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Mourners participate in a vigil on Saturday evening in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed in a mass shooting earlier in the day at the Tree of Life Synagogue. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Justin Merriman

Authorities name the 11 killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

October 28, 2018 at 9:45 a.m.

Authorities have named the 11 people killed Saturday when a man armed with three pistols and a semiautomatic assault-style rifle attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh - the deadliest attack on...

BP鈥檚 Rocky Mountain high threatened by $39 million oil vote

October 20, 2018 at 2:39 p.m.

BP's new U.S. onshore oil headquarters in Denver serves as a testament to Colorado's regal mountains, its expansive forests, its nature-loving culture.

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...

Juan Fonseca and his 6-year-old daughter, Abigail, spend a Sunday afternoon at 3 Stars Brewing in Northwest Washington.

Some breweries are making point to cater to kids 鈥� much to the delight of parents

October 20, 2018 at 1:12 p.m.

This summer in Maryland, Baltimore's Union Craft Brewing saw an upswing in the number of unsupervised children running around its new, expanded beer garden and brewery. Speaking up to parents...

The laureates of the Nobel Prize in Economics displayed on the screen, William Nordhaus, left, and Paul Romer during a press conference at the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 8, 2018. Yale University's William Nordhaus was named for integrating climate change into long term macroeconomic analysis and New York University's Paul Romer was awarded for factoring technological innovation into macroeconomics.

Paul Romer, Colorado native and son of former Gov. Roy Romer, shares in Nobel Prize in Economics

October 8, 2018 at 8:22 a.m.

William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University's Stern School of Business were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for including long-term thinking on climate...

Tom Hardy stars in the film “Venom.” (Frank Masi via The Associated Press)

鈥淰enom鈥� reviews say the latest superhero movie is a mess, but it抖阴ap 鈥渁 fun, fascinating mess鈥�

October 3, 2018 at 2:19 p.m.

Just because a movie is a disjointed, clunky oddball of a bizarrely retro misfire doesn't mean it's not, well, entertaining.

Alex Honnold, ropeless with nearly 3,000 feet of air below, nears the top of Freerider during his free-solo climb up Yosemite’s El Capitan on June 3. (Jimmy Chin, via The Daily Camera)

Review: This mountain-climbing documentary is breaking box-office records because it抖阴ap great

October 3, 2018 at 11:49 a.m.

This often breathtaking real-life man-against-nature adventure follows climber Alex Honnold as he climbs up Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope.

In this June 24, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. tumbled over 9 percent as the markets opened Friday, Sept. 7, after the CEO smoked marijuana during a YouTube video podcast and the company';s accounting chief left after a month on the job.

Tesla鈥檚 Elon Musk settles with SEC, paying $20 million fine and resigning as board chairman

September 29, 2018 at 4:04 p.m.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk agreed on Saturday to pay a $20 million fine and step down as board chairman as part of a settlement with the Securities & Commission...

Another new roof goes on one of the many houses damaged in an early August hailstorm in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Jennifer Oldham

In nation鈥檚 “hail alley,” fierce storms and booming growth are on costly collision course in Colorado

September 28, 2018 at 11:49 a.m.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The fusillade was over in a matter of minutes, but by then 14 people had been hurt, numerous animals killed, 538 cars totaled and virtually every...

An American oystercatcher, which usually lives on shores, at an inland North Carolina reservoir during Hurricane Florence.

Colorado native one of several birdwatchers that flocked to Hurricane Florence

September 22, 2018 at 1:50 p.m.

As thousands of North Carolina residents were hunkering down or fleeing from Hurricane Florence on Thursday, 21-year-old Alec Hopping got into his car in Ithaca, New York, and headed toward...

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