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The entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory School Bethesda, Md., is shown, Sept. 19, 2018. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh spent most of his teen years at the preparatory school in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh’s classmates at Georgetown Prep describe alcohol-soaked party culture

August 22, 2019 at 9:21 a.m.

To the uninitiated, Georgetown Preparatory School feels less like a high school than a well-heeled liberal arts college. The 93-acre campus in a Maryland suburb of the nation's capital boasts...

A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh.
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Politics on display as David Letterman receives Mark Twain Prize

December 18, 2018 at 12:10 a.m.

David Letterman was never known as a particularly political comedian, preferring a detached irony-drenched tone that favored the surreal and silly over topical humor. But there was an unmistakable political...

Israel, Hamas trade blows as calls for cease-fire grow

August 22, 2021 at 4:25 a.m.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday amid mounting speculation that a long-threatened land invasion of the coastal territory would begin soon. Hamas and...

Israeli missile kills Hamas leader

August 22, 2021 at 5:32 a.m.

An Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip killed a top Hamas political and military leader Thursday, along with most of his family, as the militant group launched its own...

Olmert’s gift to Russia stirs uproar

August 22, 2021 at 3:57 a.m.

Nearly 150 years after Russian Czar Alexander II bought a large plot of land in Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Moscow bearing a...

Sunni tribal leader slain in home

August 22, 2021 at 1:37 p.m.

Dozens of gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms killed a prominent Sunni Arab tribal leader, three of his sons and a son-in-law in their beds early Wednesday morning here, according to...

U.S. pushes Iraq political coalition

August 19, 2021 at 2:35 p.m.

While publicly emphasizing the need for Iraqis to control their own destiny, the Bush administration is working behind the scenes to coax its closest Iraqi allies into a coalition that...

Iraq militants behead captive Briton

August 19, 2021 at 3:05 p.m.

Islamic militants in Iraq have beheaded hostage Kenneth Bigley, the British Embassy and his family said Friday, bringing a tragic end to the three-week effort to save the Briton's life....

2 Americans, Briton abducted from home

August 19, 2021 at 1:49 p.m.

Iraqi insurgents pressed their assault on U.S. forces and their allies Thursday as two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their Baghdad house and three Marines were slain, bringing...

Arab world jittery over U.S. response

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

As the investigation of the terrorist attacks on the United States increasingly points to several Saudi and Egyptian nationals, fears grew Thursday from Beirut to Cairo of a swift American...

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