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Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

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The Louisiana State Police for years engaged in a statewide pattern of excessive force during arrests and pursuits, including the unjustified use of stun guns, according to a Justice Department report released on Thursday.

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Exclusive: Millions of rents across the United States may now be set using one company’s algorithmic software, according to a federal lawsuit and a Post analysis.

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

Very thankful for the hard work of the firefighters under terrible conditions, and for the firefighters coming in now from out of state.

submitted 54 days ago • 284 comments

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

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Representative Kay Granger of Texas, who made history when she became the first Republican woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has been absent from Capitol Hill since the summer and has been living in a retirement home — an arrangement her office had not disclosed.

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Breaking News: Israel said it had killed a World Central Kitchen worker it accused of taking part in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack. The U.S.-based aid group said it was investigating the claim and that it would pause operations in Gaza.

submitted 93 days ago • 73 comments

Breaking news: Senior officials on Donald Trump’s transition team weighed the future of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, amid new revelations that police investigated an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

submitted 108 days ago • 273 comments

University of Zagreb researcher Beata Halassy treated her breast cancer with an unproven virus-based therapy using viruses she cultivated in her own lab. Over several weeks, her homegrown remedy caused her tumor to shrink, enabling surgeons to remove it.

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

Donald Trump is the second person to be elected president in two nonconsecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland. Trump is also the first felon to be elected to the presidency. He was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts. wapo.st/3AwiBPs

submitted 117 days ago • 36 comments

As a public school educator, Liza Burrell-Aldana talks to young people about their responsibility to this country. So it shook her, she said, when a poll worker at an early voting site looked at her driver’s license and asked: “Are you a citizen?”

submitted 121 days ago • 16 comments

Hundreds more babies died than expected in the year and a half after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, raising questions about the ripple effects of the ruling on maternal and child health.

submitted 130 days ago • 48 comments

A Republican operative in Pennsylvania falsely claimed that no one lived at an address that belonged to a monastery, prompting the sisters to issue a statement.

submitted 130 days ago • 9 comments

apparently the mcdonald's thing was even more of a stunt than it looked. location was closed down and they brought in fake customers

submitted 134 days ago • 253 comments

Days that will live in infamy: 12/7, Pearl Harbor Day, 9/11, 1/6…Trump’s attempted coup day...NEVER FORGET! If you placate treason and traitors, then you become the traitor. REPUBLICANS CAN TRY OBFUSCATION ALL THEY WANT...WE ALL WITNESSED THEIR TREASON..Never vote for a TRAITOR!

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #780,403!

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A strong geomagnetic storm could trigger a display of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, across most of Canada and at least 17 U.S. states on Thursday night.

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Former president Donald Trump threatened to jail people “involved in unscrupulous behavior” related to voting in the 2024 election in a social media post, the most overt signal yet that he will not accept the result in November if he loses.

submitted 176 days ago • 47 comments

For fans waiting for more stories out of the Hunger Games universe, the odds are definitely in their favor after a fifth novel and a new movie. The new novel, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” will be released in March 2025 and the movie will be released in 2026.

submitted 270 days ago • 1 comment

Days that will live in infamy: 12/7, Pearl Harbor Day, 9/11, 1/6…Trump’s attempted coup day...NEVER FORGET! If you placate treason and traitors, then you become the traitor. REPUBLICANS CAN TRY OBFUSCATION ALL THEY WANT...WE ALL WITNESSED THEIR TREASON. They are all traitors...Seditious Conspiracy

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In a functional democracy, every story in every paper and on every channel would be about how a judge appointed by a treasonous former president won’t allow him to be tried for treason.

submitted 300 days ago • 15 comments

Anyone who draws a comparison between Jan 6 and Columbia Univ reveals that they don't understand or don't care about the significance of Jan 6: Trump's mob stormed Congress to thwart the people's vote in the 2020 election. That's not a protest, it's a threat to democracy itself.

submitted 306 days ago • 13 comments

i am sure there’s a lot of nasty stuff that went over my head growing up but the earliest examples of antisemitism i can remember are when kids my age started watching south park and aping the cartman bit. not a lot of good that came out of that show

submitted 314 days ago • 14 comments