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China clamps down on ‘zero covid’ protests, loosens some pandemic measures

Beijing relaxed some zero covid measures while stepping up censorship and making arrests amid more small protests.

By Lyric Li26 minutes ago

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How blank sheets of paper became a protest symbol in China

By Sammy Westfall

Nearly 9 in 10 covid deaths are in people 65 or older

By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Dan Keating

America’s homicide rate has surged. In 9 cities, loved ones tell the story of lives lost.

The focus on mass shootings obscures the totality of the American ailment: people killed on city streets and inside their homes.

By Washington Post Staff

She was kidnapped as a baby in 1971. Her family just found her alive.

Melissa Highsmith reunited with her parents for the first time in five decades thanks to a home DNA test, a marriage certificate and an amateur genealogist.

By Marisa Iati

Listen: What the ‘zero covid’ protests mean for the future of China’s leadership

Track covid: Daily U.S. hospitalizations rose 5% in the past week

Eating Lab: Eating fiber alters the microbiome. It may boost cancer treatment, too.

Cook: This speedy curried squash soup starts with canned pumpkin

Nick Fuentes at a 2020 rally in Lansing, Mich. (AP)

Pence, other Republicans issue rare rebuke of Trump over dinner with Fuentes and Ye

Mike Pence’s comments were also one of the clearest instances of the former vice president trying to set himself apart from Donald Trump, amid the expectation that Pence will challenge Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.

By Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro and Liz Goodwin

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Department of DataAnalysis

Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating the suburbs

Compared with the hundreds of thousands of normal intersections peppering the American landscape, roundabouts are rare beasts. But unlike the drivers they frequently confuse and bedevil, roundabouts are coming on fast.

By Andrew Van Dam

World Cup

On eve of World Cup match, USMNT addresses social media storm it didn’t create

Coach Gregg Berhalter and team captain Tyler Adams fielded questions about the U.S. Soccer Federation removing a symbol in the middle of the Iranian flag associated with Tehran’s clerical leaders.

By Steven Goff

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