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Israel restored Gaza’s internet under U.S. pressure, official says; Netanyahu warns of long war
Israel-Gaza war Israeli tanks, amid explosions and falling shells, surrounded overcrowded hospitals in Gaza City on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel does not “seek to occupy Gaza,” marking a shift in tone after his previous comments that raised red flags in the Biden administration. Understand what’s behind the Israel-Gaza war. Hostages: Officials say Hamas militants abducted about 239 hostages in a highly organized attack.
The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies
By Rachel Siegel, Joy Sharon Yi, Hannah Yoon and Emily Wright The Washington Post The $5 bill in your wallet. The $20 bill in the cash register. The $100 bill at the bank. You may be using less cash day-to-day, but some $2 trillion of paper currency keeps the economy churning so that people can exchange, handle and spend money with ease. But wait, does that $20 bill have a tear down the middle? Did someone take a Sharpie to that $100 bill?
The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies
The $5 bill in your wallet. The $20 bill in the cash register. The $100 bill at the bank. You may be using less cash day to day, but some $2 trillion of paper currency keeps the economy churning so that people can exchange, handle and spend money with ease. But wait, does that $20 bill have a tear down the middle? Did someone take a Sharpie to that $100 bill? If so, it is time for the Federal Reserve to step in.
The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies
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The $5 bill in your wallet. The $20 bill in the cash register. The $100 bill at the bank. You may be using less cash day-to-day, but some $2 trillion of paper currency keepsthe economy churning so that people can exchange, handle and spend money with ease. But wait, does that $20 bill have a tear down the middle? Did someone take a Sharpie to that $100 bill? If so, it is time for the Federal Reserve to step in.
How The Post reported on the Smithsonian’s human remains
The story began in a St. Louis cemetery, where at least six Filipinos are buried. They had come from the Philippines to be put on display at the 1904 World’s Fair, living in model villages for onlookers to gawk at their customs. They never returned home. A few years ago, a Filipino American activist and artist, Janna Añonuevo Langholz, learned about their stories and went looking for them, marking their graves and leading tours of the site of the Philippine Exhibition.
Inside the investigation of an officer who killed a teen threatening suicide
Experts say the probe missed key steps and favored the officer’s perception of events August 23, 2022 at 11:47 a.m. EDT The entire investigative file of an officer-involved shooting in Overland Park, Kan., was released, giving insight into how police investigated another officer. (Video: The Washington Post) Update: The Justice Department announced Sept. 9, 2022 that it would not file federal criminal civil rights charges against Officer Jenison.
President Biden met with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukrainian refugees before making a speech outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw to conclude his trip to Europe on March 26.
What climate activists from six countries want to see at COP26
We spoke with six activists from the Philippines, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Bangladesh and Argentina, five of whom belong to a Fridays for Future chapter, about how climate change is impacting their countries and how they would define success at COP26. How has climate change impacted you and your country? Climate change impacts every region in the world, but it disproportionately threatens lives and livelihoods in lower-income communities and developing countries.
Watch from inside the crowds as the Trump rally turned into the Capitol riot | Opinion
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Opinion | Renters and experts brace for an ‘unprecedented’ eviction wave as federal relief bill stalls
Without federal intervention, housing experts and advocates warn of an unprecedented wave of evictions in the coming months, and one far more devastating than the round that came after the 2008 foreclosure crisis. Last month, according to the Census Bureau, nearly 25 millionpeople reported they had little to no confidence they would be able to pay rent in the next month, and almost 30 million people said they didn’t have enough to eat.
Opinion | How a bus ride tells the story of a crisis that existed long before the virus hit
In the middle of a pandemic, mostly low-income Washingtonians are riding the bus. It is a lifeline through poorer areas of the nation’s capital where food and services can be hard to reach. And it tells the story of a crisis that existed long before the coronavirus hit. The District is split into eight wards and is deeply stratified by race and socioeconomic status. The W4 bus traverses Wards 7 and 8, where more than 90 percent of residents are black.
South Carolina residents are worried about more than beating Trump
} This browser does not support the video element. Opinions By Kate Woodsome and Joy Sharon Yi | Feb. 28, 2020 The Washington Post This browser does not support the video element. Choosing a candidate to challenge President Trump is not the main thing keeping people awake at night in South Carolina, which holds its Democratic primary on Saturday. African Americans are expected to play a decisive role in the vote, but some Charleston residents say their worries extend far beyond the election.
2019: The year of the global street protest
Global Opinions By Joy Sharon Yi and Christian Caryl | Dec. 10, 2019 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Thereâs a lot of talk about âauthoritarian resurgenceâ â the notion that dictators are enjoying a comeback. Yet the millions of protesters who took to the streets in 2019 donât seem to have gotten the memo.
Opinion | Impeachment: Why so much is at stake
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Opinion | 'Read the transcript': How Republican Fox News fans view the impeachment inquiry
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Opinion | Hong Kong's protests are a universal fight for freedom. The world must join us.
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Opinion | ‘We shall never surrender’: Three days of chaos in Hong Kong
} Global Opinions By Joy Sharon Yi and Kate Woodsome | Sept. 4, 2019 Ring Yu/AP Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has withdrawn a controversial bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, a key demand of protesters who have overwhelmed the city for 13 weeks. But pro-democracy activists, who have four other demands including universal suffrage, say the concession is not enough. Over the past few days, protesters were embroiled in the most violent clashes yet with police.
