Articles filed under Washington Post
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DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billionsJun 27, 2025 7:26 pm - The U.S. DOGE Service has lost the power to control the government’s process for awarding billions of dollars in federal funds, the latest sign of the team’s declining in...
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‘My Mom Jayne’ charts an astonishing journey of self-discoveryJun 27, 2025 12:30 pm - How do you relate to a parent you can’t remember? How do you uphold their legacy without ever having known who they really were? Actress Mariska Hargitay ponders those questions in the new HBO documentary “My Mom Jayne.”
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‘Squid Game’ ends on a squishy noteJun 27, 2025 9:47 am - You started watching Netflix’s “Squid Game” for its intriguing, deeply bingeable premise. But as eye-popping and shocking as “Squid Game” can be, Season 3 ultimately never reaches any conclusions about humanity that weren’t depressingly obvious from the jump.
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Carolyn Hax: Co-worker exploits friends’ generosity to fund faceliftJun 27, 2025 6:00 am - Woman saves money through gifts and paid dating, then spends savings on cosmetic surgery. Carolyn Hax says stop financing this “friend’s” lifestyle.
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Ceasefire in Iran gives rise to new calls for a deal to end Gaza warJun 26, 2025 7:36 pm - CAIRO - Arab mediators and Israeli hostage families are making a renewed push this week for a deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, using Israel’s successful strikes on ...
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Classified briefing on impact of Iran strikes leaves senators splitJun 26, 2025 7:15 pm - Senators left a classified briefing about the impact of U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities split along party lines, with Republicans saying it reinforced their bel...
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Trump shook Democrats’ hold on non-White voters in 2024, report findsJun 26, 2025 7:06 pm - President Donald Trump’s victory last year was fueled by gains among Hispanic, Asian, Black and young voters, eroding key pillars of the Democratic Party’s coalition, acc...
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‘Familiar Touch’ takes audiences gently into that good nightJun 26, 2025 12:36 pm - Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” is gentle and mysterious, presenting the narrowing days of an elderly woman’s life as a kind of lucid dreaming. Patient, observant and slow, the film benefits immeasurably from the presence of Kathleen Chalfant as the woman, Ruth Goldman.
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In its fourth season, ‘The Bear’ gets back to basicsJun 26, 2025 12:09 pm - The fourth season of “The Bear” starts off feeling like a reprise. Once again, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) responds to a crisis — here, a mixed review of his new restaurant in the Chicago Tribune — by promising his business partner Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) he’ll do better.
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The completely correct guide to cleaning your toiletJun 26, 2025 6:52 am - You probably know how to clean a toilet. It’s a chore most of us have done countless times. But knowing how to do something and knowing how to do something the right way are two different things.