former Fox host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s co-founder, Fox has been tight-lipped about telling its viewers about the allegations.
The retiring champion became the first athlete, male or female, to win three straight Olympic gold medals in the shortest and most swaggering event in the sport.
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Gabby Douglas competes in Rio. (Reuters)
After finishing seventh in a field of eight in her lone individual event, the uneven bars, the darling of the London Olympics fought back tears when reporters questioned her about a wide range of criticism that has been directed at her.
Rivers in the Baton Rouge area have started to fall, but the National Weather Service warned that there's still danger of fresh floods.
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A police officer was also injured and taken to a hospital after rocks were thrown at the windshield of a squad car, authorities said.
French Muslims bristled at the creation of the Foundation for Islamic Works, a mosque-monitoring body led by a non-Muslim that will also oversee the training of foreign-born imams.
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She was a college conservative, but her remarks at Wellesley’s commencement ceremony transformed her, virtually overnight, into a national symbol of student activism.
When two men claimed to have found a mysterious train filled with Nazi gold last fall in Poland, it all seemed too spectacular to be really true. This week, we may finally find out whether the Nazi gold train has indeed been found.
Researchers tested whether millennial guys are as strong as their dads. Someone's not going to be happy with the answer.
Unaired recordings are not unlike a reporter’s notes, which news organizations have long objected to being used in court.
When confronted with a serious dilemma, some pray for divine guidance and some just go with their gut. But in 2013, tens of thousands of people did something a little crazy. They logged onto a website and flipped a virtual coin.
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Explore the neighborhoods and meet the people of Rio de Janeiro, a city transformed to host its first Olympics, in 360-degree video.
The 2016 election is unlike any before it. The campaign has seen the rise of Donald Trump, the New York provocateur who has seized the Republican Party from its bewildered establishment and seized an angry electorate. What's happening in America? What does it mean to be American? For nearly 35 days, Washington Post journalists crossed the nation looking for answers, chronicling them in this book.