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California mansions on the brink after atmospheric rivers

The latest storm battering the California coast has brought fresh flooding, mudslides, sinkholes and coastal erosion — but the three mansions atop the cliffs of Dana Point remain anchored in place.

By Joshua Partlow

Nationwide AT&T cellphone outage prevents emergency calls, some 911 centers say

By Aaron Gregg and Julian MarkUpdated 12 minutes ago

Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

By Susan Svrluga

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Career or motherhood: These four women navigate strained choices

Working women in South Korea explain the societal pressures that are forcing women like them, in a country with the world’s lowest fertility rate, to choose between their careers and kids.

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Julie Yoon

South Korea, a nation of rigid gender norms, meets its changemakers

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Advice

Put your smugness away. You are not too clever to be conned.

By Michelle Singletary

Wearing high heels might actually have some benefits, study suggests

By Gretchen Reynolds

How (and why) to peacefully coexist with squirrels

By Kate Morgan

This skillet shrimp and white beans is a flexible weeknight meal

By Ellie Krieger

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7 things to know today: China hackers; Alabama IVF; student loans; Beyoncé; moon landing; and more

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Mike Lindell must pay man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge, judge says

By Praveena Somasundaram

Commercial spacecraft enters moon’s orbit ahead of landing attempt today

By Christian Davenport

Bobbi Althoff deepfake spotlights X’s role as a top source of AI porn

By Drew Harwell

The American citizens fighting and dying for Israel in the Gaza war

Though U.S. citizens make up less than 2 percent of Israel’s population, they account for almost 10 percent of the country’s war dead since Oct 7.

By Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin

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Some Alabama clinics pause IVF services amid scramble for next steps

Health-care providers and their supporters met to discuss options and offer support after days of confusion.

By Maham Javaid and Kim Bellware

After Alabama ruling, Nikki Haley says ‘embryos, to me, are babies’

Election 2024

Teamsters give $45,000 to RNC, the union’s first major donation to Republicans in years

The gift magnifies tensions for unions that have benefited from President Biden’s pro-union policies.

By Lauren Kaori GurleyUpdated 1 hour ago

Naps, jokes and younger advisers: How octogenarians think Biden can win

By Meryl Kornfield

Live

Haley stumps in South Carolina; Trump to address religious broadcasters

Apple’s new Sports app offers scores, stats and interesting caveats

By Chris Velazco

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How the ‘Who TF Did I Marry?’ series took over TikTok

By Samantha Chery

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Why reviving a 2,600-year-old spiritual practice made my life better

By Michael J. Coren

Can Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode be trusted?

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Nationwide AT&T cellphone outage prevents emergency calls, some 911 centers say

A nationwide cell service outage is preventing some AT&T customers from making or receiving any calls, including emergency calls, some 911 centers say.

Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort

Advice

Carolyn Hax: Husband is all in on gaming, and checked out of their marriage

‘They just can’t take this kind of beating’: California mansions on the brink

Mike Lindell must pay man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge, judge says

Politics

Protesters in Warren, Mich., during a visit by President Biden. (Reuters)

Biden faces major challenge on Gaza in next week’s Michigan primary

A Michigan group backed by progressive activists is urging Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s primary as a warning to President Biden that his support for Israel and refusal to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip could cost him the state in November’s presidential contest.

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Isaac Arnsdorf

The Early 202Analysis

Fundraising is one bright spot for Mike Johnson

By Theodoric Meyer, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Tobi Raji

Fact CheckerAnalysis

Biden faults Trump’s vaccine rollout as he cites total covid death toll

By Glenn Kessler

The FixAnalysis

Another GOP Biden ‘informant.’ Another indictment and link to Russia.

By Aaron Blake

Trump Cases

Trump lawyers seek delay in enforcement of $350 million fraud judgment

By Shayna Jacobs

Ex-Trump aide Navarro faces contempt in White House email records fight

By Spencer S. Hsu

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Carolyn Hax: Husband is all in on gaming, and checked out of their marriage

Gaming-focused husband is pleasant with his spouse and does his chores, but does nothing to nurture their marriage.

By Carolyn HaxFebruary 22

Ask Amy: I don’t understand why my friend overshares on social media

February 22

Miss Manners: I brought my friend to my tennis center. She made new friends.

