Washington Post • 2nd September 2024

A school cop was accused of sexual misconduct with kids. He kept his job for years.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The teen was nervous to hear the results of the investigation. Weeks had passed since the 15-year-old reported that a school resource officer sexually assaulted her. In his office. In the middle of the school day. Now a captain from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department had set up a meeting with the 10th-grader and her therapist to tell them what was going to be done about it.Two of his colleagues had reported that they saw Bradley, alone with a female student, late at night...

Washington Post • 15th August 2023

The Smithsonian's 'bone doctor' scavenged thousands of body parts

Hrdlicka (hurd-lich-kuh) was one of the world's leading anthropologists, and he ran the Smithsonian'€™s division of physical anthropology for about 40 years. He amassed an enormous collection of body parts and used his research in Alaska to propagate the theory that the first people to populate North America crossed a land bridge at the Bering Strait. For years he dominated the still hotly contested debate over when these people first traversed the Pacific.

He considered people who were not W

Washington Post • 14th August 2023

Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain collection’

Most of the brains were removed upon death from Black and Indigenous people and other people of color. They are part of a collection of at least 30,700 human bones and other body parts still held by the Natural History Museum, the most-visited museum within the Smithsonian. The collection, one of the largest in the world, includes mummies, skulls, teeth and other body parts, representing an unknown number of people.

The remains are the unreconciled legacy of a grisly practice in which bodies an

Washington Post • 6th January 2023

Review of Jan. 6 cases finds judges give harsh lectures, lighter sentences

As of Jan. 2, 357 out of 932 people federally charged in the insurrection have been sentenced. Another 165 who have been convicted await sentencing.

Washington Post • 20th December 2022

Coached until she collapsed, an aspiring bodybuilder is now on life support

Drug orders were sometimes allegedly handled with the help of his girlfriend, Hannah Mehregan, and labeled as essential oils or vitamins to evade customs, according to several former clients and messages documenting the transactions. “Please make sure you order all non natural supplements from Hannah before this Sunday to last you until your show, as we won’t be able to ship anything until I’m back! Make sure you don’t run out of anything, ost, tamoxifen, clen, etc!” Ayotte posted on “Team Atlas

Washington Post • 7th December 2022

Bodybuilders dying as coaches and judges encourage extreme measures

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Alena Kosinova was hunched over a fan waiting for her spray tan to dry when she realized she couldn’t move. It was hours before the 2021 Europa Pro contest and the Czech bodybuilder was cramping again — just like she had at a contest in Portugal weeks earlier.

Kosinova was known by friends and competitors for embracing the extremes of bodybuilding — the training, the dieting, the drugs. But on that ste

Washington Post • 7th November 2022

Tracking which 2020 election deniers are winning, losing in the midterms

More than 170 election deniers on the ballot for the U.S. House, Senate and key statewide offices have been projected to win their elections. The majority of Republican nominees on the ballot on Nov. 8 — 291 in all — had denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis.

More than 100 so far were projected to lose, and these denier candidates fared especially poorly in the most competitive races. Less than 10 races remained uncalled as v

Washington Post • 21st October 2022

The unseen toll of nonfatal police shootings

The way Kenneth Gilbert Jr. and his father tell the story, it had been a busy morning running errands in east Atlanta when their pickup was suddenly cut off by a dark truck and forced onto the curb.

Once Gilbert Sr. got back on the road, he said, the truck swerved back into their lane. Gilbert Sr. said he hit the gas and sped around it, making a sweeping motion with his hand as he shouted at the driver to “move over.”

Gilbert Sr. said that as he slowed for the next stoplight, he saw the truck

Washington Post • 6th October 2022

Where Republican election deniers are on the ballot near you

A previous version of this piece provided an incorrect count of the number of Republican nominees who have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election. The correct number is 291, not 299. The error was caused by an incorrect application of the criteria The Post is using to identify election deniers. As a result, the following names have been removed from this list: U.S. House candidates Scott Baugh of California, George Logan of Connecticut, Amanda Adkins of Kansas, John J

Washington Post • 21st September 2022

How the NFL blocks Black coaches

But that glimmer of progress was a mirage. In the 33 years since Shell’s hiring, just 24 other head coaches have been Black .

A brief uptick of Black coaching hires in the mid-2000s provided hope that racial equity was within reach.

He is one of 191 people who have been head coaches in the three-plus decades since.

In 1989, the Los Angeles Raiders hired Art Shell, who became the first Black head coach in the modern history of the National Football League.

Despite the league’s end-zone pledge