Sign in

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost.com

Most liked Most reposted

All time Last month

This is a prolific poster! Showing posts since November 17, 2023.

1

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

36,721 8,596
Apr 26, 2025
2

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

▶

10,814 5,994
Aug 17, 2025
3

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.

19,268 5,917
Apr 18, 2025
4

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 ...

11,213 5,697
Aug 9, 2025
5

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.

10,420 5,548
Jul 31, 2025
6

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens

The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

9,020 5,234
Jul 13, 2025
7

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.

10,204 5,230
Apr 16, 2025
8

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.

11,478 5,211
Aug 7, 2025
9

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.

11,795 5,130
Jun 30, 2025
10

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.

21,249 4,821
May 30, 2025
11

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.

12,162 4,202
Jun 4, 2025
12

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.

10,838 4,063
Jun 29, 2025
13

Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.

Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods

Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.

9,867 3,825
Jul 11, 2025
14

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.

16,222 3,769
Jun 6, 2025
15

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says

A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

7,731 3,714
Jul 29, 2025
16

Rev. Carlo Alberto Capella was released from prison and quietly returned to work after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography while serving as a Vatican diplomat, according to reports on Catholic blogs.

A convicted priest is back at work. Child advocates want Pope Leo to act.

Carlo Alberto Capella served prison time for a child pornography conviction but was allowed to return to work at the Vatican, posing a test for Pope Leo XIV.

8,253 3,651
Aug 2, 2025
17

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.

“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.

U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.

8,604 3,581
Jul 23, 2025
18

Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the Reflecting Pool, David Hearn said he reached in to see what it felt like.

Moments later, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. wapo.st/4xVNzcS

9,207 3,517
Jun 20, 2026
19

Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.

No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest

William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.

7,511 3,485
Jul 23, 2025
20

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline

Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.

8,394 3,425
Apr 24, 2025
21

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.

14,737 3,249
Jun 3, 2025
22

Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C.

The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.

▶

6,854 3,198
Sep 9, 2025
23

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread

Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

7,269 3,106
Jul 7, 2025
24

“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.

17,954 3,098
May 19, 2025
25

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.

10,132 2,946
Jul 18, 2025