National - The Washington Post (2024)

‘My ultimate goal is to have trolls surprising people in every state,’ said Thomas Dambo, whose latest project is in Detroit Lakes, Minn.

By Cathy FreeJuly 9, 2024

A possible case is being investigated in Colorado. Bubonic plague is the most common form of the bacterial infection, which can be spread by fleas on rodents.

By Adela SulimanJuly 9, 2024

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s two high-profile racketeering cases -- this one and another against Trump -- are both now on hold.

By Holly BaileyJuly 9, 2024

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill about 450,000 invasive barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest.

By Kyle MelnickJuly 9, 2024

The former president has sought to disavow the plan being touted by former advisers and aides, but Trump has endorsed many of the same ideas.

By Josh Dawsey and Hannah KnowlesJuly 8, 2024

A Post reporter embedded with Michigan prosecutors for two years as they pursued homicide charges against Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed four students at Oxford High School.

By John Woodrow CoxJuly 8, 2024

Perhaps nowhere are President Biden’s senior moments hitting closer to home than in Florida’s retiree strongholds, where active residents are defying the limits of age themselves.

By Lori RozsaJuly 8, 2024

The Supreme Court said its guidance that gun laws must align with U.S. “history and tradition” was misunderstood. What does that mean for hundreds of legal challenges to gun laws?

By Rachel WeinerJuly 7, 2024

“It’s a wonderful thing to be in a place where you’re totally accepted for who you are,” said Andre Simpson, 67, about the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s senior prom.

By Sydney PageJuly 6, 2024

Thunderstorms on Friday dumped more than 5½ inches of rain on Manawa, Wis., causing floodwaters to burst through a levee, officials said.

By Jonathan Edwards and Kelsey BakerJuly 5, 2024

A lawsuit by billionaire Kenneth Griffin, whose tax records were leaked, led to an IRS apology to more than 80,000 people and businesses who also were affected.

By Joe DavidsonJuly 5, 2024

Beryl is expected to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday.

By N. Kirkpatrick, Dylan Moriarty and Szu Yu ChenJuly 5, 2024

“When they’re rounded up, a lot of them slip through the cracks and go to unloving homes,” said Clare Staples, founder of the nonprofit Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary.

By Cathy FreeJuly 4, 2024

The decision allows students who paid the University of Farmington, which was set up by the government to root out visa fraud, to sue to recoup their payments.

By Praveena SomasundaramJuly 4, 2024

A judge blocked Texas’s attempt to shutter a decades-old migrant shelter network in a pair of rulings Tuesday, calling Ken Paxton’s actions “intolerable.”

By Anumita Kaur and María Luisa PaúlJuly 3, 2024

“I love to do weird, goofy stuff like this,” said John Edwards, who organizes the yearly event.

By Sydney PageJuly 3, 2024

How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

By Robert KlemkoJuly 3, 2024

What may be considered “official acts” and how will a judge interpret the legal lines drawn by the high court in Donald Trump’s federal criminal election obstruction case in D.C.

By Spencer S. Hsu and Rachel WeinerJuly 2, 2024

Vice President Harris is better at telling other people’s stories rather than her own. That’s not a failing, and it may well be a virtue.

By Robin GivhanJuly 2, 2024

Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his New York hush money conviction based on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

By Shayna Jacobs and Devlin BarrettJuly 2, 2024