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“If they asked why, I told them covid is a miserable way to die and I can’t watch them die like that,” said Jason Valentine, a physician in Mobile, Ala.
President Biden said the federal government would not “stand by” and allow governors to prevent local districts from enacting mask mandates.
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Heavy rainfall battered temporary shelters, and flooding and mudslides interfered with aid deliveries and the search for victims trapped in rubble.
The Caldor Fire on Tuesday. (Stuart W. Palley for The Post)
The blaze in El Dorado County went from 6,500 acres on Tuesday to about 53,000 acres as of Wednesday morning.
The news that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) had tested positive prompted well-wishes but also calls from some Democrats to drop his opposition to mask and vaccine mandates.
Kurson’s arrest marks what is likely to be the first instance of a local prosecutor pursuing state-level charges against a person who was given a pass by president Donald Trump for the same alleged conduct that federal authorities had pursued.
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(Monica Rodman, Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post)
The singer was arrested in 2019 and now faces two trials in Chicago and New York. Author Jim DeRogatis explains the cases.
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Safety protocols will be less stringent as the city prepares to bring almost all students back to campus for the first time since March 2020.
The group includes Prince George’s Cpl. Michael Owen, who is separately charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a handcuffed man in the back of a police cruiser.
Friends and family display flowers and signs after the funeral at Temple of Praise church in D.C. (Michael Blackshire/The Post)
The girl and her family were walking home in their Southeast Washington neighborhood when shots were fired. She was killed, her mother was shot and hospitalized, and four other adults, including her father, were wounded.
Federal Reserve leaders said they need to see “substantial further progress” on inflation and job growth before slowing their sprawling bond-buying program.
The ruling refers to Meggan Sommerville as “unquestionably female” based on Illinois law.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has 350,000 Twitter followers. (AP)
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