The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video

Border security deadlock heightens risk of government shutdown

Funding for about 70 percent of the government will expire Saturday just after midnight unless Congress acts, but disagreements over immigration have stymied talks.

By Jacob Bogage

Biden toughened asylum screening. It won’t contain a new border surge.

By Nick Miroff

Texas National Guard troops add razor wire to the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso last week. (Getty Images)

Russian voters, answering Navalny’s call, protest as Putin extends his rule

Vladimir Putin claimed a fifth term in office, extending his rule until at least 2030.

By Francesca Ebel and Robyn Dixon

MORE COVERAGE

She wanted to take America back to ‘biblical truth.’ Then she won a school board seat.

Linda Wenhold was “blown away” by the Patriot Academy’s classes, which tap into a growing fear among some evangelical Christians that their faith and its rightful place at the center of American culture and government were under siege.

Story by Greg Jaffe | Photos by Michelle Gustafson

March Madness

Perspective

Region-by-region breakdown of the men’s field

Anyone who watched college basketball this season should agree Connecticut is tops. Anyone who watched the past two months knows Iowa State got a bad deal.

By John Feinstein

Analysis

The seven best bets to win the men’s tournament

By Matt Bonesteel

Analysis

The five top contenders to win the women’s tournament

By Megan Gauer

Analysis

The best first-round upset picks in the men’s tournament

By Neil Greenberg

The men’s tournament bracket

By Washington Post staff

The women’s tournament bracket

By Washington Post staff

Analysis

Men’s tournament snubs and surprises

By Patrick Stevens

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Perspective

What to know before — and after — cataract surgery

By Allan Steigleman and Elizabeth M. Hofmeister

This farro and sausage stew is the easiest one-pot meal I know

By Julia Turshen

Finding a doctor who specializes in senior care is hard. Here’s why.

By Carly Stern

Perspective

We tried 4 Vegas hotel rooms, from $11 to $170. The best surprised us.

By Andrea Sachs

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

Opinions

Can anything stop the D.C. crime wave?

Mayor Bowser? The D.C. Council? Prosecutors? Courts?

Opinion by the Editorial Board

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

Opinion by Yulia Navalnaya

Does admissions fairness make my campus look too female?

Opinion by Kate Cohen

All that is true about aging is illuminated on a walk

Opinion by Anne Lamott

What these moms and women think Katie Britt missed

Letters to the Editor

Cartoon: It’s Putin, again

Opinion by Ann Telnaes

Biden is learning that being progressive is good policy — and good politics

Opinion by Perry Bacon Jr.

Game Break

On the Record

One quote. Three chances.

Mini Meta Crossword

5x5 bitesized crossword.

Sudoku

Number. Order. Logic.

Keyword

One word to spell them all.

Failure of ALS drug puts a spotlight on controversial FDA approvals

Critics say the Food and Drug Administration has gone too far greenlighting drugs despite concerns about their effectiveness.

By Daniel Gilbert

Georgia could greenlight a mine near one of the South’s last wild places

A planned titanium mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has drawn far-flung resistance from people worried about the fate of the Georgia swamp.

By Brady Dennis

House TikTok bill gives ByteDance 6 months to sell. A deal could be more complicated.

The recent history of big mergers and acquisitions suggests it will take far longer to close any deal to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations.

By Drew Harwell and Eva Dou

FOR YOURecommended stories

Deep Reads: The Hero

March 16

Try This

Stop trying to fall asleep

By Cristina Quinn

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS

Live Chat

Erik Wemple answers your questions on the media

Monday, March 18, at 12:00 p.m. EDT

Washington Post Live

Actor Regina King on the trailblazing legacy of Shirley Chisholm

Tuesday, March 19, at 2:30 p.m. EDT

The education of a true believer

Linda Wenhold absorbed the Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a local school board seat.

