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The president’s depiction of Washington, D.C. as a violent, crime-ridden cesspit is nothing new

A new bill in the Senate would require any facial scans collected at airports to be deleted after they’re used for verification

Mothers working remotely often face the “motherhood penalty”—less pay, fewer raises, and limited promotion prospects.

‘But now, working at The Post feels like being on the Titanic after it struck an iceberg — drifting aimlessly as it sank, with not enough lifeboats for everyone,’ Glenn Kessler wrote about his now-former employer.

Many Americans don’t know a whole lot about where their food comes from. In 2017, the Washington Post claimed that 7 percent of Americans believed that chocolate milk came from brown cows. In the early 1990s, a Department of Agriculture study found that 1 in 5 Americans didn’t even know…

Jonathan Capehart, who first joined the paper in 2017, said it had become clear there was ‘not going to be any room for a voice like mine’

Geo Group, the largest private prison operator in the U.S., has become a central player in the federal government's immigrant surveillance program through a range of digital tools

Federal ethics rules largely prohibit government employees from working on contracts with their former employers. David Venturella, a former executive at GEO Group, was granted a waiver from those rules

Changes at National Museum of American History come amid president’s push to reshape US cultural agencies

A legal permanent resident with a green card who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at the San Francisco International Airport, sleeping in a chair and living off the concession food

In recent years, the newspapers that have fared the best have been those with committed local ownership