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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Opinion
The Washington Post

Why Donald Trump, a liar, seems honest to his supporters

F.D. FLAM: Donald Trump won with surprising decisiveness, despite his evasiveness and failure to justify his extraordinary claims. It’s tempting to conclude that we live in some kind of post-truth society.

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THE WASHINGTON POST: Sitting for long hours is bad for our health. Standing up may not be much better, though.
Health
The Washington Post

Your standing desk isn’t making you any healthier

THE WASHINGTON POST: Sitting for long hours is bad for our health. Standing up may not be much better, though.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump called Putin after election win with Ukraine warning

President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election.

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MARK GONGLOFF: In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change, democracy and women’s rights. And yet they have chosen to give ultimate political power to someone loudly opposed to them.
Opinion
The Washington Post

Trump 2.0 is bad for the climate but not hopeless

MARK GONGLOFF: In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change, democracy and women’s rights. And yet they have chosen to give ultimate political power to someone loudly opposed to them.

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Biden holds back tears during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19. (MUST CREDIT: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Politics
The Washington Post

On a night he once wanted to win, Joe Biden was out of sight

Months ago the sitting President was eyeing November 5 as a battle to secure his White House legacy. Then things took a dramatic turn.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Michigan State University in East Lansing on Sunday.
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US Politics
The Washington Post

Is Kamala Harris winning crucial late deciders?

Democrats got their best polling news in weeks on Saturday when renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer showed Vice President Kamala Harris somehow surging to a three-point lead in Iowa. 

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A DHL cargo plane on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle Airport on October 15, 2024 in Schkeuditz, Germany.
World
The Washington Post

Russia suspected in plot to bomb cargo jets in Europe and US

Officials say proxies working for Russia were likely behind bombs destined for DHL flights in Europe, with US-bound planes a future target.

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Douglas Wickenheiser, 67, holds a flag in support of the Harris-Walz ticket in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Oct. 26.
US Politics
The Washington Post

Trump vs Harris divides US on election eve

A sharply split nation is headed to the polls to elect its 47th president after an unprecedented campaign. Voters on both sides are largely motivated by fear of the other.

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Extra fencing is installed at the Naval Observatory on Sunday.
US Politics
The Washington Post

Fencing erected at White House as D.C. braces for unrest

THE WASHINGTON POST: The Secret Service has erected new, eight-foot-high metal fences around the White House and Treasury Department complex, and adjacent parts of Lafayette Square ahead of the election.

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Former president Donald Trump enters a rally in Atlanta on Oct. 28.
US Politics
The Washington Post

Trump’s chaotic closing days reminiscent of his presidency

With Election Day looming, Trump’s near-daily pattern of making inflammatory remarks threatens to undermine his campaign’s message that a Trump presidency would restore orderly leadership to the nation.

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A makeup artist works on one of the participants of The Bachelor backstage. Alice Martins for The Washington Post
World
The Washington Post

Ukraine’s new ‘The Bachelor’ season shows the scars of war

Strict wartime curfews, rolling power cuts, and 40 per cent of the camera and lights team drafted to fight: The producers of Ukraine’s The Bachelor have a lot to contend with.

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Vice President Kamala Harris greets parishioners at the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit on Sunday.
US Politics
The Washington Post

The stark difference in closing messages of Harris and Trump

Kamala Harris used Sunday to reiterate her message that she would be a president for all Americans, while Donald Trump doubled down on portraying a dystopian future for the US that he claimed only he could fix.

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The world risks facing a vacuum in the coming months and years, no matter what the ballot count says next week - a vacuum not so much of power, as of truth, reason and ambition.
Opinion
Andreas Kluth

US election chaos would endanger the whole world

ANDREAS KLUTH: The world is feeling the angst of liminality, as America’s friends and foes await the outcome of the presidential election next week. 

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Activists, many blindfolded, demonstrate Thursday in Tel Aviv in protest of the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah while hostages are still held in Gaza.
US Politics
The Washington Post

How US election could shape multifront Middle East war

US and Israeli officials, as well as diplomats, see Tuesday’s election as a critical inflection point — with the outcome likely to inform Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions not just in Iran, but in Gaza as well.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Opinion
The Washington Post

North Korean troop deal exposes Putin’s weakness

JAMES STAVRIDIS: At least 10,000 Korean foot soldiers are headed to the battlefields of Ukraine to fight and die in a cause that must be utterly bewildering for them. 

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