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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 16

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See which jobs are most threatened by AI, and who may be able to adapt

No one has a perfect road map to the future, but researchers at GovAI, which studies technology policy, and the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, used a novel approach to estimate which workers may be most and least able to adapt to AI.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 15

#ElderlyCare #FuneralCosts #RetirementPlanning

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Opinion | Dying is costly. Here's how you can prepare.

Calculate how much you should set aside for the final years of life. Everyone -- politicians, economists and myself included -- has been talking about the cost of raising kids.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#NFL #Politics #Sports

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Former NFL players don't want Trump using them to sell the Iran war

In a 2007 NFL playoff game, Sheldon Brown of the Eagles makes a play against Reggie Bush of the Saints. (Bill Frakes/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images) The video clip is a favorite of Kenny Bell's friends: The University of Nebraska receiver lays a punishing blind-side block on a Wisconsin defender during the 2012 Big Ten title game.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#RenéRedzepi #Noma #CulinaryCulture

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Chef René Redzepi resigns from Noma amid abuse allegations by former staff

Chef René Redzepi in 2017 in Tulum, Mexico. (Jennifer Chase/For The Washington Post) Renowned chef René Redzepi has left his post as the top chef of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant he founded more than two decades ago that became one of the world's most acclaimed and exclusive dining experiences.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#AI #Midterms #CampaignFinance

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Analysis | The midterms are about to be inundated with AI money

In today's edition . House Republicans are bracing to lose their majority . You give us your blunt assessment of Congress .

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#ClimateChange #HeatWave #Drought

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West Coast braces for record March heat wave. How hot will it get?

Two boys take a break from swimming in the Pacific Ocean at Windansea Beach, San Diego, under sunny skies and warm weather on Feb.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#StudentLoans #HigherEducation #Accountability

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Opinion | Colleges have an obligation to ensure their students pay off their loans

Linda McMahon is the secretary of education. Since taking office, the Trump administration has tackled the exploitative behavior of institutions burdening everyday Americans -- from big banks in housing to health care companies driving up costs.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#EnergyPrices #ElectricityCosts #UtilityRegulation

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An expert says his plan would slash energy bills by 30 percent

Transmission lines in Geyserville, California. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) As rising energy prices become a potent political issue, one Vanderbilt University expert is pitching a set of regulations that he claims would reduce the average household's monthly electric bill by almost a third, without requiring any government subsidies.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#OilPrices #Inflation #EconomicImpact

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How the Iran war could hit gas prices, airfare and everyday costs

The war in Iran is sending oil prices surging and shipping costs up, spurring another swell of anxiety for the U. S. economy, which is already grappling with a weakening labor market and tepid consumer confidence.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#WeightLossDrugs #PharmaceuticalPricing #HealthcareAccessibility

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How GLP1s are changing the ways Americans buy medicine

Ashley Elizabeth Harden logged on recently from her home in small-town Louisiana and searched for a weight-loss drug. She found plenty of options and settled on a cheaper, imitation version of the name-brand drugs for $177 a month that she could buy without going through insurance.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#ArtificialIntelligence #Midterms2026 #CampaignFinance

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AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming.

Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-North Carolina) speaks with constituents at Rivals Barbershop in Durham, North Carolina, on March 1.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#MarkwayneMullin #HomelandSecurity #GunControl

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DHS pick Markwayne Mullin once hired felon who illegally stored guns at work

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) at the Capitol in 2024. He previously ran a plumbing business in Oklahoma. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP) President Donald Trump's new pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Sen.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#Lebanon #Israel #Hezbollah

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War against Iran expands into Lebanon as Israel battles Hezbollah

Smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh after Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday. (Adri Salido/Getty Images) BEIRUT -- The U.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 12

#MentalHealth #TeenSuicide #CommunitySupport

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Column | Miss Manners: Putting parameters around public expressions of grief

Dear Miss Manners: A student at my child's high school died from suicide at the very end of the last school year. The young man was a popular baseball player on the school's team, and he was from a socially popular family in my neighborhood.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 11

#DieselPrices #TruckingIndustry #FuelCosts

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Lasting surge in diesel prices would batter nation's truckers, farmers

Drivers fuel up their semitrucks Monday in Lockhart, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Trucker Heather Griffith saw the impact of the war in Iran on Tuesday on the fuel pump display at an AMPM convenience store in Lost Hills, California.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Art #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEpstein

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'Titanic' statue of Trump and Epstein on the Mall draws praise, scorn

A new "Titanic" themed statue of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein appeared on the National Mall on Tuesday. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post) The anonymous artists who have targeted President Donald Trump with satirical statues and installations in Washington struck again on the National Mall on Tuesday morning with an enormous statue of the president embracing the deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a replica of the famous "King of the World" scene from the movie "Titanic.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Smartmatic #ElectionIntegrity #Defamation

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Smartmatic says it's being targeted by Justice Dept. to bolster false 2020 claims

A Smartmatic representative demonstrates his company's system in 2018. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP) A voting machine company at the heart of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election accused the Justice Department on Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further President Donald Trump's baseless claims about that vote.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Trump #Iran #Politics

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Tuesday briefing: Republican anxiety over Iran; Ketanji Brown Jackson; spring break; sleepy foods; and more

Republicans fear political fallout from President Donald Trump's war with Iran. * Why. Oil prices climbed and then fell yesterday after Trump gave mixed messages about his plans for Iran.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#PFAS #OutdoorGear #SustainableFashion

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Column | How to ditch forever chemicals without getting cold and wet

When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set out to climb Everest in 1953, wool, down and cotton kept them alive in temperatures 30 degrees below zero.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#TradePolicy #USChinaRelations #ForeignPolicy

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Democrats argue Trump's China policy risks 'strategic failure'

President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of their summit in South Korea in October. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) Senate Democrats argue in a new report that the Trump administration's diplomatic and trade policies are weakening America's advantage over China as the two countries compete to be the world's leading economic and military power.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#OilPrices #GasPrices #Economy

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Iran war's oil shock fuels GOP political anxiety

The price of oil per barrel jumped to almost $120 at one point Monday before dropping to under $90 by the end of the day as President Donald Trump suggested the war with Iran could end soon.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Dubai #IranConflict #MilitaryTensions

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Dubai, oasis for business and partying, confronts war

Smoke is visible after debris of an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, seen from a historic fort.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Trump #ExecutivePower #Congress

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In Trump's Washington, Congress matters less than ever

Trump Rules: Trump and his aides are rewriting the rules of power in Washington. Which of their changes are temporary, and which will endure.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#MilitaryFamily #SupportOurTroops #VeteranExperience

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An Iraq veteran voted for peace. Her teen starts basic training at wartime.

U. S. Army recruit Justin Matous, 18, hugs his aunt Dorothy Rodriguez as his mother Emm Matous stands nearby during his going-away party in Lometa, Texas, on Saturday before he leaves for boot camp.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#disinformation #propaganda #Epstein

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That video of Epstein and Trump? It might be pro-Iran disinformation.

(Emma Kumer/The Washington Post; Jon Elswick/AP; Majid Saeedi/Getty) A grainy video appears to show a line of blindfolded young girls parading past an underwear-clad Donald Trump.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#Travel #AirlineIndustry #SpringBreak

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Spring break travel may be chaos. Here's how to prepare.

Airline passengers wait in long lines outside the terminal to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston on Sunday.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#NFL #FreeAgency #Football

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Kenneth Walker III joins Mahomes in KC and Malik Willis starts QB reset in Miami, AP sources say

Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III is the new running back for Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, Miami settled on Malik Willis for a reset at quarterback and receiver Mike Evans is headed to San Francisco after 12 years in Tampa Bay.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 10

#MiddleEast #Diplomacy #Evacuation

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U.S. orders more diplomats to leave Middle East

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, attends a ceremony at the State Department on Monday. (Kevin Wolf/AP) The Trump administration has ordered more U.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#MilitaryOperations #Weaponry #IranConflict

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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates

The figure, accounting for the war's first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U. S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#ElectionIntegrity #VoterConfidence #ElectionSecurity

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FBI obtains voting data from Arizona GOP's 2020 review that confirmed Trump's loss

A voter casts a ballot at a secure drop box at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in 2022 in Phoenix. (Matt York/AP) A federal grand jury in Arizona has subpoenaed records from a review that Republican lawmakers conducted of the 2020 presidential results and that confirmed President Donald Trump lost.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#Watergate #NixonAdministration #PoliticalScandal

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Alexander Butterfield, who revealed Nixon White House tapes, dies at 99

Former White House deputy assistant Alexander Butterfield testifies before the Senate committee investigating Watergate in 1973.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#Terrorism #PoliticalViolence #Protests

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Two charged with throwing bombs at NYC protest cited ISIS, complaint says

A young man holds a homemade explosive device before throwing it toward police during a protest in New York on Saturday.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#Islamophobia #PoliticalRhetoric #Diversity

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GOP Rep. Ogles says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'

Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) on Capitol Hill in 2023. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post) Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) wrote on social media Monday that "Muslims don't belong in American society," becoming the latest Republican lawmaker to voice blatantly Islamophobic sentiments.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#BreastCancer #HeartHealth #ArtificialIntelligence

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The surprising way breast cancer screenings could reveal heart disease

A mammogram screening takes place in Brussels in October 2020. (Benoit Doppagne/AFP/Getty Images) Routine mammograms that screen for breast cancer can also flag the risk of heart disease, the leading and often underrecognized cause of death in women, according to a new study in the European Heart Journal.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#ImmigrationDetention #PrivatePrisons #GovernmentContracts

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ICE picks untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers

For decades, two companies have been the government's go-to partners for immigrant detention: Geo Group and CoreCivic run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#CargoTheft #SupplyChainSecurity #TechTheft

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How cargo thieves are stealing millions of dollars in tech hardware

Cargo thieves are targeting tractor-trailers filled with AI chips and other computer components, resulting in multimillion-dollar losses.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#Trump #IranWar #Leadership

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A wartime presidency defined by Trump's unique political style

President Donald Trump before departing the White House on Feb. 13. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post) MIAMI - Just more than a week into the fight with Iran, President Donald Trump is recasting the role of wartime leader in his image, breaking from generations of practice as he attacks domestic enemies, jumps on issues as far afield as alleged voter fraud and college sports and revels in meme-driven celebrations of America's military prowess.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#FederalHiring #GovernmentReform #PublicService

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After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring

A year after Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency allies purged hundreds of thousands of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring -- a reversal that reflects a quiet retreat from one of the president's defining early priorities and marks a new phase in efforts to reshape the bureaucracy in his image.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#ElNino #ClimateChange #WeatherPatterns

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Will there be a super El Niño later this year? Here's what that would mean.

A super El Niño may develop in the equatorial Pacific Ocean later this year, causing significant changes in weather patterns around the world.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#TomahawkMissile #IranConflict #CivilianCasualties

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Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base near Iranian school

Video footage that began to circulate online Sunday shows what appears to be a U. S. Tomahawk missile striking in the vicinity of an elementary school next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval complex, according to eight munitions experts.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 9

#Iran #SupremeLeader #Politics

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Iran's next supreme leader, Ali Khamenei's son, is a powerful regime insider

Just over a week since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a strike on his compound, his son was tapped by a body of senior officials to be the country's next supreme leader, according to state media.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#WeightLoss #BoneHealth #GLP1

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GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can raise bone and tendon injury risk, study suggests

The miracle of rapid weight loss has always come with fine print. Until recently, it read mostly like a list of digestive complaints -- stomach aches, constipation -- generally unpleasant but tolerable and rarely severe.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#Aging #MentalHealth #Relationships

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Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests

"Hasslers" in your life could affect your longevity, a study suggests. (iStock) Spending time with a difficult person can impact your mood in the moment.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#TradeWars #AutoIndustry #CanadaUSRelations

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Trump threat to blow up trade deal puts Canada's auto town on the spot

WINDSOR, Ontario -- Sales are down nearly 70 percent at Jahn Engineering, a tool and die shop that serves automakers here and in the United States.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#Racism #MilitaryAcademy #DiversityAndInclusion

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He reported racism at VMI. Now he's lobbying to cut its Confederate ties.

Jeremiah Woods described a culture at the Virginia Military Institute that dismissed complaints of racism. (Emmet Howard) Before White cadets at the Virginia Military Institute asked Jeremiah Woods if he would have preferred being a house slave or a field slave, or if he would have preferred to marry, kill or have sex with George Floyd, or told Woods he was "so freaking Black," he went to pray.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#Netanyahu #Trump #MiddleEastPolicy

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For Israel's Netanyahu, Trump grants prayers with some unwelcome caveats

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Feb. 25 in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) JERUSALEM -- For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right, President Donald Trump has been something close to a prophetic fulfillment.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#Rwanda #ConflictResolution #InternationalRelations

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Trump said he ended a war in Africa. U.S. sanctions say otherwise.

Col. Willy Ngoma with the militant March 23 Movement rallies volunteers in May. (Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty Images) As President Donald Trump started a spiraling war in the Middle East, his administration has acknowledged that another war he claimed to have ended is still going on.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 8

#IranWar #GlobalSupplyChain #EconomicImpact

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Iran war spreading economic damage far beyond oil and gas markets

A dockyard in the Strait of Hormuz, seen Feb. 25. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images) Iranian missile and drone attacks have disrupted the flow of commerce through one of the global economy's most critical hubs, paralyzing much of the ocean and air traffic that carries goods between Asia and Europe while punishing investors in faraway financial markets.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 7

#WinterParalympics #Ukraine #SportsDiplomacy

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Russian flag returns as Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics open amid Iran war and boycott

VERONA, Italy -- The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics opened Friday amid the tensions of intensifying war in the Middle East and with some countries boycotting the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.

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Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Washington (state) 🇺🇸 · Mar 7

#NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #Innovation

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Opinion | The government's freeze on nuclear energy is thawing

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ahead of schedule.