The apparent Russian focus on the cables, which provide Internet and other communications connections to North America and Europe, could give the Kremlin the power to sever or tap into vital data lines, senior military officials said. NATO has responded with plans to reestablish a command post, shuttered after the Cold War, to help secure the North Atlantic.
Leaders fell short of a promise to enact a permanent solution by the end of the year for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. They will face even more pressure in January.
Analysis
The legislation will cause a huge range of changes to how Americans — and American businesses — pay their taxes. Tax advisers explain what you should expect to see over the next few years.
Tom Coomer works five days a week at Walmart in Wagoner, Okla. (Nick Oxford for The Post)
Ruby Oakley works five days a week as a crossing guard for a school in Tulsa. (Nick Oxford for The Post)
Charles Glover stocks the cigarette cabinet at a Dollar General in Catoosa, Okla. (Nick Oxford for The Post)
Leon Ray stands amid items that he restores and recycles in Claremore, Okla. (Nick Oxford for The Post)
The first full generation to retire since employers largely did away with the benefit offers a sobering preview of a labor force more and more dependent on their own savings. Many former workers at a now-closed McDonnell-Douglas plant in Oklahoma see that actual retirement is elusive, even as they reach beyond age 70.
In Trump’s version of the coins, used by presidents for decades, the presidential seal and the national motto, “E pluribus unum,” are gone. But his name appears four times and his official campaign slogan appears twice, a move some ethics experts found questionable because the coins are often given to members of the military as personal mementos.
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Appeals court upholds block of Trump’s travel ban but delays ruling until Supreme Court can weigh in
The 9th Circuit panel said it would allow the government to enforce the measure on those without any bona fide U.S. ties, such as family here.
President Trump called Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) “a brilliant young leader, Yale and then Harvard Law, who would make a GREAT Governor of Florida.” It appears the tweet was prompted by a Fox News segment playing on televisions on Air Force One during Trump’s flight to Florida en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The movement of providing experiences rather than presents has picked up steam in recent years, as part of a broader push away from consumerism.
What causes some people to harass and not others? A psychologist at Illinois State University spent decades developing a scale that strives to answer that question. Take a shortened version of the test here.
An “accidental expert” on the nation’s leaders, Michael Madden follows some 300 people at the top of the regime. He has become influential in this small field — and some North Koreans have noticed.
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Dozens of officers forced out of the New Orleans Police for misconduct over the past decade were hired by other departments, according to a Post analysis. The ease with which they found work at new departments underscores the broader challenge that law enforcement faces to rid itself of “bad apples.”
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Analysis “You are poor. He’s fighting for me,” the comedian says in a new Netflix special.
Pet leasing is a fairly new but very real industry, but critics call it a predatory practice that pushes expensive puppies on people who are essentially renting an animal for months — and paying far more than they might have realized.
