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Every U.S. president in recent history has campaigned to reform immigration, yet problems on the southern border persist. From El Paso to Chicago, The Washington Post's Jorge Ribas explores how border security will remain a critical issue during the 2024 election.
Like thousands of families in Ukraine, Andrii Mishchenko and Olha Taranova said goodbye at the border. Andrii headed east towards the front lines. Olha headed west with her 11-year-old daughter and elderly father. Now over a year later, the family deals with the strain of separation, the volatility of settling into a new culture and the fear of the worst that could come of the war.
Mexico is building a $15 billion train line through the heart of ancient Maya civilization. It’s one of the largest and most controversial infrastructure projects in the country’s history. Archaeologists are now racing ahead of construction crews, exploring caves and sinkholes deep in the jungle. They’re discovering an astonishing array of antiquities – and then tearing them down.
The American Renewal Project has been working to inspire Christian pastors and church members to run for political office across North Carolina in order to “turn America back to God”.
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.
Like students all across the country, Ana Reyes was sent home to take her high school classes online because of the pandemic. But as an immigrant who speaks English as a second language, she faced unique challenges with remote learning. The Washington Post spent six months documenting Reyes and a teacher from T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., as they experienced virtual schooling and an eventual return to the classroom.
In September 2017, two powerful hurricanes made landfall in Puerto Rico and destroyed the island’s electrical grid — leading to the longest and largest power outage in modern U.S. history. Without electricity, there is no reliable source of clean water. School is out, indefinitely, for many. Health care is fraught. Small businesses are faltering. The tasks of daily life are both exhausting and dangerous. To examine what it is like to live waiting for power to return, The Washington Post produced “Sin Luz: Life Without Power,” an immersive multimedia project that takes viewers into the everyday struggles Puerto Ricans face.
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Washington Post reporter Whitney Leaming described how the night of Aug. 25 unfolded in Kenosha, Wis., and her close encounter with the alleged gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse. (Editor's note: Video contains graphic language and violence.)
The Washington Post spent a day with the Empress Emergency Medical Service in Yonkers as they responded to coronavirus calls. ‘It takes its toll on you,’ said paramedic AJ Briones. ‘We’ve all seen, especially lately, a lot of death.’
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, a neighborhood group in north Minneapolis, backed by the local NAACP chapter, is patrolling the streets to prevent fires and looting at local businesses.
The Washington Post's national security reporters unveil the deep divisions inside the Obama White House over how to respond to Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Holly Ratliff is one of about 50,000 people who fled their homes when the Camp Fire swept through the Sierra Nevada foothills last November. Thousands have scattered across the country — some to communities in California like Lake Almanor and others as far away as Florida and Hawaii.
Tamara Estes is a school bus driver who sees the children on her bus as 'anchor babies', while the family next-door are undocumented parents working to provide a better life for their U.S. born children. The two households share their views on immigration.
The world watched as a hemispheric migration crisis unfolded beneath a South Texas border bridge.
When the bridge cleared, the world turned away.
But thousands of Haitians are stranded in Mexico — and thousands more are on their way.
A weekly series that followed the impeachment hearings of President Donald J. Trump with behind the scenes access with Washington Post Congressional reporters.
When the Ebola virus struck Liberia, Josephine Dolley was living with her family in the capital city of Monrovia. Within weeks, she had lost almost everything and everyone, but somehow, not hope.
Baltimore poet Janay Baker reads an original poem for The Washington Post, looking back on the city's week of protests. (Editor's note: Video contains graphic language and violence.)
After Freddie Gray’s funeral on Monday, violence erupted in Baltimore as protestors clashed with the police. (Editor's note: Video contains graphic language and violence.)
As St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch read the grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson, Michael Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, broke down in front of a crowd before the protest turned into a riot. (Editor's note: Video contains graphic language and violence.)
