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.
A Rhode Island man carrying two molotov cocktails in his coat pockets was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday after he approached a police officer and said he wanted to surrender, authorities said. They said the man later told them he had come to Washington to kill high-ranking government officials. Ryan M. English, 24, charged with carrying an explosive device on U.S. Capitol grounds, was in custody Tuesday awaiting an appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington, according to police and an affidavit filed in court. No one was...