For months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has boasted of a plan to spread artificial intelligence across its services, allowing billions of people to use chatbots in everything from Facebook to its VR-powered goggles. That vision is becoming a reality. Zuckerberg…

Don Wright, an editorial cartoonist who turned his gimlet eye and piercing pen on society in work that appeared in newspapers across the United States and was twice honored with the Pulitzer Prize, died March 24 at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was…

The curse of writing about Las Vegas is that it’s hard to avoid clichés about luck or chance or the roll of the dice. And the fact is, that’s the provenance of tourists anyway; locals don’t care much about such things. They know they live in a city built…

Go to college. Live the American Dream. There is financial aid! And yes, it’s for you! These are the things that college counselors say to American kids who aren’t legacies, whose parents work double shifts and don’t even know to send them to SAT prep classes.…

The Biden administration on Friday finalized sweeping new rules barring schools from discriminating against transgender students and ordering significant changes for how schools adjudicate claims of sexual harassment and assault on campus. The provisions…

“Sasquatch Sunset” is perhaps the weirdest R-rated family movie you’ll ever see. The art-house film from brother-directors David and Nathan Zellner (“Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter”) plays like a nature documentary for stoners who go to midnight screenings.…

The scheming Roys have diversified. It’s as if Waystar Royco, the troubled media-entertainment conglomerate they sold in the finale of “Succession,” had pivoted to the high-risk realm of the stage. Billionaire Logan Roy (returned from the dead) and daughter…

Future oil and gas drilling will be limited across more than 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the nation’s largest expanse of public land, under a sweeping Biden administration plan aimed at protecting sensitive ecosystems and wildlife.…

Design editing by Madison Walls. Additional editing by Eddie Alvarez, Matt Callahan, John Williams and Vanessa Larson. Washington Post articles featured: “Michael Cera came of age on-screen. Now he’s all grown up.” by Thomas Floyd; “Da’Vine Joy Randolph isn’t…

Hollywood’s superhero blockbuster business has grown creatively stale, but Vera Drew’s irreverent renegade opus “The People’s Joker” is just the antidote the genre desperately needs. Both a tough-love letter to the commodified IP it satirizes and a scathing…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has long been an agency in crisis, with poorly managed facilities that are unsafe for inmates and employees alike. In March, The Washington Post reported on three critical federal watchdog reports released that month alone and…

“You must always make a nice melody,” Libera Ridolfi told her young son, Ennio. “That’s how you will become famous.” Sticking to that script led Ennio Morricone to become one of the most popular composers in film history; diverging from it made him one of…

Just to give themselves a chance to get into the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Washington Capitals had to play what essentially were playoff games for the better part of a month. Their hopes were on the line nearly every night, and by the time they won Game 82…

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The heat fell upon Mali’s capital like a thick, smothering blanket — chasing people from the streets, stifling them inside their homes. For nearly a week at the beginning of April, the temperature in Bamako hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The cost of…

The outrage — well, in a word, it’s outrageous. And self-righteous. But most of all, it’s insincere. And it’s gushing from all those counterfeit champions out there on social media, tripping over themselves to stand sentry over a damsel in distress but really…

President Biden is scheduled to appear Friday at a conference in Washington hosted by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a labor union that endorsed his 2024 reelection last year. It’s the latest attempt by Biden to bolster his support among…

No matter how digital we’ve become, we’re still a paper nation. Are your financial documents stuffed in a closet, files, shopping bags or stacked up on the floor? You may prefer to view it as organized chaos. But isn’t it really just a manifestation of your…

The simulated foodstuffs in IA&A at Hillyer’s “(De) Composed/Nocturne” look good enough for someone to eat. Not a human someone, perhaps, but certainly a fly, like the one perched atop the remains of a lox-and-cream-cheese bagel, or one of the wasps that…

Communication failures often cause problems in personal relationships. It is the No. 1 reason people seek marital therapy. It hurts parent-child relationships. And it leads to rifts in close friendships. My experiences in treating couples in the therapy room…