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Julian Bond, charismatic civil rights figure, dies at 75

By the early 1970s, The Washington Post reported he was one of the three highest-earning speakers on the national lecture circuit, along with consumer ... >> view original

Nationals' misery continues with loss against Giants

Jayson Werth and Michael A. Taylor watched a replay on the big screen in center field. The scene around the Washington Nationals these days is not pretty. >> view original

Mike Huckabee is heading to Israel

This post has been updated. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is heading to Israel. Huckabee, less than a month after he said the Iranian nuclear deal ... >> view original

Germany unnerved by scores of xenophobic attacks against refugees

MEISSEN, Germany — In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely ... >> view original

Morgan Freeman mourns granddaughter found stabbed to death in...

New York police found Freeman's granddaughter by marriage, 33-year-old E'dena Hines, lying in the street outside her apartment in Washington Heights with ... >> view original

Donald Trump's surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Shortly after Donald Trump's helicopter touched down in Des Moines on Saturday, a reporter asked him a question about his policies. >> view original

Violent week in Shaw includes slaying of American University...

“Matt was just starting out his life as a young man and loved, loved Washington, loved what he was doing,” his father Michael Shlonsky said from the Cleveland ... >> view original

Treatment takes priority in effort to fight heroin

Two senior officials described the initiative to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the program was not scheduled to be announced until ... >> view original