Mail carrier Dennis Nelson delivers Amazon packages to a home in remote northern Minnesota on Saturday. (Photos by Dan Koeck for The Washington Post).
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Business

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Pac-12 championship

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Politics

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the former House speaker, during the 2023 New York Times DealBook Summit in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 2023. House Republicans are beginning to move past McCarthy’s removal as they navigate business with a new speaker at the helm. But McCarthy has not finished processing his defenestration. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times) XNYT0901 XNYT0901

McCarthy, laboring to adjust to life after the speakership, eyes exiting Congress

Opinion

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Israel-Hamas war

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Local News

The massive 520 lid project at Montlake takes shape, seen from the air looking east across Lake Washington, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 in Seattle. At nearby University of Washington, Kaylie Mattingly, a civil engineering student, has already found job offers from contracting firms with graduation still nine months away.

520 bridge closed all weekend to install Montlake lid utility lines

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Project Homeless

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Business & Tech

Mail carrier Dennis Nelson delivers Amazon packages to a home in remote northern Minnesota on a Saturday. (Photo by Dan Koeck for The Washington Post)

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Nation & World

Paperwork showing Yuuki Matsumoto’s childhood name, Yuni, at his residence in Yokohama, Japan on Aug. 24, 2023. Japanese children with unconventional names can face societal and practical challenges unique to their country and its written language. Matsumoto, 24, was bullied over his name to the extent he dropped out of school, and had it legally changed this year. “I felt like I had finally been freed,” he said. (Shina Peng/The New York Times)

Unusual names can complicate life in Japan. Now parents are being reined in

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Health

KRT TRAVEL STORY SLUGGED: SODA KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM JANICKE/KANSAS CITY STAR (KRT24- February 22) The original carbonated water taps still function on the soda fountain in Glasco, Kansas. Proprietor Judy Wyatt mixes a green dragon. (KC) PL KD AP 1999 (Horiz) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/PressLink or upon request)

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