February 22

Ask Sahaj: My mom’s upset I don’t take her parenting advice

February 22

Work Advice: How to handle an employee who keeps making basic mistakes

February 22

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ADHD-like traits could offer humans an advantage in foraging, study suggests

By Leo Sands

How much dairy milk do children and adults really need?

By Anahad O’Connor and Sophie Egan

Why skipping your dog’s walk is a bigger deal than you think

By Kelly Conaboy

What’s the Atlantic diet? A variation on Mediterranean eating shows benefits.

By Teddy Amenabar

Medical Mysteries: How a sore throat led to life-threatening bleeding

By Sandra G. Boodman

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Supreme Court seems poised to halt EPA plan to cut cross-state pollution

By Anna Phillips and Ann E. Marimow

How the housing industry is working to stop energy efficient homes

By Anna Phillips

Advice

Why you should consider bunnies as your next pet

By Michael J. Coren

Advice

Meet the other solar panel

By Michael J. Coren

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A beached fin whale in Oregon offers a rare glimpse of a giant

By Justine McDaniel

Come rain or shine, the eclipse is on its way. Will you have fair skies?

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California is waterlogged after yet another drenching atmospheric river

By Matthew Cappucci

The Northeast is snow-starved again this winter and time is running out

By Ian Livingston

Bright meteor streaks over skies from D.C. area to New York state

By Jason Samenow

Phones are getting packed with AI features. But how helpful are they?

By Chris Velazco

Apple’s new Sports app offers scores, stats and interesting caveats

By Chris Velazco

Wyze security issue exposed private cameras to 13,000 strangers

By Heather Kelly

Technology

Employees prevented Musk from breaking federal Twitter order, FTC finds

By Cat Zakrzewski

Pentagon explores military uses of large language models, other AI technologies

By Eva Dou, Nitasha Tiku and Gerrit De Vynck

U.S. to give $1.5 billion for computer-chip plant, heating up global race

By Drew Harwell

National

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Tiny homes meant for displaced Maui fire survivors are sitting empty

By Reis Thebault

Biden administration cancels $1.2B in student loans with new repayment plan

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Toluse Olorunnipa

The president who deported 1 million Mexican Americans nearly a century ago

By Diane Bernard

Okla. nonbinary teen died after school fight amid reported bullying

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Powerball’s error made him think he won $321M. He’s suing for a payout.

By Jonathan Edwards

WORLD

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How everything became a ‘psyop’ for conservative media

Right-wing pundits are calling climate change, Taylor Swift, covid a ‘psyop,’ though the conspiracy-tinged phrase is losing its grip on an actual definition.

By Jeremy Barr

Perspective

Embryos are vessels of hope, pain and love. But they are not children.

By Monica Hesse

The NSO departs for a European tour, and getting there is half the fun

By Michael Andor Brodeur

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to top Billboard country music chart

By Jennifer Hassan

Movie Review

Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ is a bawdy road comedy that sputters

By Ann Hornaday

A crash nearly killed Synetic Theater’s director. In the end, it remade him.

By Thomas Floyd

Art Review

Doomerist art is in the galleries. Is it saying anything else?

By Kriston Capps

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

They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows.

By David Ovalle

Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’

By Daniel Gilbert

What the Alabama embryo ruling means for IVF

By Maham Javaid and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff

Science

Commercial spacecraft enters moon’s orbit ahead of landing attempt Thursday

By Christian Davenport

Astronomers say mysterious galactic ‘wave’ may have once washed over Earth

By Joel Achenbach

Jonathan Uhr, immunologist who advanced cancer treatment, dies at 96

By Emily Langer

SPORTS

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USMNT’s Gregg Berhalter earned $900,000 in bonuses, records show

By Steven Goff

MLS Starting XI season preview: Lionel Messi’s next MLS act starts now

By Steven Goff

Perspective

Pro baseball is a grind, but Anthony Rendon could appreciate the game

By Barry Svrluga

Dylan Crews already feels he belongs at his first Nats spring training

By Spencer Nusbaum

Maryland lands five-star center Derik Queen in a major recruiting win

By Gene Wang

Business

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Chipmaker Nvidia posts record growth, showing AI boom continues

By Gerrit De Vynck

Head of Boeing’s 737 program will leave the company

By Lori Aratani and Ian Duncan

Exclusive

Tax records reveal the lucrative world of covid misinformation

By Lauren Weber

The IRS’s new free tax filing website is ready to use

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

Senate report blasts high-end life insurance plans as $40B ‘tax dodge’

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

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