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As ‘broken hearted’ U.N. chief visits Rafah, Gaza’s aid remains stalled

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Biden unveils $106 billion foreign aid package

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‘I love you forever. I hope you survive.’ What she tried to tell her son before he was taken.

As Gaza crisis escalates, some experts fear a Hamas ‘surprise’

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Rep. Jim Jordan is out as House speaker nominee after a closed-door GOP vote

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The impact of Trump-era intimidation

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The simple reason that Jordan’s speaker bid was in deep trouble

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Trump Cases

Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia election case

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Jacksonville struggles to overcome a racism ‘baked into our culture’

Nearly two months after a triple killing motivated by racial hatred, the city’s Black community wonders when Jacksonville will truly confront its past.

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Supreme Court says White House can continue requests to tech companies

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Trump co-defendant Nauta can keep lawyer despite potential conflict

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‘The Chameleon’ aims for sharp satire. It’s blunted by a frantic pace.

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U.S. payments on debt spike to $659 billion, nearly doubling in two years

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Supreme Court won’t allow Missouri gun statute at odds with federal law

Taylor Swift is a cultural juggernaut. Here’s how to understand the phenomenon.

Swift is as inescapable as Captain America once was, a million-bajillion-dollar cultural juggernaut for today.

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Investing in Ukraine and Israel is in our cold, hard national interest

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Thank goodness for grown-ups

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Supreme Court says White House can continue requests to tech companies

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U.S. payments on debt spike to $659 billion, nearly doubling in two years

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A ‘time capsule’ DeLorean was found in a barn. It had 977 miles on it.

One of the first DeLoreans ever made was found collecting dust in a Wisconsin barn. The car, made famous as a time machine in “Back to the Future,” had 977 miles.

By Jonathan Edwards

Retropolis

The enduring family trauma behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

By Sydney Trent

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Review: An admirable yet vexingly uneven film

Russia, shifting tactics, fans doubt in election integrity, U.S. says

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Police say Md. judge was killed in ‘targeted attack’ after custody hearing

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Live updates: House Republicans vote to drop Jim Jordan; more candidates enter speaker race

In previous votes this week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has fallen well short of the House majority needed to prevail in the full chamber to become speaker.

Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia election case

Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas releases two American hostages, a mother and daughter

Analysis

Threats couldn’t save Jim Jordan. But Trump-era intimidation has had an impact.

Analysis

The simple reason that Jim Jordan’s speaker bid was in deep trouble

Politics

Threats continue toward Republicans voting against Jordan for speaker

Some lawmakers criticized what they saw as coercion from conservative entities and anonymous threat-makers.

By Justine McDaniel and Marianna Sotomayor

Republicans target visas of student protesters. That violates free speech, experts say.

By Dylan WellsUpdated 32 minutes ago

Analysis

Jordan amplifies a deeply contentious issue: Where planes were born

By Philip Bump

Lawmakers demand answers from Bezos about election misinformation on Alexa

By Cat Zakrzewski and Caroline O'Donovan

Election 2024

Post-Schar School poll: Abortion is key for Democrats, women in Virginia election

By Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin

Supreme Court agrees with delay on drawing new Louisiana congressional map

By Robert Barnes

Trump Cases

New York judge fines Trump $5,000 for violation of gag order

By Shayna Jacobs1 hour ago

In Georgia, jury selection begins in a Trump case without Trump

By Holly Bailey

Special counsel urges judge to deny Trump’s Jan. 6 claim of immunity

By Spencer S. Hsu

Jan. 6 charge faced by Trump upheld on appeal for second time

By Rachel Weiner

Advice

Carolyn Hax: Roommate’s off-again boyfriend becomes on-again nonpaying tenant

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Miss Manners: How do I respond to scathing letters from people I barely know?

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Ask Amy: How does this 70-year-old widower meet women to date?

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Cooking chat: What’s the secret to getting breading to stick to meat?

When a partner’s snoring wrecks your sleep, these tips can help

By Lisa Strauss

Skipping sleep? 5 hours or less raises depression risk in older adults.

By Teddy Amenabar

Overtalking may signal a mental health condition

By Katherine Kam

Aging well, golf injuries and toilet paper: The week in Well+Being

By Tara Parker-Pope

The modern golf swing is powerful but can hurt your back. Here’s how to prevent injuries.

