Articles filed under Washington Post
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A pluck here, a trim there: What happens to your hair when you cut it?Sep 26, 2025 11:24 am - Shaving will not make sparse facial hair grow into a thick beard, or armpit or leg hair become darker and coarse. Trims will not make scalp hair grow faster. Yet these myths, which have been dispelled by science since at least the 1920s, persist.
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Study shows single exercise session may slow cancer cell growthSep 26, 2025 11:24 am - Exercising muscles pumps out substances that can suppress the growth of breast cancer cells, according to an important new study of exercise and cancer.
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Monopoly, anyone?: Playing a board game may reduce your risk of dementiaSep 26, 2025 11:23 am - Board games have made a massive comeback in the past decade. And researchers are discovering that board games are not only fun, they may also benefit our brains, especially as we age.
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Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma, has a vital message for caregiversSep 26, 2025 7:55 am - Emma Heming Willis’ book, “The Unexpected Journey,” offers a deeply moving, personal perspective on dementia. Her husband, actor Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTP), one of the most insidious and rare forms of the disease, in 2022, at age 67.
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US government scrambles to stop new hacking campaign blamed on ChinaSep 25, 2025 7:07 pm - Federal agencies are racing to contain a new wave of sophisticated hacking by suspected Chinese attackers that took advantage of previously undiscovered flaws in widely used security software from networking company Cisco.
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Gaza City hospitals close, patients flee as Israeli forces advanceSep 25, 2025 4:44 pm - CAIRO — Israel’s intensifying attacks inside Gaza City are causing the region’s already threadbare health care system to buckle, doctors and health officials say, sending...
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White House begins plan for mass firings if there’s a government shutdownSep 25, 2025 3:59 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration instructed federal agencies Wednesday night to prepare for mass layoffs if the government shuts down Oct. 1, after federal funding runs out.
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admiralsSep 25, 2025 9:43 am - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
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FBI seized documents described as ‘classified’ in search of Bolton’s officeSep 24, 2025 7:15 pm - FBI agents seized several documents they described as “secret,” “confidential” or “classified” during the search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington office last month, according to newly unsealed court records.
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WHO joins global health leaders rejecting US acetaminophen warningsSep 24, 2025 3:40 pm - The World Health Organization has joined the international pushback against the Trump administration’s warnings that acetaminophen use during pregnancy leads to autism, saying Wednesday there is “no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link.”