The Washington Post Sunday
Baker’s immigration tale sends pie sales surging
Máximo Mendoza, 78, walks into a Miami supermarket every week and fills a cart until it can hold no more — flour, sugar, eggs and butter stacked high, the wheels groaning as he pushes it toward the register. A few days later, those ingredients will...
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Spanberger sworn in as first woman to lead Va.
richmond — Abigail Davis Spanberger, a former Democratic member of Congress and undercover operative for the CIA, became Virginia’s 75th governor Saturday as the first woman chosen to lead a state that waited until 1952 to ratify the federal amendment...
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Taking on the race of his life
Charlie Dalin stood on the bow of his boat, a light wind at his back, the Atlantic Ocean spread out in front of him. He had just begun sailing’s most difficult race, a grueling 24,000-mile solo journey around the world called the Vendée Globe. The...
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U.S. seizes Maduro in raid
Ousted leader and wife face federal case in New York Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife could appear in federal court in Manhattan within days to face narcoterrorism charges, which, if accepted by a jury, could put them behind bars on...
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Partying in the morning, with co≠ee and caviar
A DJ mixes songs at a Dec. 13 “morning rave” in Seoul, where the drink of choice was coffee, not alcohol, and the dancing began at 9 a.m. Younger generations in South Korea are increasingly challenging the country’s hard-drinking culture, opting for...
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Federal takeover left lasting marks in D.C.
Young men passed around a booming speaker and girls laughed while dancing. Kids raced through the parking lot on Lime bikes, dodging potholes. Maciah King-Brooks, 16, grabbed two hot dogs off the grill. Then dozens of officers with President Donald...
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In Greenland, a revival of Inuit pride
The crowds lined the quay at the Colonial Harbor to cheer the start of the annual seal hunt competition on Greenland National Day. With a blast from an antique cannon, the rugged little skiffs darted out into the inky fjord. Soon the docks were slick...
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Trump’s a≠ordability pitch falters
President Donald Trump has said drug prices are falling by as much as 1,500 percent, a mathematical impossibility. He has declared himself “the affordability president,” while dismissing the affordability issue as “a con job by the Democrats.” Trump...
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‘We won’t win this war without women’
zaporizhzhia region, ukraine — The Ukrainian soldiers sat huddled in their dark dugout, all focus and nerve — Viktoriia’s eyes shifting frantically between two screens, Tetiana’s hands clutching a drone controller. In the fields beyond, a Russian...
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In Catholic Brazil, child preachers help spread evangelicalism
Ester Souza looks into the mirror and begins her transformation. She changes out of her pink T-shirt and shorts with flowers and butterflies and into a sober brown blouse and dress slacks. She weaves her long curly hair into two braids on top of her...
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America at 250
In the summer of 1774, Thomas Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a document that instead helped set America on the path to independence. As the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th...
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A brutal purge in Sudan’s war
nairobi — Families gunned down as they huddled for safety. Young children weeping over their mother’s body in the desert. Doctors seized for ransom and executed. Such are the stories trickling out of El Fashir, the Sudanese city conquered by the...
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A frosty reception at homecoming
Howard University’s homecoming, a celebration of Black culture and pride, collided with conservative politics Friday when the Turning Point USA-backed Blexit movement showed up uninvited as part of the organization’s “Educate to Liberate” tour of...
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Big crowds protest Trump across U.S.
Huge crowds gathered across the country on Saturday for No Kings protests, where they spoke out in opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns, domestic military deployments and efforts to go after critics and political opponents in...
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN
On a gray afternoon this spring, Ben Vanek arrived at the Eagle County Sheriff’s office in the Colorado high country to collect his late wife’s belongings. By his side was their 21-year-old daughter, Haley, who was just a toddler when Michelle Vanek...
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Among U.S. Jews, a wide rebuke of Israel’s conduct
Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post...
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With sweeping steps, Israel moves to remake territory
Israel has taken a raft of dramatic steps this year to ensure it retains permanent control over much, if not all, of the occupied West Bank, including measures that the government had previously deferred because they were deemed too sensitive. While...
