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Ex-police chief caught with hatchet in Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced to 11 years

Alan Hostetter speaking in Santa Ana, California, in November 2020.

MIT, Harvard and Penn antisemitism testimony spurs GOP probe

Dec 7, 2023 - Economy

Shoppers increase holiday budgets ahead of Christmas

Penn loses $100 million donation over antisemitism hearing

In photos: Hanukkah around the world

Yehuda Teichtal, Orthodox rabbi, and Rabbi Shmuel Segal dance after the inauguration of the Hanukkah candelabra at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin..
Dec 7, 2023 - World

Scoop: Egypt warned Israel of "a rupture" in relations if Palestinians flee to Sinai

Updated Dec 7, 2023 - Politics & Policy

University leaders hammered after congressional hearing on antisemitism

University presidents during congressional panel sitting at tables with microphones in front of them

Trump seeks pause on proceedings in 2020 election interference case

Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits at the defense table while waiting for proceedings to begin in his civil business fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023 in New York City.
Updated Dec 7, 2023 - Economy

How deglobalization could ripple across the economy

Illustrated collage of a globe in pieces with lightening bolts coming out of the edges.

The most important dates on the 2024 presidential election calendar

Illustration of a hand casting a ballot into a calendar

Census data shows Latinos have biggest average households in U.S.

Heidi Gonzalez, 32, and her daughter Sarita, 2, sit in the living room of their apartment in Los Angeles' Koreatown on September 27, 2022.

Biden to work with Mexico on Chinese investment restrictions

"Confessions" of a U.S.-born Pinochet hitman declassified

A memorial plaque remembers Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt who they were assassinated by a car bomb explosion on September 21, 1976, in Washington, D.C.

House GOP tees up impeachment inquiry vote before holiday recess

Updated Dec 7, 2023 - Politics & Policy

U.S. sanctions, charges Russians over years-long hacking campaign

The US Treasury building
Updated Dec 7, 2023 - Politics & Policy

Jamaal Bowman censured for Capitol Hill alarm incident

How UPS communications helped avert a labor strike

Illustration of an outstretched hand with boxes falling into it

More Democrats approve of Biden's handling of lsrael-Hamas war: poll

oe Biden delivers a statement urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 06
Dec 7, 2023 - Economy

Exclusive: UAW taking a third stab at organizing Volkswagen U.S. plant

Dec 7, 2023 - Economy

Criticism mounts of professors' controversial Hamas short-selling claims

Dec 7, 2023 - Economy

A quarter of workers are confident they could get a raise: survey

Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain — Exclusive: How Trump would build his loyalty-first Cabinet

Dec 7, 2023 - Business

Washington Post journalists launch historic 24-hour strike

The Washington Post building exterior
Dec 7, 2023 - Health

Out-of-state travel for abortion surged after Roe was overturned

The golden age of restaurant worker wage growth is over

Dec 7, 2023 - Health

Rural hospitals are missing out on a major expansion of medical training

Illustration of a cut out silhouette of a doctor with abstract elements and a row of sitting patients.
Dec 7, 2023 - Technology

Customs and Border Protection is using AI to crack down on fentanyl trafficking

Updated Dec 7, 2023 - Technology

Facebook Messenger to become fully encrypted

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces a new messenger platform at the F8 summit in San Francisco, California, on March 25, 2015.

Christie unleashed, knives out for Haley: 4 takeaways from the GOP debate

Updated Dec 6, 2023 - Business

23andMe changes terms of service amid legal fallout from data breach

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki speaking in Austin, Texas, US, in March 2023.
Updated Dec 6, 2023 - Politics & Policy

Moderators injected lots of Trump into fourth GOP debate

Megyn Kelly puts each Republican candidate on the spot at 4th GOP debate

Dec 6, 2023 - World

Israeli cabinet approves increasing amount of fuel allowed into Gaza

A fuel truck enters the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, hours after the start of a four-day truce in battles between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants, on November 24, 2023.

Ex-Twitter exec claims X fired him for raising security concerns

Republican competitors dogpile Nikki Haley at GOP debate

GOP's "dictator" test

Photo illustration of two images of President Trump, one upside-down and distorted.

Scoop: Top border officials say releases attract more migrants

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