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Harry Brighouse, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, teaches an in-person class on Nov. 17. (Lauren Justice for The Post)
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Ron Filipkowski, who served on a state judicial panel, wrote in a pointed resignation letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office that he considered the search warrant executed on Rebekah Jones’s house “unconscionable.”
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Polls have faced strident criticism after President Trump outperformed pre-election surveys nationally and in key states.
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Bishops have called his election “difficult.” Some priests have preached that he’s not Catholic. Joe Biden, with his pocket rosary and weekly Mass, will change American Catholicism. But how?
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Category 5 Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida in 2018. (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
For the past decade, the National Weather Service has been plagued by failures in disseminating information that is aimed at protecting lives and saving property. In some cases, its websites have gone down during severe weather events, unable to handle the demand.
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Archie Djabatey bought this building in Northeast Washington and rents to Section 8 tenants. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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Hundreds of games have been postponed or canceled, leading top figures such as Duke Coach Mike Kryzyzewski to question whether the season should be halted for now.
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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.
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