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Inside the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital

By William Booth and Lorenzo Tugnoli

Election 2024

How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem

By Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer and Clara Ence Morse

Trump Media stock plunges as 2023 Truth Social loss put at $58 million

By Drew Harwell

Live

Biden to focus on health care this week while Trump spotlights immigration

Department of DataAnalysis

America suddenly has a record number of bees. What happened to colony collapse?

A gold-standard source shows a stunning boom in U.S. honeybee populations. Could that possibly be right? A Department of Data analysis found two possible explanations, one more surprising than the other.

By Andrew Van Dam

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Advice

Not rich? Take this quiz to see how to build your wealth.

By Michelle Singletary

A photo of a woman holding a white pill in one hand and a glass of water in the other hand. There are pink and blue illustrated lines coming off of the pill.

Advice

Should I take a multivitamin? Here’s what the science says.

By Trisha Pasricha, MD

A beginner’s guide to vegetable gardening

By Kate Morgan

An illustration of a man reading a book on a park bench, smiling. In the background someone is flying a kite, and another person is playing the guitar.

Fear of missing out? Find the joy in saying ‘no.’

By Richard Sima and Pepita Sándwich

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Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texas

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Chunk of California’s scenic Highway 1 falls off cliff, forcing evacuations

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Wes Moore envisioned economic revival. Then the Key Bridge collapsed.

The freshman governor, an ascendant figure for Democrats who had already faced high expectations, now tackles his first major test in a moment of crisis.

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Review

I tried the new Google. Its answers are worse.

The AI-‘supercharged’ version of Google sometimes makes up facts, misinterprets questions and picks low-quality sources — even after ten months of public testing.

By Geoffrey A. Fowler

10 noteworthy books for April

Historical fiction, memoirs and fantasy novels are worth your while this month.

By Becky Meloan

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Three strokes weren’t the endgame. Chess is helping him come back.

By Clarence Williams

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How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem

Small-dollar donations to Donald Trump and the GOP are way down since 2019 and 2020. But the former president’s team says they see a turnaround.

Trump Media stock plunges as 2023 Truth Social loss put at $58 million

The Kim Mulkey way

Analysis

Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?

Opinion

What we have learned about the Supreme Court’s right-wingers

election 2024

Democrats spar over registration as worries about young and minority voters grow

The rise in Trump support among nonregistered voters has run up against a long-held Democratic policy priority of growing the voter rolls.

By Michael Scherer and Sabrina Rodriguez

Trump falsely attacks Biden as Easter coincides with Transgender Day of Visibility

By Amy B Wang

Analysis

The right is furious after 2 things happen on same day

By Philip Bump

Cesar Chavez’s family tells RFK Jr. to stop using activist’s name, image

By Meryl Kornfield

Politics

Analysis

Nancy Mace demonstrates how easy it is to fear-monger on crime

By Philip Bump

The Early 202Analysis

The Mayorkas impeachment trial could be very short

By Theodoric Meyer, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Tobi Raji

GOP congressman from Michigan says Gaza should be approached ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

By Maegan Vazquez

Trump Cases

Appeals court sides with judge who threatened Peter Navarro with contempt

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The Trump Trials: The calm before the Stormy

By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett

Trump appeals judge’s ruling keeping Fani Willis on Georgia case

By Holly Bailey

Advice

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Carolyn Hax: It’s tough to split kid duty with someone who runs 15 hours a week

Husband took up running seriously as a treatment for his depression, but now their parenting load is split unequally.

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Ask Amy: Colleague from 20 years ago keeps using me as a reference

April 1

Miss Manners: I hate my April Fool’s birthday and getting pranked

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Ask Sahaj: He told me he saw a future with me. Now he has a new girlfriend.

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Work Advice: Co-worker’s smells have everyone’s nose out of joint

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Perspective

Cancer patients often want ‘one more round.’ Should doctors say no?

By Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD

What to know about 6 important blood tests for your health

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‘Ego-lifting’ cited as probable factor in exercise-related head injuries

By Linda Searing

Advice

Your body makes melatonin. Here’s how to use it for better sleep.

By Lisa Strauss

Fear of missing out? Find the joy in saying ‘no.’

By Richard Sima and Pepita Sándwich

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

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The problem with your sneakers? They’re built to last too long.

By Daliah Singer

Fears of environmental disaster rise as ship sinks after Houthi attack

By Jennifer Hassan

Electric trucks get a boost from Biden, worrying trucking industry

By Maxine Joselow

Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years

By Shannon Osaka

China is all in on green tech. The U.S. and Europe fear unfair competition.

