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(Paul Morigi/Jerod Harris/Getty Images/Washington Post illustration)
Both entertainers were trending on social media this week as transgender advocates and allies called out what they saw as transphobic remarks.
Amtrak’s current and planned service network. (The Post)
Any expansion in Amtrak’s territory, which has remained nearly unchanged during its five decades, would boost pressure on freight companies and add trains to shared tracks at a time when the industry is under scrutiny over supply chain disruptions.
A traffic camera captures the sky in Sioux Falls, S.D., ahead of a derecho. (South Dakota Department of Transportation)
The hardest hit states were Iowa and South Dakota, where winds approached Category 2 hurricane force.
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Solid ice cliffs where the ice sheet on Anvers Island confronts the Southern Ocean off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. (James Whitlow Delano)
Photographer James Whitlow Delano has been working on environmental issues for years. This is his latest work from Antarctica.
Sydney is experiencing its wettest year on record after 8 inches of rain in recent days.
Republican attorneys general and conservative legal activists are plotting ways to challenge other environmental regulations on similar grounds.
Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, reacts to a 1972 ruling by the state supreme court that the death penalty is unconstitutional. (Bettmann Archive)
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The court invalidated capital punishment a half-century ago in Furman v. Georgia. Since then, the death penalty has made a comeback and faded again.