Articles filed under Washington Post
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Ali Stroker makes Tony history as the first wheelchair user to win an acting awardJun 11, 2019 1:00 am - On Sunday evening, Ali Stroker called her Tony nomination "a dream come true." A few hours later, she won, and in doing so, the "Oklahoma!" performer made history as the...
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It looked like a simple domestic murder. Then police learned about the alien reptile cult.Jun 11, 2019 1:00 am - The call lighted up the 911 dispatch center in the early morning hours of July 15, 2017. "My boyfriend had a gun," Barbara Rogers told the operator from a home in Coolba...
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Saudi teenager faces execution for alleged crimes committed as a childJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - ISTANBUL - Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against a teenager accused of crimes he allegedly committed as a minor, drawing fire from rights...
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In Alabama, rapists have parental rightsJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - When a young woman came to the Family Services of North Alabama office last year for help with trauma, saying she had been raped by her step-uncle when she was 15, rape ...
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A newborn was left to die 26 years ago. A mother's arrest has led to baffling new questions.Jun 10, 2019 1:00 am - The cemetery sits off a lonely two-lane road, tucked between cornfields and the occasional house screened from passing traffic by thick clumps of trees. The neat rows of...
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Students, bored by cafeteria fare, love food delivery services; schools don't.Jun 10, 2019 1:00 am - SILVER SPRING, Md. - Students in middle and high schools across America thought they had found a way around cafeteria "cuisine" and boring brown-bag lunches: just hit up...
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Trump and Macron planted a friendship tree. Now it's dead.Jun 10, 2019 1:00 am - PARIS - The symbolic tree that President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron planted at the White House last year has died, according to French media...
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Retired Red Sox MVP David Ortiz in stable condition after being shot in Dominican RepublicJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - David Ortiz, the legendary former Boston Red Sox slugger, was in stable condition Monday after having surgery for serious wounds he suffered in an apparent ambush Sunday...
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Much of the chocolate you buy starts with child laborJun 09, 2019 6:00 am - GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they r...
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Fewer kids are riding and buying bicycles, and the industry is worriedJun 09, 2019 6:00 am - Children's bicycle manufacturers and retailers are bracing for rough times ahead as market research shows fewer kids are riding bikes, while prices for cycling equipment...