Here's the story that led the last print extra edition The Washington Post ever published: O.J. SIMPSON ACQUITTED #ojsimpson
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It’s a normal day until it’s suddenly not; the moon’s shadow comes sweeping overhead at more than 3,000 miles per hour.

The landscape transforms into something truly extraterrestrial. Then it’s gone as soon as it came. MyRadar Weather

And I'll never forget the horrific photographs shown in the courtroom on the opening day of the Simpson trial. washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

Wrote this story on deadline with feeds from colleagues after they arrested O.J. Simpson washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

Clouds part and crowds scream as total solar eclipse delights the U.S.

From Joel Achenbach Arelis R. Hernández Scott Dance and me, plus a team across the country: wapo.st/3xlbXtp

Here's our preview of the Great North American Eclipse. Countdown is on, crowds are here in Dallas, hotels booked, parties planned. The forecast is uncongenial but the show must go on. washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

Clouds, clouds, go away, come again some other day. I was told this chant works. washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

NEW: There is less than a 4% chance per USGS that a bigger quake — at or above 5.0 in magnitude — will follow Friday’s 4.8 in northern New Jersey.

There is a 46% chance or one or more aftershocks at/above 3.0, but that would be felt only locally. #earthquake

Happening now: Reddit Q&A on Monday's total solar eclipse with Matthew Cappucci and Joel Achenbach: redd.it/1bwf68e

“Sometimes the weather gods like to laugh at you.'

Ahead of the eclipse, Joel Achenbach and Dan Stillman write on how 'cloud forecasts are shot through with ambiguities, uncertainties and hard-to-fathom probabilities.' washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

Anyone else super stressed about the cloud forecast for Monday's eclipse? You're not alone. Thousands of people have invested thousands of dollars for the experience & are sweating out if they'll be clouded out.

Joel Achenbach and Dan Stillman report ⤵️
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NEW: Why people rhapsodize about the fleeting moments of eclipse 'totality.' ('We can literally see our place in the universe'). With snippet of the famous Annie Dillard essay washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

Six presumed dead in bridge collapse were immigrants, soccer fans, family men washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

The poetry of a bridge and its tragic demise, via Philip Kennicott washingtonpost.com/style/of-inter…

Rocky Kistner Joel Achenbach The Washington Post Readers might also be interested to learn that leap seconds won't be added/subtracted anymore, starting in 2035 or earlier:
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Time warp: “Global warming is managing to actually measurably affect the rotation of the entire Earth...Things are happening that have not happened before.' wapo.st/43yVFJq Joel Achenbach @WashingtonPost

New NIH study already getting big pushback from people who have suffered symptoms and say they were victims of some kind of attack.