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For three families, the disaster was just beginning.
The hulking yellow excavator lumbered across charred ground and raised its arm above a blackened heap of metal and ash. It was a machine built for unearthing, but this moment felt more like a burial. Here lay the remains of 295 W. Las Flores Dr. and...
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After brain surgery, the music flowed
The songwriter was unconscious, but his voice filled the operating room. ¶ Mike Frazier’s dirty-blond locks had been partially shaved and his head sanitized. The surgeon standing over him slid his blade in a crescent over Frazier’s right ear and tugged...
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A Mexican city whose people are disappearing
He was 27 and unemployed, with a new baby boy. Daniel Velasco Carrillo was trying to make a few bucks that Tuesday morning in 2022, washing windshields at a traffic intersection, when his mother drove past. Carmen Lucia Carrillo spotted her son...
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Amid the trauma of war, learning to be children again
To hear Elvira tell the story, she and Kyrylo fell in love on the fourth day of summer camp. The buildings were rustic and wood-hewn, the skies stacked tall with clouds. It was a place where anyone might start to feel normal again but especially...
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Coup leader’s road to Pan-African hero
ouagadougou, burkina faso — Deep inside a massive military base in this West African nation, soldiers are raising chickens and growing pineapples. They say they are part of a revolution — headed by a young military captain turned coup leader — which...
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Indigenous teens make first descent of a sacred river finally flowing free
The journey was no longer impossible, but that didn’t make it any less audacious. One great waterway, newly freed from the stranglehold of four hulking dams. More than 300 miles, through some of the most intense rapids in the West. And 15 young...
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Gaza’s destruction, as seldom seen
A section of Gaza City, seen Wednesday from a Jordanian Air Force plane during aid airdrops, conveys a rare view of a devastating war, including — as seen in this cropped version of a panorama — destruction wrought upon schools. Most views from above...
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A mineral wealth that’s hard to tap
It is hard to miss, the looming mass of dark rock at the top of the fjord. There are circling ravens and towering waterfalls, but not a green thing growing on the outcrop. A Mordor vibe. The fisherman cuts the engine. This magic mountain at the...
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The Tour de France’s toughest stage
Tadej Pogacar, the overall leader in the yellow jersey and the Tour de France’s defending champion, rides through Barèges during Saturday’s difficult 14th stage. Pogacar finished in second but increased his overall lead.
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One year later. Multiple lives altered.
butler, pa. — One year ago, eight bullets fired in under six seconds scarred the American psyche. Millions watched live as Donald Trump abruptly stopped speaking, clutched his ear and then dropped to the ground below a human shield of Secret Service...
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Fatal flooding leaves Texas in anguish
kerrville, texas — A nightmarish search-and-rescue operation continued Saturday, as authorities frantically fanned out along the roiling Guadalupe River looking for survivors of the fierce flooding that has killed about 50 people in the Hill Country...
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As U.S. cut aid, Sudan’s children starved
The 3-year-old boy darted between the mourners, his giggles rising above the soft cadence of condolences. Women with somber faces and bright scarves hugged his weeping mother, patting her shoulders as she stooped to pick up her remaining son. Marwan...
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Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future
There was a saying he’d heard, about how every farmer rooted for all the other farmers to do well, too, until one of those others started farming next door. So JJ Ficken didn’t talk much about the grant money with other farmers. But his bills had...
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Parade, protests lay bare a nation out of lockstep
Planes roared over the heart of Washington on Saturday evening, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in...
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A World Pride milestone in D.C.
People flooded sidewalks, spilled onto the streets and gathered on nearby rooftops, cheering and whistling as the WorldPride parade kicked off at the intersection of 14th and T streets NW on Saturday afternoon. Restaurants and bars in the corridor...
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A display of Pride
Citrine the Queen performs during a Pride Drag Brunch event at Purple Patch as the WorldPride celebrations continued on Saturday in Washington. The LGBTQ+ festival, which began on May 17, will include a variety of events, culminating in the parade on...
