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Clavel Rangel

Venezuelan journalist, editor and fixer. Co-founder of @Red_Amazonia. Oxford Climate Journalism Network '23.

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Sean Tucker

Sean Tucker is a reporter, critic, writer, and editor who has covered the auto, energy, insurance, education, and outdoor lifestyle industries. His work has appeared in U.S. News and World …

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Steven Overly

Steven Overly is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist with over a decade of experience covering business, technology and politics. He is currently a tech correspondent for POLITICO and hosts a daily …

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Mollie Jo Jamison

Investigative Journalist. Native Texan. Freelance Writer & Editor. M.A. in Investigative Journalism from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Returned Peace Corps Ecuador Volunteer. B.A. …

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Clavel Rangel from Venezuela

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By Clavel Rangel
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U.S. Marshals settle decades-old claims of racism by hundreds of employees

Since then, the suit’s class — estimated to include more than 700 current and former Black deputy marshals and detention enforcement officers, plus thousands of Black applicants who were not hired — had been stuck in a sort of legal limbo, as the case was dismissed, reinstated and expanded over …
By María Luisa Paúl
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/26/kidnapping-teen-california-motel-ransom/?itid=ap_maríaluisapaúl

When investigators entered a motel room in Santa Maria, Calif., on Friday morning, they reported finding a loaded gun, a switchblade and three men. In a corner of the room, the abducted 17-year-old they’d been searching for over four days was lying on the floor, according to federal officials. The …
By María Luisa Paúl
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VR transports users to notorious Venezuelan prison: ‘The world needs to know’

In five-minute increments, tourists, reporters and passersby were transported to the dark, mold-filled and cockroach-infested halls of El Helicoide — a virtual reality experience based on interviews with 30 former detainees, including political prisoners, students and activists. In it, real-life screams of agony recorded by a detainee who smuggled a …
By María Luisa Paúl
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China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race

The singling out of ethnic minorities is intentional, human rights groups say. In the hands of Chinese police officers, biometric data is a powerful tool for identifying people regarded as potential troublemakers. DNA samples can link suspects to protests or help police locate family members who might be subjected to …
By Yves Moreau
• Washington Post

McDonald’s is being sued over a hot coffee spill — again

A spilled 49-cent hot coffee from McDonald’s became a national punchline, a lyric in a Toby Keith song and endless fodder for talk shows after a 79-year-old woman successfully sued the company for the third-degree burns she got from a steaming cup of joe in 1992. Get a curated selection …
By María Luisa Paúl
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Argentina takes down ‘prolific’ clandestine Nazi printing press

When Argentina’s federal police raided a home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires this week, they found hundreds of books plastered with swastikas and imperial eagles. Some of the works glorified Adolf Hitler, while others denied the Holocaust and provided a revisionist history of World War II. Are you on …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Stolen Van Gogh piece is returned in a bloody pillowcase inside an Ikea bag

Blühm sprinted out of his seat. The french fries went half-eaten. This wasn’t just any painting — it was one of Vincent Van Gogh’s early works, “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,” which in 2020 had been stolen from a temporary exhibit at another museum in the Netherlands while …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Nearly 600,000 gallons of wine wash down the street in Portuguese town

Residents in a Portuguese village woke up to an almost biblical scene on Sunday morning. The streets were impassable, replaced by a raging river of close to 600,000 gallons of red wine. After two wine tanks belonging to a local distillery burst, enough booze flowed down the roads of São …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Minors at La. maximum-security adult prison must be moved, judge orders

Following a spate of escapes and violent episodes at two juvenile detention facilities last year, Louisiana began housing minors in the old death row of the state’s largest maximum-security adult prison. The move, officials argued, would be safe, temporary and rehabilitative. But on Friday, a federal judge ordered the teens …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

A yoga class in corpse pose was mistaken for a ‘ritual mass killing’

For 30 minutes, they resembled corpses as the instructor, Millie Laws, 22, banged on a shamanic drum inside a room lit only by the golden glow of candlelight. The scene was meant to be relaxing — but for a couple walking their dog outside the building, it resembled something far …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

4 convictions thrown out in ‘Fat Leonard’ case after prosecutor misconduct

U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino agreed to resolve the case with a plea agreement, under which the four defendants were each ordered to pay a $100 fine and plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge. The former officers had been convicted by a federal jury in June 2022 of accepting bribes …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Clerk told Murdaugh jury not to be ‘fooled’ by the defense, attorneys say

Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh filed a motion for a retrial Tuesday, claiming the county clerk tampered with the jury to bring about Murdaugh’s guilty verdict in the murders of his wife and son. Murdaugh attorneys Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian said Rebecca Hill, the clerk of court in Colleton County, …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Meet Howdy Doody, the steer who rides shotgun in his owner’s car

