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#Vaccines #PublicHealth #AluminumSafety
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Opinion | Answering your questions about aluminum in vaccines
You're reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges. Click here to get the full newsletter in your inbox, including answers to reader questions and a summary of new scientific research.
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#Neanderthal #Genetics #HomoSapiens
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Neanderthal males and human females had babies together, ancient DNA reveals
Skulls are displayed as part of the Neanderthal exhibition at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)
When Neanderthals and our species had babies together, the prehistoric pairings tended to follow a distinct pattern: Neanderthal dads and moms who were Homo sapiens -- the same as modern humans.
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#HillaryClinton #EpsteinInvestigation #PoliticalTheater
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Hillary Clinton derides her Epstein deposition as GOP 'political theater'
Members of the media gather outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, New York, on Thursday. (Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images)
CHAPPAQUA, New York -- Hillary Clinton derided her appearance before the House Oversight Committee as "political theater" as she began testifying behind closed doors in front of the Republican-led panel Thursday as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
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#NATO #Geopolitics #DefenseStrategy
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Opinion | How to make NATO great again
A Polish Abrams tank near Orzysz, Poland, on Sept. 17. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
Paula J. Dobriansky is vice chair of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a former under secretary of state.
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#Vaccines #Aging #PublicHealth
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Opinion | Kennedy's war on vaccines is also a war on the elderly
The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood.
Donald G. McNeil Jr. , a former global health reporter for the New York Times, is the author of "The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years of Covering Pandemics.
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#Cuba #Politics #Investigation
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Thursday briefing: Cuba boat shooting; State of the Union fallout; Hillary Clinton testifies; Erika Kirk; and more
Cuban forces shot four people dead on an American speedboat.
* Why. The crew opened fire on border agents yesterday, according to Cuban officials.
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#Democratic2028 #PresidentialElection #PoliticalLandscape
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Ranking the 2028 Democratic presidential contenders
The Democratic 2028 field is wide, and there's plenty of room for surprises. (Illustration by Lucy Naland/The Washington Post; Melina Mara/The Washington Post; Ilana Panich-Linsman/For The Washington Post; Michelle Gustafson/For The Washington Post; Kylie Cooper/Reuters; iStock)
While no one has officially declared their candidacy just yet, the unofficial 2028 Democratic presidential field is taking shape -- and it's sprawling.
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#RetirementBenefits #EconomicPolicy #IncomeInequality
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Trump floats new retirement benefit for 54 million workers
President Donald Trump, in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, suggested a major new retirement benefit for tens of millions of American workers, embracing an economic policy that proponents say could bolster the federal retirement safety net.
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#TrumpAccounts #InvestmentForChildren #TaxPolicy
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What to know about Trump's accounts for children: $1,000 per kid
President Donald Trump touted a program during his State of the Union address Tuesday that created investment accounts for children born during Trump's second term seeded with $1,000 per child from the federal government.
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#Blizzard2026 #WinterStorm #ProvidenceSnow
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A bonkers 37.9 inches of snow hit this Northeast city. How that happened.
Students walk on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Tuesday. (Mark Stockwell/AP)
A nearly incomprehensible amount of snow fell on Providence, much of Rhode Island and the surrounding region late Sunday through Monday.
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#TaxScams #FraudPrevention #IRS
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Column | How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers
I owe the IRS absolutely nothing.
Yet in the last two weeks, I've been getting calls to my mobile number that make it seem as if the government has an issue with our tax situation.
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#Tariffs #SupremeCourt #ExecutivePower
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Opinion | How Trump raced past the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump at a news conference regarding tariffs on Friday at the White House. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post)
Last week, after the Supreme Court told President Donald Trump that his tariff policy exceeded the executive branch's authority, he held the justices in contempt.
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#MidtermElections #VoterTurnout #PoliticalPolls
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Republicans stare down epic voter enthusiasm gap ahead of 2026 midterms
Voters are closely split over which party they prefer in the November midterm elections, but Democrats hold a wide advantage in voter enthusiasm over Republicans that could help them reclaim at least some power, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
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#Trump #Immigration #Affordability
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Analysis | Trump to Democrats: 'You caused that problem'
In today's edition . Campaigning on being a Trump nemesis . but first .
Trump points his finger at Democrats on affordability and immigration
Americans are feeling underwater on affordability.
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#Trump #StateOfTheUnion #Politics
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The moment Trump's State of the Union speech changed
President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday during a joint session of Congress. Behind him are Vice President JD Vance, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).
