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 growing number of officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development are supporting a letter urging President Biden to push for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, in the latest sign of upheaval within the federal government over the president’s strong backing of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. Employees at the agency said they were “alarmed and disheartened at the numerous violations of international law; laws which aim to protect civilians, medical...