Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
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The Transportation Department fined Southwest Airlines $140 million for what it said were multiple violations of the law during its meltdown around last Christmas and New Year’s, while also ordering the airline to establish a $90 million fund to compensate passengers affected by future delays. The department said the penalty announced Monday was 30 times larger than any it had issued in the past for breaches of airline consumer protections. Southwest disputed the Transportation Department’s legal conclusions but agreed to accept the fine, according to the order setting out investigators’...