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#Trump #StateOfTheUnion #Politics
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4 takeaways from Trump's State of the Union address
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
As he addressed Congress on Tuesday for his State of the Union, President Donald Trump was back on his heels.
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#PressFreedom #Journalism #NationalSecurity
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Judge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporter
The Washington Post building. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to search through a Washington Post reporter's electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.
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#Epstein #JusticeDepartment #SurvivorAdvocacy
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Epstein survivors to attend State of the Union as guests of Democratic lawmakers
More than a dozen accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein plan to attend the State of the Union address Tuesday night as guests of Democratic lawmakers, who have insisted that the Trump administration has not fully complied with a law that should have forced the Justice Department to release most of its files related to the deceased financier.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #NationalSecurity #AutonomousWeapons
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Hegseth threatens to force AI firm to share tech, escalating Anthropic standoff
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, speaks during the Anthropic Builder Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Feb. 16. (Priyanshu Singh/Reuters)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic that it could invoke powers that would allow the government to force the artificial intelligence firm to share its novel technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military, people familiar with the ongoing discussions said.
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#ImmigrationPolicy #BankingRegulation #ExecutiveOrder
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Trump administration considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information
The Trump administration is considering executive action that could require banks to report more information on the citizenship of their customers, the latest move by the White House to crack down on illegal immigration, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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#WhiteHouse #HistoricPreservation #TrumpAdministration
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Behind closed doors, GOP lawmaker questioned 'disturbing' East Wing demolition
Construction workers watch as demolition continues on the East Wing of the White House in October. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
As GOP leaders leaped to defend President Donald Trump's decision to tear down the East Wing of the White House last year, one Republican lawmaker privately warned a senior White House aide that he had "substantial concerns" and demanded answers about how the decision was made.
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#AviationSafety #Legislation #MemorialEvents
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Opinion | The military caused the DCA crash. Now it's trying to kill key fixes.
People who lost loved ones in the crash attend a memorial event last month at D. A. R. Constitution Hall. (Luke Johnson/Getty Images)
Thirteen months after an Army helicopter collided in midair with an American Airlines flight landing at Reagan National Airport, the Pentagon is trying to blow up a good bipartisan deal to prevent such an accident from happening again.
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#AIinHealthcare #MedicalTraining #FutureOfMedicine
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Opinion | AI didn't replace me as a doctor. It made me better.
Future clinicians should be training on how to use this technology effectively.
Ashish K. Jha, the former dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, was White House covid-19 response coordinator from 2022 to 2023.
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#Trump #ClassifiedDocuments #FirstAmendment
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Judge blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump classified documents case
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents , a prosecution that was once seen as the most perilous of the four criminal cases the Republican faced.
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#SupremeCourt #JudicialIntegrity #BrettKavanaugh
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Opinion | Kavanaugh's moment to defend the court
Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh at a judicial conference in Austin in 2024. (Eric Gay/AP)
Richard J. Lazarus is the Charles Stebbins Fairchild professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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#StateOfTheUnion #Trump #Politics
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The State of the Union brings a big audience for Trump. But does it matter?
President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night at one of the most fragile moments of his second term, as he confronts new Supreme Court limits on his agenda, voter anger over inflation and growing cracks within his MAGA coalition ahead of the midterms.
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#Mexico #DrugCartels #Violence
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Mexico's most powerful cartel leader is killed by security forces
A member of Mexico's national guard stands near a burned bus Sunday in Zapopan, in Jalisco state, amid unrest there. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images)
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Mexico's most powerful drug kingpin, the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed by the Mexican military on Sunday, Mexican defense officials said.
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#Hockey #Olympics #USAvsCanada
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Column | Joy and pain for the U.S. and Canada, and a hockey game that had all the feels
American Jack Hughes scored the winning goal 101 seconds into overtime. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
MILAN -- The contrast after it was over -- after your stomach did quadruple axles for three hours, after gold seemed won for Canada and won for the United States and back again -- stood as the perfect representation not only for what had just played out, but for what it meant.
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#NuclearEnergy #UraniumEnrichment #EnergyIndependence
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Opinion | Fixing America's broken nuclear fuel supply
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks in Athens, Greece, on Nov. 6. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)
Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced plans during a visit to Paris last week to reinvigorate America's nuclear fuel supply, including a partnership with the French company Orano to help build a uranium enrichment facility in Tennessee.
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#Olympics #IceHockey #GoldMedal
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U.S. wins epic OT showdown against Canada to secure men's hockey gold
Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal for the United States in the gold medal game against Canada. (Julien De Rosa/AFP/Getty Images)
MILAN -- The drought is over, and the storied history of U.
