U.S. Politics For a convicted double murderer long on famous supporters, basic detective work could be keyThe Washington Post - By Laura VozzellaCHARLOTTESVILLE — The phone rings in novelist John Grisham’s office, and the best-selling novelist is eager to take the call — from a prisoner, convicted decades ago of a brutal double murder. Jens Soering,
Robert Mueller Impeach Trump? Here’s how and when.The Washington Post - Opinion writerVolume II of the report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III documents a pattern of behavior by President Trump that should alarm anyone who cares about the rule of law and our democracy. That he
Sri Lanka Celebrity chef, children of Danish billionaire among dead in Sri Lanka bomb attacksThe Washington Post - By Katie MettlerEight separate bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday left 290 people dead and another 500 hundred injured. A day after the coordinated explosions, which mostly targeted Sri Lanka’s
Trump Tower Moscow What the media got right — and wrong — about the Mueller reportThe Washington PostFor all the hand-wringing about overzealous punditry, the Mueller report was by and large an affirmation of the mainstream media’s investigative reporting. Almost all the big stories were confirmed in
Lifestyle The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s actually cured, and it’s not better for you.The Washington Post - Columnist, FoodWhen was the last time you read a story where the villain was celery? Pull up a chair. Food and agriculture are complicated, and I end up writing a lot of click-proof pieces chock full of eye-glazing concluding
Donald Trump Morning Bits: Trump gets clobberedThe Washington Post - Opinion writerEven Fox News’s senior judicial analyst clobbered President Trump. “[The Mueller report] did show a venal, amoral, deceptive Donald Trump, instructing his aides to lie and willing to help them do so. not
HBO HBO’s grand ‘Gentleman Jack’ gives a 19th-century lesbian landowner the respect she deservedThe Washington Post - By Hank StueverIt’s not easy to describe a character as intensely original as Anne Lister, the gender nonconforming (the everything nonconforming) 19th-century protagonist in HBO’s deliciously provocative British period
Sports 2019 NFL draft: The top positional needs for all 32 teamsThe Washington PostWith the 2019 NFL draft nearly at hand, here’s a look at the top positional needs of each team before the selections begin Thursday. Dallas Cowboys Needs: TE, WR, CB, DT Analysis: The return of Jason from
Arya Stark Why was it so uncomfortable to watch Arya’s sex scene in ‘Game of Thrones’? - The Lilythelily.com - Caroline Kitchener Arya Stark thought it might be her last night alive, and she knew exactly how she wanted to spend it. After rolling her eyes and breaking off …
Business Seniors report spending $22 billion from savings to cover health-care costsThe Washington Post - ColumnistOne of the biggest threats to your retirement solvency may be the cost of health care and prescription drugs. A study by West Health and Gallup shows that in the past 12 months, seniors have withdrawn
Business After China turned it into a cheap snack, Americans hope to make caviar great againThe Washington Post - By Laura ReileyIt was a 1980s Wall Street cliche. Tiny pancakes, huge egos and gobs of glossy black fish eggs from the Caspian Sea hoovered up on little mother-of-pearl spoons. Beluga, osetra and sevruga — most Americans
Lifestyle ‘How ecosexual are you?’ Why some prefer Lover Earth to Mother Earth.The Washington Post - By Lisa BonosEyes closed, I sat cross-legged on a pillow on the floor of a downtown D.C. dance studio as a man I’d just met delicately brushed a rosebud along the side of my face. My skin tingled as I noticed how the
Anesthesia Dental care is tough to find for people with autism, other developmental disordersThe Washington Post - By David TullerWhen Ava Terranove began feeling oral pain last July, her parents took her to her regular dentist. The dentist determined that Ava, who has an autism-like condition, needed two root canal procedures to
Lifestyle Dull Caesarstone? Try this to restore the shine.The Washington Post - By Jeanne HuberQ: Our bathroom was renovated in late 2015. We installed a quartz vanity countertop, I think Caesarstone. When it was new, it was fairly shiny — not a full gloss finish, but the equivalent of a semi-gloss.
