Articles filed under Washington Post
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How one pantry ingredient can transform a soup into a filling mealApr 24, 2026 9:25 am - Made with savory-sweet tomatoes and fluffy eggs, this substantial, brothy soup shares the same key ingredients as a classic Chinese stir-fry. With just a little flour and water, it’s a reliable way of turning whatever bits and bobs you have on hand into a satisfying meal.
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5 ways to get more magnesium without taking a supplementApr 24, 2026 8:47 am - Magnesium supplements are among the most popular dietary supplements in America. Experts say that’s because magnesium plays an important role in our health.
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5 tips for when you’re wide awake at 3 a.m.Apr 24, 2026 8:45 am - Do you ever find yourself lying in bed wide awake at 3 a.m., tossing and turning, unable to get back to sleep? Tens of millions of adults experience insomnia, which can manifest in a variety of ways. But middle-of-the-night awakenings — where you wake up and have difficulty falling asleep again — are the most common symptoms of insomnia.
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Why these treatments for one of the deadliest cancers are stirring hopeApr 24, 2026 8:37 am - Experimental therapies with radically different approaches are stirring a wave of optimism that survival rates could substantially improve for pancreatic cancer, one of the most stubbornly lethal forms of the disease.
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Thinking of using a chatbot for medical advice? Read this first.Apr 23, 2026 8:59 pm - When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of just over 50% correct responses.
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What a 5,000-mile-long marine heat wave means for summer in the USApr 23, 2026 4:32 pm - A massive ocean hot spot is stretching across a 5,000-mile swath of the Pacific — from Micronesia to the coastal waters of California. Across this zone, waters are as much as 6 to 8 degrees above average.
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The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk’s latest legal feudApr 23, 2026 9:59 am - Hundreds of court filings have revealed cringey texts, emails or private diary entries of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, other OpenAI founders and other public figures.
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Animated spinoff turns the ‘Stranger Things’ aesthetic upside downApr 22, 2026 8:41 pm - The animated reboot “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85,” streaming Thursday on Netflix, comes on the heels of the last season of the live-action “Stranger Things.”
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Trump eyes Iran deal with many of the trade-offs he blasted Obama for acceptingApr 22, 2026 8:17 pm - Billions in frozen assets may be handed back to Iran. Agreements to limit Tehran’s nuclear program may eventually expire. And some of the same hard-line leaders who crushed nationwide protests in January could end up better-resourced than they were before President Donald Trump unleashed crushing airstrikes more than seven weeks ago.
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Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells CongressApr 22, 2026 7:58 pm - It could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress — an assessment that means the conflict’s economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond.