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Social Security, Medicare brawl awaits Washington, even if not this year

President Biden and Republicans appeared to agree to leave the entitlement programs alone — in a break from past budget fights.

By Jeff Stein

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Biden names Republicans seeking changes to Medicare, Social Security

By Mariana Alfaro and Timothy Bella

Administration weighs border deal that would deport non-Mexicans to Mexico

By Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti and Kevin Sieff1 hour ago

As foreign rescuers arrive, Turkish earthquake survivors scramble for aid

Monday’s powerful earthquake and its aftershocks have leveled towns and cities across Turkey and Syria, compounding existing humanitarian crises and creating new ones.

By Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas

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The search for the ultimate college town, and more

Some places are way more gown than town. In other places, the deer and the antelope may play, but bears and beavers are mentioned more often.

By Andrew Van Dam

Listen: A ballooning interest in China’s spy program

Track covid: Daily U.S. hospitalizations fell 7% in the past week

Climate Coach: Comparing green funeral options, from composting to natural burial to water cremation

Eating Lab: It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it

Twitter bent rules to allow Trump’s policy-breaking tweet, whistleblower testifies

By Cat Zakrzewski and Cristiano Lima

Twitter faces widespread outage as users told they’re over tweet limit

By Faiz Siddiqui

Disney to cut 7,000 jobs as revenue rises and streaming subscriptions fall

By Julian Mark16 minutes ago

More states are paying to send children to private and religious schools

The school-choice movement, riding a wave of parental rights campaigns, is resurgent.

By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson

A trailblazer who brought a Black woman’s voice to comics

Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first African American woman with a mainstream syndicated comic strip, has a new book reflecting on her achievement, “Where I’m Coming From: Selected Strips, 1991-2005.”

By Michael Cavna