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#AI #LaborMarket #FutureOfWork
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See which jobs are most threatened by AI, and who may be able to adapt
No one has a perfect road map to the future, but researchers at GovAI, which studies technology policy, and the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, used a novel approach to estimate which workers may be most and least able to adapt to AI.
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#ElderlyCare #FuneralCosts #RetirementPlanning
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Opinion | Dying is costly. Here's how you can prepare.
Calculate how much you should set aside for the final years of life.
Everyone -- politicians, economists and myself included -- has been talking about the cost of raising kids.
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#RenéRedzepi #Noma #CulinaryCulture
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Chef René Redzepi resigns from Noma amid abuse allegations by former staff
Chef René Redzepi in 2017 in Tulum, Mexico. (Jennifer Chase/For The Washington Post)
Renowned chef René Redzepi has left his post as the top chef of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant he founded more than two decades ago that became one of the world's most acclaimed and exclusive dining experiences.
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#StudentLoans #HigherEducation #Accountability
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Opinion | Colleges have an obligation to ensure their students pay off their loans
Linda McMahon is the secretary of education.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has tackled the exploitative behavior of institutions burdening everyday Americans -- from big banks in housing to health care companies driving up costs.
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#EnergyPrices #ElectricityCosts #UtilityRegulation
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An expert says his plan would slash energy bills by 30 percent
Transmission lines in Geyserville, California. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)
As rising energy prices become a potent political issue, one Vanderbilt University expert is pitching a set of regulations that he claims would reduce the average household's monthly electric bill by almost a third, without requiring any government subsidies.
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#OilPrices #Inflation #EconomicImpact
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How the Iran war could hit gas prices, airfare and everyday costs
The war in Iran is sending oil prices surging and shipping costs up, spurring another swell of anxiety for the U. S. economy, which is already grappling with a weakening labor market and tepid consumer confidence.
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#WeightLossDrugs #PharmaceuticalPricing #HealthcareAccessibility
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How GLP1s are changing the ways Americans buy medicine
Ashley Elizabeth Harden logged on recently from her home in small-town Louisiana and searched for a weight-loss drug. She found plenty of options and settled on a cheaper, imitation version of the name-brand drugs for $177 a month that she could buy without going through insurance.
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#MarkwayneMullin #HomelandSecurity #GunControl
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DHS pick Markwayne Mullin once hired felon who illegally stored guns at work
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) at the Capitol in 2024. He previously ran a plumbing business in Oklahoma. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP)
President Donald Trump's new pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Sen.
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#MentalHealth #TeenSuicide #CommunitySupport
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Column | Miss Manners: Putting parameters around public expressions of grief
Dear Miss Manners: A student at my child's high school died from suicide at the very end of the last school year. The young man was a popular baseball player on the school's team, and he was from a socially popular family in my neighborhood.
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#DieselPrices #TruckingIndustry #FuelCosts
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Lasting surge in diesel prices would batter nation's truckers, farmers
Drivers fuel up their semitrucks Monday in Lockhart, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Trucker Heather Griffith saw the impact of the war in Iran on Tuesday on the fuel pump display at an AMPM convenience store in Lost Hills, California.
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#Art #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEpstein
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'Titanic' statue of Trump and Epstein on the Mall draws praise, scorn
A new "Titanic" themed statue of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein appeared on the National Mall on Tuesday. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post)
The anonymous artists who have targeted President Donald Trump with satirical statues and installations in Washington struck again on the National Mall on Tuesday morning with an enormous statue of the president embracing the deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a replica of the famous "King of the World" scene from the movie "Titanic.
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#Smartmatic #ElectionIntegrity #Defamation
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Smartmatic says it's being targeted by Justice Dept. to bolster false 2020 claims
A Smartmatic representative demonstrates his company's system in 2018. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP)
A voting machine company at the heart of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election accused the Justice Department on Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further President Donald Trump's baseless claims about that vote.
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#TradePolicy #USChinaRelations #ForeignPolicy
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Democrats argue Trump's China policy risks 'strategic failure'
President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of their summit in South Korea in October. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Senate Democrats argue in a new report that the Trump administration's diplomatic and trade policies are weakening America's advantage over China as the two countries compete to be the world's leading economic and military power.
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#MilitaryFamily #SupportOurTroops #VeteranExperience
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An Iraq veteran voted for peace. Her teen starts basic training at wartime.
U. S. Army recruit Justin Matous, 18, hugs his aunt Dorothy Rodriguez as his mother Emm Matous stands nearby during his going-away party in Lometa, Texas, on Saturday before he leaves for boot camp.
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#disinformation #propaganda #Epstein
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That video of Epstein and Trump? It might be pro-Iran disinformation.
(Emma Kumer/The Washington Post; Jon Elswick/AP; Majid Saeedi/Getty)
A grainy video appears to show a line of blindfolded young girls parading past an underwear-clad Donald Trump.
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#MilitaryOperations #Weaponry #IranConflict
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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting for the war's first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U. S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
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#ElectionIntegrity #VoterConfidence #ElectionSecurity
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FBI obtains voting data from Arizona GOP's 2020 review that confirmed Trump's loss
A voter casts a ballot at a secure drop box at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in 2022 in Phoenix. (Matt York/AP)
A federal grand jury in Arizona has subpoenaed records from a review that Republican lawmakers conducted of the 2020 presidential results and that confirmed President Donald Trump lost.
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#Islamophobia #PoliticalRhetoric #Diversity
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GOP Rep. Ogles says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'
Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) on Capitol Hill in 2023. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)
Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) wrote on social media Monday that "Muslims don't belong in American society," becoming the latest Republican lawmaker to voice blatantly Islamophobic sentiments.
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#BreastCancer #HeartHealth #ArtificialIntelligence
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The surprising way breast cancer screenings could reveal heart disease
A mammogram screening takes place in Brussels in October 2020. (Benoit Doppagne/AFP/Getty Images)
Routine mammograms that screen for breast cancer can also flag the risk of heart disease, the leading and often underrecognized cause of death in women, according to a new study in the European Heart Journal.
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#ImmigrationDetention #PrivatePrisons #GovernmentContracts
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ICE picks untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
For decades, two companies have been the government's go-to partners for immigrant detention: Geo Group and CoreCivic run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.
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#FederalHiring #GovernmentReform #PublicService
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After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring
A year after Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency allies purged hundreds of thousands of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring -- a reversal that reflects a quiet retreat from one of the president's defining early priorities and marks a new phase in efforts to reshape the bureaucracy in his image.
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#TomahawkMissile #IranConflict #CivilianCasualties
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Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base near Iranian school
Video footage that began to circulate online Sunday shows what appears to be a U. S. Tomahawk missile striking in the vicinity of an elementary school next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval complex, according to eight munitions experts.
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#Iran #SupremeLeader #Politics
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Iran's next supreme leader, Ali Khamenei's son, is a powerful regime insider
Just over a week since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a strike on his compound, his son was tapped by a body of senior officials to be the country's next supreme leader, according to state media.
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#Racism #MilitaryAcademy #DiversityAndInclusion
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He reported racism at VMI. Now he's lobbying to cut its Confederate ties.
Jeremiah Woods described a culture at the Virginia Military Institute that dismissed complaints of racism. (Emmet Howard)
Before White cadets at the Virginia Military Institute asked Jeremiah Woods if he would have preferred being a house slave or a field slave, or if he would have preferred to marry, kill or have sex with George Floyd, or told Woods he was "so freaking Black," he went to pray.
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#Netanyahu #Trump #MiddleEastPolicy
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For Israel's Netanyahu, Trump grants prayers with some unwelcome caveats
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Feb. 25 in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
JERUSALEM -- For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right, President Donald Trump has been something close to a prophetic fulfillment.
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#Rwanda #ConflictResolution #InternationalRelations
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Trump said he ended a war in Africa. U.S. sanctions say otherwise.
Col. Willy Ngoma with the militant March 23 Movement rallies volunteers in May. (Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty Images)
As President Donald Trump started a spiraling war in the Middle East, his administration has acknowledged that another war he claimed to have ended is still going on.
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#IranWar #GlobalSupplyChain #EconomicImpact
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Iran war spreading economic damage far beyond oil and gas markets
A dockyard in the Strait of Hormuz, seen Feb. 25. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian missile and drone attacks have disrupted the flow of commerce through one of the global economy's most critical hubs, paralyzing much of the ocean and air traffic that carries goods between Asia and Europe while punishing investors in faraway financial markets.
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#WinterParalympics #Ukraine #SportsDiplomacy
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Russian flag returns as Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics open amid Iran war and boycott
VERONA, Italy -- The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics opened Friday amid the tensions of intensifying war in the Middle East and with some countries boycotting the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.
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#NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #Innovation
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Opinion | The government's freeze on nuclear energy is thawing
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ahead of schedule.
