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    The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

    Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

    “That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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    Apr 26, 2025
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    Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

    Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
    While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
    21,244 4,820
    May 30, 2025
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    Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

    Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
    The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
    19,259 5,912
    Apr 18, 2025
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    “Sesame Street” has found itself a new home.

    Netflix announced that the decades-old public educational television program will premiere its 56th season on the global streaming giant, along with 90 hours of previous episodes.

    ‘Sesame Street’ is coming to Netflix with new streaming deal
    “Sesame Street” will release episodes on both PBS Kids and Netflix later this year.
    17,944 3,095
    May 19, 2025
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    Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.

    At Chicago baseball stadium, Pope Leo makes his first pitch to America
    Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his historic path.
    16,455 2,932
    Jun 14, 2025
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    A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars.

    D.C. police lieutenant sentenced to 18 months for leaking to Proud Boys
    Shane Lamond said he was merely gathering intelligence from Enrique Tarrio, but a judge convicted him of obstructing justice.
    16,216 3,768
    Jun 6, 2025
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    People with HIV will be able to receive kidney or liver transplants from donors who also have HIV, federal health officials announced Tuesday.

    The landmark move, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten wait times for organs for all patients.

    U.S. okays organ transplants between people with HIV, expanding donor pool
    The landmark move is expected to shorten wait times for organs for all patients and reduce hurdles to life-saving care for those with HIV.
    15,672 1,411
    Nov 27, 2024
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    The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

    Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
    It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
    14,729 3,249
    Jun 3, 2025
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    French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife have sued Candace Owens for defamation over the far-right commentator’s repeated allegations that first lady Brigitte Macron was born a man.

    French President Macron sues right-wing podcaster Candace Owens
    The lawsuit alleges that the podcaster promoted “outlandish” claims, including that Brigitte Macron was born a man. An Owens spokesperson said she “is not shutting up.”
    14,135 2,274
    Jul 23, 2025
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    Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.

    Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
    When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot this month, their golden retriever was grievously wounded and had to be euthanized.
    13,576 2,388
    Jun 28, 2025
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    Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

    The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

    American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope
    The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.
    12,235 2,160
    May 8, 2025
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    A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

    Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
    Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
    12,158 4,201
    Jun 4, 2025
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    Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.

    The cost of the shot? $1,400.

    A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
    Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
    11,793 5,128
    Jun 30, 2025
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    The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

    Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era
    Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.
    11,473 5,207
    Aug 7, 2025
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    The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

    DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show
    Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...
    11,209 5,696
    Aug 9, 2025
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    Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

    The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school.
    Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley.
    10,832 4,061
    Jun 29, 2025
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    Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

    The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

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    Aug 17, 2025
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    Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

    See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

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    Jul 15, 2025
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    San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”

    Police take back statement dismissing hate crime in gay actor’s killing
    Jonathan Joss, who acted in “King of the Hill” and “Parks and Recreation,” was shot in San Antonio by a man who yelled “homophobic slurs” at him, his husband said.
    10,615 2,442
    Jun 6, 2025
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    Breaking news: Harvey Weinstein has been convicted by a New York jury of one charge of committing a criminal sexual act in his sexual assault retrial, a decision that comes more than a year after his 2020 conviction was overturned.

    Harvey Weinstein convicted of sexual assault in New York retrial
    Harvey Weinstein has been convicted one one charge and acquitted on another, while the jury will continue deliberating on a third count.
    10,609 1,670
    Jun 11, 2025
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    One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

    These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

    ‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
    Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
    10,416 5,545
    Jul 31, 2025
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    Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

    Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
    Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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    Apr 16, 2025
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    Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.

    The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

    Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
    CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
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    Jul 18, 2025
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    She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked.

    Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.

    After outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving care
    After a medically fragile child’s parole was abruptly revoked, her family was left undocumented and terrified. Two months later, DHS reversed course.
    9,904 2,062
    Jun 7, 2025
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    Breaking news: In a rematch of their 2023 U.S. Open final, Coco Gauff beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the French Open. She is its first American champion since Serena Williams in 2015.

    Coco Gauff tops Aryna Sabalenka to give the French Open an American champion
    With the win, Gauff became the first American champion in Paris, woman or man, since Serena Williams in 2015.
    9,889 1,185
    Jun 7, 2025