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Israeli forces withdraw from al-Shifa Hospital

Emergency workers who arrived at al-Shifa Hospital say it was badly bombarded. Israel’s military said it conducted “precise operational activity” against Hamas.

By Washington Post staffUpdated 1 hour ago

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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

Department of DataAnalysis

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

Hidden deep within the latest Census of Agriculture lurks a shocking fact: The United States has more bee colonies than ever before. Is it true? What happened?

By Andrew Van Dam

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

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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 Morgan1 hour ago

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

Perspective

Can we have kids AND nice things?

By Caitlin Gibson

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

7 things to know today: Israel protests; bridge cleanup; Trump attacks; major storm; March Madness; and more

Opinions

Ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires a Sadat-style leader

Israelis are saddled with Netanyahu and Palestinians with Abbas. Both are unpopular and clinging to power. But that can’t last forever.

Opinion by Max Boot

Here’s why Americans under 40 are so disillusioned with capitalism

Opinion by Heather Long

The most exciting idea in politics is indifference

Opinion by Jason Willick

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

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

The Taliban’s oppression of women is apartheid. Let’s call it that.

Opinion by Melanne Verveer, Karima Bennoune and Lina Tori Jan

What’s behind Europe’s surly mood? ‘Whaddya got?’

Opinion by Lee Hockstader

How a four-day workweek could change Americans’ lives

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

By Annabelle Timsit

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

Effort to clear Key Bridge ruins inches forward as officials lobby for aid

Work inched forward on Sunday to remove portions of the Francis Scott Key Bridge from the Patapsco River as Maryland leaders pressed Congress for relief money.

By Danny Nguyen, Erin Cox, Marissa J. Lang and Jacob Bogage

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Authorities plan alternate channel in Baltimore Harbor

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

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

By Kent Babb

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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

Style

How eight beloved stand-up comics got their starts

To celebrate April Fool’s Day, explore the comedic beginnings of Jim Gaffigan, Chelsea Peretti, Gabriel Iglesias and others.

By Olivia McCormack

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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

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

By Dan Diamond

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

By Meryl Kornfield

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

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

Politics

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The Mayorkas impeachment trial could be very short

By Theodoric Meyer, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Tobi Raji

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

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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

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

By Lisa Strauss

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

By Linda Searing

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

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

By Amanda Morris

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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

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

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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

Perspective

How the eclipse might heal our tattered nation

By David Baron

I tried the new Google. Its answers are worse.

By Geoffrey A. Fowler1 hour ago

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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

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

By Beril Eski and Kareem Fahim

Hunger stalks war-ravaged Sudan as aid is blocked and looted

By Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi and Katharine Houreld

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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

In Nigeria, families plead 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

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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

Jordan Mechner vs. the sands of time

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

By Will Sommer

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

A Palestinian-Israeli band was rock’s next big thing. Then came war.

By Andrew Silverstein

Review

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

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

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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 Beard1 hour ago

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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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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America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

‘You only live once’: How covid changed the way we spend money

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

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