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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 horned helmet and spear-tipped flagpole, along with the furry vest, tattooed torso and brightly painted face, made Jacob A. Chansley the “face of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,” the D.C. judge who handled his case wrote last year. Now that judge is ordering the government to return the helmet and spear to the “QAnon Shaman,” rejecting prosecutors’ claim that the items might still be needed as evidence. Chansley, now 37, was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, and...