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Biden aims to repair places left broken by previous economic strategies

The White House unveiled $3.3 billion in federal grants to remove or retrofit highways in many cities that separate minority neighborhoods from jobs, hospitals and other services.

By David J. Lynch and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

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President expected to voice concern at proposed Japanese purchase of U.S. Steel

Devotees of TikTok at the Capitol on Wednesday. (AP)

TikTok creators say House ban threatens lives and livelihoods

While proponents of the bill insisted during the debate that it doesn’t ban TikTok, few creators or advocates accepted that assurance at face value.

By Taylor Lorenz

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Where darkness will fall during the total solar eclipse

See the path of totality — the areas that will experience midday darkness.

By Dylan Moriarty and Kevin Schaul

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How to find special glasses for the total solar eclipse — and how to spot the fakes

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Three roommates juggle tasks (cooking, prepping and cleaning) inside a home. The back wall of the house is cut off and you see the three characters working.

Perspective

6 tips for cooking in a shared kitchen with roommates

By Anna Luisa Rodriguez

Perspective

What does $11 get you in Vegas? A surprisingly decent hotel room.

By Andrea Sachs

Advice

Friends don’t charge friends for dinner parties

By Michelle Singletary

Bleisure, buddymoon and gamping: Your guide to the new travel trends

By Andrea Sachs

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Oklahoma nonbinary teen’s death ruled suicide

Nex Benedict’s death in February after an altercation at school triggered vigils across the country.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

An artist’s rendering shows what Interlune’s Helium-3 harvester might look like on the the moon. (Interlune)

This company intends to be the first to mine the moon

Interlune is focused on Helium-3, a stable isotope that is scarce on Earth but plentiful on the moon and could be used as fuel in nuclear fusion reactors.

By Christian Davenport

Predatory online groups coerce children into degrading acts, then boast about it

A global network of online groups thriving on Discord and Telegram has targeted children with a form of social media terror that authorities and tech companies have struggled to control.

Book Review

After Kavanaugh: Christine Blasey Ford tells the rest of her story

By Monica Hesse

Dorie Ladner, dauntless civil rights activist, dies at 81

By Emily Langer

Lawmakers begin efforts to move around Johnson, force vote on Ukraine aid

By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Abigail Hauslohner

Congressman helps airlift author Mitch Albom, 9 others out of Haiti

By Kyle Melnick and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff

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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm

A global network of online groups has targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror that authorities and technology companies have struggled to control, an examination finds.

Follow a mile-by-mile map of the total solar eclipse

Review

After Kavanaugh: Christine Blasey Ford tells the rest of her story

Opinion

The special counsel was unfair to Biden and his transcript proves it

Advice

Carolyn Hax: His version of respect for women results in few second dates

election 2024

Aaron Rodgers on politics: ‘I’m laughing at both sides’

By Azi Paybarah

Analysis

Could anti-vaccine Republicans ditch Trump for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

By Aaron Blake

Union to spend $200 million to get working-class voters to back Biden, Democrats

By Sabrina Rodriguez

No Labels to appoint a panel Thursday to pick presidential candidate

By Michael Scherer

Republicans’ House majority is their smallest in decades, and shrinking

By Kati Perry

Politics

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Hunter Biden declines House committee invitation to testify publicly

By Mariana Alfaro

Irish anger over Gaza may make for a tense White House St. Patrick’s Day

By Amanda Ferguson and Marisa Bellack

Unions, Democrats blast Biden’s proposed 2 percent raise for federal workers

By Joe Davidson

Why Trump is now against a TikTok ban

By Josh Dawsey and Jeff Stein

Analysis

Support for LGBTQ+ protections is tied to politics more than population

By Philip Bump

Trump Cases

Georgia judge dismisses six charges in Trump election interference case

By Holly Bailey

What happens if Fani Willis is removed from the Trump Georgia case?

By Amy Gardner

Trump’s Georgia case hangs on key decision of a relatively new judge

By Holly Bailey

Advice

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Carolyn Hax: His version of respect for women results in few second dates

Is he acting like a jerk if he doesn’t give women “special treatment,” like holding doors and picking up checks?

By Carolyn HaxMarch 14

Ask Amy: Can I ask my 30-year-old son why he’s single?

March 14

Miss Manners: I put my elbow on the table at a restaurant. A stranger corrected me.

March 14

How does a parent teach a shoplifting child a lesson?

March 13

Do you have questions about parenting? Ask parenting coach Meghan Leahy.

March 7

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Well+BeingNews and advice to live well every day

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Why a too-tight sports bra may affect your breathing and energy

By Kelyn Soong

Turf fields may have ‘forever chemicals.’ Should kids be playing on them?

By Teddy Amenabar

Advice

Can I do a stool test at home instead of a colonoscopy?

By Trisha Pasricha, MD

How to know whether you have allergies or a virus

By Lindsey Bever and Allyson Chiu

Six ways to get more joy with your dog

By Stacey Colino

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

Australian push for fuel emissions standards hits a speed bump

By Michael E. Miller

At a hidden nursery, this famed sycamore could get a second life

By Allyson Chiu

Advice

The best eco-friendly home improvements you can do for less than $100

By Michael J. Coren

Farmers tampered with rain gauges to fraudulently collect insurance money

By Ben Brasch

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Analysis

You’re not crazy. Spring is getting earlier. Find out how it’s changed in your town.

