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The elections next door: Mexico’s cartels pick candidates, kill rivals

More than two dozen candidates have been killed leading up to the June 2 vote. Hundreds more have dropped out of their races.

By Mary Beth Sheridan

Pete Buttigieg’s view from the middle seat

The transportation secretary has only so much time left to win consumer protections for fliers. He plans to make the most of it.

By Hannah Sampson

Department of DataAnalysis

What state best represents America?

This week, we take a stab at identifying the most normal state in the nation and discover that, by at least one measure, it’s the state you’d least expect.

By Andrew Van Dam

Better LivingEasy wins. Good habits.

Here are three common recycling myths you should discard

By Allyson Chiu

Advice

Can you spot bad financial advice on TikTok? Take our quiz

By Michelle Singletary and Charla Freeland

No dining table? You can still throw a grown-up dinner party.

By Michelle Brunner

Why you should embrace using cold water, almost all the time

By Allyson Chiu

THE 7 MORNING BRIEFING

7 things to know today: Michael Cohen; Menendez trial; pig kidney; office mandates; northern lights; and more

Opinions

Time is up for neoliberals

Democracy requires a new, progressive capitalism.

Opinion by Joseph Stiglitz

Will Zionism survive the war?

Opinion by Yuval Noah Harari

Trump loves the VP guessing game. He’ll probably milk it until mid-July.

Opinion by Jim Geraghty

Why Israel’s ‘clear and leave’ strategy against Hamas isn’t working

Opinion by Max Boot

Kharkiv’s mayor fears his city could become ‘a second Aleppo’

Opinion by Josh Rogin

Karmic justice: Women might seal Trump’s fate in New York trial

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin

Don’t forget Kristi Noem’s goat

Opinion by Lori Marino

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Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial, where gold bars may shine, begins today

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U.S.-China talks on AI risks set to begin in Geneva

By Eva Dou

Live: Middle East conflict

Israel renews fight in north Gaza, advances on Rafah in south

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D.C. Mayor Bowser’s approval rating drops, Post-Schar School poll finds

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Election 2024

Biden hopes efforts to boost domestic manufacturing pay off in November

Voters appear to be missing President Biden’s industrial jobs message, highlighting a big challenge facing the president in his reelection bid.

By David J. Lynch

Live

Biden seeks to put focus on health care, infrastructure

Sanders: ‘It’s not Biden versus God, it is Biden versus Trump’

By Liz Goodwin

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.

By Taylor Telford

An IRS change cut child support for Native moms. Other families may be next.

By Julie Zauzmer Weil

Md. fire department paid $220,000 for new ambulances. It was scammed.

By Jasmine Hilton

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This week, we take a stab at identifying the most normal state in the nation and discover that, by at least one measure, it’s the state you’d least expect.

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The elections next door: Mexico’s cartels pick candidates, kill rivals

election 2024

Senate candidate Bernie Moreno with Donald Trump in March. (Andrew Spear for The Post)

In top races, Republicans try to stay quiet on Trump’s false 2020 claims

Whether they have previously dismissed or embraced his claims, GOP nominees in some of the year’s most critical races are now evading the question and changing the topic after support of Trump’s election-denying approach turned out to be a turnoff to many swing-state voters in 2022.

By Patrick Marley

The Early 202Analysis

State Republican parties are going rogue

By Leigh Ann Caldwell, Theodoric Meyer and Alec Dent

Trump insults prosecutor at Jersey Shore rally filled with vulgar jabs

By Marianne LeVine

GOP escalates fight with Secret Service over convention protesters

By Josh Dawsey

Politics

Fact CheckerAnalysis

Did Obamacare ‘massively’ increase the cost of health care?

By Glenn Kessler

Paul Manafort will no longer take on Republican convention role

By Josh Dawsey, Maegan Vazquez and Isaac Stanley-Becker

Analysis

An unexpected sight to behold: Ted Cruz working bipartisan deals

By Paul Kane

Ex-aides dispute Rep. Nancy Mace’s claims that staff ‘sabotaged’ her

By Patrick Svitek and Jacqueline Alemany

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Carolyn Hax: What’s the real cost of going halfsies on a modest engagement ring?

Letter writer makes huge sacrifices for fiancé, and fiancé balks at paying more than half toward a $900 engagement ring.

