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President Donald Trump gives a signed photo to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a news conference in the East Room at the White House on Friday. MUST CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

Japan tries flattering Trump in bid to avert tariffs

Japan could soon face U.S. tariffs if it doesn’t take steps to buy more from the United States, President Donald Trump said after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

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Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in 2022.

How Jay-Z’s Roc Nation made the Super Bowl show cool again

The first Super Bowl halftime show featured a jazz trumpeter and two student marching bands. This year it will be headlined by Kendrick Lamar.

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Bill and Beverly Bryan at a restaurant along the Tennessee River in 2022. (MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Zarzaur Law)

Surgeon allegedly removed wrong organ then covered it up

THE WASHINGTON POST: Beverly Bryan alleges a surgeon killed her husband by mistakenly removing his liver instead of his spleen, then participated in a conspiracy.

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Diversity is not the threat Donald Trump says it is. That’s just ‘common sense’.

Diversity is not the threat Donald Trump says it is

THE WASHINGTON POST: The argument over diversity is a confounding one. The President has made eradicating it central to his administration.

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Kanye West and Bianca Censori on the Grammys red carpet.

What Kanye and Bianca Censori’s Grammys stunt really meant

As Kanye West stood by her side fully clad in black, wife Bianca Censori dropped her fur coat to reveal a naked dress. What did it all mean?

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Illustration of a brain with microplastics depicted, exploring potential neurological impacts.

Study reveals shocking amount of microplastics in brains

THE WASHINGTON POST: A new study shows that microplastics are making their way into human brains - with potentially dangerous effects on people’s health and mental acuity.

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Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January. She does not fully acknowledge Joe Biden's victory in 2020.

Key cabinet members refuse to acknowledge Trump lost in 2020

Two of President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement nominees have been taking a new tack when talking about the 2020 presidential election.

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The Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis was just what the NBA  needed.

The Doncic deal just saved the NBA

CANDACE BUCKNER: It was the giant shake-up the league needed and the wake-up call the stars had been fearing.

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Emergency response units search the crash site near Reagan National Airport last week. MUST CREDIT: Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post

Questions linger about cause of horror Washington crash

THE WASHINGTON POST: As questions linger about the cause of the Washington DC plane and helicopter crash, Republicans continue to point to diversity.

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Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis have swapped teams.

REVEALED: Winners and losers of massive Doncic NBA trade

The Los Angeles Lakers’ storied history of pulling off seismic blockbuster trades has another chapter with a monumental swap no one saw coming. Here’s who came out on top and who has been left behind.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, centre, talks to Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez, right, and a worker during a tour at the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on February 2, 2025.

‘Unacceptable’: Rubio threatens Panama president over canal

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is arguing that the presence of two Hong Kong companies and other Chinese firms violates a treaty Panama has with the United States.

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Elon Musk railed against USAID online after his DOGE agency was briefly denied access to certain spaces at the international assistance outfit.

‘Time to die’: Musk vows vengeance after DOGE denied access

Elon Musk’s retaliations against USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, came as the Trump administration removed two of its top security officials over the access issue.

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FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of FBI agents from Trump investigations to be fired

President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a sweeping effort to fire a large number of FBI agents across the country who worked on investigations targeting the president and his supporters.

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THE WASHINGTON POST: The Trump executive orders and actions that are having immediate impacts.

The Trump executive orders having immediate impacts

THE WASHINGTON POST: Since taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump and his administration have unleashed a blizzard of executive orders and policies that will have a fundamental impact.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services speaks during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing.

‘You frighten people’: Dems grill RFK Jr on health claims

One senator told Donald Trump’s pick for America’s top health official ‘Unlike other jobs that we’re confirming around this place, this is a job where it is life and death’.

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