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The report details how humans have altered the environment at an “unprecedented” pace and cautions that the world risks increasingly catastrophic effects in the absence of rapid greenhouse gas reductions.
Mutations such as the delta variant ramp up transmissibility and raise new challenges for ending the pandemic.
Brittany Commisso, identified as “Executive Assistant #1” in a report last week, said during a television interview that the New York governor was seeking “personal sexual satisfaction.”
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Tammy Townsend believes her son, Willie Andrew Jones Jr., was lynched in Scott County, Miss., in 2018. (Camille Lenain for The Post)
A 21-year-old Black man was found hanging from a tree in Scott County, Miss., in 2018. Authorities ruled it a suicide, but his family says he was lynched.
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The former president, who entered his seventh decade with a party on Saturday, is personally content, politically worried but unfailingly optimistic, friends say.
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Despite a handful of simmering political disagreements, the chamber’s bipartisan coalition continued to hold strong around the public-works package, which invests significant new sums to improve the nation’s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and internet connections
The incident is the latest in a string of high-profile cases that have roiled the Chinese public and boosted a fledgling #MeToo movement.
The Indian Ocean island nation has won international court rulings backing its claim to Diego Garcia and other atolls, but the U.S. and the U.K. have brushed them aside.
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(Amber Ferguson, Derek Knowles/The Washington Post)
Jane Morgan is the sole caregiver to her boyfriend, Conner Slevin, who was paralyzed last year. If they marry, her salary for caregiving will get reduced.
Jeff Jackson, a Democratic Senate candidate in North Carolina, said coronavirus now eclipses other subjects on the campaign trail. (Allison Lee Isley for The Post)
The rise of the delta variant throws a new twist into the midterm elections. But it’s not yet clear who will get the blame.
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The Senate voted 68-29 to end debate on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, which is on track to pass as soon as later today.
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Bartender Denis Angelov pours drinks at Tin Pan Alley restaurant in Provincetown, Mass., in April. (AP)
An old policy debate — whether to repeal an ’80s ban on happy hours that was put in place to curb drunken driving — is heating up amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Wages have been rising rapidly as the economy reopens and businesses struggle to hire enough workers. Some of the biggest gains have gone to workers in some of the lowest-paying industries.
The industry is looking to influence political debates that could alter its future.
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