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Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort

Hackers are vying for lucrative government contracts by pledging ever more devastating and comprehensive access to sensitive information.

By Christian Shepherd, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima, Joseph Menn and Aaron Schaffer

AT&T cellphone outage hits many customers nationwide for hours

By Aaron Gregg and Julian MarkUpdated 1 hour ago

Some Alabama clinics pause IVF services amid scramble for next steps

By Maham Javaid and Kim Bellware

Style

Lily Gladstone’s moment is here. It’s a lot to carry.

By Karen Heller

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

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Why Viagra has been linked with better brain health

By Teddy Amenabar

Easy ways to make your kitchen happier and more functional

By Amanda Long

9 meal train recipes for a friend in need, including soup and pastas

By Anna Luisa Rodriguez

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The dos and don’ts of using home security cameras that see everything

By Heather Kelly

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

Opinions

An ‘education legend’ has created an AI that will change your mind about AI

Khan Academy has come up with a safe and accurate ChatGPT tutor. It’s also the best model we have for how to develop and implement AI for the public good.

Opinion by Josh Tyrangiel

Will you join the supermajority for constitutional democracy?

Opinion by Danielle Allen

Kamala Harris is an underrated asset

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

Congress could solve a 150-year-old mistake with these reparations

Opinion by Jesse Van Tol

Walk a mile in the $399 Trump sneakers

Opinion by Alexandra Petri

This ‘cringy’ term is helping defeat the tampon tax

Opinion by Laura Strausfeld

South Africa stands bravely with Gaza

Opinion by Karen Attiah

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Trump pretrial motions due in Florida; fight over redactions continues

By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett

Told he died of natural causes, Navalny’s mom cites pressure for secret burial

By Robyn DixonUpdated 9 minutes ago

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

Election 2024

Democrats seek to leverage Alabama embryo ruling in an election year

Democrats, including those in the White House, argue that the Alabama Supreme Court decision is a harbinger of further restrictions if Republicans make gains in the upcoming elections.

By Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro and Azi PaybarahUpdated 1 minute ago

LIVE

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

LIVE: MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT

Video Game Review

‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ is so good, it nearly wrecked my life

By Gene Park

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

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

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Hidden plastics, gas stoves, electric cars: Ask our climate coach all your questions

By Michael J. Coren and Alexandra Pannoni52 minutes ago

Your Daily Listen

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

February 21

Climate CoachAdvice

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

By Michael J. Coren

What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine

With hundreds of thousands dead or wounded and still no end in sight, the Ukraine-Russia war has shown the Pentagon that its calculations must evolve.

Analysis

What might happen after another inauguration of Donald Trump

Opinion

An ‘education legend’ has created an AI that will change your mind about AI

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

Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort

Politics

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Biden calls today’s Republicans in Congress ‘worse’ than Strom Thurmond

The president compared current Republicans in Congress to the “real racists” he served with as a senator in the 1970s and claimed today’s GOP lawmakers are “worse.”

By Maegan Vazquez

Biden’s dog bit Secret Service agents about 24 times, new records show

By Meryl Kornfield

Fact CheckerAnalysis

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

By Glenn Kessler

The Early 202Analysis

Fundraising is one bright spot for Mike Johnson

By Theodoric Meyer, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Tobi Raji

election 2024

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

By Kelsey Ables and Maegan Vazquez

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

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

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

By Meryl Kornfield

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

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Isaac Arnsdorf

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

Advice

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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

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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Hidden plastics, gas stoves, electric cars: Ask our climate coach all your questions

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Isn’t it time to stop? Perry Bacon Jr. is answering your questions.

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Well+BeingNews and advice to live well every day

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Could wearing high heels be good for you?

By Gretchen Reynolds

More dermatologists are offering skin-care services for people of color

By Marlene Cimons

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

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

The decades-long fight to give these farmworkers a 10-minute break

By Nicolás Rivero

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

By Anna Phillips and Ann E. Marimow

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

February’s full ‘snow’ moon rises Friday night. What you need to know.

By Ian Livingston

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

By Jason Samenow

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

By Lauren Tierney

California is waterlogged after yet another drenching atmospheric river

By Matthew Cappucci

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

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

By Drew Harwell

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

National

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Tiny homes meant for displaced Maui fire survivors are sitting empty

By Reis Thebault

Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

By Susan Svrluga

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

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Toluse Olorunnipa

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

By Jonathan Edwards

Teen risked her life to rescue disabled woman stuck on railroad tracks

By Sydney Page

WORLD

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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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

How Virginia Ali made Ben’s Chili Bowl, and herself, a symbol of D.C.

By Tim Carman

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

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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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

Analysis

The Lerners are holding on to the Nats. Here’s why that makes sense (for now).

By Chelsea Janes

Perspective

Rick Pitino still thinks he’s the main act

By Candace Buckner

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

By Steven Goff

Business

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How the housing industry is working to stop energy efficient homes

By Anna Phillips

Head of Boeing’s 737 program will leave the company

By Lori Aratani and Ian Duncan

Chipmaker Nvidia posts record growth, showing AI boom continues

By Gerrit De Vynck

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

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

IRS eyes corporate jets as the next target for auditors

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

Food