By Christian Shepherd

Record heat in Europe, Asia closes another extremely warm month for planet

By Ian Livingston

How cloudy will your area be for the solar eclipse? See the forecast.

By Ian Livingston, Lauren Tierney and Jason Samenow

The cosmic truth that gets revealed during a total solar eclipse

By Joel Achenbach

Total solar eclipse to steal the show in April’s sky

By Geoff Chester

Surprise! The federal government made a website that doesn’t stink.

By Shira Ovide

Princess Catherine cancer video spawns fresh round of AI conspiracies

By Tatum Hunter

How apps are turning you into an unpaid lobbyist

By Shira Ovide

Technology

Google to delete some data it collected on ‘private’ web browsers

By Gerrit De Vynck

Ready or not, self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America’s highways

By Trisha Thadani

The ‘Beastification of YouTube’ may be coming to an end

By Taylor Lorenz

National

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Alex Murdaugh sentenced to 40 years for financial crimes

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How the FBI’s visit to a Muslim woman became a right-wing rallying cry

By Hannah Allam

In sports-crazed Kansas City, a proposed stadium tax exposes deep divisions

By Mark Dent

Harvard removes human skin from the binding of 19th-century book

By Maham Javaid

Tenn.’s GOP-led legislature overrides Memphis police rules prompted by Tyre Nichols’s killing

By Justine McDaniel

WORLD

Hunger stalks war-ravaged Sudan

By Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi and Katharine Houreld

Opposition victories in Turkey’s local elections deal Erdogan rare defeat

By Beril Eski and Kareem Fahim

He was hanged for selling slaves. Divers may have found his ship.

By Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela

In Nigeria, families plead for answers after mass kidnapping by extremists

By Mouta Ali and Rachel Chason

Inside Ukraine’s quest to keep its European dream alive

By Emily Rauhala and Siobhán O'Grady

Middle East Conflict

Families of Israeli hostages join protests calling for Netanyahu to go

By Shira Rubin and Louisa Loveluck

Biden’s plan for Gaza pier endangers U.S. troops, experts warn

By Dan Lamothe

Cease-fire talks to resume in Cairo; U.N. observers hurt in Lebanon blast

By Kelly Kasulis Cho, Leo Sands and Lior Soroka

Biden administration signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel

By John Hudson

Israel-Gaza war coverage

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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Jordan Mechner vs. the sands of time

The famed game designer of “Karateka” and “Prince of Persia” is obsessed with recovering the past, through a love of history and family.

By Gene Park

What Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ means to the Black Opry

By Emily Yahr

A conservative publisher actually had ties to Soros. Litigation ensued.

By Will Sommer

How eight beloved stand-up comics got their starts

By Olivia McCormack

Chance Perdomo, ‘Gen V’ actor, dies at 27 after motorcycle crash

By Annabelle Timsit

Review

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ isn’t a country album. It’s worse.

By Chris Richards

Who is Linda Martell, the Black country musician Beyoncé spotlights?

By Jonathan Edwards

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Most sudden infant deaths involved unsafe sleep habits, study finds

By Erin Blakemore

Analysis

The ACA’s remarkable political second act

By Dan Diamond and McKenzie Beard

Bird flu spreads to dairy cows in Idaho, Michigan and New Mexico

By Lena H. Sun

Science

Sea horse research gets a boost from volunteer citizen-scientists

By Erin Blakemore

Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

By Joel Achenbach

Climate change threatens snow cover at ski destinations worldwide

By Erin Blakemore

SPORTS

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What motivates the Nats in a rebuild? ‘The end of the tunnel.’

By Andrew Golden

Nationals opening day forecast: Trending drier for game against Pirates

By Dan Stillman

It’s a Final Four with a Big One, but the Other Three will take their shots

By Chuck Culpepper1 hour ago

The Kim Mulkey way

By Kent Babb

Former NFL star Vontae Davis found dead at his Florida home

By Matt Bonesteel29 minutes ago

Business

(Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos/Washington Post; Zack Wittman for The Washington Post)

Algorithms guide senior home staffing. Managers say care is suffering.

By Douglas MacMillan and Christopher Rowland

America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

Baltimore braces for economic hit amid fears port shuttered for months

By David J. Lynch

Mnuchin tried to force a sale of TikTok. Now he’s a possible bidder.

By Tony Romm

Last year was bad for commercial real estate. 2024 could be worse.

By Rachel Siegel

Food