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A childhood under gangs’ shadow
The gang name was scrawled onto classroom desks and written on bathroom walls. At the school where Kilmar Abrego García spent most of his adolescence, the students all knew who was in charge of the neighborhood: MS-13. It was a prime age for gang...
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Amid fragile ceasefire, Kashmir contends with lasting devastation
The night of May 8 returns to Sanam Bashir as a jumble of disjointed images. Her family was packed into three cars. The road was so dark, she said, and the artillery fire deafening. “It felt like the night of judgment,” said Bashir, 20, who was...
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Modest missionary now His Holiness
Two-and-a-half years ago, Pope Francis was trying to fill a big job. For decades, that position — heading the powerful office that helps vet and select bishops — had gone to consummate Vatican insiders. But Francis had staked his papacy on expanding...
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A champion in the slop
With jockey Junior Alvarado aboard, Sovereignty roared past race favorite Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby on a sloppy track Saturday in Louisville. Alvarado prevailed at the Derby for the first time, and it was the second victory for trainer Bill...
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To ‘people’s pope,’ a solemn farewell
vatican city — The Roman Catholic Church bid farewell to the first New World pope Saturday in a funeral attended by monarchs, presidents and cardinals but also a different group of guests — an honor guard of migrants, prisoners, the homeless and...
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Exploring the American frontier
The West has long captivated Americans’ imaginations with its iconic vistas and mythical lore. Yet endless transformation driven by technology, economics and wealth may be the region’s most significant feature, one that explains both its past and its...
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The nurse in the subway
The first thing Lisa Singh saw that worried her was the way the woman on the subway platform waved her off. The dismissiveness. Sometimes that was a sign of something. Lisa, a 53-year-old psychiatric nurse, took a step closer and scanned the woman’s...
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A beloved skier, an audacious jump — and the grief left in its aftermath
The night before he would try to ski jump over a busy three-lane highway in the Colorado high country, Dallas LeBeau sat down with his parents for dinner in their log cabin home. Valerie and Jason served grilled cheese and soup to their 21-year-old...
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Where’s Waldo? Probably flying a kite down there.
People gather on the National Mall for Saturday’s Blossom Kite Festival, which draws tens of thousands of fliers every year. The warmest day of the year greeted experts and beginners alike as they launched their creations into the breezy skies.
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As tensions rise on a melting map, Greenland’s world stature grows
“One way or the other,” President Donald Trump has said, the United States needs to “get” Greenland. Not only to defend the homeland, but the “freedom of the world.” Denmark, he says, isn’t doing nearly enough to protect it. He has named two potential...
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Even as Russia’s shadow deepens, Belarus maintains its balancing act
Three years after Russia used Belarus as a launching pad for its brutal invasion of Ukraine, the border here between Belarus and Ukraine is eerily quiet. Gone are the days when the highway at this crossing was a bustling conduit between the port of...
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At Texas border, elected o∞cials ditch Democrats
laredo, texas — Tano Tijerina spent a decade as the Democratic chief executive of Webb County here in South Texas. But when he was honored recently by the local chapter of the country’s oldest Hispanic civil rights organization, it was as a converted...
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Big flex, little e≠ect at border
When President Donald Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs unless Mexico put a halt to fentanyl trafficking, the government snapped to attention. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border....
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Africa’s belt of turmoil
Across the breadth of Africa, Islamist extremism is increasing, military juntas spreading and Russian influence rising. Read more about the forces roiling this region and meet six individuals who have helped shape this new chapter of African history.
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America’s deadliest worksite — for years
The police lieutenant sounded unnerved as he stepped inside the old lumber mill. The power was off. The giant saws were quiet. But the smell of fresh sawdust still hung in the humid summer air. In the darkened factory, sunlight streamed through jagged...
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Elderly, alone and unable to escape the L.A. flames
They were dreamers, all of them. Hustlers, strivers, irrepressible free spirits. They acted in movies, jumped off cliffs, and built instruments that would travel to space. They were as distinctive as the city they called home, and although their lives...
