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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, waves after addressing reporters outside the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in 2005. Pope Francis has defrocked the former cardinal over accusations McCarrick sexually abused a teenager 50 years ago. McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican's College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse.

In historic first, ex-cardinal defrocked by Vatican over child sexual abuse

August 22, 2019 at 10:31 a.m.

The Vatican on Saturday said it had defrocked ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, leveling a historic penalty against a onetime church power broker and former archbishop of Washington after the church found...

A "now hiring" can be seen on a sign and an inflatable air dancer outside Tenere.

Rise of the machines: At a Wisconsin factory, workers warily welcome robots

August 22, 2019 at 12:23 a.m.

The workers of the first shift had just finished their morning cigarettes and settled into place when one last car pulled into the factory parking lot, driving past an American...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 23, 2015.

San Bernardino massacre underlines a divide among contenders in 2016 race

May 25, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.

A sharp political debate broke out on Sunday among the presidential candidates in the 2016 race over what lessons to take from the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, and...

The Days Inn & Suites of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, shown on January 29, employed Shanna Tippen until earlier this year, when she was fired after speaking with a Washington Post reporter about her minimum wage job.

After a story is published, a minimum wage worker loses her job

August 18, 2019 at 7:05 p.m.

Shanna Tippen was another hourly worker at the bottom of the nation's economy, looking forward to a 25-cent bump in the Arkansas minimum wage that would make it easier for...

An employee returns to work at Pop's Barber Shop of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The barber shop is one of the few small businesses that have been able to withstand the economic hardships in Pine Bluff.

The 25-cent raise: What life is like after a minimum wage increase

June 16, 2018 at 12:03 a.m.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. — One Friday last month, Shanna Tippen left the house where she sometimes gets by with candles and flashlights, got into her beat-up 2003 Chrysler Sebring and...

How Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson mastered the disappearing act

August 18, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

ST. LOUIS — One morning late last month, a St. Louis courtroom filled up with prosecutors, lawyers and press who wondered if they'd catch a glimpse of a vanished man....

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