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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Billionaire rap mogul Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, filed a lawsuit Monday against an unnamed Alabama woman who accused him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her in a now-withdrawn complaint. The suit also names the woman’s lawyers, Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, and claims the defendants knew the allegations were false when they undertook “malevolent efforts to assassinate” Carter’s character. In the court filing, Carter alleges that the woman and her lawyers were “motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts...