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Panic mounts in Rafah over looming Israeli offensive after night strikes killed dozens

By Miriam Berger, Louisa Loveluck and Hajar HarbUpdated 19 minutes ago

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Israelis rescue 2 hostages amid strikes on Rafah that killed more than 60

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Unprecedented assignment: Defending Trump in criminal court

With four criminal indictments and multiple civil cases, the former president has built the equivalent of a boutique law firm.

By Perry Stein, Shayna Jacobs, Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner

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Super Bowl LVIII

Best and worst from the Super Bowl: The game highlights, key moments and kisses

Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, Usher and Beyoncé combined to make it a truly Super Sunday.

By Washington Post staff

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Inside the plays: The blitz and the ‘corn dog’ that won the Chiefs the Super Bowl

By Sam Fortier, Samuel Granados and Artur Galocha1 hour ago

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Review

I lived inside a Vision Pro for two weeks. Here’s what it was like.

By Chris Velazco

Advice

How cooking with your partner can strengthen your relationship

By Sonja and Alex Overhiser

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Advice

Why do we hold hands? Here’s what the science says.

By Trisha Pasricha, MD

Perspective

5 fragrant, flowering houseplants for your Valentine

By Karen Hugg

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

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Why giving roses on Valentine’s Day — or any day — is really a bad idea

Every rose has its thorn.

Opinion by Amanda Shendruk and Michelle Kondrich

What no expert saw coming: The rise of Japan

Opinion by Rahm Emanuel

Speaker Johnson should see what I just saw in Ukraine

Opinion by Max Boot

Hur’s political hatchet job. Garland’s blunder. Media complicity.

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

Black Zionism adds a wrinkle to the politics of the Gaza war

Opinion by Karen Attiah

How to save Social Security — and make it better

Opinion by Natasha Sarin

Russian journalists in exile are sending a critical message

Opinion by Lee Hockstader

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Bob Edwards, radio host who built NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 76

By Brian Murphy

Defense Secretary Austin back in hospital to have bladder symptoms evaluated

By Dan LamotheUpdated 27 minutes ago

Police kill female shooter at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church; 5-year-old injured

By Arelis R. Hernández, Michelle Boorstein and Molly Hennessy-FiskeUpdated 1 hour ago

Northeast braces for heavy snowstorm and dangerous travel Tuesday

By Dan Stillman

Election 2024

Trump vs. Biden on immigration: 12 charts comparing U.S. border security

By Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti and Sarah Frostenson

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Colleges, students and states reeling from FAFSA setbacks

A string of delays with the latest Free Application for Federal Student Aid is causing great consternation, disappointment and anxiety.

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

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How to stay friends for 50 years? Ask the women of Sugar Hill.

While many people have friendships that span decades, the women of the Sugar Hill Sisterhood are a case study in what it takes to maintain them.

By Kelyn Soong and Maya Valentine

Would you wear a sweater made from human hair?

Dutch start-up Human Material Loop is part of a growing industry of recycling hair, including weaving clippings from salons and barbershops into clothes.

By Nicolás Rivero

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2024 Super Bowl commercials: The good, the bad, the unsettling

Celebrity cameos on TV’s biggest night: Beyoncé drops songs from space. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Tom Brady go extreme Dunkin’. Jennifer Aniston “forgets” David Schwimmer. And RFK Jr. beats out Jesus for biggest nepo baby.

A great Super Bowl ending was overwhelmed by Tony Romo’s commentary

Unprecedented assignment: Defending Donald Trump in criminal court

Best and worst from Super Bowl 2024: The highlights, plays and kisses

Bob Edwards, radio host who built NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 76

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Republican NATO hawks wave the white flag to Trump’s provocations

Republican hawks once fought back strongly against Trump on NATO and were willing to buck him on foreign policy. But as they have on many issues, they seem to have lost the will to resist their party’s Trumpian drift.

By Aaron Blake1 hour ago

The Early 202Analysis

What’s at stake in the special election to replace Santos

By Theodoric Meyer, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Tobi Raji

Immigration heats up N.Y. special election, testing Democrats’ tougher talk

By Hannah Knowles

Aid bill for Ukraine, Israel on track to pass Senate early this week

By Liz Goodwin and Mariana Alfaro

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Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend keeps questioning partner about recent weight gain

A letter writer makes healthy weight gains into the “normal” range, but boyfriend plainly wants the underweight version back.

By Carolyn HaxFebruary 12

Ask Amy: I’m upset my stepson took my husband on a Vegas ‘bachelor trip’

February 12

Miss Manners: Friend and her husband gave mixed messages during storm

February 12

Ask Sahaj: I want more kids. My husband won’t even talk to me about it.

February 8

Work Advice: Providing customized help to battle joblessness

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A pandemic legacy: Majority of mental health appointments stay remote

By Linda Searing

My pets have stolen my heart again and again. I know I’m not alone.

By Marlene Cimons

How your memory really works, and how it changes as you age

By Caitlin Gilbert, Gretchen Reynolds, Richard Sima and Teddy Amenabar

Perspective

My funny valentine: How humor can sweeten — or sour — a relationship

By Bob Brody

Advice

The remarkable power of holding hands with someone you love

By Trisha Pasricha, MD

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

Pollution is making it harder for pollinator to find flowers

By Dino Grandoni

Why this is one of the planetary shifts scientists are most worried about

By Sarah Kaplan

Famed climate scientist wins million-dollar verdict against right-wing bloggers

By Dino Grandoni

You may not be getting the fish you paid for. Here’s how to spot seafood fraud.

