A new change to your Instagram settings may keep you from seeing content from The Washington Post and other news organizations and creators.
Instagram has stopped “proactively” recommending political content posted on accounts that users don’t choose to follow. To do that, Instagram has automatically set the “political content” control to “limit” on user accounts.
The limits also affect users with Threads accounts tied to their Instagram accounts.
The change has triggered an uproar among some users who feel as if Instagram is unnecessarily limiting political discourse in a year that pivotal elections are being held in U.S. and other countries.
Here’s how to get around Instagram’s political limits in just a few steps.
The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices made clear that they view the ruling by their conservative colleagues to extend presidential immunity to all of Donald Trump’s official acts as a threat to democracy with “disastrous consequences.”
The “extraordinary rule has no basis in law,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a scathing dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The ruling, Sotomayor wrote, makes a “mockery of the principle” that no man is above the law.
Sotomayor spent about 25 minutes reading the entire 29-page dissent from the bench, a strong sign of her opposition to the ruling that came on the final day of the court’s term. She said the ruling disregards motive and allows a president who wields power for even the most corrupt purposes to be immune from criminal prosecution.
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” she concluded.
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Zhou Guanyu has never won an F1 race.
He has not made a podium in three years on the grid. His contract with Sauber expires after this season, and it remains unclear if the Swiss team will re-sign the 25-year-old. While he has been publicly vocal about performance issues with his car, veteran and up-and-coming drivers alike are vying for his seat.
Zhou is a marketable face for the sport in China, already worth millions in sponsorship dollars and an inspiration for a new generation of young drivers there — yet his own career in F1 faces an uncertain future.
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In a triumph of data collection and analysis, a team of researchers based at Oxford University has built the tools necessary to calculate how far any dot on a map is from a city — or anything else.
Armed with this data, and hours and hours of computer time, The Washington Post processed every pixel and every populated place in the contiguous United States to find the one that best represents the “middle of nowhere.”
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Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours as the fuel needed to operate generators runs out, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement shared to Telegram at noon local time Sunday.
Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies inside the enclave, aid groups say. A U.N. report released this month said more than 1 million people in Gaza are expected to “face death and starvation” by mid-July.
Many of Gaza’s medical facilities have been damaged, raided or evacuated since Oct. 7. Israel has made hospitals a key target of its military campaign, alleging Hamas uses them for militant activity.
UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said last week that a “severe shortage of medicine & fuel” was delaying lifesaving operations by its teams inside the enclave.
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Americans have long considered discussions of appearance — of our bodies, in particular — taboo in “polite” conversation.
Enter Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and other new medications that can lower blood-sugar levels and help reduce hunger. On internet forums and social media comment sections, there is endless back and forth about whether these meds are being used appropriately. It seems that as a topic of conversation, Ozempic is just the newest vehicle for all the muddled issues we have with our bodies.
Many who have taken weight-loss drugs can testify to how much nicer strangers get when you’re smaller. And for some, the surge of positive attention doesn’t always feel good.
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Children across the country returned from virtual learning much further behind in math — a subject where each skill builds on another and gaps in understanding can leave students lost — than they were in reading.
Between fall 2019 and 2022, national test scores sank four points in reading and nine points in math for 13-year-olds — the largest drop in math in half a century. And while scores have started to improve, researchers estimated last summer that the average American eighth-grader would still need the equivalent of nine more months of schooling to catch up in math, compared with seven extra months in reading.
With a full academic recovery still out of reach — and the billions in pandemic relief that fueled attempts to catch kids up running out — educators worry they must turn things around fast, or else a big cohort of children will be ill-prepared for higher-level math courses, college and ultimately for the kinds of sought-after jobs in technology and science that could give them more financial stability and propel the economy.
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Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old Bullis School sensation who captivated fans at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, will head to the Paris Games as part of the 4x400-meter relay pool, his coach, Joe Lee, said Sunday night after the trials concluded.
USA Track & Field must submit its roster by July 7, at which time Wilson’s spot will be official. If he runs in Paris, he would become the youngest male U.S. track and field Olympian in history.
Wilson finished sixth in the 400-meter final Monday after a remarkable weekend in which he twice broke what had been a 42-year-old American record for under-18 runners.
He ran one lap around the Hayward Field track in 44.66 seconds in the opening round, 44.59 seconds in the semifinals and 44.94 seconds in the final, placing him among the fastest sprinters in the country before he even acquired a driver’s license.
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The Supreme Court says presidents have ‘absolute’ immunity for clearly official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts.
Former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump faces four federal felony counts in Washington, D.C. for allegedly trying to undo Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The high court’s 6-3 ruling sends the case back to the lower court to determine when and whether Trump will go to trial.
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Max the cat has hitched rides on top of students’ backpacks, participated in campus tours and more than once has sauntered into a psychology lecture at Vermont State University’s Castleton campus.
The 5-year-old tabby is even listed on the staff roster at the university, where he has his own email address.
So it seemed like an obvious next step when the university bestowed an honorary doctor of ‘litter-ature’ degree upon him, making him officially part of the graduating class of 2024, in addition to being a staff member. Max wears many hats, said Rob Franklin, a photographer and social media manager for Vermont State University.
Max lives down the street from the main entrance to campus with Ashley Dow and her family, but he rarely hangs out at home, Dow said.
“He’ll let anyone pick him up, and everyone loves to love on him,” she said. “You can see the stress melt off the faces of the students when they see Max running toward them to be held and petted.”
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When we adopt pets, we know we’re entering a relationship that will, most likely, end in loss. But for many people, pet grief can nonetheless be surprisingly devastating when it happens.
Research shows that grief following the loss of a pet can be comparable to losing a person and, in some cases, even more complicated. Often, this pain is amplified by guilt (“I should’ve taken him in sooner”) and feelings of being misunderstood (“It’s just an animal”), all the more reason that pet owners, researchers and counselors are exploring ways to comfort owners through loss and keep their pets’ memories alive.
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The CDC warned clinicians, health authorities and the public Tuesday about an increased risk for dengue virus infections in the United States because of the record-breaking global incidence of the mosquito-borne viral disease.
In the first six months of 2024, countries in the Americas have reported more than 9.7 million dengue cases, twice as many as in all of 2023, exceeding the highest number ever recorded in a single year, the CDC said in a health advisory.
Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency because of the unusually high number of cases reported in the winter and spring, the dry season, when dengue cases are typically low.
Since January, 745 dengue cases have been identified among U.S. travelers who became infected abroad, the agency said. Dengue cases typically increase during the warmest months that are yet to come. Last year, there were 1,829 travel-associated cases in the United States.
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