By Gretchen Reynolds, Teddy Amenabar and William Neff

AMERICA’S LIFE EXPECTANCY CRISIS

Weather & Sky

Northeast cities can’t catch a break from weekend rain. Here’s why.

By Dan Stillman

Tammy becomes hurricane near Caribbean while Norma approaches Mexico

By Dan Stillman

Atlantic hurricanes intensifying faster, more frequently, research finds

By Ian Livingston

When will the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season finally be over?

By Matthew Cappucci

This is the best AI technology you’re probably not using

By Shira Ovide

Death by a thousand meetings: How to reduce video-call overload

By Danielle Abril

Google just changed how you log in to your account

By Tatum Hunter

Technology

Newspapers want payment for articles used to power ChatGPT

By Nitasha Tiku

Analysis

What a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could look like in cyberspace

By Tim Starks and David DiMolfetta

Elon Musk’s X removes the New York Times’ verification badge

By Drew Harwell

National

Supreme Court won’t allow Missouri gun statute at odds with federal law

By Ann E. Marimow

Trump supporter sentenced to 7 months after tweeting false voting ads

By Praveena Somasundaram

4 Pepperdine students killed by driver in Pacific Coast Highway crash

By Timothy Bella

U.S. soldier who crossed into North Korea charged with desertion

By Kyle Rempfer and Dan Lamothe

How Natalee Holloway’s case put a spotlight on media coverage of missing White women

By Jonathan Edwards

WORLD

The Kexue is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. (Zhang Jinggang/ImagineChina/AP)

China’s Global Leap

China is set to dominate the deep sea and its wealth of rare metals

By Lily Kuo

Putin, flexing U.N. veto, takes aim at global rules

By Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton

China’s nuclear arsenal on track to double by 2030, Pentagon reports

By Cate Cadell

After failed referendum, Indigenous Australians ask what’s next

By Michael E. Miller

Argentina’s tear-it-all-down frontrunner connects with angry young men

By Samantha Schmidt and David FelibaUpdated 1 hour ago

ISRAEL-GAZA WAR

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Gwyneth Paltrow is the latest ‘nepo baby’ to question the term ‘nepo baby’

Celebrities such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Lily-Rose Depp and Kate Hudson have spoken out about the moniker for negating their work ethic.

By Herb Scribner

Flash Gordon, American icon, returns to comics after a 20-year break

By Michael Cavna

Perspective

Losing Bandcamp would mean losing a path into music’s future

By Chris Richards

Leslie Odom Jr. is in a scathing Broadway romp. It’s his happy place.

By Peter Marks

Review

A riveting history of the Japanese war crimes trial after World War II

By Robert D. Kaplan

Perspective

The women’s art museum is back. It looks good. Is it actually better?

By Philip Kennicott

Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ actor with a tough-guy image, dies at 83

Bernie Sanders pushes nonprofit hospitals to provide more charity care

By Joe Davidson

Stroke deaths may rise 50 percent by 2050, researchers predict

By Erin Blakemore

Primary care saves lives. Here’s why it’s failing Americans.

By Frances Stead Sellers

Science

SpaceX to the FAA: The industry needs you to move faster

By Christian Davenport

Scrolls were illegible for 2,000 years. A college student read one with AI.

By Kyle Melnick

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches, beginning first-of-its-kind mission

By Sabrina Malhi

SPORTS

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Perspective

The puzzling Commanders defense seems less than the sum of its parts

By Barry Svrluga

Analysis

Commanders’ ‘cinco’ package gets more of their best defenders on the field

By Sam Fortier

Analysis

Week 8 college football preview: The real Big Ten season starts now

By Patrick Stevens

Caps, seeking to stabilize their defense, call up Hardy Haman Aktell

By Bailey Johnson

Former USWNT coach Vlatko Andonovski returning to NWSL with Kansas City Current

By Steven Goff

Business

A line of moving trucks driving down a street, as well as one single-family house being built by construction workers, on a street filled with other single-family houses. — (Yifan Luo for The Post)

Houses are too expensive. Apartments are too small. Is this a fix?

By Teo Armus and Yifan Luo

Fla. bank that denied loans to Blacks, Hispanics to pay $9 million

By Perry Stein and David Nakamura

Child labor violations soared in fiscal 2023

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

A strong economy is making the Fed’s job harder

By Rachel Siegel