Articles filed under Washington Post
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Your phone may have a cure for your fear of flyingJun 22, 2019 6:00 am - After an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed on March 10, killing the 157 people onboard, Nic Johns noticed something uncomfortable. The app he developed, a number-crunchi...
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Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movementJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - A wealthy Manhattan couple has emerged as significant financiers of the anti-vaccine movement, contributing more than $3 million in recent years to groups that stoke fea...
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Ex-Senate staffer sentenced to 4 years for 'doxing' GOP senatorsJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Democratic Senate staff member to four years in prison for a burglary and hacking campaign that culminated in t...
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Fact-check: Biden's claim that 'almost half' of Americans live in povertyJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - "We have ... almost half the people in the United States living in poverty." - Former Vice Pesident Joe Biden, in remarks at the Poor People's Campaign presidential foru...
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Horns are growing on young people's skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.Jun 20, 2019 1:00 am - Mobile technology has transformed the way we live - how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this. What we have not yet grasped is the way the ...
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5 takeaways from Trump's 2020 campaign launch speechJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - Midway through the speech officially launching his 2020 reelection campaign Tuesday night, President Donald Trump joked about his campaign staff. "They cost a fortune, a...
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As Trump's defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidentsJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - In the months that he has served as President Donald Trump's acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents wi...
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Fact-checking President Trump's reelection campaign kickoffJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - Here we are again, four years later, fact-checking a campaign kickoff speech by Donald Trump. The fact-checkable claims were different this time around, but history repe...
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Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removal of 'millions of illegal aliens' starting next weekJun 18, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting "next week," an apparent reference to a plan ...
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Houdini-inspired magician plunged into a river for a stunt. He hasn't resurfaced.Jun 18, 2019 1:00 am - Sitting on a boat on a river in West Bengal, India, magician Chanchal Lahiri had others bind him in ropes and chains and prepare to barricade him in a cage down in the w...