“I’m not going there,” one GOP senator said when asked about racially charged insults the president has directed toward African Americans and others. The studied avoidance reflects the reluctance of Republicans to confront some of Trump’s often divisive and inflammatory remarks.
From an escalating trade war to a new defense budget that counters Chinese maritime expansion, the president’s competition with Beijing signals a shift toward treating China like an outright adversary.
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Analysis President Trump’s order to revoke the security clearance of critic and former CIA director John Brennan has generated a kind of collective rebuttal rarely, if ever, seen in relations between a president and those who have gathered the nation’s secrets.
Greyhound racing trainer Kathy Lacasse pets one of her greyhounds in its cage in Longwood, Fla. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
Trainers check their greyhounds in for racing at the Sanford Orlando Kennel Club. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
Greyhounds race at the Sanford Orlando Kennel Club in Longwood, Fla., in July. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
Sonia Stratemann operates Elite Greyhound Adoptions South Florida in Loxahatchee, Fla. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
It's already outlawed in 40 states because of animal welfare concerns, and Florida is set to vote on a ban in November. Those in favor of a ban see racing as animal cruelty akin to cockfighting. But to the men and women who line the grandstand daily, it is one more plot by elites to curb their way of life.
Multiple former students said they were groomed and sexually abused by teachers in the 1970s at Key School in Annapolis, and in some cases had intimate contact with adults that lasted years.
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Some of the marchers walked more than 300 miles to Kabul to persuade the government to negotiate with the Taliban. Along the way, they encountered Taliban fighters and begged them to end the war.
Swami Dayananda and Pastor Paul M. Wilson speak at an air quality meeting. (Timothy C. Wright for The Post)
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline passes through the forests of Buckingham County. (Timothy C. Wright for The Post)
Signs in Yogaville protesting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (Timothy C. Wright for The Post)
Swami Dayananda and Pastor Paul M. Wilson greet staff at the county office. (Timothy C. Wright for The Post)
A powerful corporation in Virginia plans to build a 600-mile pipeline and natural gas compressor station, drawing protests from a yoga retreat and a historic African American community founded after the Civil War by freed slaves.
A flight spotter sits with his cellphone, watching for warplanes. After flight details ricochet around the world and back into the country via social media, rescue workers and hospitals brace for casualties.
ICE said the man, a Mexican national living illegally in the United States, is wanted in his home country on homicide charges.
“The more communities mobilize to turn out the vote, the harsher the voter suppression efforts undertaken by officials,” said Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Spewing vitriol and calling for violence, Richard Jankowski targeted Ferguson protesters, LeBron James and affirmative action. Now he's running for a school board seat in a N.J. district where more than a third of high school students identify as minorities.
Players from one of the nation’s top high school football teams complained of full-contact practices in shorts and inadequate attention to hydration and heat exposure. A player's parent said the practices caused “multiple players with broken bones.”
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