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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Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove made the filing with two other Washington-based Justice officials on Friday evening after dozens of other prosecutors had refused to do so and the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and six other lawyers resigned in protest. But in a remarkable move, Bove last week ordered acting U.S. attorney Danielle Sassoon, whose office was overseeing the case, to end the prosecution. Bove acknowledged that the decision was not based on the strength of the evidence or legal theories underpinning the...