Florida’s bear hunt numbers are lower than expected
Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade ended with 52 bears killed — far fewer than the 172 the...
She provides the raw material to Trump’s influencer machine
Over the past two years, a little-known aide to President Donald Trump has become one of the GOP’s most influential...
California will miss billionaires when they’re gone
Many progressives think of taxation the way teenage boys think about cologne: if some is good, more must be great....
Trump and the United Nations come to a head
The Trump administration will always couch even its most reasonable decisions in the most dramatic terms possible, and so it...
Cannabis is legitimate. It’s high time the United States follows suit.
Regarding Leana S. Wen’s Dec. 24 op-ed, “Marijuana is not a wellness product”: Wen’s claim that cannabis isn’t a “wellness...
Oyster, crab, lobster thieves strike back-to-back in New England
A trio of recent commercial seafood thefts in New England highlights a titanic problem: cargo theft. Forty thousand oysters and...
Data centers spark a ‘fight for the soul’ of this mostly Black Maryland county
Taylor Frazier McCollum remembers when Landover Mall in her Prince George’s County neighborhood was a staple in family moments. It...
Day cares say they are unfairly punished over misleading Minnesota video
Day care operators say the Trump administration’s restrictions on federal child care funding unfairly punish them over a conservative activist’s...
We told their stories in 2025. Here’s what happened after we published.
At the end of a year of unrelenting news for the Washington region, Washington Post reporters returned to stories that...
Flu cases are rising with a new strain that makes older people sicker
Cases of influenza in the United States are rising, driven by a new strain that public health officials worry current...
This ‘Plague’ is really about the horrors of adolescence
(4 stars) Ben is the new kid in town. He isn’t sure whether to listen to the other middle-schoolers at...
20 things to declutter right now to start the year lighter
January is a great time of year to pick off decluttering projects, big and small. The new year, new you...
Limits on screentime for kids and other laws going into effect Jan. 1
Starting Thursday, technology companies must limit social media use among children under 16 in Virginia. In Maryland, barbers and hairstylists...
In Mamdani’s New York, Muslims become a political and demographic force
NEW YORK — Othman Alahlemi and 200 other men had crammed into the decades-old Bronx Muslim Center for afternoon prayers,...
Trump is reconstituting the Fine Arts panel set to review his ballroom
The White House is moving to install Trump-aligned appointees to a commission charged by Congress with reviewing Washington’s public art...
