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The GOP’s ‘credentials caucus’ begins

Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

Potential candidates are huddling with former officials, advisers and pundits as they start shaping their policy views ahead of the 2016 campaign.

Jeb Bush on 2016 decision: I’ll tell you later this year

Ed O'Keefe

The former Florida governor spoke out Sunday and sought to distance himself from other potential GOP candidates on the issues of education and immigration.

“Doctor Zhivago,” by Boris Pasternak, had been banned in the U.S.S.R. (AP)

How the CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ against Soviets during the Cold War

Peter Finn and Petra Couvée

The spy agency labored long and hard to bring the novel’s humanistic message to the Russian people.

Explore documents detailing CIA's involvement

Caring for a famous T.rex

Meet the famous and fearsome T.rex, named Sue, and the paleontologist who cares for her.

Israel’s Netanyahu blames collapsing peace talks on Palestinian leaders

William Booth

The Israeli prime minister threatens retaliatory steps if the Palestinians continue their appeal to the U.N.

Former CIA director says Feinstein too ‘emotional’ about interrogation tactics

Aaron Blake and Ed O'Keefe

Michael Hayden suggests Senate’s Intelligence Committee leader may have compromised her objectivity.

The Fix: Committee chairs have lost their allure

Ships hunting missing airliner
try to verify deep-sea signals

Ships hunting missing airliner <br> try to verify deep-sea signals

Chico Harlan

Nearly a month after airliner vanished, a spark of hope arises in detection of acoustic signals.

What happened to Flight 370?

Give up on good: It’s a strange relief
to watch ‘Game of Thrones’ heart-free

Give up on good: It’s a strange relief<br> to watch ‘Game of Thrones’ heart-free

Hank Stuever

TV REVIEW | Things are getting worse in Westeros, which means HBO’s epic fantasy is getting better.

Act Four: Ranking the show’s power players

Opinions

On TV, rape used to be a subplot. Now it’s the story.

Alyssa Rosenberg

How four shows deal with sexual assault.

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In this rural town in Ohio, filling 40 jobs isn’t as easy as you might think

Monica Hesse

Bernie Coyle wants to hire people and pay them good wages. So why is he having trouble finding them?

@WorkAdvice: When the ‘joke’ is on the guy

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For years, CIA misled Congress,
public on its brutal interrogations

For years, CIA misled Congress, <br> public on its brutal interrogations

Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima

A Senate report concluded the agency overstated the significance of information from its tactics.

She smokes. She likes Vegas. And sometimes, she can’t avoid attention.

Krissah Thompson and Juliet Eilperin

Marian Robinson is an atypical White House grandma — and the glue of the first family.

For Ted, a long and ultimately
unremarkable quest for love

For Ted, a long and ultimately <br>unremarkable quest for love

Alyssa Rosenberg

How the finale of “How I Met Your Mother” betrayed the ideals of the long-running series.

This image provided by NASA is a Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of Saturn's disk captures the transit of several moons across the face of the gas giant planet. The giant orange moon Titan – larger than the planet Mercury – can be seen at upper right. The white icy moons close to the ring plane are, from left,Enceladus, Dione, and Mimas, at right edge of the plaent. The dark band running across the face of the planet slightly above the rings is the shadow of the rings cast on the planet. The dark dots as the shadows cast by Enceladus and Dione. (AP Photo/NASA) HANDOUT PHOTO: Illustration of the possible interior of Enceladus based on Cassini gravity investigation, which suggests an ice outer shell and a low density, rocky core with a regional water ocean sandwiched in between at high southern latitudes. Cassini ISS images were used to depict the surface geology and the plumes. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL - Caltech)

The body of water is upwards of 5 miles deep. (AP/NASA)

Water, water everywhere:
Even on a moon of Saturn

Joel Achenbach

This week’s NASA mystery: What’s behind a 5-mile-deep body of water below the moon’s surface?

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WASHINGTON DC-APRIL: 05 Alex Plunkett (left) and Sean Hart (right) both of Arlington, Virginia take part in a massive pillow fight on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on April 05, 2014. (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

(Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post)

Pillow fight on the Mall

PHOTOS | Hundreds gathered on the Mall on Saturday to participate in International Pillow Fight Day.

(Kim Leeson)

Portraits by George W. Bush

PHOTOS | An exhibit of the former president’s works has opened at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

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Best news photos of the week

A look at some of our favorite images from the week of March 31, 2014.

Afghans head to presidential polls

Voters turned out in larger numbers than expected to choose a new president to lead them into the post-U.S. era.

Pillow fight on the Mall

Hundreds gathered on the Mall on Saturday to participate in International Pillow Fight Day.

Portrait of the shooter: Army Spec. Ivan Lopez

A selection of photos from the Facebook page of the soldier who killed three and then took his life at Fort Hood on Wednesday.

Portraits by George W. Bush

An exhibit of the former president’s paintings runs through June 3 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Nationals 2014 season home opener

The Washington Nationals begin the home portion of the 2014 season with loss to the Atlanta Braves.

The child merchants of Beirut

Thousands of Syrian refugee children work in Lebanon, selling flowers, tissues, chewing gum or shoe shines.

Climbing crews practice art of mountain rescue

A view of the heights and rocky face that rescue climbers traverse, a quarter mile above the Potomac River.

Politics

Former CIA director says Feinstein too ‘emotional’ about interrogation tactics

Aaron Blake and Ed O'Keefe

Michael Hayden suggests Senate’s Intelligence Committee leader may have compromised her objectivity.

The Fix: Committee chairs have lost their allure

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The next GOP Obamacare scheme

Paul Waldman

THE PLUM LINE | Another round of bogus health-care scare stories.

Lifestyle

Cher revives classics on ‘farewell farewell tour’

Dave McKenna

At the Verizon Center, Cher winkingly insisted that this is her last tour, and perhaps she should stick to her word.

Arts

Maya Angelou faces mortality and immortality

Krissah Thompson

The legend turned 86 on Friday, and the following day the National Portrait Gallery unveiled her portrait.

Local

Md. lawmakers decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot

John Wagner and Jenna Johnson

Lawmakers also voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2018 and passed the state budget.

Sports

Bryce Harper: ‘I’m pretty lost right now’

James Wagner

NATIONALS JOURNAL | Harper is 3 for 21 with 10 strikeouts and no extra-base hits through five games, and could rest on Sunday.

Technology

All the news that’s fit to encrypt

Craig Timberg

News organizations are struggling to make their online products safe from the world’s prying eyes.

Business

Peet’s takes over Caribou Coffee locations this week

Abha Bhattarai

The California company is opening 23 local stores in the next three months.

Real Estate

A McLean manor with European flair

Kathy Orton

WHERE WE LIVE | A promenade guarded by statuesque trees leads to this $8.495 million home.

Inside the five-bedroom house

Federal Government

High time, or too soon, for agencies to stick their fingers in this type of pot?

Josh Hicks

FEDERAL EYE | Two senators from across the political aisle challenge federal authority to offer advice on marijuana-related businesses, which are still illegal under U.S. law.