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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.

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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

The 7 Morning Briefing

7 things to know today: Railroad strike; tornado danger; Hawaii eruption; World Cup; mating habits; and more

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How British architecture has made homes vulnerable to extreme heat and cold

An architectural tour of the country’s houses suggests that the lessons learned over the centuries about how to deal with weather may apply today.

By Philip Kennicott, Simon Ducroquet, Frank Hulley-Jones and Aaron Steckelberg

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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

Congressman Donald McEachin of Virginia dies at 61

By Laura Vozzella and Meagan Flynn

Providence offers reparations to address racism. White people can apply.

By Emmanuel Felton

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

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

By Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro and Liz Goodwin

Post Politics Now

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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

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

U.S. and Iran fans before a 1998 World Cup meeting. (AFP/Getty Images)

A generation after ‘the mother of all games,’ the U.S. and Iran meet again

By Frederic J. Frommer

Schedule and standings

The U.S. made a tactical tweak against England. Here’s what to expect against Iran today.

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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