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

As several self-driving truck companies gain momentum around the country, state and federal lawmakers are grappling with how to regulate the new technology.

By Trisha Thadani

America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws

At least 16 states have one or more bills to weaken their child labor laws, while 13 are seeking to strengthen them.

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

Major storm to sweep United States with severe weather, snow, flooding

A storm that has already produced flooding and heavy snow in California will cross the country this week, with potentially severe weather from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic.

By Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow

MARCH MADNESS

N.C. State’s wild ride hits the Final Four after a win over Duke

DJ Burns Jr. had a season-high 29 points as the No. 11 seed Wolfpack won its ninth in a row with a 76-64 victory over the fourth-seeded Blue Devils.

By Gene Wang

Purdue brings the noise as it reaches its first Final Four since 1980

LSU’s Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning

South Carolina keeps it loose on its way to a fourth straight Final Four

NCAA women’s tournament games played on court with incorrect three-point line

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

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

By Richard Sima and Pepita Sándwich

Perspective

Can we have kids AND nice things?

By Caitlin Gibson

What’s the best way to put on a duvet cover?

By Mari-Jane Williams, Allie Caren and Justin Scuiletti

Perspective

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

By Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

Opinions

You can’t get thrown out for thinking, so take a swing at George Will’s baseball quiz

Worse than a Mets doubleheader would be striking out on these questions.

Opinion by George F. Will

Want to be closer with your adult children? Stop texting them.

Opinion by Jan Sokoloff Harness

The common lesson from the MSNBC uproar and Trump’s Bible business

Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.

I went to Mecca to find solace. I found acceptance.

Opinion by Rana Ayyub

The meaning of Hagar

Opinion by Marilynne Robinson

Christine Blasey Ford is no hero, if justice is the measure

Opinion by Kathleen Parker

The recommendation of Eastman’s disbarment is a big deal — for Trump

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

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Trump attacks Biden over Easter coinciding with Transgender Day of Visibility

By Amy B Wang

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

By Hannah Allam

Live: Middle East conflict

Netanyahu faces protests; WHO says 21 patients died in al-Shifa Hospital siege

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Baltimore mayor weathers racist attacks after bridge collapse

Brandon Scott has been called “Baltimore’s DEI mayor” and attacked for his facial hair and for not wearing a suit as he deals with the Key Bridge collapse.

By Emmanuel Felton

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Book Review

The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?

In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt argues that the move from “play-based childhood” to “phone-based childhood” has had disastrous effects.

By Judith Warner

Under Biden and Trump, the presidential first pitch has disappeared

Washington’s presidential first-pitch tradition is on an indefinite hiatus, and with a Biden-Trump rematch looming, there’s no telling when it will resume.

By Frederic J. Frommer

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The Kim Mulkey way

The LSU coach holds grudges, battles everyone — and keeps winning. But at what cost?

Major storm to sweep United States with severe weather, snow, flooding

Opinion

The common lesson from the MSNBC uproar and Trump’s Bible business

Advice

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

Opinion

The recommendation of Eastman’s disbarment is a big deal — for Trump

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Obamacare once cost Democrats elections. Now Biden’s hoping to win on it.

The Affordable Care Act, a law once derided and demonized by Republicans as a big government power grab, is becoming a politically untouchable part of the American safety net, with more than 45 million people now relying on its provisions for health coverage.

By Dan Diamond

Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.

By Josh Dawsey, Jeff Stein, Michael Scherer and Elizabeth Dwoskin

Donald Trump shares image of President Biden with hands and feet tied

By Azi Paybarah

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

By Meryl Kornfield

Politics

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

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

By Maegan Vazquez

Analysis

Half of senior staffers in Congress are so fed up that they may quit

By Paul Kane

Trump Cases

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The Trump Trials: The Calm Before the Stormy

The latest news in Donald Trump’s four criminal cases, and what to watch for this week in New York and elsewhere.

By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law

By Spencer S. Hsu

After Trump attacks hush money judge’s daughter, DA seeks broader gag order

By Shayna Jacobs

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.

By Carolyn HaxApril 1

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

April 1

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

March 28

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

March 28

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Dining chat: I found glass in my food and was still charged for dinner

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Well+BeingNews and advice to live well every day

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Advice

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

By Lisa Strauss

How your future self can help your present well-being

By Stacey Colino

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

By Richard Sima and Pepita Sándwich

More than one alcoholic drink a day raises heart disease risk for women

By Caren Chesler

Young people are getting Botox to prevent wrinkles. Does it work?

By Amanda Morris

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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

Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet

By Anna Phillips

How the eclipse might heal our tattered nation

By David Baron

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

By Ian Livingston, Lauren Tierney and Jason Samenow

Five reasons 2024’s solar eclipse will be better than the one in 2017

By Matthew Cappucci

Eclipse towns have two big concerns: Traffic and port-a-potties

By Colleen Grablick

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

Mnuchin’s plan to buy TikTok has some insiders bewildered

By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Drew Harwell

Data from 73 million AT&T accounts leaked to dark web, company says

By Rachel Lerman

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

By Taylor Lorenz

National

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College internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one

By Nina Agrawal

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

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

By Jonathan Edwards

Lou Whittaker, renowned mountaineer and Rainier guide, dies at 95

By Harrison Smith

WORLD

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Famine looms in Sudan after a year of war

By Ishaan Tharoor

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

By Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela

Inside Ukraine’s quest to keep its European dream alive

By Emily Rauhala and Siobhán O'Grady

U.S. considers allowing limited oil business to continue in Venezuela

By Karen DeYoung and Samantha Schmidt

In Nigeria, families are pleading for answers after mass kidnapping by extremists

By Mouta Ali and Rachel Chason

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

As the new Beyoncé album dropped, a group of country singers performed in the Washington area and explained why they are so inspired by it.

By Emily Yahr

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

By Will Sommer

Perspective

Billie Holiday’s gowns and gardenias were an assertion of dignity

By Paul Alexander

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

By Annabelle Timsit

Review

‘Tommy’ is a strange Broadway show. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t see it.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Logan Lerman and Joey King’s parallel paths to ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

By Thomas Floyd

Kim Kardashian said her tables were Donald Judd pieces. She’s being sued.

By Jennifer Hassan

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Most sudden infant deaths involved unsafe sleep habits, study finds

By Erin Blakemore

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

By Lena H. Sun

FDA issues alert on heart pump associated with 49 deaths

By Rachel Roubein

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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N.C. State’s wild ride hits the Final Four after a win over rival Duke

By Gene Wang

Purdue brings the noise as it reaches its first Final Four since 1980

By Chuck Culpepper

South Carolina keeps it loose on its way to a fourth straight Final Four

By Kareem Copeland

A ninth-inning surge dooms the Nats this time as Reds rally to 6-5 win

By Spencer Nusbaum

Chief morale officer Anthony Gill gives Wizards a boost in loss to Heat

By Ava Wallace

Business

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Covid changed how we spend: More YOLO splurging but less saving

By Abha Bhattarai

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

By Rachel Siegel

Biden administration to cap rent increases for some affordable housing units

By Rachel Siegel

Advice

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman taught us that money isn’t always about math

By Michelle Singletary

Analysis

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

By Andrew Van Dam

Food