Perspective

What to know before — and after — cataract surgery

Opinion

All that is true about aging is illuminated on a walk

Russian voters, answering Navalny’s call, protest as Putin extends his rule

Advice

Carolyn Hax: Parent embarrassed that college-grad son is a bartender

election 2024

Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’

By Marisa Iati

Group sues after novel Biden deepfake urged voters to skip N.H. primary

By Tobi Raji

Biden continues fundraising momentum with a $53 million February

By Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager

The FixAnalysis

The magnitude of Pence refusing to endorse Trump

By Aaron Blake

Promo video for Texas dental practice poses new ethics issue for Noem

By Maegan Vazquez

Politics

(AP)

‘Jawboning’ politicians who push to delete social media posts draw scrutiny

By Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski and Ann E. Marimow

Fact CheckerAnalysis

President Biden’s $400,000 tax pledge has a ‘magic asterisk’

By Glenn Kessler1 hour ago

The TikTok debate featured many disputed claims. Here are 7 of them.

By Taylor Lorenz

U.S. courts clarify policy limiting ‘judge shopping’

By Tobi Raji

Analysis

The Great Resignation hits Congress: Lawmakers are quitting, too

By Paul Kane

Trump Cases

The Trump Trials: In New York, don’t save the date

By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett

How a sleuth defense attorney and a disgruntled law partner hurt the Trump case in Georgia

By Amy Gardner and Holly Bailey

Trump criminal cases hit delays, disruptions that play into campaign strategy

By Hannah Knowles

Trump hush money trial delayed 30 days to consider new evidence

By Shayna Jacobs and Devlin Barrett

Advice

(Nick Galifianakis for The Washington Post)

Carolyn Hax: Parent embarrassed that college-grad son is a bartender

When people ask, this parent is embarrassed to admit college-grad son works as a bartender.

By Carolyn HaxMarch 18

Ask Amy: Can I help my boyfriend reconnect with his estranged family?

March 18

Miss Manners: I keep stumbling into proposals

March 18

Ask Sahaj: I resent that my parents have relied on me my entire life. I’m so tired.

March 14

Work Advice: I’m a foreign-born woman making less than my male direct report

March 14

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Recent

Why do the majority of polls break for Trump? I answered your questions.

My 7-year-old and 4-year-old keep swearing. How do we get them to stop?

Featured

Cooking without a nonstick skillet? Your kitchen questions, answered.

More live chats

Well+BeingNews and advice to live well every day

(Bianca Bagnarelli For The Washington Post)

Medical Mysteries: A rolled ankle set this runner down a painful path

By Sandra G. Boodman

How a cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts

By Daniel Gilbert

St. Patrick’s Day green foods and menopause brain: The week in Well+Being

By Tara Parker-Pope

Advice

Not everyone needs therapy

By Emily Edlynn

Healthy habits may shield against dementia even after brain changes

By Erin Blakemore

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

How you should think about those Google Flights pollution numbers

By Nicolás Rivero

Want a more sustainable meat for the grill? Try a 13-foot python steak.

By Rachel Pannett

U.S. moves to save imperiled bird of the West by limiting oil drilling

By Maxine Joselow

EPA curbs cancer-causing chemical used to sterilize medical devices

By Maxine Joselow

(AP)

Why Americans pay so much more than anyone else for weather disasters

By Shannon Osaka

Four ways total solar eclipses helped us learn more about our universe

By Kasha Patel

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

By Dylan Moriarty and Kevin Schaul

Cherry blossoms hit near-record early peak, a sign of climate change

By Jason Samenow and Kevin Ambrose

‘Devil comet’ could soon be visible to the naked eye. How to see it.

By Dan Stillman

Old gadgets aren’t just nostalgic. Sometimes they’re just better for you.

By Chris Velazco

Overwhelmed by subscriptions? Here are 8 tips to save money.

By Heather Kelly

How two smart people fell for a classic Facebook scam

By Jordan P. Hickey

Technology

Group sues after novel Biden deepfake urged voters to skip N.H. primary

By Tobi Raji

House TikTok bill gives ByteDance 6 months to sell. That’s unlikely.

