Kyle Melnick

5 days ago | post-gazette.com | Matthew Perrone |Kenya Hunter |Shannon Najmabadi |Kyle Melnick

INSIDE A TEXAS HAILSTORM — Wind roared against the SUV’s windows as its tires sloshed through water dumped onto the road by the downpour. A horizon-wide funnel cloud loomed out the window, several miles away. Then came the loud metallic pings on the roof. First one, then another. Then it was too fast to count and too loud to hear much of anything else. Hailstones were pelting down, and the car was driving toward them.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez |Holly Bailey |Kyle Melnick

‘I’m just so scared’: Lawmakers reckon with safety after Minnesota slayings (washingtonpost.com) ‘I’m just so scared’: Lawmakers reckon with safety after Minnesota slayings By Patrick Marley; Yvonne Wingett Sanchez; Holly Bailey; Kyle Melnick 2025061821280200 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota lawmakers, terrified by predawn attacks on two of their own, turned to each other on a group text for comfort.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Patrick Marley |Niha Masih |Andrew Jeong |Leo Sands |Kyle Melnick |Praveena Somasundaram | +1 more

Suspect in Minnesota lawmaker shootings captured after manhunt (washingtonpost.com) Suspect in Minnesota lawmaker shootings captured after manhunt By Patrick Marley; Niha Masih; Andrew Jeong; Leo Sands; Kyle Melnick; Praveena Somasundaram; Holly Bailey 2025061506411800 MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, was captured late Sunday after a sprawling, two-day manhunt that was the largest in the state's history, officials...

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Kyle Melnick

Honouring Sonora Dodd, the woman behind the national celebration of fathers. Photo / the Washington PostBetsy Roddy’s family used to send a Father’s Day card each year to her great-grandmother, Sonora Dodd. The unusual practice seemed an obvious tradition to her family: Dodd invented Father’s Day. It was 1909 when Dodd suggested at a Mother’s Day church sermon that dads should have their day, too. Dodd and her five siblings were raised by their father after their mother died in childbirth.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kyle Melnick

Betsy Roddy’s family used to send a Father’s Day card each year to her great-grandmother, Sonora Dodd. The unusual practice seemed an obvious tradition to her family: Dodd invented Father’s Day. It was 1909 when Dodd suggested at a Mother’s Day church sermon that dads should have their day, too. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Dodd and her five siblings were raised by their father after their mother died in childbirth.