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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.

By Shawn Boburg, Pranshu Verma and Chris Dehghanpoor

TikTok

House overwhelmingly passes bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S.

The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns.

By Cristiano Lima-Strong

How each House member voted on the bill targeting TikTok

By Hannah Dormido and Adrián Blanco1 hour ago

What to know about TikTok owner ByteDance

These countries have already blocked or restricted TikTok

Analysis

Spring is coming earlier and earlier. See how your city has changed in our map.

Plants are emerging earlier in the year. Look up your area to see how it’s changing.

By Harry Stevens

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Live Chat

Trouble in the kitchen? Ask us your cooking questions.

By Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal59 minutes ago

Perspective

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

By Andrea Sachs1 hour ago

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

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

Opinions

Want to measure climate change? Head to your backyard.

The time to notice and appreciate the world around us is now.

Opinion by Tove Danovich and Yan Wu

Yulia Navalnaya: Putin isn’t a politician, he’s a gangster

Opinion by Yulia Navalnaya

The real problem with the Trump-Biden choice

Opinion by Robert Wright

Ken Ikenberry, a gifted writer who found the extraordinary in the ordinary

Opinion by the Editorial Board

A scene of revelry, then slaughter, is now an Oct. 7 memorial

Opinion by Mark Lasswell

Should Biden debate Trump? I’m answering your questions.

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

On race-based school admissions, the Supreme Court flinched

Opinion by George F. Will

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Ga. judge dismisses six charges in Trump election interference case

An Atlanta-area judge dismissed six counts of a 41-count criminal racketeering indictment, ruling that those charges lacked specific detail, but declined to dismiss the case.

By Holly BaileyUpdated 49 minutes ago

Live: Election 2024

D.C. Cherry Blossoms

Park Service to cut down dozens of cherry trees for sea wall project

Most of the trees, which are around Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park, will be replaced, the Park Service said.

By Michael E. Ruane

Tidal Basin on Sunday. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for Post)

Where to see cherry blossoms in the D.C. area

By Lauren Tierney and Tim Meko

Peak bloom could occur within week as temperatures soar

Whistleblower death compounds bad news for Boeing

A drumbeat of critiques and bad headlines have followed the storied American company for years.

By Ian Duncan and Lori ArataniUpdated 1 hour ago

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

By Jaclyn Peiser1 hour ago

U.S. sends more Marines to Haiti to protect Embassy

By Matthew Hay Brown1 hour ago

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

By Brian Murphy

LIVE

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

By Andrew Jeong, Maham Javaid, Bryan Pietsch and Mikhail Klimentov25 minutes ago

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Trouble in the kitchen? Ask us your cooking questions.

By Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal59 minutes ago

Your Daily Listen

Wednesday briefing: Biden vs. Trump; Aaron Rodgers; takeaways from Robert Hur’s testimony; TikTok ban; Andrew Tate; and more

College athletes are unionizing. Could this change sports?

March 12

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.

Ga. judge dismisses six charges in Trump election interference case

Opinion

Should Biden debate Trump? I’m answering your questions.

Analysis

You’re not crazy. Spring is really coming earlier in much of the U.S.

House passes TikTok crackdown that could ban app in U.S.

election 2024

Politics

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

By Amanda Ferguson and Marisa BellackUpdated 23 minutes ago

Why Trump is now against a TikTok ban

By Josh Dawsey and Jeff Stein

The TikTok bill is an ultimatum. Here’s what it would do.

By Aaron Gregg and Cristiano Lima-Strong

Analysis

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

By Philip Bump

Advice

(Nick Galifianakis for The Washington Post)

Carolyn Hax: Brother is a risk to ‘cut and run’ on his premature newborn twins

She wonders how best to support her brother, who is “panicking” after his wife gave birth to fragile premature twins.

By Carolyn HaxMarch 13

Ask Amy: My brother doesn’t know we’re half-siblings

March 13

Miss Manners: Is it rude to use all the washers in a shared laundry room?

March 13

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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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

Advice

What grief does to your brain, and how to cope with it

By Christopher W.T. Miller, MD

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

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

With microplastics, scientists are in a race against time

By Shannon Osaka

(James Gourley/Getty Images)

Australian push for fuel emissions standards hits a speed bump

By Michael E. Miller

Fatal heat wave strikes unspoiled swath of Great Barrier Reef

By Scott Dance1 hour ago

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

Meteorologists say AccuWeather’s cloudy eclipse forecast is bogus

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

This company intends to be the first to mine the moon

By Christian Davenport

TikTok’s contribution to the economy is huge, new report asserts

By Taylor Lorenz4 minutes ago

TikTok creators say House bill’s passage threatens lives and livelihoods

By Taylor Lorenz22 minutes ago

National

(Sergio Flores for The Post)

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

A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.

By Kyle Swenson and Amber Ferguson

Grandmother wins $4M after cops using Find My iPhone mistakenly raid home

By Ben Brasch

World

(Reuters)

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

By David L. Stern, Serhiy Morgunov and Natalia AbbakumovaUpdated 22 minutes ago

Navalny’s former chief of staff attacked with hammer outside Lithuania home

By Sammy Westfall

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

U.S. sends more Marines to Haiti to protect embassy

By Matthew Hay Brown1 hour ago

Middle East Conflict

A Ramadan of ‘sadness’ as war-weary Gazans go hungry

By Miriam Berger

Gaza war may stoke ‘generational’ terrorism threat, top intel official says

By Shane Harris, Abigail Hauslohner and Ellen Nakashima

Today’s WorldViewAnalysis

Biden has huge leverage on Israel. He hasn’t really used it yet.

By Adam Taylor

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

Your clothes no longer serve you. Now what?

Lyn Slater, the 70-year-old former fashion influencer and the author of “How to Be Old,” offers lessons on what to wear for your next act in life.

By Raquel Laneri

Falling in love again with disposable cameras

By Jessica M. Goldstein

Picasso tried to ruin his ex’s career. The Picasso Museum will show her art.

By Annabelle Timsit

‘Love Lies Bleeding’: Kristen Stewart in a radically ripped romance

By Jessica Kiang

Eric Carmen, Raspberries frontman who sang ‘Hungry Eyes,’ dies at 74

By Harrison Smith

A new satire takes another whack at Silicon Valley — and the men who fund it

By Taylor Lorenz

Music Review

At the Kennedy Center, a fiery Rotterdam Philharmonic closes its tour

By Michael Andor Brodeur

D.C., MD. & VA.

SPORTS

(Julia Nikhinson/For The Washington Post)

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

By Jesse Dougherty

Gonzaga is no stranger to March, even when it’s not quite Gonzaga

By Chuck Culpepper

Analysis

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

By Adam Kilgore

NFL free agency tracker: Browns’ deal with Winston leaves Flacco out of a job

By Mark Maske and Nicki Jhabvala1 hour ago

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

By Nicki Jhabvala and Sam Fortier

Business

(Kendrick Brinson for The Post)

Biden aims to repair places left broken by previous economic strategies

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

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

By Jaclyn Peiser1 hour ago

David E. Harris, first Black pilot for a major U.S. carrier, dies at 89

By Brian Murphy

As Hershey battles cocoa costs, chocolate lovers may help cool inflation

By David J. Lynch

How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs

By Tony Romm

Food