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The scrutiny, distrust and hostility in one Ohio city is emblematic of a fissure over public schooling that has cracked America into pieces since the start of the pandemic.

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Who’s responsible when ChatGPT goes off the rails? Congress should say.

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In Hong Kong, face masks are finally optional — but distrust remains

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My ‘Spring’ quilt is a patchwork of history, memory and hope

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Judge Howell delivers another blow to Trump and his lawyer

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

What a new 2nd Amendment could look like

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The moral and legal case for sending Russia’s frozen $300 billion to Ukraine

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The right wing’s ‘woke’ obsession could come back to haunt it

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First, Biden was FDR. Now he’s Clinton. (Spoiler alert: He’s neither.)

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Global markets mixed as investors weigh Credit Suisse takeover

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Family raises money to exhume body of S.C. teen found near Murdaugh home

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Trump looms (again) over House GOP retreat

For House Republicans, a Trump indictment may be the perfect political development to excite the party’s base.

By Leigh Ann Caldwell, Theodoric Meyer and Tobi Raji

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AI isn’t yet going to take your job — but you may have to work with it

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Filibuster over transgender bill jams Nebraska legislature for weeks

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D.C. leaders begin lobbying Congress against effort to block policing bill

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Enduring freezing weather, D.C. cherry blossoms are one stage from peak

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School voucher program in jeopardy as Maryland lawmakers disagree on spending

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