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🇺🇸 Smithsonian Targeted Vulnerable D.C. Residents For Brain Collection ▫Nicole Dungca Claire Healy ▫is.gd/iEqvxF 🇺🇸 #frontpagestoday #USA The Washington Post

The Smithsonian Institution targeted some of the most vulnerable residents of Washington, D.C., many of whom were Black, to amass a collection of brains — largely without consent — according to a stunning investigation by the Washington Post. Despite recent apologies from the

NEW: Fat Leonard - the con man with nine lives - is on his way back to San Diego as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/…

Update on the stabbing of South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung: The suspect, a 66-year-old man, approached Lee asking for a signature, then stabbed him on the left side of his neck with a knife, per police. Lee is in the ICU after surgery. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/…

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We are ONE WEEK OUT from our exciting Asian American Career Ceilings webinar with Nicole Dungca of The Washington Post and Amy Qin of The New York Times on career ceilings in journalism for Asian Americans. RSVP: bit.ly/AACC21324 #journalism #bambooceiling #AAPI

A Tesla employee who worshipped Musk died in a fiery crash on a road trip in which he relied heavily on Tesla's "full self-driving" system. Tesla never publicly acknowledged his death and quickly replaced him. His widow says she now feels like "we were just guinea pigs." A

grateful that our Smithsonian stories were recognized by USC Annenberg alongside this year’s amazing Selden Ring winners/finalists (and so lovely to be cited w Mary Hudetz and the rest of the ProPublica team that delivered such powerful reporting on human remains in museums)

🙏🏽🙏🏽 grateful to the whole Post team & poynter

.New York Magazine's new cover package, in partnership with the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an intimate look at the events on the ground at Columbia University in the midst of antiwar protests. It is written and photographed entirely by staff at the Spectator. Read more: nymag.com/press/article/…

"Searching for Maura" is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Congratulations to the incomparable Claire Healy Nicole Dungca and @bskynirenren!. Because of you, so many people have learned Maura's story. I'm so proud of this team.

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More well-deserved accolades for @bskynirenren!'s work on "Searching for Maura" from Society for News Design. 🥇 Gold medal in Illustrated Reporting 🥈 Silver medal for Commissioned Illustration 🥉 Bronze medal for Investigative Design

New: Hardly anyone has escaped from North Korea since Kim Jong Un enacted strict pandemic restrictions in 2020. But Kang Gyu-rin and her family are among the few. They were only able to escape because they used a perilous option: by sea. Gift link: wapo.st/3W4eRwE

New from Washington Post Investigations: We wanted to understand why youth crime shot up so stunningly in D.C. in 2023. Today, we published a multi-part investigation into the city's failure to both prevent and address the epidemic. Each part threaded here. Thank you for reading! 1/x

In 2023, crime surged in D.C. as homicides reached levels not seen in a generation. By year’s end, police had made more than 500 arrests of people under age 18 for violent crimes. Washington Post Investigations, Post Local and more teams set out to find what happened. Here's what we learned:

D.C.’s juvenile justice agency is required by law to provide treatment plans for teens within 17 days of referral from the courts. But former employees and advocates said it often takes several weeks or even months to complete the process. wapo.st/4jJWc1B