Lifestyle Disregard that persistent myth: You can drink water while eatingThe Washington Post - Columnist, FoodIt’s the kind of advice a well-meaning friend might chime in with as you chug a glass of water after sitting down for a meal: “You shouldn’t drink water before eating — it’s bad for your digestion.” She
World News Sri Lanka blames local Islamist extremist group for Easter bombings that killed 290The Washington Post - By Joanna Slater, Amantha Perera, Shibani MahtaniExplosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka killed 290 people and injured more than 500 Sunday. This is what we know so far: ● Government says attack carried out by the National Thowheed Jamaath, a
Seth Moulton Rep. Seth Moulton joins the 2020 presidential raceThe Washington Post - By David Weigel andRep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts launched a bid Monday for the Democratic nomination for president, becoming the 19th candidate in the most crowded primary in the party’s modern history. “I’m running
Parma A small town swore in its new mayor. Then the fires started.The Washington Post - By Antonia Noori FarzanSomething strange is happening in Parma, Mo., a city of under 700 people in the state’s impoverished Bootheel region. On Tuesday, the city’s new mayor, Rufus Lee Williamson, Jr., was sworn into office.
Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam?The Washington Post - By Joel AchenbachUntil 1968, Walter Cronkite believed what his government told him about the Vietnam War. He was an old-school journalist, a patriot, a man who came of age covering World War II as a wire-service reporter
Walt Disney Company Disney’s CEO made 1,424 times as much as his employees. An heir to the Disney fortune thinks that’s ‘insane.’The Washington Post - By Isaac Stanley-BeckerAbigail Disney did the math, and she was troubled by the result. Last year, when Bob Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, earned a bonus that brought his total compensation to $65.6 million, she that
Omar al-Bashir Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir jailed these protesters. They’re back on the street with new demands.The Washington Post - By Max BearakKHARTOUM, Sudan — As Sudan’s uprising gathered steam, people such as Amani Hamid and Bakri Gibril were its vanguard. They prodded wary neighbors, telling them that overthrowing Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s
Pete Buttigieg In South Bend, Pete Buttigieg sees a template for improving AmericaThe Washington Post - By Amy B WangSOUTH BEND, Ind. — On a recent weekday in South Bend — before its mayor, Pete Buttigieg, announced he was seeking an audacious promotion — a handful of more mundane occurrences unfolded around the city.
A social media guru needed a domain name. He decided to get it at gunpoint.The Washington Post - By Kyle SwensonRossi Lorathio Adams II had big plans to turn risque photos and footage of drunken bad behavior into a social media empire. In 2015, as a student at Iowa State University, Adams, who went by the nickname
Betsy DeVos High school journalists were barred from a Betsy DeVos event. So they took her to task in an editorial.The Washington Post - By Isaac Stanley-BeckerThe students were on deadline, and they were on a mission. They piled into a car last Wednesday and pulled away from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, their public school in Lexington, Ky. With permission,
Wilbur Ross The Four-Pinocchio claim at the center of the census citizenship questionThe Washington Post - By Salvador RizzoThe Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is coming up for oral argument at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. That means the justices could be weighing a Four-Pinocchio
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s bloody Easter puts spotlight on a new terror threatThe Washington Post - By Ishaan TharoorWant smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today’s WorldView newsletter . A shocking,
Jaime Lannister ‘Game of Thrones’ recap: ‘A Knight for the Seven Kingdoms’ on the final night before battleThe Washington Post - By David MalitzWhat would you do if you had one night left to live? That’s one of the questions at the center of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” as all of those assembled in Winterfell make final preparations for imminent
Sports TV and radio listings: April 22The Washington PostSTANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS, FIRST ROUND 7 p.m. Game 6: Washington at Carolina » NBC Sports Washington, NBC Sports Network, WJFK (106.7 FM) 8:30 p.m. Game 6: Nashville at Dallas » CNBC NBA PLAYOFFS, FIRST ROUND
Michael Avenatti Michael Avenatti’s alleged embezzlement included payment from Heat’s Hassan WhitesideThe Washington Post - By Des BielerIt turns out that both of Michael Avenatti’s court cases involve high-profile basketball players. Accused in one of trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, he claimed to have damaging information
Lifestyle Ask Amy: Use a stick, not a carrot, to curb constant talkingThe Washington Post - By Amy DickinsonDear Amy: I love and respect my wife. But we can’t converse because she is always talking. When we go out with friends her verbal domination exhausts everyone. She repeats generally well-worn childhood
