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‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits

Twenty-one Republicans want to leave their jobs, underlining the increasing dysfunction in the House and fears about maintaining the majority in November.

By Marianna Sotomayor

Trump’s secret plan to end Ukraine war would yield territory to Russia

By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Michael Birnbaum

Top Republican warns pro-Russia messages are echoed ‘on the House floor’

By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Abigail Hauslohner

Middle East conflict

Israel withdraws most troops from south at six-month mark of Gaza war

Israel said it was withdrawing all but one brigade from southern Gaza, describing the move as an opportunity for troops to prepare for the next phase of the war.

By Louisa Loveluck, Abigail Hauslohner, Claire Parker, Hajar Harb, Niha Masih and Jennifer Hassan

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They were thought to be hostages in Gaza. Israeli raids found they were dead.

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Israel says war is ‘far from stopping,’ despite pulling most troops from south Gaza

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With U.N. agency broke and under siege, West Bank refugees fear for the future

By Claire Parker

Here’s what not to do to safely watch the total solar eclipse

Can I make eclipse glasses at home? Can I view the eclipse through a camera? Our solar safety tips will help protect your eyes during Monday’s eclipse.

By Joel Achenbach

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Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Why you should spend more money on underwear

By Anna Kramer

How to find the right gym for you — at the right price

By Laura Daily

Perspective

How to age better than your parents

By Steven Petrow

Podcast

How to sleep better: First, stop trying to fall asleep

By Cristina Quinn

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

Opinions

Farm girls have been scorching the nets on the prairies for some time now

The rest of the country has finally caught up to Midwesterners’ passion for women’s sports.

Opinion by Art Cullen

I’m a planetary physicist. An eclipse is wondrous — don’t underestimate it.

Opinion by Sabine Stanley

How No Labels was thwarted — and a disaster for democracy was avoided

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

Joe Biden must go left and right at the same time

Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Ahead of state visit, an ‘epic’ shift in Japan’s defense posture

Opinion by Takeo Akiba

Recriminalizing drugs, Oregon offers a cautionary tale

Opinion by the Editorial Board

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

Opinion by Heather Long

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Ohio warns Democrats that Biden may miss deadline for November ballot

By Maham Javaid and Kyle Melnick

In 2018 crash, Tesla’s Autopilot just followed the lane lines

By Faiz Siddiqui and Trisha Thadani

Engine cover of Southwest Boeing plane falls off during takeoff

By Praveena Somasundaram

MARCH MADNESS

South Carolina beats Iowa to cement its place in women’s basketball history

The Gamecocks won their third national championship since 2017 with an 87-75 victory over Iowa and ensured they will be remembered as one of the most dominant teams in history after competing a perfect 38-0 season.

By Kareem Copeland

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Perspective: Decades in the making, South Carolina-Iowa final was a perfect finish

Amy Ettinger in a San Francisco restaurant on Mother's Day 2023 before her cancer diagnosis. (Dan White)

Perspective

My dying wife hoped to inspire people with her essay. They ended up inspiring her.

Not everyone has moments of clarity when they find out they are dying. My wife did.

By Dan White

Style

The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ finale fixed the last episode of ‘Seinfeld’

By Avi Selk46 minutes ago

Kentucky coach John Calipari reportedly in talks to leave for Arkansas

By Associated Press

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SOLAR ECLIPSE

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See what the eclipse will look like in your city

By Szu Yu Chen, Carson TerBush and N. Kirkpatrick

A guide to watching the solar eclipse in the D.C. area

By Dan Stillman

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

By Ian Livingston, Lauren Tierney and Jason Samenow

What’s a state to do when up to a million visitors are expected on one day?

By Joanna Slater

Eclipse tourists should plan for overloaded cell networks

By Shira Ovide

Inside Donald Trump’s secret, long-shot plan to end the war in Ukraine

Foreign policy experts and some Republicans warned that pressuring Ukraine to cede land would reward Putin.

‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits

Top Republican warns pro-Russia messages are echoed ‘on the House floor’

Truth Social lost $58 million last year. Here’s who made money anyway.

The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ finale fixed the last episode of ‘Seinfeld’

election 2024

Trump relies on a doctor who is a member of his golf club to vouch for his health

As the former president assails President Biden’s health, he has declined to release details about his own condition beyond a three-paragraph letter by his New Jersey physician.

By Michael Kranish

Trump in ‘full sprint’ to close Biden’s money lead as legal bills mount

By Hannah Knowles, Josh Dawsey, Maeve Reston and Michael Scherer

Despite Trump push, Nebraska unlikely to change electoral vote system for now

By Patrick Svitek

RFK Jr. downplays Jan. 6 attack, says he wants a special counsel to review related cases

By Azi Paybarah and Rachel Weiner

Politics

Man arrested for setting fire outside Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office

By Anumita Kaur

Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015

By Liz Goodwin

GOP opposition to child tax credit bill could be softening in Senate

By Jacob Bogage

Analysis

When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP

By Aaron Blake

Trump Cases

The Trump Trials: Cannon brawl

By Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein

Trump says it would be a ‘great honor’ to be jailed for violating gag order

By Maegan Vazquez

Advice

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Carolyn Hax: Cancer patient hopes to limit texts and calls after surgery

A cancer patient is having surgery, and the thought of texts and calls from genuinely supportive people “exhausts me already.”

