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Israeli soldiers search the village of Kfar Azza on Tuesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Post)

Scenes from a massacre: Inside an Israeli town destroyed by Hamas

Hamas terror tactics test Israel’s war strategy

The brazen attack by Palestinian militants has blurred the lines between terrorism and war, challenging how democracies respond.

As bombs fall and border crossings close, Gazans have nowhere to run

Israel has pounded Gaza with retaliatory airstrikes for four days, killing hundreds.

Biden says at least 14 Americans were killed

The president vowed that the United States would stand by Israel.

Rep. George Santos faces new charges of stealing IDs of relatives and using donors’ credit cards

The New York Republican “is charged with stealing people’s identities and making charges on his own donors’ credit cards without their authorization,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said.

By Anumita Kaur

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., in 2022. (AP)

Analysis

McCarthy, Jordan and Scalise’s long history seeps into speaker fight

With Kevin McCarthy ousted as House speaker last week, Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise, the majority leader, made pitches to the GOP conference as they try to win the nomination for speaker in a closed, secret ballot slated for Wednesday.

By Paul Kane

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A Gazan describes life in the enclave after the Hamas attack on Israel.

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In Hamas, Israel faces a formidable, and technologically sophisticated, foe

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After the covid culture wars, reason to celebrate

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Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley

Opinion by George F. Will

The wars in Israel and Ukraine are linked, along with the aid

Opinion by Josh Rogin

How the tenure trap paralyzes higher education

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Caroline Ellison, star witness in Bankman-Fried trial, says he led fraud

By Eli Tan and Tory Newmyer

Finland raises specter of sabotage of Baltic Sea gas pipeline

By Emily Rauhala

TRUMP CASES

After years of exaggerating his business assets, Trump confronts them in court

A civil case entering its second week threatens to put on display unprecedented details about how the former president’s business operated.

By Jonathan O'Connell and Shayna Jacobs

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2023’s Fat Bear Week queen is 128 ‘Grazer’

Grazer is the third female bear to win the tournament, a celebration voted by fans of the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they binge before their annual hibernation.

By Natalie B. Compton

Category 4 Hurricane Lidia slams into western coast of Mexico

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology

A wave of attacks by Palestinian militants on Israel, and Israel’s declaration of war against Hamas, has brought new attention to an old problem.

New charges accuse George Santos of identity theft, credit card fraud

The Gaza Strip and its history, explained

After years of exaggerating his business assets, Trump confronts them in court

Analysis

A tantalizing detail in a new Trump legal filing

Politics

Republican effort to impeach Wis. Supreme Court justice loses steam

By Patrick Marley

Biden interviewed about classified documents found at his office, home

By Tyler Pager and Perry Stein

North Carolina Republicans override governor’s veto on key election law

By Patrick Marley

Election 2024

Former baseball star Steve Garvey running for Feinstein’s Senate seat

By Amy B Wang

Democrat Thomas Suozzi launches bid to take back George Santos’s House seat

By Maegan Vazquez

The FixAnalysis

How Republicans lauded RFK Jr. — before he was a threat

By Aaron Blake

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to host 2024 candidates at influential donor summit

By Maeve Reston

Advice

Carolyn Hax: They see son’s in-laws as unwelcome ‘strangers’ in the family cabin

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Miss Manners: When an uninvited guest joins and monopolizes the conversation

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Why disabled people struggle to book hotels

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1 percent of children had long covid through last year, CDC says

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Medical Mysteries: Were wedding jitters making her sick?

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My first marathon was canceled. I ran 26.2 miles anyway.

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World Mental Health Day

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

These are the places that could become ‘unlivable’ as the Earth warms

By Scott Dance

A watchdog group found a big flaw in a major environmental policy

By Maxine Joselow

Rich countries promised poor nations billions for climate change. They aren’t paying.

By Timothy Puko

How a few bags of dirt could help make the planet more resilient to climate change

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How climate change is threatening your beer

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Category 4 Hurricane Lidia slams into western coast of Mexico

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Historic warmth grips Europe as summerlike weather refuses to relent

By Ian Livingston

Stunning ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse to pass over the U.S. Saturday

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Why the New York City floods should be a wake-up call

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Guns are seized in U.S. schools each day. The numbers are soaring.

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A private jet took evasive action to avoid a fighter plane in Austin

By Ian Duncan

Inmates given ivermectin in jail will each get $2,000 after settlement

By Daniel Wu

Kevin Phillips, Nixon political analyst and prolific author, dies at 82

By Michael S. Rosenwald

Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies

By DeNeen L. Brown

WORLD

A Ukrainian serviceman atop an anti-aircraft-gun tank intended to protect Kyiv-area infrastructure. (Oksana Parafeniuk for The Post)

In Ukraine, Russia’s winter attacks on infrastructure have started

By David L. Stern

Live briefing: War in Ukraine

U.S. mulls joint funding package for Israel and Ukraine; Zelensky in Romania

By Andrew Jeong and Adela Suliman

Biden administration says military takeover in Niger was a coup

By Michael Birnbaum

‘Nobody was prepared’ for earthquake that ravaged western Afghanistan

By Rick Noack

Global economy faces new risks from Middle East crisis

By Abha Bhattarai and Evan Halper

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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Perspective

Don’t be fooled by Nikki Haley’s soft-talk on abortion

The former Trump administration diplomat is better at talking about abortion than her Republican rivals. But that doesn’t mean she’ll protect the right to choose.

By Monica Hesse

Washington Post will offer buyouts to cut staff by 240

By Will Sommer and Elahe Izadi

Theater Review

‘Merrily We Roll Along’ gets the stunning Broadway revival it deserves

By Peter Marks

Tim Ballard, of ‘Sound of Freedom’ fame, accused of sexual misconduct

By Anne Branigin and Herb Scribner

TV Review

The new ‘Frasier’ struggles to find a new story

By Lili Loofbourow

Review

‘Foe’: For this brainy but bloodless sci-fi film, faux is more like it

By Michael O'Sullivan

In ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ a real-life couple gets divorced 8 times a week

By Thomas Floyd

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SPORTS

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Wizards rookie Bilal Coulibaly is ready for the moment but isn’t in a rush

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Monumental Sports Network will stream Caps, Wizards, Mystics games

By Scott Allen

Orioles learn an old October lesson: You can never have too much pitching

By Chelsea Janes5 minutes ago

Perspective

Who is Bill Belichick without Tom Brady? A coach at a loss.

By Jerry Brewer

LIV Golf blasts world rankings body after being denied points eligibility

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Business

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Canadian autoworkers strike averted hours after it began

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Walgreens pharmacy staff walk out, citing unsafe working conditions

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Food, clothing, airlines: Ozempic is coming for these industries

By Daniel Gilbert and Laura Reiley

Economy vs. environment: Some Taiwanese consider cashing in their chips

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Charles Feeney, philanthropist who gave away his billions, dies at 92

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