By Carolyn HaxMay 13

Ask Amy: Dad hurt by daughter publicly reconnecting with her biological family

May 13

Miss Manners: Should I accept offered seat swaps when I’m flying for free?

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Ask Sahaj: My husband wants me to forget all about his emotional affair

May 9

Work Advice: For this single mom, ‘Bring Your Kid to Work Day’ is every day

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A mystery illness stole their kids’ personalities. These moms fought for answers.

By Richard Sima

Perspective

How do I tell my young son I have breast cancer?

By Lia Romeo

Teen fitness may protect against later heart disease, study indicates

By Ian McMahan

Hip breaks more deadly than some cancers in elderly, study finds

By Erin Blakemore

Perspective

My mom is a florist. She taught me that flowers can be a superpower.

By Elana Gordon

Help Desk

Google’s new ‘Find My’ device network is useful but a stalking risk

By Shira Ovide

The iPad lost. Smartphones won.

By Shira Ovide

Apple plays up AI potential in new iPads

By Chris Velazco

Technology

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’

By Nitasha Tiku and Tatum Hunter

Pokémon Go players are adding fake beaches to map program to make rare catches

By Jonathan Edwards

Apple apologizes for iPad ad after blowback

By Heather Kelly

National

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‘Bunker mentality’ at Columbia lit protest spark that spread nationwide

By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Susan Svrluga

Retropolis

First free Black settlement in U.S., long buried, is being resurrected

By Sarah Enelow-Snyder

Prosecutors seek 40-year sentence for man who attacked Paul Pelosi

By Robert Klemko

The city made him hide his boat — so he had it painted on his fence

By Rachel Kurzius

Biden commencement address at Morehouse sparks debate over identity

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

WORLD

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Putin reassigns defense minister in shakeup of Kremlin security team

By Mary Ilyushina

Far-right German party a threat to democracy so can be spied on, says court

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Today’s WorldViewAnalysis

Why Spain will recognize a Palestinian state

By Ishaan Tharoor

Hospitals overflowing in besieged Sudanese city as final battle looms

By Katharine Houreld and Hafiz Haroun

‘Nothing left’: At least 300 dead as flash floods devastate Afghanistan

By Rick Noack

StyleNews from the front lines of culture

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Review

Neil Young refuses to race against time

Has anyone in rock history besides Neil Young been this good at making music this loud at this age?

By Chris Richards

Inside Mar-a-Lago, where Trump is in control

By Ben Terris and Josh Dawsey

How sketch artists at Trump’s hush money trial capture what cameras can’t

By Kelsey Ables

The newest TV shows and movies to stream right now

By Olivia McCormack

Perspective

The greatness — yes, greatness — of the Planet of the Apes

By Jessica Kiang

Perspective

Four movie moms who feel real

By Olivia McCormack

Roger Corman, low-budget filmmaker who launched many careers, dies at 98

By James Hohmann

D.C., MD. & VA.

Health

Man who received pig kidney transplant dies weeks after milestone surgery

By Jennifer Hassan

On a D.C. sidewalk, a race to save a Marine general’s life

By Dan Lamothe

Federal dollars to increase bird flu testing for dairy cows, farm workers

By Lena H. Sun and Rachel Roubein

Science

Voyager 1 was in crisis in interstellar space. NASA wouldn’t give up.

By Joel Achenbach

Scientists are starting to decode what sperm whales are saying

By Mark Johnson

Mysterious blobs inside Earth triggered plate tectonics, study suggests

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

SPORTS

Juan Soto, shuffling and smiling again, is putting on a show with the Yankees

By Chelsea Janes

Perspective

Baseball’s endangered species: The ace is nearly extinct

By Barry Svrluga

Wizards just miss No. 1 pick again but land top consolation prize this time

By Ben Golliver

Mistakes pile up, leaving the Nationals with a 3-2 loss at Fenway Park

By Andrew Golden

Meet Cooper Flagg, the next ‘White Duke villain’ and a potential No. 1 pick

By Ben Golliver

Business

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Target’s Pride Month collection to appear in fewer stores

By Aaron Gregg

Federal judge halts new U.S. rules limiting credit card late fees

By Tony Romm

Advice

5 myths about Social Security as the program faces a funding crisis

By Michelle Singletary

Cyberattack is affecting patient care at company that runs 140 hospitals

By Daniel Gilbert, Joseph Menn and Dan Diamond

McDonald’s, Wendy’s shareholders demand companies tackle child-labor problems

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

Food