Now she's out of a job.  Her struggle is just beginning.  —  Deep Reads features The Washington Post's best immersive reporting and narrative writing.  —  BUFFALO — Lexi Rizzo was cleaning dishes in the back of her Starbucks store on March 31 when she noticed that her manager was printing a document, her hands shaking.

The Memo: Trump's legal defenses draw derision — even from some conservatives  —  Former President Trump and his allies have been throwing up defenses over the Mar-a-Lago documents since an indictment leveling 37 criminal charges against him was unsealed June 9.

Pence vows to ‘clean house’ at Justice Department if elected, citing trust issues  —  Former Vice President and 2024 candidate Mike Pence said he would “clean house” in federal law enforcement if he was elected president.  —  “The American people have lost confidence in the Department of Justice.

First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules  —  The Conservatives face the threat of a new police probe as an exclusive video shows officials joking about their rule-bending Christmas bash at the party's headquarters in London during lockdown

Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan's Vaccine Misinformation  —  As a recent conversation between the podcast host and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes clear.  —  A broad swath of the anti-vaccine universe celebrated Thursday, when Joe Rogan, the biggest podcaster in the country …

I-95 will reopen ‘within two weeks,’ Gov. Shapiro says; Biden tours I-95 collapse site  —  What you should knowPresident Joe Biden will be in Philadelphia on Saturday for his first political rally since he announced his 2024 reelection campaign.Biden will speak at a rally during …

‘All we received was abandonment’ Migrants sent to Sacramento by DeSantis speak out  —  They saw themselves in the video that Florida officials offered up as proof of their consent to travel to California, but they said it's not what it seemed.  —  They were happy, yes.  That part was true.

“Unfriending” America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me  —  Rising far-right Christian movement linked to GOP calls for “kingdom revolution” led by an “army of believers”  —  “You've got a friend in Pennsylvania!” was the theme of the state's ad campaign to promote tourism in the 1980s.

Senate Republicans love Tim Scott.  They just can't say so politically.  —  So far, just two Senate colleagues have endorsed Scott's presidential bid.  Some say many are afraid of backlash from Donald Trump.  —  Congressional bureau chief  —  His fellow Republican colleagues can't say enough …

The Dad Canon (Circa Now)  —  The Dad Canon  —  (Circa Now)  —  Our highly specific, clearly subjective taxonomy of what today's dads can't stop wearing, reading, and talking about.  —  In the spring of 2020, a few months after we became parents, my wife asked what I wanted for Father's Day.

Nikki Haley's husband begins Africa deployment as she campaigns for 2024 GOP nomination  —  Michael Haley, the candidate's husband of 26 years, has been a constant at his wife's campaign events since she became a White House candidate.  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley's husband deployed Saturday …

US rightwing group planned $6m for anti-trans messaging in 2022 midterms  —  Independent Women's Voice turned resources to fighting trans rights in 10 key swing states, documents reveal  —  In the months leading up to the 2022 US midterm elections, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users …

Waking to Water  —  In the predawn hours of June 6, residents living close to the dam in both Russian-controlled and Ukrainian-controlled territory heard explosions and strange rumblings, they said later.  —  They were no strangers to the sounds of fighting.

US judge orders Enbridge to shut down portions of Wisconsin pipeline within three years  —  A U.S. judge has ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge (ENB.TO) to shutter portions of an oil pipeline that runs through tribal land in Wisconsin within three years and to pay the tribe nearly $5.2 million …

Trump cruises, DeSantis flatlines in polling even after bombshell indictment  —  Three polls conducted after his second indictment show Trump in a comfortable first place.  —  One might be forgiven for expecting the past three-and-a-half weeks to have produced a healthy shakeup of the race for the GOP presidential nomination.