Articles filed under Washington Post
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Trump says calls to impeach Kavanaugh are 'an insult to the American public'Oct 08, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Monday that it was "an insult to the American public" for Democrats to consider impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavana...
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Beware the viral Facebook hoax that's tricking people into thinking their account was hackedOct 08, 2018 1:00 am - Over the weekend, you might have seen a wave of panicked friends in your Facebook news feeds posting warnings: Their accounts were hacked, don't accept friend requests f...
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Flexibility matters: It's no stretch to say that muscles need to be workedOct 07, 2018 7:30 am - Myles Schneider, 74, a semiretired podiatrist, stretches for 60 minutes, six times a week. Schneider, who also walks briskly for 45 minutes twice weekly and runs three t...
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10 years later: How the housing market has changed since the crashOct 07, 2018 1:15 am - Flashback to fall 2008 and you'll remember the free fall the U.S. economy experienced. At the heart of it was the collapse of the housing market. If you were house hunti...
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Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parentsOct 07, 2018 1:10 am - A team of economists led by Raj Chetty of Harvard University has released a massive new data set on prosperity at the neighborhood level in the United States. Called the...
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Last year's flu broke recordsOct 06, 2018 7:30 am - Flu killed and hospitalized more people in the United States last winter than any seasonal influenza in decades, according to new data released in September. It's the mo...
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Starting, or returning, to a fitness routine? Here are tips to prevent overdoing itOct 06, 2018 7:00 am - It's the fall, which means gyms, golf courses and sports clubs are full of new participants using the beginning of the school year as a reason to jump-start their fitnes...
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Review: The Apple Watch faces its toughest challenge yet: GrandmaOct 06, 2018 1:17 am - Is the new Apple Watch ready for Grandma? The Series 4 Apple Watch now in stores pitches itself as a Food and Drug Administration-cleared "proactive health monitor" and ...
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Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memoryOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - A new font can help lodge information deeper in your brain, researchers say, but it's not magic - just the science of effort. Psychology and design researchers at RMIT U...
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How legalized sports gambling could create a new kind of fan experienceOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - Ted Leonsis was never a gambler. An entrepreneur, a businessman, a philanthropist, an investor - but never much of a gambler. So he's perhaps an unlikely torchbearer for...