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.
That Kennedy has repeatedly echoed the rhetoric of the anti-vaccine movement while Weldon was seen as not fit to helm the agency that fights infectious diseases has medical experts and politicians questioning who will be chosen as the CDC’s next leader amid a surge in measles cases and ongoing outbreaks of bird flu in the United States and Ebola in Uganda. The move to abandon Weldon’s nomination comes amid public concerns over the resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. The Trump administration canceled a planned meeting of the Food and Drug...