D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith is resigning after two years on the job marked by a steep drop in crime and escalating federal interference in the District’s policing. Our updated story here: https://t.co/ICorsBlDgo

Children who returned to in-person schooling during the coronavirus pandemic saw improvements in their mental health, according to a study that found school reopenings were associated with declines in diagnoses of anxiety, depression and other conditions.

Police investigation faults Rep. Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade, offering more details on Oct. 30 confrontation, w/ @BriannaATucker @aaronjschaffer https://t.co/tXWHvqkZ9d

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Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, a Post analysis shows Trump has pardoned or commuted sentences for nearly 100 people convicted of drug crimes in his two terms so far, by @MerylKornfield @ELaserDavies

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?” by @RobertKlemko

This is an example of a story you didn't know you wanted to read which is what makes journalism great: Lanternfly honey has arrived. Just don’t ask how it’s made, by @britsham

The only live news report of the attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Oahu, Hawaii, on this day, 1941, more than 2,400 Americans killed. (Courtesy Smithsonian Channel.)

Trump’s Kennedy Center is showier, emptier and more political. In 10 months, the president has transformed Washington’s cultural hub. Now comes his biggest night yet: the Kennedy Center Honors, by @travismandrews @janaykingsberry

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contests portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom From @mariasacchetti @TWallack:

The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects the White House’s narrative of her ICE arrest, by @mariasacchetti @TWallack

Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s. The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks, by @ktumulty

Unpopular opinion: The Washington Post is on a real roll journalistically. They have broken big news (Hegseth drone attack in the Caribbean) but also some amazing data reporting like this piece on billionaires taking over American politics. https://t.co/DLq4eC2jDN

Winter is coming, but National Weather Service offices are not ready. After hundreds of jobs were cut by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, vacancies remain in NWS offices across the country, including in some of the coldest, snowiest regions, by @RubyMellen

“Any Republican who refuses to admit we have an affordability problem is not listening to the American people,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) said

Trump struggles to persuade Americans to ignore affordability issues. A president who has often seemed to float above the laws of politics confronts a new political reality, by @NaftaliBendavid

The president talks frequently of his desire for more peace. And he likes talking like a warmonger, by @ddiamond

🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival. It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy. https://t.co/8k3NSoQGJ3

Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by ICE this week after President Trump called them “garbage.”

More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record, newly released federal data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime.