The site formerly known as Twitter added a five-second delay when a user clicked on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks, a Washington Post analysis found

Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme The platform is paying high-profile creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app

U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline THE DISCORD LEAKS | The CIA learned last June, via a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to sabotage the Russia-to-Germany natural gas project

The Washington Post is providing this story for free so that all readers have access to this important information about the coronavirus. For more free stories, sign up for our daily Coronavirus Updates newsletter. After the first case of covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was announced in the United States, reports of further infections trickled in slowly. Two months l

French prosecutors pursuing corruption charges against head of Japan’s Olympic committee Tsunekazu Takeda, president of Japan's Olympic committee, may have approved a bribery scheme involving bidding for the 2020 Tokyo Games. (Kiyoshi Ota/EPA-EFE) France’s financial crimes office announced Friday that is investigating Tsunekazu Takeda, president of Japan’s Olympic committee, for “active corruption

After years of denials, China now acknowledges that history and has declared that the practice no longer occurs — largely thanks to the perseverance of a health official who, with the quiet backing of an American transplant surgeon, turned the system around over the span of a decade. That official, Huang Jiefu, built a register of voluntary donors, overcoming both entrenched interests that profite

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President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement

President Obama’s last-minute drive for a foreign-policy legacy is making U.S. allies nervous about their own security. Several allied governments have lobbied the administration not to change U.S. nuclear-weapons policy by promising never to be the first to use them in a conflict. The governments of Japan, South Korea, France and Britain have all privately communicated their concerns about a pote

The Olympics are bad for cities. So why do we keep asking new places to invest billions of dollars in state-of-the-art stadiums they’ll never use again? The Olympic rings outside a stadium in Montreal. Image by Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/spcbrass/4686788994/in/photolist-89a25N-fjs9S4-4HCoqv-7yUWAD-cHSBS1-bF6Whh-7xjjXA-5jjzcH-fqm7Ld-bAtG7o-5byi57-d4nCFL-ay83PD-tK5LcL-dYLi2o-

The move — which one analyst described as "astonishing" — comes amid a broader movement in Japan, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to reassess Japan's wartime history and cast it in a better light. It is certain to inflame already-rocky relations with South Korea and China, where most of the women came from. In an editorial published in the Yomiuri newspaper and on its English-language Web site,