Joel Achenbach

In this artist’s illustration, turbulent winds of gas swirl around a black hole. Some of the gas is spiraling inward toward the black hole, but another part is blown away. MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of NASA and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center)

Black holes may finally be ready for their close-up

April 9, 2019 at 6:33 p.m.

At precisely 13:00 Universal Time on Wednesday - 9 a.m. in the Eastern United States - scientists will hold simultaneous news conferences in Washington, D.C., Belgium, Denmark, Chile, Japan, China...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ...

Trump White House doubles down on threat to close U.S.-Mexico border

March 31, 2019 at 7:55 p.m.

The White House doubled down Sunday on President Donald Trump's threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, despite warnings that the move would inflict immediate economic damage on American...

FEMA director William “Brock” Long visited communities affected by Hurricane Michael during an October, 2018 ground tour on Sunday. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Patricia Sullivan

FEMA chief Long, who faced questions over his use of government vehicle, to resign

February 13, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

Less than two years into a tenure marked by five major hurricanes, multiple lethal wildfires and a tense relationship with his boss, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator William "Brock" Long...

This photograph shows putative stromatolitic structures in an outcrop (arrows). A new study says some structures point down and some point up: Evidence that these are not relics of microbial mats growing up from a sea floor, but are just formed through geological processes, the authors say. MUST CREDIT: Abigail Allwood/NASA via Nature

Oldest fossils or just rocks? Scientists at odds over 3.7 billion-year-old structures.

October 20, 2018 at 1:08 p.m.

It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats...

A bartender holds a measuring cup while preparing a Spritz cocktail in a cafe in central Rome, on July 17, 2018.

Huge clinical trial collapses, and research on alcohol remains befuddling

August 5, 2018 at 5:57 p.m.

Research on alcohol consumption is in a pickle. There's no question that pounding one drink after another is bad for your health. Things get murkier when it comes to "moderate"...

President Donald Trump points before boarding ...

A look at the list helping Trump reshape the Supreme Court

July 8, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

In early 2016, while working as Donald Trump's top campaign lawyer, Donald McGahn came up with a novel idea whose reverberations are still being felt. Although Trump was surging toward...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets ...

Trump accuses Canadian leader of being “dishonest” and “weak”

June 11, 2018 at 8:37 a.m.

President Donald Trump left America's closest allies dismayed Sunday after he yanked the U.S. endorsement of a Group of Seven economic agreement and then unleashed a Twitter attack - echoed...

Romaine lettuces can continue to grow ...

First death reported from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce as outbreak spreads

May 2, 2018 at 9:35 p.m.

The nationwide food poisoning outbreak from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce has claimed its first fatality, an unidentified person in California, and the contagion has sickened a total of 121 people...

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk, shown outside his office in Mammoth, Wyo., in 2013, could be reassigned to Washington, D.C., under a controversial Interior Department plan.

Proposed shake-up at National Park Service could make senior leaders hit the road

April 27, 2018 at 9:14 p.m.

A major management shake-up could be underway at the National Park Service, including the proposed reassignment of the veteran superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and six other senior executives, according...

22 states now affected by dangerous outbreak of E. coli illness from romaine lettuce

April 27, 2018 at 8:24 p.m.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that 14 more people have become sickened by the E. coli outbreak involving romaine lettuce, bringing the total to 98 people...

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