Here's what to know: A growing list of House Democrats from competitive districts is headed for the exits, adding yet another concern for a party facing an uphill fight to maintain control of Congress next year.
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Monday a rule that would sharply cut the use and production of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning. The proposal, a phase down of 85 percent over the next 15 years, marks the first time the Biden administration has used the power of the federal government to mandate a cut in climate pollution.
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been four months since former president Donald Trump was last allowed to post on Facebook, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was banned " indefinitely." Now the Facebook Oversight Board, an outside group funded and created by Facebook to review the social media giant's thorniest policy choices, has made a decision on the case.
Epic, the maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," is facing off against Apple at trial Monday in a case that could change Apple's business model and the course of U.S. antitrust law. Epic brought the suit after Apple kicked "Fortnite" off the App Store for purposely bypassing Apple's payment processing system and its 30 percent commission.
In the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, Superintendent Matt Miller kept school doors open. But the coronavirus kept pushing students out. In the fall semester, he counted 5,172 student quarantines. It meant a constant jostling of teaching and learning. "We have had students who had to quarantine three times," said Miller, of Lakota Local Schools, among Ohio's larger school systems with 17,000 students.
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A Black man with intellectual disabilities who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant in Conway, S.C., should be awarded double the amount of restitution from the White man now imprisoned for the crime, according to a recent court ruling.
Last month, someone began attacking synagogues in the Bronx, hurling rocks through the doors and windows of at least four religious centers and leaving community leaders on edge. Now, a 29-year-old man has been charged with hate crimes over the attacks - but not before he took an armful of prayer books from another synagogue, police said, damaged them and then left them piled on the ground.
More than 40,000 fans of the Washington Football Team have suggested new names to replace the old one that shall go unmentioned. This writer, a longtime season ticket holder, has a preference. It would link the team's future with its once-glorious past without offending Native Americans or anyone else.
A man fatally shot by a D.C. police officer Friday took out a gun and waved it around as two officers tried to talk to him about an apparent domestic dispute inside an apartment, according to video from a body camera worn by the officer who fired.
The Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone was careful not to single out any Catholics in his latest letter calling for Holy Communion to be withheld from public figures who support abortion rights. But the 17-page missive from the archbishop of San Francisco may have important implications for one of the archdiocese's most famous parishioners: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The 40-foot cabin cruiser was carrying about 30 people when it hit a reef off the coast of San Diego on Sunday morning, sending a barrage of broken wood ashore in the rough, choppy waters.
When "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker got a call from his agent asking whether he would be interested in filling in as a guest host on "Jeopardy!" this spring, he was surprised but intrigued.
The corrections, to stories that ran last Thursday or Friday, take back reports that the former New York City mayor had been warned by the FBI that he was the subject of a Russian operation to influence the American election.
Verizon will sell its media arm overseeing brands like AOL and Yahoo to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal expected to close during the second half of this year. Verizon announced in a Monday release that the company will keep a 10 percent stake in Verizon Media Group, which will be renamed Yahoo once the deal closes, and will still be headed by chief executive Guru Gowrappan.
Management has advice for any Washington Post newsroom employees who are wondering which parades and festivals they can pencil into their summer calendars: It's fine, as long as you're not expressing public advocacy. So, Pride is fine. Juneteenth is great. July 4-go nuts.
Kamala Harris has completed her first 100 days as vice president. In that time, her image as a historic figure has sometimes obscured her specific role in this White House. Despite shared policy views on issues, President Biden and Harris have not only different life experiences but also different skill sets.
White House officials said Sunday they are doing all they can to help India cope with the country's escalating coronavirus crisis, pushing back against criticism that the United States should be moving faster on actions such as waiving patent rights on vaccines.
The journalists at WITF, an all-news public radio station in Harrisburg, Pa., made a perfectly reasonable decision a few months ago. They decided they wouldn't shrug off the damaging lies of election denialism.