Articles filed under Washington Post
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How the U of I and other state colleges are admitting students — before they applyMar 08, 2025 5:23 pm - Illinois and other states are easing the stress of the college search by letting high school students know they are promised admission before they even apply. It is a par...
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Repressed memories and grand opera are dance partners in ‘Seven Veils’Mar 07, 2025 3:52 pm - In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The movie’s tension is built on an uncertainty: Is this a portrait of an artist having a nervous breakdown or the story of a woman using art to confront and exorcise her demons?
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DOGE targets child support database full of income dataMar 07, 2025 12:36 pm - Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have sought access to a powerful database of nearly all U.S. workers’ earnings kept by the health department’s child support office, setting off another disagreement with career staff over demands for legally protected records, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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The surprising time you should apply antiperspirantMar 07, 2025 1:15 am - A body odor hack circulating on social media claims that tending to your underarms at night instead of the morning will keep them fresher during the day. But what does science say?
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Trump administration plans 15% cut to VA workforceMar 06, 2025 7:56 pm - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans Wednesday to cut roughly 80,000 jobs, more than 15% of its employees, the latest in President Donald Trump’s effort to ...
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Draft executive order calls for closing Education Dept.Mar 06, 2025 7:52 pm - President Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday directing his newly confirmed education secretary to work to close the department she now le...
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GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO findsMar 06, 2025 7:49 pm - Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on...
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The most anticipated movies of spring 2025Mar 06, 2025 4:58 pm - Good and evil, love and hate — these are perennial themes of cinema. But this spring, the dualities seem sharper, at times with literal on-screen twinning. Robert De Niro (“The Alto Knights”) and Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”) are each playing double roles.
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Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearmMar 06, 2025 3:56 pm - BRUSSELS — The European Union, an entity that has long cast itself as a peace and trade project, is in crisis talks Thursday focused on defending itself. Along with the s...
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‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ is an Italian hit but an English-language missMar 06, 2025 9:50 am - “There’s Still Tomorrow,” an alleged comedy-drama about spousal abuse in post-World War II Rome, is the directorial debut of its star, Italian actress Paola Cortellesi. Unfortunately, the film did not make a seamless transition from one culture to another.