omg @this.peculiar.day did a simit photoshoot www.ft.com/content/d413...

👀 A new FARA filing lays out strategy by a firm hired by Israel's foreign ministry to geofence US churches and Christian colleges to deliver "targeted pro-Israel content and sympathetic anti-Hamas messaging to engaged audiences" in the "largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in US History"

Jane Goodall has died at 91. Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO

Wow this opinion storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after firings of senior leaders www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said @katiefallow.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

D.C. Council passes measure to allow covid vaccine without a prescription www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

whaaaaat there's a new season of futurama?!?

‘It was me’: Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting appears to confess in Discord chat wapo.st/4gop4MV

"Trump health officials plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots, according to four people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential information." wapo.st/47LFKvL

NEW: A video enhanced by The Washington Post shows a person running across a roof overlooking the courtyard where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot seconds earlier. Gift link: wapo.st/4n46a0y

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. A @washingtonpost.com probe into these mass retractions found key links between the bogus writer “Margaux Blanchard” and another individual, suggesting a broader scheme. Here’s what I found: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Tuesday welcomed federal law enforcement officials to stay in D.C. indefinitely, a powerful indication of her willingness to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s effort to take over public safety in the capital city." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. “The assignment was a sham,” one said.

Judge John D. Bates in opinion yesterday greenlighting Jan. 6 defendant's recovery of money paid for sentence: "Sometimes a judge is called upon to do what the law requires, even if it may seem at odds with what justice or one’s initial instincts might warrant." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Update — hearing that the White House has formally fired Monarez, per two admin sources. Monarez's lawyers said earlier tonight she had neither resigned nor been fired

Before Trump’s Alaska summit, a top CIA expert worked grueling hours to make sure Trump + team were briefed. Four days later, she was told she lost her clearance despite expecting a prestigious assignment. In a span of minutes, her 29-yr career in public service was essentially over. wapo.st/3JVtsXq

SCOOP BREAKING: CDC director being ousted weeks into job. Me @ddiamond @LaurenWeberHP www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gonna start signing all my hottest takes like this federal judge: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE aims to spend millions on decked-out vehicles for D.C. operation www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Hope you'll read this piece, which we spent months reporting out. Gift link: wapo.st/4mdwa91

Breaking news: President Trump announced that he would place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets of D.C. to fight crime and clear the city of its homeless population.

It’s Red Dead Redemption 2 source code, RDR3 is the code name Rockstar use for Red Dead Redemption 2.

The people who got into Rockstar and leaked GTA 6 clips years before the game was announced are saying they have Red Dead Redemption 3 (not announced yet) source code.

“The British were watching this, going, ‘You can’t kill the blackfellas, they’re British citizens, you can’t just shoot them.’ So the [settlers] learned how to leave it out completely. Just hide it from history." A must-read this... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

William Webster, who led FBI and CIA through crises, dies at 101 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

“A source close to the company said it does not reveal this kind of detail about its products, but indicated it is seen internally as a sandwich.”

David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🚨 NEW BURIAL SINGLE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL burial.bandcamp.com/album/comafi...

As of 8:25 PM EDT July 29, 2025: Please visit tsunami.gov for the latest updates on expanding watches, warnings and advisories across the Pacific and western U.S.

“Yellow alert for shaking-related fatalities. Some casualties are possible…Estimated economic losses are 0-2% GDP of Russia. Past events with this alert level have required a national or international level response.”

This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wow this story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray today issued this statement on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's unfounded personal attack on my colleague Ellen Nakashima:

"Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump during last year’s presidential campaign — a decision that is likely to spur both internal and external backlash." www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

"The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report cyberscoop.com/hacker-helpe...

...WHAT!!! maybe the craziest cyber story i've read this month...

NEW: Former Syrian official claims Assad gave order to kill Austin Tice in 2013. U.S. officials are investigating the uncorroborated, but “credible,” account from a high-ranking former Syrian official and adviser to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Border czar Tom Homan earned at least $5,000 in fees consulting for a division of the GEO Group, one of two companies that operates the vast majority of the nation’s immigrant detention facilities, per a financial disclosure obtained by The Post. wapo.st/4jrr9Yv

It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!

Breaking news: The Supreme Court deadlocked over the constitutionality of the nation’s first public religious charter school, blocking the creation of the controversial Catholic online academy in Oklahoma.

Trump says he will replace D.C. U.S. attorney pick Ed Martin www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

WaPo Executive Editor: “The First Amendment is central to our democracy and an enshrined constitutional right for all Americans. Any government effort to subpoena reporters and their records threatens those constitutional rights for the independent press.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...