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  • Heat index soars to 106 degrees as Washington confronts summer's ...

    Heat index soars to 106 degrees as Washington confronts summer's ...
    Belle the Chihuahua, right, jealously waits her turn as the big dog, Rocky, gets the first crack at the water dish. Both used the water hose provided by the park. The Wheaton Dog Park is popular even on very warm days because it has lots of shade and a water hose and several community dog bowls. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) (This story, originally published at 12:45 p.m., was updated at 3:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.) * Heat advisory through 8 p.m. for heat index values up to 105 * ..
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  • Trump's legal team faces tensions — and a client who often takes ...

    Trump's legal team faces tensions — and a client who often takes ...
    The challenge for President Trump’s attorneys has become, at its core, managing the unmanageable — their client. He won’t follow instructions. After one meeting in which they urged Trump to steer clear of a certain topic, he sent a tweet about that very theme before they arrived back at their office.  He won’t compartmentalize. With aides, advisers and friends breezing in and out of the Oval Office, it is not uncommon for the president to suddenly turn the conversation to Russia — a subject tha..
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  • Trump says he wants victories — but he isn't selling the GOP ...

    Trump says he wants victories — but he isn't selling the GOP ...
    When the GOP’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care laws was near death in the House in March, President Trump rallied 10,000 supporters in downtown Nashville and reassured his party’s base. “It’s going to be fine,” Trump told the audience about 25 minutes into his speech. “We’re going to all get together, we’re going to get something done.” But in the four months since, Trump has done relatively little to make it happen. The president has treated health care and a host of other legi..
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  • Beyoncé's twins Sir and Rumi make debut in first dazzling baby photo

    Beyoncé's twins Sir and Rumi make debut in first dazzling baby photo
    BeyoncĂŠ shares first photo of her twins, Sir and Rumi Carter on Instagram. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) The wait is over for BeyoncÊ’s fans. Sir and Rumi, her twins with husband Jay-Z, were born in June. For the past month, the world has anxiously awaited a first glimpse of the babies. Early Friday morning, BeyoncĂŠ finally graced them with a photo, posted to her Instagram account. It shows her holding the twins along with the caption, “Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today.â..
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  • How Trump Is Changing the Washington Game

    How Trump Is Changing the Washington Game
    Does President Donald Trump sometimes call in with his reactions to what he reads in Playbook? Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman, who are up at 4 a.m. every morning putting it together through red-eyed G-chats, won’t quite say. With American politics feeling like an hourly lurch between existential crisis and unprecedented news, they’re now producing Playbook twice a day—and they could probably fill an evening edition if they really had to.Story Continued Below Now Palmer and Sherman are writing..
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  • Why aren't Parisians protesting Trump?

    Why aren't Parisians protesting Trump?
    President Trump has strong opinions about Paris, so we asked Parisians about their opinion of Trump. (Jenny Starrs,Cléophéé Demoustier/The Washington Post) PARIS — During the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg last week, Donald Trump certainly drew out the crowds. What began as a theatrical anti-capitalist protest at the meeting of the world’s largest economies quickly devolved into violence, with thousands of angry, impassioned demonstrators torching cars, smashing store windows and blocking..
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  • Ivanka Inc.

    Ivanka Inc.
    This story has been optimized for offline reading on our apps. For a richer experience, you can find the full version of this story here. An Internet connection is required. On Inauguration Day, President Trump stood in front of the U.S. Capitol and vowed that his “America First” agenda would bring jobs back to the United States. “We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs,” he declared, adding: “We will ..
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  • Pa. man confesses to 'participation' in slaying of four as search for ...

    Pa. man confesses to 'participation' in slaying of four as search for ...
    (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post) SOLEBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Jimi Patrick was the first to go missing. The 19-year-old vanished last week. Days later, three other young men — all between the ages of 19 and 22 — also disappeared, setting off an intensive, grueling search at a farm here in the rolling country north of Philadelphia. The search took a series of grim turns Thursday, as authorities said cadaver dogs had led them to the body of one of the missing men at the bottom of a 12-foot..
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  • These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists ...

    These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists ...
    Water bear (Paramacrobiotus craterlaki) in moss. (AMNH) Tardigrades have a reputation as the toughest animals on the planet. Some of these microscopic invertebrates shrug off temperatures of minus 272 Celsius, one degree warmer than absolute zero. Other species can endure powerful radiation and the vacuum of space. In 2007, the European Space Agency sent 3,000 animals into low Earth orbit, where the tardigrades survived for 12 days on the outside of the capsule. To a group of theoretical phy..
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  • Washington tops list of cities where it's hardest to stretch a $100000 ...

    Washington tops list of cities where it's hardest to stretch a $100000 ...
    A view of Washington’s Tidal Basin. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) For those trying to stretch their dollars, the Washington metro area ranks as the worst in the nation for a household earning six figures because of the region’s high cost of living. D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs ranked No. 381 — out of 381 metro areas — in a report by Magnify Money called “The Best and Worst Cities to Live on Six Figures,” which looked at metro areas across the country where a family earns roughly $100,00..
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