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Ashlee Sullivan is your 2025 #WinterCup Senior Women's All-Around Champion! Her 53.550 claims the Gold with teammates Jayla Hang & Simone Rose completing the podium.

The Missing Post Office, on the remote Japanese island of Awashima, is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead. Gift link to our story: wapo.st/4gtdy1n

The 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics will bring the world together — sort of A cool visual story from Les Carpenter and Artur Galocha www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...

To understand what happened when a Black Hawk and a CRJ crashed in D.C. on Jan. 29, we made a 3D model, using flight data and air traffic control transmissions, and interviewed with five former Black Hawk pilots to recreate the crew's likely view. wapo.st/4htyTJf

This is super fun: Are you smarter than an NFL head coach? Take our quiz. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

How close is DC's helicopter corridor to the DCA landing approach for Runway 33? Suuuuuuuuuper close. From @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social , Sarah Blaskey and @abtran.bsky.social : www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The bodies of multiple people have been found as rescue teams continue to search the wreckage of the collision of an American Airlines passenger plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C. wapo.st/3PUOtRQ

The Post’s Metro desk is working at full-steam right now to report what we know about the crash. All hands on deck reporting www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

See agency by agency, the more than one million federal workers who could be affected by Trump’s return-to-office policy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + I analyzed over 400 of RFK Jr.'s appearances since 2020 and found that he has disparaged vaccines in at least 114 appearances, falsely linked vax to autism in 36, and argued that White + Black people should have separate vaccination schedules wapo.st/4jwQS2R

If the Commanders beat the Eagles, they will have the worst previous-season winning percentage of any team to ever advance to the Super Bowl. In 58 editions of the Super Bowl, just 12 percent of participating teams have had a losing record the previous season.

In today's @postsports.bsky.social: "The road to the NFC title game" poster page! You can also buy the poster on nice paper here: wapo.st/commanders

Commentators in LSU vs. Arkansas gymnastics meet, during Arkansas' final routine: Arkansas wins if she gets a 9.85! Reality: Arkansas has already clinched the win and would win even with a zero for the final routine. Not a complicated scenario! Why is this acceptable!?

Why NFL teams ‘just lose their mind’ when paying quarterbacks www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Why NFL teams ‘just lose their mind’ when paying quarterbacks www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Simone Biles is in Athens today. Why? The gymnastics team hired her former coach to take over the once incredible but lately struggling program. Georgia's home meet tonight is "Olympics night." Story from earlier this year on Biles's coach deciding to take the leap to the NCAA: wapo.st/4hmPaiS

U.S. gymnast Yul Moldauer, a member of the Tokyo Olympic team, says on Instagram that he is suspended by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency through January 2026 because of whereabouts violations. He wrote: "I have never tested positive for any banned substances in my career."

Trump's team has promised to start deporting folks as soon as he puts his hand on the bible so we wanted to know who was most at risk. Here's what we found.

The NCAA gymnastics season gets started, in full, this weekend. One of the most intriguing storylines? How Georgia, a dormant dynasty, turned to Simone Biles's coach in hopes of reviving the program: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...

The NCAA gymnastics season gets started, in full, this weekend. One of the most intriguing storylines? How Georgia, a dormant dynasty, turned to Simone Biles's coach in hopes of reviving the program: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...

“I was partying on Bourbon until about 2. We walked right there.” “They said, 'If you leave, please go left and don’t turn right. Well, naturally, everyone’s going to look right." On the scene in New Orleans on Wednesday, updated w/ Molly Hennessy-Fiske: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures a massive investigation by @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

For months, James Madison fans have watched a big group of JMU-to-Indiana transplants thrive in Bloomington, all the way to tonight's CFP opener against Notre Dame. How do THEY feel? "It’s been tough, but I’ve tried not to be bitter." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...

Does college football affect wedding planning? The Post found for the majority of college football teams in the major conferences — and particularly in the SEC — idle weeks are, on average, more popular wedding dates than game-day Saturdays. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...

One thing I really thought might matter: Quality of the game I spent a decent amount of time pulling all sorts of performance metrics (playoff appearances, recent winning percentage, recent conference winning percentage); looking at it only for opponent, as well as for both teams; etc.

The story you so badly needed and didn't even know it ... @emilygiam.bsky.social on weddings during college football season, equipped with data and all sorts of colorful charts: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...

There's lots of conversation about weddings during college football season, but I wanted to see if a team's schedule *actually* made a difference in the number of weddings in a region on a date. Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else? A data-driven analysis: bit.ly/4iIBuzV

I made a @washingtonpost.com journalist: • starter pack (easy way to follow buncha people): bsky.app/starter-pack... • feed (lets you scroll through everyone at once): bsky.app/profile/drew...

👋 hello?! I think/hope this is going to be the social media platform that sticks?! I’m a data reporter at The Washington Post, focusing on enterprise/investigative stories in Sports. warning: I will sometimes post about gymnastics