By Carolyn HaxApril 8

Ask Amy: Old affair partner reached out on Facebook

April 8

Miss Manners: I’m tired of people talking about their DNA results

April 8

Ask Sahaj: My son’s 5-month relationship ended 3 years ago. He’s still reeling.

April 4

Work Advice: Is that chill in the air retaliation from my employer?

April 4

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Perspective

How feeling envy helped me in life — mostly

By Stacy S. Kim

How to start tai chi

By Teddy Amenabar and Whitney Shefte

Racial segregation hurts access to kidney transplants, study suggests

By Erin Blakemore

An Ozempic baby boom? Some GLP-1 users report unexpected pregnancies.

By Amy Klein

Advice

Why countering shame can help build a healthy sense of self

By Jason Wu

ClimateExpanded coverage of a changing planet

(Illustration by Emily Sabens/The Post; iStock)

Why you should spend more money on underwear

By Anna Kramer

What to do — and not do — in an earthquake

By Justine McDaniel

The unassuming material that could soak up carbon emissions

By Dino Grandoni

Even Disney’s beloved Autopia ride is giving up on gas-powered cars

By Allyson Chiu

Want an elephant? Botswana’s president says his country has too many.

By Kate Brady

Help Desk

The best tech to have in a natural disaster

By Heather Kelly

This $400 toothbrush is peak AI mania

By Shira Ovide

Elon Musk’s X restores free blue check marks. Here’s what it means.

By Chris Velazco

Technology

Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

By Cristiano Lima-Strong

Truth Social lost $58 million last year. Here’s who made money anyway.

By Drew Harwell

Meta expands AI labeling policies as 2024 presidential race nears

By Naomi Nix

National

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As Florida restricts treatment for trans adults, one clinic presses on

By Casey Parks

He helped the enslaved flee to Mexico. Now he’s buried by Trump’s border wall.

By Carlos Sanchez

After abortion attempts, two women now bound by child

By Amber Ferguson

Perspective

We should be talking more about dumbed-down grades in schools

By Jay Mathews

Decades-long identity theft scheme sent victim to jail and mental hospital

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff

WORLD

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With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse

By Isabelle Khurshudyan

‘If Trump’: Japan readies for the return of a quixotic American president

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee

Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after embassy raid

By Mary Beth Sheridan

Rescuers scramble to save orphaned orca calf dubbed ‘Brave Little Hunter’

By Andrew Jeong

When Haiti’s gangs shop for guns, the United States is their store

By Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta

Middle East Conflict

They were thought to be hostages in Gaza. Israeli raids found they were dead.

By Shira Rubin

Why Israel may reopen a key crossing with Gaza

By Bryan Pietsch and Hazem Balousha

U.S. scrambles to finalize Gaza pier plans as famine looms

By Dan Lamothe

Before World Central Kitchen strike, aid groups had warned of peril to relief workers

By Claire Parker, Loveday Morris, Karen DeYoung and Louisa Loveluck

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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Two weeks after raid on Diddy’s homes, it’s quiet on the news front

An attorney says it will likely take months for federal investigators to make the next public move in the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking investigation.

By Samantha Chery

Can fur make a comeback?

By Rachel Tashjian

An oral history of Mrs. Lovett, one of theater’s greatest, bloodiest roles

By Thomas Floyd

Alisa Weilerstein’s curious ‘Fragments’ struggles to come together

By Michael Andor Brodeur

An oral history of Mrs. Lovett, one of theater’s greatest, bloodiest roles

By Thomas Floyd

Does ‘Scoop’ get Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview right?

By Olivia McCormack

The newest TV shows and movies to stream right now

By Olivia McCormack

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Scientists urge FDA to rescind approval of test for opioid addiction risk

By David Ovalle

In a rare move, maker of failed ALS drug removes it from the market

By Daniel Gilbert

Analysis

As Republicans wrestle with IVF, the Biden administration expands benefits

By Michelle Andrews and McKenzie Beard

Science

Modern ants evolved alongside their ancient ancestors, study suggests

By Erin Blakemore

NASA awards contracts to three companies for new autonomous moon rovers

By Christian Davenport

The total solar eclipse is finally here. Will the clouds be here, too?

By Joel Achenbach

SPORTS

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Perspective

This Purdue-Connecticut final has the makings of a heavyweight rumble

By Candace Buckner

Connecticut bests splashy Alabama, and how are the Huskies doing this?

By Chuck Culpepper

Perspective

Decades in the making, South Carolina-Iowa final was a perfect finish

By Sally Jenkins

Sputtering Caps fall to Ottawa in overtime, stretching their skid to six

By Bailey Johnson

South Carolina beats Iowa to cement its place in women’s basketball history

By Kareem Copeland

Business

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GOP opposition to child tax credit bill could be softening in Senate

By Jacob Bogage

Court clears path for reopening antitrust probe of Realtors group

By Julian Mark and Aaron Gregg

These high-end retailers are beating downtown D.C.’s struggling vibes

By Omari Daniels

China carefully scrutinizes U.S. envoy’s ... chopstick skills?

By Lily Kuo

Employers added 303,000 jobs in March, soaring past expectations

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Abha Bhattarai and Rachel Siegel

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