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#NationalParks #Censorship #ClimateChange
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Groups sue over Trump effort to 'erase' history, science in national parks
Glacier National Park in Montana contains a tribute to the Blackfoot Native American tribe. (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/For The Washington Post)
A coalition of scientific, preservation and historical groups on Tuesday sued the Trump administration, arguing that the removal of information about civil rights, climate change and other topics at multiple national parks amounts to illegal censorship.
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#Pentagon #MilitaryOperations #DrugTrafficking
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Pentagon conducts strikes on three more alleged drug boats, killing 11
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, shown in April 2023. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg)
The Pentagon announced Tuesday it struck three more alleged drug boats in separate attacks that killed 11 men, marking an uptick in strikes on the small vessels as the military redirects the vast number of warships it had focused on Venezuela and sends them toward the Middle East.
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#JesseJackson #CivilRights #History
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Opinion | Jesse Jackson in three photos
Eugene Robinson is a former Post Opinions columnist.
To appreciate the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's place in history -- to understand his role in expanding the Constitution's promise of freedom and opportunity to those of us once excluded -- let photographs be the starting point.
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#CivilRights #Politics #Society
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Tuesday briefing: Jesse Jackson; Iran talks; Epstein files; Obama's alien remarks; keto diet; and more
Jesse Jackson, a leading African American voice on the global stage, has died.
* This morning: Jackson's family announced his death in a statement, which said the 84-year-old died peacefully and surrounded by his family.
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#CoffeeBenefits #BrainHealth #DementiaPrevention
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Opinion | Drink coffee to prevent dementia? It's not so far-fetched.
A coffee grower displays beans at his farm shop in Sao Domingos do Norte, Brazil. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)
A new study seems almost too good to be true: Drinking coffee may help prevent dementia.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #FutureOfWork
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Opinion | Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced
Artificial-intelligence catastrophism is everywhere. This month saw stock-market ructions after Anthropic, a leading AI company, announced that it had developed and deployed AI "agents" to autonomously execute legal, marketing and sales tasks.
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#Epstein #Resignations #Corruption
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The Epstein files have brought a wave of resignations and investigations
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson at Windsor Castle in 2024. (Hollie Adams/AFP/Getty Images)
It has been more than two weeks since the latest tranche of files related to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein was released by the Justice Department, outlining years of correspondence and visual evidence connecting the convicted sex offender to some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world.
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#SurvivorStories #JusticeForVictims #EndSexualViolence
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Review | Gis猫le Pelicot bravely went public as a rape victim. But her life collapsed.
In the autumn of 2024, a shocking court case out of France made headlines around the world: A man named Dominique Pelicot had been arrested for repeatedly drugging his wife of 50 years and inviting dozens of other men to rape her while she slept.
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#Slavery #HistoricalJustice #PresidentialHistory
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The Trump administration removed a slavery exhibit. A judge ordered it restored.
Demonstrators last week protest the removal of explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President's House Site, part of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.
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#Corruption #Ukraine #EnergySector
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Ukraine detains ex-energy minister as high-level corruption case widens
German Galushchenko, then Ukraine's energy minister, in 2023. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
KYIV -- Ukrainian authorities opened a criminal case against the country's former energy minister German Galushchenko one day after he was caught at the border trying to flee the country -- the latest charges in a $100 million corruption probe that has ensnared some of Ukraine's highest-ranking officials and shaken the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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#CancerPrevention #HealthyEating #Nutrition
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Column | Here's how I eat to reduce cancer risk, as an oncologist
Are there changes I can make to my diet that lower my chances of developing cancer.
As an oncologist, this is one of the most common questions I hear from my patients and their families and friends -- and even from my family and friends.
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#EducationReform #StudentAchievement #Nation'sReportCard
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Opinion | This state saw major improvement on the nation's report card. Here's why.
(Illustration by Washington Post staff/The Washington Post; iStock)
Mark White is chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the Nation's Report Card, and a Republican member of the Tennessee General Assembly.
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#SpaceExploration #NASA #HumanBiology
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Opinion | One flaw could keep humans from becoming deep-space explorers
A full moon shines over NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on Feb. 1 in Florida. (Sam Lott/NASA/AP)
Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.
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#NuclearSafety #ArmsControl #InternationalRelations
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Opinion | New START wasn't a silver bullet, but it helped keep the world safe
Mark Kelly, a Democrat, is a senator from Arizona.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, once warned that nuclear rivalry was like "two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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#Ekonomika #DonaldTrump #Inflace
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Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Friday at the White House. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post)
The White House is declaring victory on turning around the economy, after months of aides' urging the president to find a more empathetic tone on Americans' financial struggles.
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#Education #Immigration #CommunitySupport
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This small school district kept losing students to ICE. So it mobilized.
Students work on assignments in Abby Olson's English learners class at Columbia Academy on Feb. 11. (Caroline Yang for The Washington Post)
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn.