Lee Meyer was pulled over in Nebraska on Aug. 30 for driving with his 2,200-pound steer in the passenger seat of his car. (Video: The Washington Post) On Wednesday morning, Capt. Chad Reiman was sitting in his Norfolk, Neb., office when he heard radio traffic that immediately piqued his interest. …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Amur tiger dies in ‘freak accident’ before dental surgery at Colorado zoo

Mila had defied odds since her birth two years ago. The Amur tiger was part of a subspecies that is seriously endangered. About half of all tiger cubs don’t make it into adulthood, and she was the sole survivor in her three-cub litter. But last week, the juvenile orange, black …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Federal health agency recommends easing marijuana restrictions

The nation’s top health agency is recommending easing restrictions on marijuana in what could portend a landmark shift in federal policy on cannabis. The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration that marijuana be reclassified as a lower-risk, Schedule III controlled substance, according to …
By Nicole Mlynaryk
• Washington Post

After the blaze, coping with ‘fire brain’

Randy Gerhardt, 66, and wife Sandi Knapp Gerhardt, 55, fled the 2018 Camp Fire in California, the deadliest and most destructive in that state’s history, and noticed changes in themselves almost immediately. They would have clear mental pictures of an item they would be looking for — a tool, a …
By Nicole Mlynaryk
• Washington Post

A Pink Floyd song made with AI and brain scans sounds a lot like the band

Except Pink Floyd didn’t perform any of the music in the clip. Instead, the track was crafted by a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, who looked at the brain activity of more than two dozen people who listened to the song. That data was then …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

‘A bit of a rush’: Summer academy lets teens train to become pilots

Ryan Tran, a rising freshman at the University of Southern California, didn’t spend his summer packing his bags for college. Instead, he found himself piloting planes. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. Tran spent eight weeks at the …
By Corinne Dorsey
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Laundry company owners guilty of trafficking migrants, minors for labor

The manager of a laundry business in Virginia was accused of pulling a 13-year-old girl’s hair while ordering her back to work. Other teenagers told investigators they were forced to toil through grueling 11-hour overnight shifts before school. And a new mother was grabbed by the arm and shaken when …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Morgan State enrollment is surging. Students will live in hotels.

As enrollment surges at some historically Black colleges and universities, Morgan State University has hit over 9,000 students for the fall semester for the second time in the university’s history. But the campus can house only 2,571. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in …
By Corinne Dorsey
• Washington Post

Phylicia Rashad to step down as Howard fine arts dean after school year

The university said Rashad played a pivotal role throughout her tenure in revitalizing the prominence of the fine arts college, including attracting noted scholars, artists and creatives to the institution. “Dean Rashad has successfully led the reestablishment of the College of Fine Arts as an independent college that continues to …
By Corinne Dorsey
• Washington Post

After mistaken release, murder-for-hire suspect terrorized his ex, lawsuit says

In February 2021, a man was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill his ex-girlfriend and her brother in a foiled murder-for-hire scheme. Six months later, the woman was cooking dinner at her Allentown, Pa., home. But when she turned around that afternoon, she found Dominic Escalera standing in her kitchen, …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Reggaeton often has misogynistic lyrics. A Mexican city is issuing fines.

As it’s entered the mainstream, the thumping and contagious rhythm of reggaeton has often been accompanied by lyrics from men describing how a woman became beautiful “thanks to the mistreatment” or boasting about having sex with a woman so inebriated she can’t “remember that night.” Are you on Telegram? Subscribe …
By María Luisa Paúl
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‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty in ‘spy novel’-like laundering case

Shockwaves rippled through the cryptocurrency world in the summer of 2016 when 119,754 bitcoin, worth around $71 million at the time, disappeared from the digital coffers of the Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex through thousands of unauthorized transactions. Over the next half-decade, that crypto cache exploded in value, reaching the billions …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

Real estate agent fined over $15,000 for drinking milk at seller’s home

Ring video shows real estate agent Mike Rose drinking milk directly from the jug and putting it back in the fridge at a home he was showing July 16, 2022. (Video: Lyska Fullerton) The world’s most expensive milkshake is the epitome of luxury: a gold-flecked creation of Madagascar vanilla beans, …
By María Luisa Paúl
• Washington Post

D.C. spice shop owner creates affordable spaces for Black businesses

After seeing there was limited affordable property for business owners in D.C., Angel Gregorio wanted to build a space to support other Black entrepreneurs like herself. “I have friends who do hair and nails,” said Gregorio, founder of Black + Forth. “I noticed they had been paying exorbitant amounts of …
By Corinne Dorsey
• Washington Post