In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Your morning read. How billionaires took over American politics: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. wapo.st/48nkqMN

The homicide rate in the US has been dropping in the past three years and is trending toward its lowest level in decades. Reporters visited five cities with major decreases to figure out why. Data analysis by @jdharden.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

The deadliest roads in America: The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the United States has surged amid neglect and lack of investment by transportation authorities. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

A reminder of our past nuclear testing: revealnews.org/article/us-v...

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt wapo.st/3Le1yXo

The U.S. women's gymnastics program won just two medals at world championships this week — their fewest since 2001. What happened? Analysis of the state of the U.S. program: wapo.st/3JuJl7s

Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

How the Louvre Jewelry Heist Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same wapo.st/43ijIxq

So, @marissajae.bsky.social and I knew D.C. was changing up its canopy, but we wanted to explore what which regions of the country would be most represented in the city’s planting strategy. The data pointed to the midwest and gulf coast. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public wapo.st/3KNYyRq

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all. Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

Read your favorite story today: Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in. via the incredible @emilygiam.bsky.social 🔥, @katiperry.bsky.social and @asteckelberg.bsky.social Explore the math and and try your own bets. wapo.st/4o3YxXK

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. wapo.st/4m81PJf ‪By Reis Thebault, Alice Li and Melina Mara

From 2020 - 2023, youth crime in DC spiked, and we investigated why. We found a series of failures to address the very problem leaders promised to solve, finding the systems put in place to help DC's youth often fell short with dire consequences. Gift links to our series are threaded.

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Panelist: people who scrape in R are psychopaths. Me and @ence.bsky.social: #NICAR25

A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where the White population has increased and the Black population has decreased, by @jdharden.bsky.social and @marissajae.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

“Gray houses have become a symbol of this muteness, this quiet, humble, nothing-is-happening-here,” De La Torre said. “When you paint a house gray, you’re covering up its history, its memory." @marissajae.bsky.social @jdharden.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

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Kids brave commutes that can stretch over an hour on a transit system that struggles to deliver reliable service. We modeled over 4,000 unique trips to school, tracked the live location of hundreds of buses for months and spoke to dozens of students. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

A Virginia law to protect pedestrians has almost never been used: That could change this year with a new attempt at stiffer penalties for hitting people in crosswalks. @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/40fQv44

Out-of-control wildfires are raging across greater Los Angeles, killing at least five people, devouring neighborhoods and forcing the evacuation of about 180,000 people as the blazes enter their third day. Here's how you can help. Follow live updates here: wapo.st/4acZ9F5

More to come later this week, but read how we reported all of the stories in this series here: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The ‘perfect’ predator: How a police chief groomed a Texas town www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

In response to our investigation that revealed predatory school police officers used their positions to meet, groom and exploit students — the Justice Department issued new guidelines today. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The latest from our investigation, Abused by the Badge. The headline says it all. A police chief was accused of paying $100 to rape a teen — and trying to cover it up. wapo.st/40I3n4K

Marty: We have to find a way to work on building up local journalism. It is the single biggest crisis in journalism today. And most Americans don't even come into contact with a journalist anymore. And that's part of the trust problem is because they judge journalism by what they see on cable news.

Dean: How do you think the press performed this election? Marty: I think we need to work harder at really understanding the country. We do have to get out into the country and take the measure of the sentiment in this country. We just owe it to the American public.

Now - Marty Baron and Dean Baquet sit down together at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism — breaking down coverage of the elections and discuss what’s to come. Baquet to Baron: Let's talk about Jeff Bezos ...

Dreaming of snow this winter? Look up the forecast in your area. wapo.st/3CjsMaD 🎁 link

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