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See how Santa Ana winds made the L.A. wildfires worse
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Map of winds moving in from Sierra Nevada toward the Pacific Ocean over Los Angeles in purple tones. You can see the Palisades Fire and Eaton fires footprints close to the labeled San Gabriel Mountains
January 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Why the L.A. fires became so bad so quickly
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
A diagram with a red arrow labeled 'Gusty wind' pointed to a flame, which is burning dry vegatatio. From that burning plant fly some embers and burning debris, and a red arrow points to a bigger flam labeled 'Bigger fires'
January 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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We're mapping the Pacific Palisades Fire in California as it grows.
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
A map showing Getty Villa and the Pacific Palisades just northwest of Santa Monica. A sliver of the Pacific Ocean is seen in the southwest area. It shows the shape of the Palisades fires, with two big blobs of approximately 4,000 feet wide and long. An inset map of California shows this is area is just northwest of Los Angeles.
January 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Landlords have been accused of price fixing.
See where it may be happening.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Screenhot of a web tool with a search field reading "Search for your country" labelled as "Share of multifamily units managed by companies named in rent-setting lawsuits" and a color ramp taht goes from 0 to >40%. It also has a black square icon labeled "Building managed by company named in lawsuits". In the map you can see DC and it suburbs. DC is at 20-30%, Maryland suburbs around 10%, Arlington at 30-40 and teh rest of the Virginia suburbs at 20-30. There are more than 100 black square icons visible.
January 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Republicans won a historically narrow majority in the House: 220 seats to 215 for Democrats. It will get tighter as three Republicans were tapped for Trump’s Cabinet and Matt Gaetz resigned after he was picked as Trump’s first attorney general candidate.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Chart showing GOP numbers in the House compared to the majority since 2001. The latest numbers are 220 for Republicans to a majority of 218
January 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Authorities hunt for clues, possible accomplices in New Orleans attack
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Map titled 'Location where truck plowed into a crowd along Bourbon street', shows the path of the truck into Bourbon street in New Orleans, urning right from Canal St., a label to that corner turn reads 'The truck drove around a parked police car to enter Bourbon Street'
January 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Congress has passed legislation giving D.C. control of RFK Stadium and allowing the city to redevelop more than 170 acres of federal property surrounding it, a political miracle that came in the twilight hours of the year’s congressional session.
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A map locating RFK stadium in D.C., right by the Anacostia River left side, in East DC. The maps shows in red the proposed transfer areas of RFK land from NPS to DC, most of them between the river and the DC armory.
December 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Car slams into crowd at Christmas market in Germany.
“Numerous” people were injured in the incident, a city spokesman told local media.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Map showing Magdeburg's location in Germany. The city is in the central northeast of the country, around 100 miles west of Berlin
December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Student kills 4 at Madison, Wisconsin, Christian school, police say.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
Map showing the location of the Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin: east of the city center and Lake Monona, south of the Dane County Regional airport. An inset map shows the location of Madison in Wisconsin, center south of the state.
December 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Inflation remained stubborn this fall, signaling a potentially bumpy road to vanquishing higher prices, which President-elect Donald Trump will have to contend with.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Linechart showing the evolution of the annual inflation rate since 1970 to this month, where it stayed at 2.7%. Lower than the recent post pandemic peak around 8.5%, but still higher to the average between 201 and 2020. Very far from the over 16% figures of the late 70s.
December 11, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck 45 miles off the coast of Eureka, Calif.
An earlier tsunami warning has been cancelled.
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
A shakemap of the recent earthquake in the coast of northern California. It shows very strong shaking in front of the coast of Eureka, with light shaking reaching to the Oregon border at the north, Chico on the east and just north of San Francisco in the south.
December 5, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Syrian forces regroup with help from Iran, Russia after shock rebel advance
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Map of areas control areas in Syria: The Assad regime controls the south, the Kurdish-led groups the east, the Turkish-backed Syrian national army some areas of the north, and the Hayat Tahrir-al Sham small areas of the northwest around Idlib, but have reclaimed a bigger area than the previously owned, including Aleppo.
December 3, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Thanksgiving NFL opens with Bears at Lions.
Lions are #1 favorite in our playoffs projections, while Bears have <1% chances of making the playoffs.
Check your team's options here:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...
Charts showing NFC North neutral MoV, Avg. Wins, % make playoffs, Win division %, Top Seed % and Win SB %. Lions are first, Vikings second, Packers third and Bears last.
November 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Netanyahu's arrest warrant would apply to these 124 countries, but not the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
A world map with countries like Canada, all of South America, Australia, almost all of Europe in blue, other countries like U.S., Russia, Iran... in dark grey and other like China, India, Saudi Arabia... in light grey. The key reads: blue - Ratified by the Rome statute / Dark grey - Signed but has not ratified / Light grey - Not a signatory
November 21, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Meet the Republican and Democratic senators of the 119th Congress
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
A chart showing two blocks: 45 blue squares + 2 yellow squares with the faces of the 47 incoming Democratic senators (and independents who cauces with them) and 53 red squares with the faces of the 53 incoming Republican senators.
November 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Record-setting bomb cyclone, intense as a hurricane, lashes Northwest
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A map of the U.S. west coast showing seven-day rainfall forecast starting on November 19. The north of California, between San Francisco and the Oregon border, with the town of Eureka highlighted, is expected to receive between 14 and 20 inches.
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
A state map of the U.S. showing share of people using community water systems who receive fluoridated water. Oregon is among the lowest, along with Idaho, Montana, Louisiana or New Hampshire. The highest sharea are in the Midwest , the Dakotas and the Atlantic coast
November 20, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Ukraine uses U.S.-made ATACMS missiles inside Russia for the first time.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Map of the border between Ukraine and Russia marking Karachev and Bryansk Oblast. The map also shows the ATACMS missile range (300km) and the Russian-held areas in Ukraine.
November 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM