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Hear the sounds of spring in your area

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Alyssa Fowers |Leslie Shapiro |Emily M. Eng

Hear the sounds of spring in your area (washingtonpost.com) Hear the sounds of spring in your area By Alyssa Fowers; Leslie Shapiro; Emily M. Eng 2025041310001900 Birdsong can signal the start of spring before the leaves bud and the flowers bloom. Every place has a unique sound, which changes across the seasons as birds migrate from their winter nesting grounds to their summer homes.
Which tariffs Trump has enacted and when more could go into effect - Washington Post

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Alyssa Fowers |Leslie Shapiro |Amaya Verde

Get a day-by-day look at how Trump’s trade war has unfolded and where it stands now.
An annotated guide to DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Leslie Shapiro |Daniel Wolfe |Hannah Natanson |Chris Dehghanpoor

Documents obtained by The Washington Post detail step-by-step plans the U.S. DOGE Service developed to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, aims next to target hundreds of non-DEI workers and what they called “corrupted branches” of offices required by law, which protect civil and employment rights.
Live briefing: Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to take more refugees, suggests plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Shira Rubin |Victoria Craw |Bryan Pietsch |Victoria Bisset |Júlia Ledur |Leslie Shapiro

President Donald Trump said he would like to see Jordan and Egypt house Palestinian refugees from Gaza in order to “just clean out” the enclave he described as a “demolition site.” Speaking to reporters abroad Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said: “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’” Last year, the Biden administration had opposed a forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied...
Monitoring the status of hostages still in Gaza after Hamas's attack

Nov 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Victoria Bisset |Júlia Ledur |Leslie Shapiro

Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. Hover to see more detailsThey have been in captivity for 437 daysHover over the highlighted names to see more detailsAges are current age in captivityFreed Rescued alive Bodies remain in Gaza Bodies recovered The cross-border attack that Hamas militants launched on Oct. 7, 2023, is regarded as the deadliest and most brutal attack in Israeli history.
Mapping where key votes drove Trump’s election victory

Nov 8, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Tim Meko |Aaron Steckelberg |Leslie Shapiro |AdriÃ¡n Blanco Ramos |Sarah Frostenson

This is a single grain of sand. It represents one vote for former president Donald Trump, who won the 2024 election. More than 144 million people voted, and that number is likely to grow as more ballots are counted. If you were to drop each grain of sand onto a U.S. map in the counties where they were cast, this is what it would look like. In an election that Trump won decisively, it’s hard to see only red or only blue piles of sand.
Can an icy Jupiter moon sustain life? NASA’s biggest space probe will investigate.

Oct 11, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Joel Achenbach |William Neff |Leslie Shapiro

9 minSorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life. In an ambitious $5 billion mission decades in the making, NASA is poised to send a jumbo robotic probe called the Europa Clipper to see if the icy moon has the key characteristics of a habitable world.
How water damages a flooded house — and which parts can be saved

Oct 1, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Aaron Steckelberg |Bonnie Berkowitz |Armand Emamdjomeh |William Neff |Leslie Shapiro

Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. Often it’s not the wind from a hurricane that does the most damage, it’s the water, particularly when a storm lingers and dumps huge amounts of rain over one area. But sometimes, a waterlogged house can be saved.
Breaking down Mondo Duplantis’s record pole vault technique at Olympics

Aug 2, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Bonnie Berkowitz |Leslie Shapiro |William Neff |CJ Riculan

ShareCommentSaveA great pole vaulter has to be fast, powerful and precise to propel himself two stories high using only a stick. The greatest vaulter of all time makes it look elegant. Louisiana’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, 24, who competes for Sweden, has set the world record eight times since 2020 and is the undisputed favorite to win a second consecutive Olympic gold medal Monday in Paris.
The evolution of reggaeton and the dembow beat: an interactive timeline

Feb 1, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Bethonie Butler |Luis Velarde |Artur Galocha |Leslie Shapiro

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. It’s called dembow , a rhythm from Jamaican dancehall and the most characteristic element of the Latin genre that now dominates the pop world. This story is best experienced with sound on. This is the complex story of a simple sound — a beat that has resisted definition and mutated across artists, borders and subgenres.