By Drew Harwell and Eva Dou

The TikTok debate featured many disputed claims. Here are 7 of them.

By Taylor Lorenz

National

(Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Ramadan shrouded in grief for U.S. Muslims amid Gaza deaths, devastation

By Reis Thebault, Allan Lengel, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Emmanuel Felton

Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

By Kate Rix

Man accused of killing family in Pa. rampage in custody, police say

By Justine McDaniel and Nick Parker

United Boeing plane that landed with missing panel prompts investigation

By Ellen Francis and Amber Ferguson

Sheriff should’ve taken Maine gunman into custody before attack, report finds

By Justine McDaniel

WORLD

Yulia Navalnaya, left, Alexei Navalny’s widow, enters the Russian Embassy in Berlin to vote. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

With Russian opposition exiled, Berlin becomes center of anti-Putin protest

By Mary Ilyushina

Niger junta announces end to military relationship with U.S.

By Rachel Chason, Omar Hama Saley and Rachel Pannett

Icelandic volcano erupts, turning sky orange and forcing evacuations

By Annabelle Timsit

Haiti’s descent into chaos, in photos

By Amanda Coletta and Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel

Philippe de Gaulle, naval commander and son of French leader, dies at 102

By Brian Murphy

Middle East Conflict

Thousands of Gazans are missing, under the rubble, detained or dead in the streets

By Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb

U.S. attempts to stop arms smuggling to Yemen with limited resources

By Dan Lamothe and Missy Ryan

Netanyahu says Israel ‘will not succumb’ to pressure to stop war in Gaza

By Niha Masih, Jennifer Hassan and Sarah Dadouch

U.S. military footprint expands as White House tries to contain fallout of war in Gaza

By Steve Hendrix, Susannah George and Missy Ryan

Israel-Gaza war coverage

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

(Katty Huertas/The Post; Getty Images for Disney)

Beyoncé has a country hit. How will country radio handle that?

If one of the world’s biggest superstars gets a hit on country radio, will it help other Black country artists get airplay too?

By Emily Yahr

Biden needles Trump on age, mental fitness, finances at D.C. dinner

By Jesús Rodríguez

Perspective

Does John Galliano deserve your forgiveness?

By Rachel Tashjian

‘Problemista’ injects absurd humor into an immigration nightmare

By Ann Hornaday

Perspective

Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ marked a specific event. What does it say today?

By Sebastian Smee

Review

The gender-swapped ‘Company’ was good on Broadway but even better on tour

By Thomas Floyd

Art Review

The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t just nightclubs. It was about ideas.

By Philip Kennicott

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Finding a doctor who specializes in senior care is hard. Here’s why.

By Carly Stern

Perspective

What to know before — and after — cataract surgery

By Allan Steigleman and Elizabeth M. Hofmeister

Four years in, covid flags no longer fly. Families’ grief remains.

By Jenna Portnoy

Science

What we can learn from whale grandmothers

By Maggie Penman and Dino Grandoni

Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest

By Erin Blakemore

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

By Mark Johnson

SPORTS

(Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Perspective

John Feinstein’s region-by-region breakdown: Iowa State deserved better

By John Feinstein

Analysis

The best first-round upset picks in the NCAA men’s tournament

By Neil Greenberg

Analysis

NCAA men’s tournament snubs and surprises

By Patrick Stevens

The schedule and the injury report do Wizards no favors vs. Celtics

By Ava Wallace

Analysis

The five top contenders to win the NCAA women’s basketball tournament

By Megan Gauer

Business

(iStock)

11 charts that show how covid changed the U.S. economy

By Rachel Lerman and Abha Bhattarai

Review

Think capitalism is terrible? This economist says it’s already dead.

By Leif Weatherby

Advice

More car owners are underwater on loans because of lower trade-in values

By Michelle Singletary

No more default commissions? No sweat, says one luxury real estate agent

By Rachel Lerman

Realtors’ settlement could dramatically change cost of housing sales

By Julian Mark, Aaron Gregg and Rachel Kurzius

Food