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4 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Sean Carter |Peter Bresnan
With just a few weeks to go until Tax Day, Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline compared with 2024. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue. The prediction, officials told congressional economic correspondent Jacob Bogage, is directly tied to changing taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trump’s rapid demolition of parts of the IRS.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Peter Bresnan |Maggie Penman |Lynh Bui |Drea Cornejo |Caitlin Gilbert | +1 more
Mehmet Oz is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a massive agency that oversees health coverage for more than 100 million Americans, including older adults, those with low incomes and children. Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon and former professor at Columbia University who became a household name when he started appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2004 and then hosted his own show, “The Dr. Oz Show,” from 2009 to 2022.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Peter Bresnan |Maggie Penman |Reena Flores |Lenny Bernstein
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. It was eliminated in the United States 25 years ago because of an effective vaccine. While cases periodically pop up, a growing wave of vaccine skepticism is giving this old virus new traction. Health reporter Fenit Nirappil and “Post Reports” producer Elana Gordon recently traveled to the heart of this growing outbreak, which officials say may take months to get under control.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Peter Bresnan |Lucy Perkins
On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days. The suspension was part of the president’s effort to slash public spending, remake the federal government and align foreign policy more closely with his “America First” agenda. And it had near-immediate consequences.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Savannah Robinson |Ariel Plotnick |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Monica Campbell |Reena Flores | +1 more
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Monica Campbell |Maggie Penman |Reshma Kirpalani |Susan Levine
When it comes to abortion, the results of last week’s election were decidedly mixed. Abortion protections passed in New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Missouri but failed in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota. This means that 2 million more women now have access to abortion services across the country.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Monica Campbell |Emma Talkoff |Ariel Plotnick |Sean Carter |Martine Powers
The morning after the 2020 election, then-president Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and claimed that a “fraud” was being perpetrated on the American public. He would go on to wage a campaign against the 2020 results, which culminated in rioters storming the U.S. Capitol. Now, with Trump back on the ballot, experts are concerned that Trump and his allies may use the same playbook they did in 2020 to challenge the 2024 results.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Peter Bresnan |Reena Flores |Sean Carter |Yasmin Coles |Alan Sipress | +1 more
Just 140 miles off the coast of the Philippines’ largest island is a sparkling blue lagoon that is rich with fish and minerals. This ring of reefs and rocks is called Scarborough Shoal. For centuries, it has been a place of open passageway and connection, drawing fishermen from all over the region. It’s a place that captain Jory Aguian, student activist Mathew Silverio and the rest of a small Philippine flotilla of wooden boats are determined to reach.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Monica Campbell |Peter Bresnan |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Emma Talkoff |Reena Flores |Sean Carter
Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip awoke on Monday, the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks, in the same way they were roused on Oct. 7, 2023: to the sound of air-raid sirens. At 6:32 a.m. – almost to the minute of the surprise assaults last year – militants in Gaza launched four rockets toward those same towns and kibbutzim, sending Israelis into shelters and highlighting how the battle continues to rage 12 months after that fateful morning.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Reena Flores |Emma Talkoff |Sean Carter
In the past couple weeks, both former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), have pushed unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in the small city of Springfield, Ohio. The story got its start with a viral Facebook post and quickly made its way from far-right corners of the internet into the Republican mainstream.
