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These ‘influencer’ dietitians promote candy for kids, sugar and diet soda. They were paid by the food industry.

Registered dietitians are being paid by to post videos to help sell products and deliver industry-friendly messages.

By Anahad O’Connor, Caitlin Gilbert and Sasha Chavkin

Style

This art-school, cool-kid brand is pulling our strings

By Maura Judkis

Rock Hall of Fame ousts Rolling Stone co-founder after inflammatory remarks

By Lyric Li

UAW leaders and automakers return to the bargaining table

By Jeanne Whalen and Lauren Kaori Gurley

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During the pandemic, I lost the ability to read

Bookish is my blood type. The guilt I felt, being unable to read other people’s work, was immense.

Opinion by Katherine May

Mitt Romney and me

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

It’s McCarthy’s mess. Biden needs to make him own it.

Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.

George W. Bush: Michael Gerson’s words make the case for saving PEPFAR

Opinion by George W. Bush

Three columnists talk about why Deion Sanders isn’t just a football story

Opinion by Perry Bacon Jr., Theodore R. Johnson and Eugene Robinson

Cartoon: Categorically speaking

Opinion by Michael de Adder

The government needs some curbs on its ties with social media

Opinion by the Editorial Board

The Iranian regime keeps cracking down. Iranian women keep pushing back.

Opinion by Masih Alinejad

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The absolute craziest moments from a crazy Colorado-Colorado State game

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College football winners and losers: Georgia keeps calm and carries on

By Patrick Stevens

Analysis

NFL Primer: Chiefs, Bengals and Bills arrive at early moments of truth

By Mark Maske

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She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.

Her dogged efforts lead to a new scientific discovery that may help many others with chronically fatiguing illnesses, including long covid.

By Brian Vastag

A Maui family whose home burned down struggles to rebuild their lives

Hundreds of families like the Cascos are displaced and trying to chart a new trajectory for their lives following the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history.

By Anumita Kaur

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6 coffee cake recipes to savor and share

Whether you drink them with coffee or not, these coffee cakes are worthy of slowing down to savor.

By Becky Krystal

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The scorched-earth activist trying to take down Hunter Biden

Garrett Ziegler, an often-provocative former Trump White House staffer, seeks to influence House investigations and the public discussion

Opinion

Mitt Romney and me

Rock Hall of Fame ousts Rolling Stone co-founder after inflammatory remarks

She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.

The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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How to dress for the end of the world

Mud and heat — and a flourish of ballet, peplum and dread — at New York Fashion Week.

By Maura Judkis

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse by four women

By Samantha Chery

Ashton Kutcher resigns from children’s charity over support for Masterson

By Adela Suliman and Herb Scribner

Speaker McCarthy steps into the breach as his conference toils and shutdown looms

The House Speaker has less than two weeks to unite Republican lawmakers around a plan to keep the government open.

By Paul Kane and Marianna Sotomayor

Term limits would upend Congress as we know it

By Nick Mourtoupalas, Derek Hawkins and Hannah Dormido

Tensions flare as House Judiciary threaten to have Capitol Police remove FBI lawyer

By Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett

Boebert apologizes for vaping and disrupting ‘Beetlejuice’ musical

By Andrew Jeong

Trump keeps distance from impeachment inquiry while assailing Biden

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey

Armed man arrested at RFK Jr. event in Los Angeles

By Sarah Ellison

Manchin weighs running for Senate or president as an independent

By Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer

Bashing covid boosters, DeSantis contrasts with Trump and worries health experts

By Hannah Knowles and Fenit Nirappil

Carolyn Hax: Is it bad for a kid in the long run when Mom and Dad don’t speak?

September 17

Miss Manners: Guests brought their own drinks, just for them, to dinner

September 16

Ask Amy: We’re uncomfortable around our neighbor who won’t stop hugging

September 17

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Where have all the public restrooms gone? And other stories readers loved this week.

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Dining chat: ‘Waiter, there’s a wasp in my wine,’ and other rants from readers

Our 12 best health tips from a year of Well+Being

By Tara Parker-Pope

She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.

By Brian Vastag

Consistent body weight tied to longevity in women

By Erin Blakemore

Voices

Sepsis nearly killed me. This is what it was like.

By Jackie Duda

Advice

‘Do you still love me?’ The challenges of relationship anxiety.

By La Keita D. Carter

The Home You Own

(Jessica Bui)

4 ways to make your entryway more functional

By Annie Midori Atherton

5 ways to use dish soap to clean your home

By Jennifer Barger

Add a little mystery to your home with a secret room

By Kristin Luna

How to use window coverings to boost your home’s energy efficiency

By Bridget Reed Morawski

Advice

Yes, you can paint vinyl windows. That doesn’t mean you should.

