On their 75th anniversary, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate a record-setting love story.

Her son survived an attack that killed three schoolmates and three adults. She is among thousands of brand-new activists who are pressing the Tennessee legislature to pass stricter gun laws during an...

The un-celebrity president: Thirty-seven years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown

The war has cost Ukraine's oligarchs and diminished their political and economic power with possibly major consequences for Ukraine's postwar political future.

At least eight villas spread out across 10 miles have been frozen by the Italian government.

Documents show Raj Shah privately derided the White House’s narrative of a stolen election. But he also pushed back on efforts to dispute the claims.

During eight months of Russian occupation in Kherson city, a secret network of resistance fighters known as partisans worked with the Ukrainian military to sabotage invaders.

He is on the front line. She is adjusting to life in Germany. The Ukraine war anniversary marks nearly a year living apart.

Melissa Alexander says Covenant parents stood up to a GOP supermajority and lost, but this is the moment when ‘things started to change.’

Jeffrey Clark, a mid-level Justice Department official, wanted Trump to name him attorney general in a plan aimed at potentially overturning the election.

Ukrainians are facing rolling blackouts, disruptions in water service and lack of heat, while Russia shows no sign of relenting in its aerial bombardment.

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the U.S. House speakership reflected a push toward the fringe caused in part by gerrymandered districts. The congressional map in Illinois offers a prime example.

One Kyiv apartment building coping with power outages shows the widespread toll of Ukraine’s war away from the front line.

When we visited the platoon’s team house in the days before the Russian invasion, it was a warm and inviting place to two outsiders.

Many older people are one medical emergency away from a court-appointed guardian taking control of their lives.

She sat in on Cabinet meetings of her husband, Jimmy Carter, advised on policy issues and pushed Congress to pass mental health legislation.

In the Republican-dominated state House, ’culture war’ battles rage while demands for new gun restrictions are ignored following a deadly school shooting

Scientists point to ominous pandemic trends as coronavirus variants spread.

There is no national count of how many lives end this way. But a Washington Post investigation that included interviews with more than 100 local officials from Hawaii to Maine who handle uncollected...

The untold story of America’s most dependable drug war ally and how the drug war in Mexico fell apart as a river of synthetic drugs flooded the United States.

Officials in Kyiv look to pack away the uneasy memories of the Trump campaign’s dirt digging.

Her passing comes as this island nation of 67 million was already mired in dire and complicated times, with the question of national identity blurred and divisive.

With the U.S. military gone and the Taliban in control, “there is really no way out” for those left behind.

First in a series — focusing on tens of thousands of people who die every year in the United States and no one claims their bodies

Many Americans believe the political system is broken. A Post analysis examined the forces fueling the sense that government fails to represent the people.

Scholars say the new charges against Trump of attempting to overturn the 2020 election pose a unique test for the rule of law and go to the core of the threat to democracy.

As America has transformed, so too has its famous footpath. Less than half the A.T. remains where it was originally laid.

The prosecution of Andrea Sahouri, arrested while covering a racial-justice protest, raised concerns from free-press advocates who say journalists must witness such events without fear of being...

In a Denver suburb on the Sunday of Presidents' Day weekend, five people died simultaneously in what was then the nation’s largest known mass fentanyl poisoning.

Jim Jordan is an unyielding combatant, whether grappling on the mat or in the halls of Congress. A wrestling champion, he coached wrestling at Ohio State during the sex abuse scandal before entering...

The war in Ukraine has put the frostbitten borderlands between Norway and Russia on heightened alert, while increasing the geostrategic importance of the Arctic.

Some have fought Russian troops. Others have volunteered to support the resistance effort. All are dealing with how the war has altered their lives.

Murder can stigmatize a house. Ugly divorces can leave behind bad energy. Real estate agents say there are a growing number of homes with negative feelings trapped inside — and what some see as a bad...

A Washington Post reporter joined people waiting through the night to see the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall.

He was a fiercely independent-minded editorial page editor for an independent newspaper.

Sen. Joe Biden was on the phone with his wife during his morning commute from Delaware to Washington, DC, when the second plane hit the World Trade Center.

Shoji Morimoto doesn't talk much but he will sit and listen and be there for events people fear to share with someone they know.

Sierra Schuetz’s government job feeding the poor in conservative Ottawa County became a passion. Could it survive the suspicions that multiplied alongside covid?

Fordlândia, the Midwestern city that the pioneering automaker built in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon, has fallen into ruin.

The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state's Chinook salmon population at grave risk

A global controversy is being felt at a Nebraska church.

When a foreign journalist is arrested by an authoritarian regime, readers have to understand that the charges are almost certain to be bogus.

Limited data impede any firm conclusions about the threat posed by omicron and whether it can evade immunity.

The Biden administration brought Magdalena Hernández Pérez back to the United States, but then came the shock: A foster care agency now had custody of Mildred.

In Nebraska, senators refused to even debate paid sick leave. Now advocates want to give voters a direct say.

Thousands of veterans, especially from the Vietnam era, die alone every year, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now she hopes her bond with students can survive South Carolina’s new laws.

A Washington Post examination of the road to war in Ukraine, and Western efforts to unite to thwart the Kremlin’s plans, draws on extensive interviews with more than three dozen senior U.S., Ukrain...

Despite serious health problems, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter still spend most days beside each other in the living room of the Georgia bungalow they built in 1961.

Half a year after Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for severe depression, his wife, Gisele, navigates her family between worry and acceptance.

The pandemic has accelerated a shift toward cremation, creating challenges for the Postal Service and altering the way families are saying goodbye to their relatives.

Swimmer Annie Lazor qualified for the U.S. Olympic team weeks after her father, Dave, died at age 61.

King Charles III has told friends and government officials he intends to stay at Clarence House rather than moving to the palace.

In Utah, fentanyl overdose deaths increased 300 percent over a three-year period. Synthetics had reshaped the geography of drug demand. The Sinaloa cartel had the supply.

Long after his turn as a key witness at Trump’s first impeachment, the former E.U. ambassador wants another kind of public hearing.

Heather Alberda found her calling by speaking bluntly about sex in conservative Ottawa County. Her career was no match for the nation’s culture wars.

Here are key takeaways from the Pegasus Project, which found that spyware leased by the NSO Group was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights...

Political, military and intelligence officials describe their reaction to the Russian invasion and what they did that first day.

A former graduate student in Washington, who claimed to be Brazilian but was unmasked as a Russian spy, has been charged by the U.S. with acting as a foreign agent.

This account is based on interviews with more than 100 people, including President Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers, Ukrainian military commanders, and volunteer militiamen.

An account with the gunman’s name was one of the pro-Trump social network’s most prolific users, writing hundreds of posts calling to “kill [the FBI] on sight.”

An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence.

An effort to shift the state’s border to the west is gathering popularity in eastern Oregon, where residents are irked at liberal policy moves by Democrats.

Until last summer, Khalid Payenda was Afghanistan’s finance minister, overseeing a $6 billion budget.

Bowers had voted for Trump but would not violate the law for him — and, as a result, his political future was jeopardized, his character was questioned and his family was harassed.