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#AlpineSkiing #Olympics #SelfExpression
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Column | Lucas Pinheiro Braathen dared to be who he is. He won gold because of it.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won the men's giant slalom Alpine skiing event. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Across the Dolomites from this little village on Saturday, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won a ski race.
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#AlexeiNavalny #PoliticalAssassination #ChemicalWeapons
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'Highly likely' that rare poison killed Putin nemesis Navalny, Europeans say
It is "highly likely" that Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany was killed by a rare toxin found in poison dart frogs, five European nations said in a statement Saturday, adding that Russia had the "means, motive, and opportunity" to administer the deadly dose when Navalny died in an Arctic prison two years ago.
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#MissingPersons #FBI #NancyGuthrie
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Authorities conduct operation near Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson
FBI and SWAT units conduct an operation about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's residence on Friday. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Authorities looking for Nancy Guthrie conducted an operation at a residence near her home late Friday, as the hunt for the missing 84-year-old mother of "Today" host Savannah Guthrie neared the end of its second week.
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#WesternAlliance #TransatlanticRelations #MunichSecurityConference
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Rubio says U.S., Europe 'belong together,' despite rifts over Trump policies
MUNICH -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the United States and Europe "belong together" in a speech Saturday aimed at unifying the Western alliance, while condemning hallmarks of globalization and accusing countries of facilitating open borders, unfettered free trade, "deindustrialization" and mass migration.
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#MortgageCrisis #FinancialEducation #Homeownership
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Column | A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford it
The delinquency rate for mortgages -- although still near low levels on a longer-term basis -- has been steadily increasing over the past few years.
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#HealthCare #JobsMarket #EmploymentTrends
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The one industry powering the U.S. labor market
Nearly all of the jobs added to the U. S. economy in recent months have come from one industry: health care.
Health care and social assistance accounted for 95 percent of the 130,000 jobs added in January.
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#Trump #MilitaryPolitics #MidtermElections
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Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg
President Donald Trump greets troops in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday. (Matt Ramey/AP)
FORT BRAGG, N. C. -- President Donald Trump's rally on Friday followed a familiar plan: He entered to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," promoted GOP candidates, bashed his predecessor and implored the audience to vote Republican in the midterm elections.
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#Deportation #HumanRights #ImmigrationPolicy
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U.S. spending millions to send migrants to third countries, report says
A plane carrying Venezuelans deported from the United States lands in Maiquet铆a, Venezuela, on Jan. 19. (Matias Delacroix/AP)
The Trump administration spent more than $40 million last year to send hundreds of migrants to at least two-dozen countries that are not their own, a tactic Senate Democrats described in a report Friday as a costly strategy aimed at sowing fear and intimidation in the president's mass deportation campaign.
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#GovernmentShutdown #ImmigrationPolicy #Congress
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Much of DHS set to shut down as Democrats demand new restraints on ICE
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) at a new conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to shut down early Saturday morning as congressional Democrats and the White House remain at an impasse over new restrictions on federal immigration agents.
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#ClimateChange #Politics #Immigration
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Friday briefing: Greenhouse gases; Mark Kelly; Tom Homan; Nancy Guthrie case; ChatGPT biases; and more
President Donald Trump repealed the government's power to fight climate change.
* How. The EPA rescinded a landmark legal opinion declaring greenhouse gases a threat to the public's welfare.
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#Antisemitism #CommunitySupport #HateSpeech
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'We will not cower,' rabbi says after antisemitic vandalism of Md. synagogue
The main sign outside Shaare Tefila in Olney, Maryland, was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. (Rabbi Jonah Layman)
Rabbi Jonah Layman was surprised to receive an 8 a.
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#FreeSpeech #PoliticalJustice #FirstAmendment
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DOJ's targeting of Trump critics ramps up with attempt to indict lawmakers
The Justice Department's efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump's critics entered a new phase this week, when federal prosecutors failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video reminding military service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders.
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#MissingPersons #MediaEthics #FamilyDrama
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Column | Savannah Guthrie's nightmare is unfolding on our screens
Nancy Guthrie is seen on the FBI website on a cellular phone several days after her Feb. 1 disappearance. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
On Wednesday, Variety ran a headline that, while simply stating facts, nonetheless made me feel queasy in a vague, unspecified way.
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#Syria #ISISSuspects #USMilitaryWithdrawal
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Transfer of ISIS suspects nears end as Trump pursues Syria exit
The U. S. military has nearly completed the transfer of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters to the Iraqi government, setting the stage for the expected withdrawal of many -- perhaps even all -- American troops from Syria within months, officials familiar with the issue said.
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#BiasInAI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT
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Column | See ChatGPT's hidden bias about your state or city
Ask ChatGPT which state has the laziest people, and the chatbot will politely refuse to say. But researchers at Oxford and the University of Kentucky forced the bot to reveal its hidden biases.