By Jeanne Huber

BOOK WORLDNews, reviews and big ideas for all things fiction and nonfiction

(Knopf; Yale University Press; Hogarth; W.W. Norton; Other; Pantheon; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Knopf)

All the books longlisted for the National Book Awards this year

By Sophia Nguyen

Review

The shocking scars of the Civil War live on in ‘Night Watch’

By Wendy Smith

Lucy Score’s first book sold 35 copies. Now she has an instant bestseller.

By Stephanie Merry

Review

How to make education a pathway to freedom again

By David Perry

Review

Anne Enright’s novel ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is wondrous

By Elena Lappin

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

Odds that 2023 will be Earth’s hottest year have doubled, NOAA reports

By Scott Dance

What this month’s deadly floods tell us about our global climate future

By Scott Dance, Marina Dias and Theodora Yu

How hurricanes keep Earth’s energy in balance

By Kasha Patel

Are Tom’s of Maine and Colgate toothpaste tubes really recyclable?

By Allyson Chiu

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Perspective

The quest to make the outdoors more diverse and inclusive

By Dhruti Shah

Goodbye summer: Fall weather has taken control in the D.C. area

By Ian Livingston

The 5 hurricane categories, explained

By Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg and Julie Vitkovskaya

This is Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, researchers say

By Dan Stillman

Lee live briefing: Lee makes landfall in Nova Scotia with sustained winds of 70 mph

By A. Camden Walker, Justine McDaniel and Matthew Cappucci

The abortion bot will see you now

By Tatum Hunter

Your iPhone 15 could be free. It might still be a bad deal.

By Shira Ovide

Bizarre AI-generated products are in stores. Here’s how to avoid them.

By Heather Kelly

Technology

Under Musk, Twitter is handing over more data to investigators

By Max Hoppenstedt

Judge rejects Google claim that DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter is improperly biased

By Salvador Rizzo and Eva Dou

TikTok and U.S. rekindle negotiations, boosting app’s hopes for survival

By Drew Harwell

WORLD

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Villagers survived Morocco’s earthquake but lost nearly everything else

By Claire Parker and Sima Diab

Live briefing: war in ukraine

Kim Jong Un receives musical sendoff in Russia; Zelensky expected in Washington

By Bryan Pietsch and Jennifer Hassan

Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky under pressure in criminal cases

By David L. Stern

A Libyan family recounts how they survived the deadly floods

By Louisa Loveluck

Visual Story

Centuries-old Kyiv cathedral and monastery on U.N. danger list

By Ellen Francis and Jintak Han

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Healing through surfing on Maui

By Arjun Singh

First, the loss of a baby, then the loss of legal rights

By Ian Shapira

Perspective

An ode to the newspaper sports section, as it gasps for air

By Barry Svrluga

National

Texas attorney general acquitted in historic impeachment trial

By Eva Ruth Moravec and Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Outflanked by liberals, Oregon conservatives aim to become part of Idaho

By Scott Wilson

Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books

By Hannah Natanson

It was a good summer for U.S. airlines. This fall might be another story.

By Lori Aratani

A migrant crisis is straining New York, dividing Democrats. Here’s why.

By Joanna Slater

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTs

Perspective

The Mona Lisa of modern art arrives in America for the first time

By Sebastian Smee

How ‘Buy U a Drank’ made T-Pain no money, according to the rapper

By Amber Ferguson

Review

In the galleries: Innovative views of Ireland’s troubled history

By Mark Jenkins

Review

In a new D.C. play, Lincoln’s head goes missing. Cue the laugh track.

By Peter Marks

D.C., MD. & VA.

College football winners and losers: Georgia keeps calm and carries on

By Patrick Stevens

The absolute craziest moments from a crazy Colorado-Colorado State game

By Cindy Boren20 minutes ago

Analysis

NFL Primer: Chiefs, Bengals and Bills arrive at early moments of truth

By Mark Maske

Perspective

Taulia Tagovailoa’s big decision is paying off for Maryland

By Candace Buckner

With Mel Tucker suspended, Michigan State is crushed by No. 8 Washington

By Chuck Culpepper

Food

Chicken With Peppers

Chicken Artichoke Melts

Pescado en Escabeche

Apple Cider Milk Tea

A golden era of airline status is ending

By Chris Dong

Is Frontier’s all-you-can-fly pass a good deal? We tried it.

By Andrea Sachs

Perspective

In praise of the airport shower

By Jake Emen

iPhone chargers are changing. Don’t expect your hotel to keep up.