Holly Bailey

United States

National Correspondent at The Washington Post

National Correspondent @WashingtonPost based in Atlanta; author of The Mercy of the Sky, published by Viking

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A city’s dream deal promised jobs, money. Then residents learned it was with Elon Musk.

5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Holly Bailey

A city’s dream deal promised jobs, money. Then residents learned it was with Elon Musk. (washingtonpost.com) A city’s dream deal promised jobs, money. Then residents learned it was with Elon Musk.
A city’s dream deal promised jobs, money. Then residents learned it was with Elon Musk.

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Holly Bailey

1 Quantum Computing Stock That Has Crushed the S&P 500 Index This Year -- Should Investors Jump Aboard or Run for the Hills? The benchmark S&P 500 index hasn't had the best 2025 so far. It's essentially flat year to date as of May 29, but along the way, it has experienced …
Forecasters fear job cuts in severe weather season could be devastating

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Holly Bailey

Forecasters fear job cuts in severe weather season could be devastating (washingtonpost.com) Forecasters fear job cuts in severe weather season could be devastating By Holly Bailey 2025043010000000 NORMAN, Okla. — The sky was blue, the breeze steady and the temperature close to 70 degrees — a near perfect spring day in central Oklahoma. But a team of meteorologists inside the National Weather Service office here eyed the local radar with growing concern.
Bill Clinton, Oklahoma City commemorate 1995 bombing amid extremism fears

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Holly Bailey

OKLAHOMA CITY - Thirty years to the day after a truck bomb leveled a federal building, killing 168 people and shattering the nation’s innocence about the threat of homegrown terrorism, former president Bill Clinton said the country desperately needs to heed the lessons of how this city recovered, rising above anger and polarization to become a better place to live.
Bill Clinton, Oklahoma City commemorate 1995 bombing amid extremism fears

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Holly Bailey

Bill Clinton, Oklahoma City commemorate 1995 bombing amid extremism fears (washingtonpost.com) Bill Clinton, Oklahoma City commemorate 1995 bombing amid extremism fears By Holly Bailey 2025041915494400 OKLAHOMA CITY — Thirty years to the day after a truck bomb leveled a federal building, killing 168 people and shattering the nation's innocence about the threat of homegrown terrorism, former president Bill Clinton said the country desperately needs to heed the lessons of how this city...
Two dead in Missouri as tornado risks set to peak across swath of U.S.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ben Cattell Noll |Holly Bailey |Victoria Craw

A tornado outbreak is expected to continue Saturday, with the highest risk across several states in the Deep South as extreme weather conditions reach a peak. Numerous significant tornadoes, some of which may be long-track and violent, are expected Saturday afternoon and evening, wrote NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. Twenty-five tornadoes were reported across the central states on Friday and early Saturday, some of which were severe, damaging and deadly.
At Selma’s civil rights anniversary, fears rise about the way forward

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Holly Bailey

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At Selma’s civil rights anniversary, fears rise about the way forward

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Holly Bailey

SELMA, Ala. — Florence Richardson knows all too well the grim story of Bloody Sunday. She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday — the screams of her fellow civil rights marchers as they were attacked by police, the smell of tear gas, and the sound of a galloping horse on her heels ridden by a billy club-wielding officer who sought to beat her into submission or worse.
Months after terror attack, New Orleans cautiously celebrates Mardi Gras

Mar 3, 2025 | phillytrib.com | Holly Bailey

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Months after terror attack, New Orleans cautiously celebrates Mardi Gras

Mar 2, 2025 | postguam.com | Holly Bailey

NEW ORLEANS - Almost everyone has their perfect spot to take in the full majesty of Mardi Gras parades here, from the brightly lit floats from which riders toss bounties of colorful beads to the precision of the marching bands whose booming bass drums serve as the heartbeat of the city’s cherished Carnival tradition.