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NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine’s counteroffensive

The counteroffensive will be the biggest test yet of the U.S.-led strategy of giving the Ukrainians weapons and training to fight like an American army might — but on their own.

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk

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Taliban moving senior officials to Kandahar. Will it mean a harder line?

The remote Afghan city, the Taliban's spiritual center, is hosting more regime officials and foreign dignitaries as Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada consolidates power.

By Pamela Constable

NASA’s Mars helicopter is somehow still flying — and playing hide-and-seek

Ingenuity, NASA’s record-breaking Mars helicopter, continues to fly two years after scientists expected it to fail.

By Daniel Wu

DeSantis on the trail: Combative with critics, not yet cozy with voters

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Dylan Wells

He’s leading Mexico’s probe of the Dirty War. Who’s spying on him?

By Oscar Lopez and Mary Beth Sheridan

‘You don’t have another option’: Inside Biden and McCarthy’s deal

By Washington Post staff

India train crash toll passes 280; rescue efforts end

By Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta, Frances Vinall and Claire Parker

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Jamie Raskin beat cancer twice. Now he turns to his political future.

Over the past two years, the Democrat from Maryland has both mourned his son and confronted his own mortality, while serving in some of the most demanding leadership positions in Congress.

By Meagan Flynn

(Courtesy of Mike Litterst)

Catch a baseball thrown from the Washington Monument? Over decades, dozens of players tried.

In 1908, Washington Senators catcher Gabby Street was the first to catch a baseball thrown from the monument’s 505-foot observation level. His feat sparked even more daring attempts, with occasionally painful results.

By Scott Allen

(Jonathan Nackstrand for The Post)