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After Parkland, gun-control advocates see a turning point for new state laws

July 22, 2018 at 11:03 a.m.

Since the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre in February, gun-control advocates have said there is something different about the debate this year, an energy on the issue that is driving...

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In secret recording, Trump and Cohen discuss payments for story of ex-model who alleged affair with Trump

July 20, 2018 at 2:47 p.m.

Federal investigators have an audio recording in which then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen discussed in the fall of 2016 making payments for the story of...

When marijuana is legal in Canada, Americans are expected to flock. But the border, and US law, stands in the way.

July 12, 2018 at 10:47 p.m.

BLAINE, Wash. - Recreational marijuana has been legal here in Washington state since 2014. Adults just a few miles away in Canada also will be able to legally buy and...

A Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia on May 29, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Michelle Gustafson.

Starbucks will stop handing out single-use plastic straws by 2020

July 9, 2018 at 4:10 p.m.

Starbucks, which doles out more than 1 billion straws a year, says it will phase out single-use plastic straws from its stores by 2020.

Scott Pruitt resigned as Environmental Protection Agency administrator on Thursday. MUST CREDIT: Photo by The Washington Post’s Jabin Botsford.

Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigns

July 5, 2018 at 2:40 p.m.

Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general who relentlessly pursued President Donald Trump's promises of deregulation at the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned Thursday after a cascade of controversies over his...

This April 3 photo shows President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen.

Supreme Court抖阴ap travel ban ruling could have big implications for Trump鈥檚 Twitter account

June 27, 2018 at 5:00 a.m.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to uphold President Donald Trump's travel ban Tuesday shed critical light on an increasingly important question to civil society: What is the legal value of...

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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain found dead in France at 61

June 8, 2018 at 5:59 a.m.

Anthony Bourdain - chef and Emmy-winning TV host - has died at 61 of an apparent suicide, CNN said.

Prosecutors interview Comey as they consider whether to charge McCabe

May 31, 2018 at 6:46 p.m.

Investigators from the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office recently interviewed former FBI director James Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law...

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Romaine lettuce made 172 people sick. Government investigators might never know why.

May 31, 2018 at 6:10 p.m.

More than seven weeks after the start of a massive E. coli illness outbreak from romaine lettuce that sickened 172 people and caused romaine sales to plummet 45 percent, the...

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Alarm grows as Ebola is confirmed in Congo city of 1.2 million

May 18, 2018 at 7:55 p.m.

Congo has confirmed a case of Ebola in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million, marking the first urban case in the latest outbreak, which is now the most serious since...

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