Opinion | Washington's endangered species: The White House press briefings
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Opinion | Eric Garner is a police homicide victim, not a political talking point
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Opinion | She survived the Charleston church shooting. Now she feels rejected by her house of worship.
Video producer and editor focusing on reported commentary July 11 Joe Biden was holding a town hall in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday when Felicia Sanders, a survivor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting, posed a question to the former vice president now running for president:“With gun violence comes post-traumatic stress disorder.
Opinion | 'Te amo': Sean Hannity's biggest fan
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Opinion | 'Te amo': Sean Hannity's biggest fan
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The first Democratic debate - and Telemundo - just created a cultural moment in Spanish - The Washington Post
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Castro, O'Rourke, Booker - and Telemundo - just created a cultural moment en español - The Washington Post
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Opinion | Fox Nation speaks, and it says there is only one “truth”
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Freeing Jason Rezaian: Washington Post editors describe global effort to free journalist from Iran prison
For 544 days, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian sat behind bars in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, charged with espionage. His only “crime” was practicing journalism, but he became an unwitting bargaining chip in Iran’s international nuclear negotiations. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how The Post rallied for the return of its reporter and for press freedom everywhere.
Salutes and cell phones: The view from George HW Bush’s funeral train in Texas
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The locomotive, named Bush 4141, was commissioned in his honor in 2005 and painted to resemble Air Force One. On Thursday, it carried his remains 70 miles from Spring to College Station, where he will be buried at his presidential library.
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How gun violence unfolded across the U.S. in less than 24 hours
The first grim news came from southwest Philadelphia. At noon, police officers went to a rowhouse and discovered the bodies of two men, who were cousins, and two women, each shot once in the head. All were found dead in the basement, according to ABC affiliate WPVI. As of Tuesday afternoon, police had not identified any suspects.
Caught in the inferno: How the Camp Fire overwhelmed Paradise
This browser does not support the video element. National By Sarah Kaplan, Joy Yi and Karly Domb Sadof | Nov. 12, 2018 This browser does not support the video element. It’s been just five days since the start of the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history. Already miles of land have been burned and thousands of homes reduced to rubble. At least 42 people have been found dead; many of them were trapped in their cars while trying to escape the inferno.
What Hurricane Michael looked and sounded like as it made landfall
This browser does not support the video element. As a Category 4 storm with peak winds at 155 mph, Hurricane Michael came ashore Wednesday afternoon just northwest of Mexico Beach, Fla. It battered northwest Florida and brought what the National Hurricane Center deemed a “dangerous storm surge” that inundated Apalachicola with a record-setting seven feet of ocean water. Michael is the most intense hurricane to hit the Florida Panhandle in the history of record-keeping.
The evolution of Awkwafina: How the SNL host became the Asian American star Hollywood needed in 2018
This weekend, Nora Lum — known by her fans as Awkwafina — will become the first Asian woman to host “Saturday Night Live” in 18 years and only the second to do so in the show’s 43-year history. A rapper, actress and comedian, Awkwafina broke into the mainstream during a pivotal moment for Asian Americans in Hollywood, an industry just beginning to reckon with the importance of representation and inclusion. Most recently, Awkwafina was a part of Jon M.
On the ground in Indonesia: Photo and video show earthquake, tsunami devastation
WorldViews By Adam Taylor, Nick Kirkpatrick, Joy Yi | Updated Oct. 2, 2018 This browser does not support the video element. President Joko Widodo/Storyful; AP A little after 6 p.m. on Friday, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake occurred on the coast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The earthquake set off dozens of aftershocks, but the worst damage may have come from a tsunami that occurred roughly 30 minutes later, according to witnesses.
Reliving Anita Hill’s testimony: How the optics shaped the historic hearing
Retropolis By Joy Yi and Katie Mettler | Sept. 26, 2018 Greg Gibson/AP This browser does not support the video element. C-SPAN; Greg Gibson/AP This browser does not support the video element. C-SPAN; Greg Gibson/AP The crimson carpet. The Kelly green tablecloths. Her blue suit. Their faces, all male and all white, staring back at her.
Florence from above: Aerial photos of flooding and damage from the hurricane
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In the days since Hurricane Florence began to make landfall, some Mid-Atlantic towns have received as much as 35 inches of rain. Across three states — North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia — residents have been flooded out of their homes. Roads have turned into rivers navigable only by boat. Rivers have swollen to historic highs. Some have yet to crest. From the ground, this damage is devastating. From the air, the devastation is overwhelming.
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Photo and video of damage, destruction caused by Hurricane Florence
Before the worst arrived, Hurricane Florence’s sharp winds and historic rainfall came first for New Bern, N.C., a gracious 300-year-old town that took its name from the capital of Switzerland, went on to invent Pepsi-Cola and lured new residents by its beauty — at the juncture of two picturesque rivers, the Neuse and the Trent.
How it looks and sounds inside Hurricane Florence as the storm makes landfall
This browser does not support the video element. With a 400-mile wide zone of tropical-storm-force winds, Hurricane Florence began its treacherous assault on the Carolinas Thursday, lingered off the coast and finally made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Friday morning. Those who stayed braced for Florence’s arrival, watching and recording the storm’s outer bands and, hours later, its eye, move across the Carolinas. This is what they saw — and heard — from inside Hurricane Florence.
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