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Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Along with their primary purpose of honoring American leaders, state funerals provide the irresistible opportunity to watch some of the country’s most powerful people mingle in public. Jimmy Carter’s pomp-filled funeral on Thursday was no different. All five living presidents showed up — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald […]

Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images We all know that the ritual of a presidential inauguration is a really big deal to Donald Trump. After all, he obsessed for years about attendance levels at his first ceremony in 2017, fearful and angry that some people might get away with doubting the magnificence of the event and the

Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP Photo Some of the Washington Post’s most prized reporters — Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager — have announced their departures from the paper in recent weeks, scoring jobs at the Post’s rivals including The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Editors are fleeing, too, the most prominent being

Photo: Lucy Sheriff When I woke up on Tuesday, I was already feeling nervous about the Santa Ana winds. I’m a climate reporter, with a focus on extreme weather, living in the Pacific Palisades, and the forecasts predicting gusts of up to 100 mph put me on edge. That morning, my partner was due to

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: AP Photo New York City is no longer contending with a record-setting snowless streak, but it’s still been slim pickings for storm lovers lately. The days have been wintry and brisk, and there’s a thin layer of white on the ground, yet the substantial precipitation of years yore has once again failed

Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago on January 7 was a lost opportunity for insight into the new administration’s concrete plans to turn the federal government upside down, slash taxes, unveil the “concepts” of a health-care plan, and test the constitutional limits of executive authority, among other radical aspirations Trump

Photo: Sinna Nasseri A brush fire that first sparked in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood Tuesday has now spread widely across Southern California, leaving nearly 3,000 acres of destruction in its wake. Through the night, firefighters have been battling additional blazes, the Eaton and Hurst fires, in Los Angeles County amidst an intense windstorm that

Photo: Alfonso Duran/The New York Times/Redux Back in 1993, Fox paid $1.58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years. It was a staggering deal that helped solidify the NFL’s cultural dominance, and it changed the very nature of sports and television. 31 years later, on Christmas Day a couple weeks ago,

Photo: Daniel Carde/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Stock Photo The trails at the Park City Mountain Resort should have been wide open over the holidays with plenty of fresh powder for the skiers and snowboarders who came to Utah’s Wasatch Mountains during one of the busiest times of the season. Instead, riders were forced to wait in

Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo President-elect Donald Trump appears to be experiencing some memory issues in recalling the ways of Washington, as evidenced by his confusing indecision over his party’s basic legislative strategy for implementing his agenda. But there’s about to be one irritating presence in our nation’s capital that he didn’t experience before: a new