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Taliban dreams of a highway to the future
More than three years after the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan remains economically decrepit and politically isolated. But now, the Taliban government has a plan to turn one of the country’s remotest corners into a global trade hub. The regime...
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getting their swagger back
For years, people mostly ignored Chris Bryant and his pickup truck. But these days, when they spot it zipping along Virginia roads — decked out in burgundy and gold and oversize images of Washington Commanders past and present — they honk or stop him...
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Abortion foes look for men to report on partners
As antiabortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases: male sex partners of...
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L.A. in flames: ‘Apocalyptic. Surreal.’
In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods last week, killing at least 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found...
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Carter’s final trip begins in the place where it all started
The nation began its formal farewell to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, as the casket carrying the former president started its journey along the rural roads of south Georgia, where he spent much of his life, and onward to Atlanta, where his body will lie in...
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Cocaine boom defies years of work
The drug lord had already escaped the law in three countries, and he planned to do it again. In less than a decade, Dritan Rexhepi had built a smuggling business that ran from the fields of Colombia to the ports of Ecuador and on to the streets of...
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Behind Assad’s swift fall
istanbul — Rebels were barreling toward the Syrian capital, but the president’s men were in no mood for the battle. For more than a week they had watched city after town fall to the rebellion. By Saturday, the insurgents were threatening Homs, a...
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S. Korea’s Yoon is impeached
The South Korean National Assembly voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, forcing him to immediately hand power over to the prime minister following his short-lived attempt this month to impose martial law. The hundreds of thousands of...
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Drownings rose amid crackdown
eagle pass, texas — Angelica had journeyed with her parents, older brother, aunt and uncle by foot from South America through a muddy jungle, ridden atop sooty train cars and slept in noisy city plazas hoping to reach the United States. Now it was...
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Rebels advance rapidly in Syria
Syrian rebel fighters defended their gains in Aleppo on Saturday, a day after breaching the city, while pushing south toward Hama and claiming control of government-held areas along the way. The insurgent offensive, shocking for its speed, has posed...
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A nation’s seeming pivot away from the E.U. and back to Moscow could offer a warning for Ukraine and other former Soviet states Georgia, fearing war, appears ready for Russia’s embrace
After contentious parliamentary elections, Georgia — a small nation once part of the Soviet Union — finds itself sliding back into Russia’s orbit following decades of seeking greater integration with the West. The ruling Georgian Dream party, adopting...
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The police chief who was accused of raping a teen
The jury had reached a verdict, and the former chief of police still seemed relaxed. He leaned back in his chair. He nodded to his supporters. He was facing up to life in prison, but during the four-day trial, he never looked rattled by the testimony...
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Voters’ message on economy lays bare deep well of angst
When President Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, he surrounded himself with an insular circle of longtime aides, often prompting complaints about his operation being a black box. He refused to meet with his pollsters, and many on his campaign saw...
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Harris projects optimism as a strident Trump sco≠s
Vice President Kamala Harris has spent much of the past two months portraying herself as the underdog in the effectively tied race against former president Donald Trump. In recent days, however, the Democratic presidential nominee and her top aides...
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Israel says it pulled its punches in Iran strike
jerusalem — Israel’s first open attack on Iran targeted missile production facilities and air defense systems, the military said Saturday, tempering fears of a broader foray but giving Israeli aircraft the ability to operate more freely in Iranian...
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Between the border and the wall
In the fields south of this farm town, unfinished segments of the U.S. border wall jut from the ground with gaps between them as wide as a house. The steel structures, painted jet black at the order of Donald Trump when he was president, are the...
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After five decades locked up, he offers a ride to a new life
As he waited outside the razor wire next to the prison gate, John “Freddie” Nole struggled for the right words to say to the man who would soon be walking out. It had been five years since Nole came out those same prison doors. He remembered the...
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Living in the aftermath of Helene
across western n.c. — Anita Crowder stood in the warm October sun, her face weary, her shoes caked in mud, her blue eyes surveying a place she’d known all her life, but one that now seemed so unfamiliar. “I buried my daddy two weeks ago,” Crowder, 67,...
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