By Harry Stevens

Major storm could blanket Denver with 15 inches of snow, the most in years

By Ian Livingston

Fatal heat wave strikes unspoiled swath of Great Barrier Reef

By Scott Dance

Texas Panhandle faces ‘extreme’ fire risk Wednesday

By Matthew Cappucci

Boaters and surfers called Dial-A-Buoy for 27 years. Now NOAA is hanging it up.

By Dan Stillman

How two smart people fell for a classic Facebook scam

By Jordan P. Hickey

America loves Temu. Will our adoration last for this shopping app?

By Shira Ovide

Parents have a problem with screen time, too, teens say

By Heather Kelly

Technology

House passes TikTok bill that could ban app in the U.S., spawning Senate support

By Cristiano Lima-Strong, Jacob Bogage and Mariana Alfaro

The FAA grants SpaceX a license ahead of third Starship launch attempt

By Christian Davenport

What the potential TikTok ban means, and what’s next for the bill

By Aaron Gregg and Cristiano Lima-Strong

National

(Smiley N. Pool/Dallas Morning News/AP)

Paul Alexander, who spent seven decades using iron lung, dies at 78

By Brian Murphy

Iowa transgender musician and activist acquitted on protest charges

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Uvalde police chief to resign after report defended officers’ shooting response

By Anumita Kaur

Federal agent accuses DHS of failing to protect her from sexual misconduct

By Maria Sacchetti

U.S. courts require random judge assignments to avoid ‘judge shopping’

By Tobi Raji and Ann E. Marimow

WORLD

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Putinism allows no rivals. What about an heir?

By Adam Taylor32 minutes ago

Ukraine launches new wave of strikes against Russia’s oil facilities

By David L. Stern, Serhiy Morgunov and Natalia Abbakumova

U.S. sends crisis-response Marines to Haiti to protect embassy

By Matthew Hay Brown and Alex Horton

Biden or Trump? China can’t pick its ‘poison’ to mend strained ties.

By Christian Shepherd, Lyric Li and Lily Kuo

India to implement asylum law that excludes Muslims as election nears

By Karishma Mehrotra and Sammy Westfall

Middle East Conflict

Live

Aid en route to Gaza; Israel kills Hamas militant in Lebanon

By Andrew Jeong, Maham Javaid, Bryan Pietsch and Mikhail Klimentov

Israel acknowledges strike on U.N. facility, says it targeted Hamas commander

By Kareem Fahim, John Hudson and Lior Soroka

A ship carrying 200 tons of food is heading to Gaza. What to know.

By Victoria Bisset, Leo Sands and Adam Taylor

Israel-Gaza war coverage

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

Falling in love again with disposable cameras

Gen Z and others find a nostalgic (if fuzzy) thrill in taking pictures and then waiting days to see the results.

By Jessica M. Goldstein

Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled X deal after taping an interview together

By Jeremy Barr

Your clothes no longer serve you. Now what?

By Raquel Laneri

‘Arthur the King,’ with Mark Wahlberg and a cute dog, is a royal letdown

By Thomas Floyd

Review

Astrid Sonne knows that baby-making music should be weird

By Chris Richards

Movie Review

‘Problemista’ injects absurd humor into an immigration nightmare

By Ann Hornaday

Art Review

The repetitive power of Jennifer Bartlett, master of the ’80s art world

By Kriston Capps

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Study says U.S. maternal death rate crisis is really a case of bad data

By Sabrina Malhi and Dan Keating

HHS opens probe into UnitedHealth’s cybersecurity as hack fallout continues

By Dan Diamond

Analysis

GOP-led states expand crackdowns on transgender care

By Lauren Sausser, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and McKenzie Beard

Science

Wildlife worker dons cunning disguise to care for rescued newborn fox

By Frances Vinall

‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

By Mark Johnson

Deforestation, climate change may endanger North American lizards

By Erin Blakemore

SPORTS

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Harvard offers a lot to star guard Malik Mack. Except big NIL money.

By Jesse Dougherty

Perspective

Leonard Hamilton was a trailblazer, but in the new ACC, he fits right in

By John Feinstein

Analysis

NFL free agency: Who got better, who got worse, and what questions remain?

By Adam Kilgore

NFL free agency tracker: Joe Flacco to Colts; Raiders release Jimmy Garoppolo

By Mark Maske and Nicki Jhabvala

Commanders free agency tracker: More pass-rush help, new backup QB

By Nicki Jhabvala and Sam Fortier

Business

(Chase Castor for The Post)

Dollar Tree, Family Dollar plan to close 1,000 stores

By Jaclyn Peiser

Pandemic left much of the world on lower human development trajectory

By David J. Lynch

Biden expected to voice concern at proposed Japanese purchase of U.S. Steel

By David J. Lynch and Jeff Stein

Biden aims to repair places left broken by previous economic strategies

By David J. Lynch and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Whistleblower death compounds bad news for Boeing

By Ian Duncan and Lori Aratani

Food