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The National Cherry Blossom Festival is one of Washington’s most popular tourist attractions, drawing more than 1.5 million visitors for three weeks of street parties, concerts and family activities.

You deserve a vacation. Not this summer, not later this year. Something much sooner, like an honest-to-goodness spring break. Here are six of the cheapest from the US.

There is no formal diagnosis but the phenomenon is widely shared

Rattled leaders on the continent are scrambling to salvage US support for Ukraine after President Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Nancy Pelosi, can still recall exactly how she ripped Donald Trump’s speech into shreds during his last State of the Union address. And she has a message for Democrats ahead of Trump’s return to Congress.

As the world reels from a live-streamed argument between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and J.D. Vance, body language experts reveal the three things that helped fuel the unusual public flap.

The Ukraine and the US jousted publicly and aggressively in a way that could upend already tenuous US support for the Zelensky government. Here are four key takeaways.

Dog walking and boarding businesses are jumping on board a growing trend of using customised buses to transport canine clients to and from adventure walks.

Most people have a favourite Gene Hackman performance. But these were the two films that captured his essence as an actor ... and possibly a person.

Under the new order federal agency heads are directed to justify and publicise government payments and travel expenses as part of DOGE’s major cost-cutting efforts.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Though the slogan ‘Move fast and break things’ was coined (and later abandoned) by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it has found no clearer avatar than Elon Musk.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Suffering horrific symptoms, the woman sought help at three hospitals before she was diagnosed

THE WASHINGTON POST: Tech and energy companies are pushing their green-energy goals aside and using gas to power their AI.

THE WASHINGTON POST: There’s evidence that the demographic of people on weight-loss drugs overlaps with those who like to spend, a group some analysts have dubbed ‘over consumers’.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Hamas freed six more Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday, but Israel delayed the release of about 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees for reasons that were unclear.