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On a recent trip to Disneyland, this intrepid reporter spots: A 30ish couple wearing faded Buzz Lightyear and Woody hoodies, the man’s personalized with “Derrick’s Little” in futuristic font and the woman’s with “Christine’s Big” in ropey script; A family of five in matching black-and-gold shirts, mom and daughter in Minnie and dad and sons…
Against a bright orange sun, a giant gorilla towers in silhouette, helicopters buzzing around his head like angry insects. It’s as if that artist who paints monsters onto thrift-store paintings got his hands on the Apocalypse Now poster. Airlift out this most striking and revealing image, however, and Kong: Skull Island would still announce its subtext with all the subtlety of,…
An IT worker at The Washington Post impersonated a federal law enforcement officer in Northern Virginia and was seen wearing a ballistic vest bearing the label “ICE” across the front, according to police allegations filed in Montgomery County District Court. Itai Ozderman, 35, of Gaithersburg was suspended by The Post on Monday, his attorney Thomas…
END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” The case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, seen here last year, has been sent back to a lower court by the Supreme Court. Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Helber/AP The case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, seen…
Short-form news video giant NowThis is getting into long-form programming, original shows and investigative journalism. The company is embarking on an “aggressive hiring plan” to support the production of more original news reports and video series, according to Athan Stephanopoulos, president of NowThis. Parent company Group Nine Media received a $100 million investment from Discovery…
background image Marine Le Pen, French National Front political party leader and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election, attends the 2-day FN political rally to launch the presidential campaign in Lyon, France, February 2017. A New Political Dynamic The upcoming French presidential election offers a primer on the turbulent politics of our times. We…
Donald Trump’s presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails. The president’s accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” escalated on Sunday into the White House’s call for a congressional investigation of that evidence-free claim. The audacious tactic was a familiar one…
An arrest is made during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement operation in Los Angeles on Feb. 7. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Associated Press) Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of…
Bill Ackman saw his hedge fund’s crusade against Herbalife as a moral battle with a billion-dollar payday.CreditIllustration by Mike McQuade / Photograph by Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ One day in the summer of 2011, Christine Richard arrived at the forty-second floor of a high-rise on Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan to visit a…
President Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping his calls in Trump Tower. Here’s a timeline of their relationship since inauguration. (Thomas Johnson,Claritza Jimenez,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of…