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Bodybuilding is a sport that has long promoted itself as the pinnacle of health, fitness and strength. But a Washington Post investigation found that over the course of two decades, scores of female athletes were sexually exploited by officials of the two major U.S. bodybuilding federations.

Dr. Iman Alsaden, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Great Plains, travels hundreds of miles across state lines every month to provide abortion care at clinics in the midwest.

Decades of fire suppression, logging and climate change have resulted in catastrophic wildfires in California. A group of Indigenous women from the Karuk tribe in Northern California are bringing back a centuries-old practice of prescribed burning in order to help manage a landscape that’s been pushed wildly out of balance.

The Post reviewed police radio communications, synchronized them with hours of footage and drew on testimony and interviews with police supervisors to understand how failures of preparation and planning played out that day.

With Brood X beginning to emerge in the billions, scientists finally have a once-in-a-17-year chance to answer some of the many questions surrounding these periodical cicadas.

Holly Ratliff is one of about 50,000 people who fled their homes when the Camp Fire swept through the Sierra Nevada foothills in California last November. Th...
A Washington Post examination offers a rare, detailed look at how the Minneapolis Police Department investigated itself a decade ago when a civilian was fata...
George Floyd's death became a symbol of injustice and police brutality around the world. Those who knew him best in his Houston neighborhood say it was a sta...
The Washington Post analyzed hours of video footage and obtained audio of police communications and other records to assemble the most complete account to da...
Fatal police encounters disproportionally affect Black men. But Black women are also victims and their stories are rarely heard. Meet the families of two wom...
Before this year there were 39 women of color in Congress. Now there are 47. 2018 was a record-breaking year for women winning political office; in 2019, the...
A new documentary series from The Washington Post takes you inside the Capitol as the public impeachment hearings continue.
Mexico Beach, Florida residents pick up what's left of their lives after Hurricane Michael destroyed most homes and businesses. Subscribe to The Washington P...
From the streets to the halls of Congress, young activists are fighting to bring attention to climate change and demanding those in power take notice. Subscr...

At the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school newspaper, teen journalists grapple with grief while producing a memorial issue in the weeks after the shooting.

As this Pennsylvania district was reeling from the opioid crisis, their representative sponsored a bill that, current and former Drug Enforcement Administration officials say, undermined the DEA's efforts to stop the flow of pain pills.

On Oct. 1, a crowd of thousands had gathered in Las Vegas for a music festival. Then bullets rained down from the sky. Survivors describe the shock and terror of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have been chaotic and unpredictable. Washington Post reporters who covered it recount the events that dominated the news.

Mike Kentrianakis witnessed his first solar eclipse at 14. He's been chasing them ever since.

Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years, was supposed to check in with authorities on February 15. Instead, the mother of four and immigration activist sought sanctuary in the basement of First Unitarian Society of Denver. 

The 2016 election is one unlike any other in modern U.S. history. An election defined by a great unsettling within traditional politics. The Washington Post spent time with six voters during the campaign to understand what's at stake for them in this election.

Follow a handful of skeptical Virginia delegates during four contentious days in Cleveland as they wrestle with the future of their party.

In an election that has put American Muslims under the spotlight, three voters from different parts of the country reflect on how the political rhetoric has affected them.

In 1990, Donald Trump opened the largest and most lavish casino-hotel complex in Atlantic City. Unlike any other casino in America, the Trump Taj Mahal was expected to break every record in the books. But just several months later, it all fell apart. 

At least 48 people have died in the United States in 2015 — about one death a week — in incidents in which police used Tasers, according to a Washington Post examination of police, court and autopsy records. 

From the countryside of New England to the cities of the Midwest, the most deadly epidemic of heroin use in half a century is tearing at the fabric of American life.