By Allyson Chiu

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Earth breached a feared level of warming over the past year. Are we doomed?

By Shannon Osaka

Northeast braces for heavy snowstorm and dangerous travel Tuesday

By Dan Stillman

Big storm to dump heavy rain and snow along East Coast in coming days

By Dan Stillman

It’s so warm in Wisconsin that it just had its first-ever February tornado

By Matthew Cappucci

Central, eastern U.S. bask in record winter warmth

By Ian Livingston

Everyone is using the Apple Vision Pro all wrong

By Shira Ovide

AI professional headshots are quick and easy. But should you use one?

By Danielle Abril

7 ways to watch the Super Bowl

By Shira Ovide

Technology

Trump dreamt of a ‘Huawei killer.’ Biden is trying to unleash it.

By Eva Dou

How a liberal billionaire became America’s leading anti-DEI crusader

By Elizabeth Dwoskin

Meta turns its back on politics again, angering some news creators

By Taylor Lorenz and Naomi Nix

National

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Medicaid’s prescription for health includes food and housing in some states

By Amy Goldstein

FAFSA glitches and delays leave students, states, institutions in limbo

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

From defending democracy to feeling it unravel: A soldier’s journey to Election Day 2020

By David Finkel

Retropolis

‘One continual roar of cannon’: Battlefield diary from Yorktown sold

By Michael E. Ruane

Utah school board member who questioned teen’s gender faces calls to resign

By Kim Bellware

World

Rebel leader who ousted Aristide sets sights on Haiti’s current leader

By Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta

King Charles heartened as cancer disclosure raises awareness in U.K.

By Rachel Pannett

In Indonesia, an admired president faces sharp criticism over election

By Rebecca Tan and Winda Charmila

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After Pakistan’s shocking election result, all eyes are on the generals

By Rick Noack

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Today’s Worldview: The powerful lesson behind Pakistan’s stunning election result

55 dead in Philippines landslide that buried a village

By Regine Cabato

Middle East Conflict

U.S. strikes on militias, some backed by Iran, rile key ally in Iraq

By Kareem Fahim, Mustafa Salim, Missy Ryan and Abigail Hauslohner

Young Israelis block aid to Gaza while IDF soldiers stand and watch

Story by Loveday Morris | Photos by Lorenz Tugnoli

U.N. agency struggles to serve Gaza as scrutiny mounts over alleged Hamas links

By Miriam Berger

Today’s WorldViewAnalysis

Netanyahu’s delusional, deadly quest for ‘total victory’

By Ishaan Tharoor

Israel-Gaza war coverage

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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Perspective

10 of the most promising movies on tap this spring

Film highlights for spring include a “Dune” follow-up, another Mad Max saga, a “Fall Guy” and a “Hit Man.”

By Ann Hornaday

A funny, spooky play about an HBCU dance troupe

By Celia Wren52 minutes ago

Perspective

Is anything still cool in fashion?

By Rachel Tashjian

Bob Marley biopic turns a complicated subject into the Messiah

By Michael O'Sullivan1 hour ago

Review

A play’s emotional take on the Cuban diaspora in Miami

By Heidi Pérez-Moreno

A new musical uses sign language to tell the story of a deaf soldier

By Thomas Floyd

Review

‘Lisa Frankenstein’: There’s nothing animated about this corpse comedy

By Ann Hornaday

D.C., MD. & VA.

Black History Month

Black history is ‘being attacked.’ These parents found alternatives.

By Rachel Hatzipanagos and Emmanuel Felton

He unearthed his roots. Now he digs up lost stories of enslaved people.

By Sydney Page

A learning kit misidentified civil rights leaders. Here’s who they were.

By Tobi Raji

New ‘Peanuts’ special will finally let Franklin sit by White friends

By Samantha Chery

Health

King Charles’s cancer was caught early. His subjects often have to wait months.

By Victoria Bisset

Lifesaving diarrhea cure for kids is underprescribed, researchers say

By Erin Blakemore

A death sentence: Native Americans have least access to liver transplant system

By Annie Gilbertson and Ben Tanen

Science

Pliosaur, T. rex of the sea, is the Jurassic monster of the moment

By William Booth

Which dog breeds live the longest? Take our quiz.

By Adela Suliman, Samuel Granados, Júlia Ledur and Helier Cheung

Congressional budget gridlock leads to stunning NASA layoffs

By Joel Achenbach

SPORTS

In the end, Patrick Mahomes took the Super Bowl into his own hands

By Adam Kilgore

A great Super Bowl ending was overwhelmed by Tony Romo’s commentary

By Cindy Boren

In a sparkling suit, Taylor Swift by his side, Travis Kelce goes full ‘Elvis’

By Ben Strauss

Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in car crash at 24

By Kelly Kasulis Cho and Rael Ombuor

Business

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Welcome to Silicon Desert: How Biden helped boost an Arizona boomtown

By Jeanne Whalen

No job? No shame. Younger workers are opening up about unemployment.

By Taylor Telford

U.S. investigates alleged Medicare fraud scheme estimated at $2 billion

By Dan Diamond, Lauren Weber and Dan Keating

California fast-food workers form new union, first of its kind for industry

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

Advice

A case of love, marriage and mortgage fraud

By Michelle Singletary

Food