BREAKING A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and PBS was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

BREAKING A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and PBS was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

me: i have my best caption ever wife: show me me: it’s mice cream! wife: that’s a rat me: but- wife: sorry babe me: i was gonna win the internet wife: are you crying? me: no

BREAKING Trump allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, breaking his effective blockade on the island Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday the delivery had been “raised well in advance … with our American counterparts” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

BREAKING The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The U.S. may stop promising to defend its NATO allies should they come under attack, President Trump said as his frustration grows that European leaders have not significantly contributed to his war against Iran.

Protesters filled the streets at thousands of rallies across the U.S. and the world for No Kings. The movement has spread globally, with rallies springing up in at least 15 other nations at a time when much of the world fears President Trump’s war could spiral. https://wapo.st/4bCEBYR

Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran. Human rights groups have long called to ban land mines because of their propensity to harm or kill civilians, often years after conflicts have ended. https://wapo.st/4tf80OJ

So this happened when we called the White House switchboard yesterday.

President Trump spent five minutes of his Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies. The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened.

For about a decade, Shay Taylor-Allen walked the halls of Yale New Haven Hospital as a janitor. Soon, she’ll walk the halls of the hospital again — this time wearing a white coat, after matching into an anesthesiology residency. https://wapo.st/3NtgqTx

Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease the effective oil blockade that’s strangling the island www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

100% chance at least most of this was mined in areas controlled by ELN, which uses child labor, has horrifically dangerous work conditions, and indenture that the UN has called "effective slavery" That gold is then laundered into "legal" markets

“The reverse shows an American eagle bearing neither the usual arrows nor the olive branch that symbolize war and peace but the wooden yoke of the Liberty Bell — a bit like an aggressive seagull making off with your hot dog” Great stuff from @philipkennicott.bsky.social wapo.st/3PF7ydZ

Steve Carell and Amy Poehler gave listeners a taste of what it’s like living with opinionated Massachusetts natives on the latest episode of Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast.

Trump has now installed a Christopher Columbus statue on the White House’s grounds. It’s his latest move to honor the explorer, framing it as a political act. “You Italians are going to love me,” Trump said last year. w @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social

In a new lawsuit, Voice of America staffers allege that Kari Lake and other officials violated their First Amendment rights by breaching the editorial firewall that insulates the outlet from the government. This comes after two big wins for VOA in court. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ChatGPT starting to think human it talking to might be sentient

WHEN MY FRIEND CAME HOME FROM MADURO’S TORTURE PRISON Extraordinary reporting from the great Ana Vanessa Herrero www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

finally, japan answers america’s call to help open the strait of hormuz

POST EXCLUSIVE With ally Viktor Orban's popularity in Hungary falling ahead of the April election, Russia's foreign intelligence service proposed "The Gamechanger": A staged assassination attempt Wild reporting from Catherine Belton in Budapest wapo.st/4smKFuj

Hezbollah is bombing northern Israel again. This time, residents are staying put www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The tanker Anatoly Kolodkin, carrying 750,000 barrels of Russian crude, appears to be heading toward Cuba, maritime analysts say. The Trump administration has threatened to punish countries that deliver fuel to the struggling island Anthony Faiola and @ilyushina.bsky.social report wapo.st/4rL67YK

POST EXCLUSIVE The U.S. Embassy in Havana, struggling like the rest of the island under Trump's oil blockade, asked Cuba's permission to bring in diesel fuel. Cuba called the request “shameless” Well done @mradamtaylor.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social Marina Dias Karen DeYoung wapo.st/4lEGzuZ

SNPY flew for the RAF, not Germany

They had gone to the salon to get their nails and eyelashes done for Eid al-Fitr www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

While the Trump administration maintains an oil blockade on Cuba, China is helping the island build solar farms – aiding an ally in distress while flexing its global dominance in renewable energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

State Department eases travel warning on Venezuela from Do Not Travel to Reconsider Travel Amazonas, Apure, Aragua, Bolivar, Guarico and Tachira states and the Colombian border remain Do Not Travel areas travel.state.gov/content/trav...

“The Iran war isn’t entertainment. The White House should stop treating it as such” More from Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“I do believe I’ll [have] the honor of taking Cuba.” By diplomacy, or military action? “Taking Cuba in some form … whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it if you want to know the truth” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

"Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer celebrates the world's most famous monument to Islamic art

U.S. considers withholding H.I.V. aid unless Zambia expands minerals access (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

New/Exclusive/Gift link: The girls’ elementary school where a likely U.S. strike killed 175 people was on a Pentagon target list @taracopp.bsky.social Souad Mekhennet @megkelly.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social @sgreports.bsky.social wapo.st/4llWy0R

"That letter, the last she ever wrote, was a big part of why the 44-year-old royal who spent half her life imprisoned didn’t just fade away as a headless footnote" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store" Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago bit.ly/4bxp5ND

Credit only if they answer in the form of a question

Oh god the "Peter's voice is changing" episode of the Brady Bunch is currently on MeTV

This month, we talk to women journalists who have investigated power at the highest levels and faced serious retaliation, from legal threats to coordinated smear campaigns. Yet they continue reporting and fighting back. Follow along to hear their stories. #WomenInvestigatingPower #IWHM #IWD

MATA, the slogan for Brandon “the AK guy” Herrera’s run for Congress from Texas, is the Spanish command “kill”

Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Trump: “They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks” Vance: “I think the president was looking for the long haul” Rubio: “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” Trump: “If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand” wapo.st/4bAOdCj

At our 16-year-old’s mock trial and seeing disappointingly little mockery

RFK Jr. said he’s coming for your Dunkin’. New England responded in appropriate fashion. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/n...

“CUBA’S NEXT” The Justice Department has formed a working group to examine possible federal charges against officials or entities within Cuba’s government www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Coalition of the Unwilling” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

POST EXCLUSIVE A classified report completed by the National Intelligence Council a week before the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran found that even a large-scale assault would be unlikely to oust its military and clerical establishment www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New: The White House is transforming the Iran strikes into a meme war. An "aesthetic of bloodlust" that gives Americans the empathy-free, Hollywood, video-game version of deadly combat www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

There was no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while Washington slept www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

SPANISH PM PEDRO SÁNCHEZ DENIES U.S. USE OF BASES FOR MIDDLE EAST WAR “Twenty-three years ago, another American administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. ... We must learn from history, and we cannot play Russian roulette with the fate of millions of people.” wapo.st/3OLyzfy

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel to transform the Middle East. It did, on a scale comparable to the carving up of the Ottoman Empire a century ago — but not remotely in the ways Sinwar had in mind The great Steve Hendrix reports from Jerusalem wapo.st/3N6j0yl

That navy-blazer-and-khakis look? That was George Washington's idea. Fascinating piece by the brilliant @sexandstatus.bsky.social (gift link) wapo.st/4rw4uyU