The Washington Post

Christophe Waggoner hosts a yearly event for kids — plus adults and dogs — to pick out free Halloween costumes he gathers and mends.

The arrival of Texas National Guard troops came ahead of a Thursday hearing in Illinois’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from deploying into the state.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

Post investigation finds VA’s $193 billion disability program has turned into a rich target for fraudsters. Some fake blindness or paralysis to get as much as $1 million.

Thirty of the late painter’s works will be auctioned starting next month. The net proceeds will benefit stations threatened by reductions in federal funding.

One of his early teachers called his scientific ambitions “ridiculous.” Undeterred, Dr. Gurdon went on to transform the understanding of DNA.

Some Republican mayors and governors have embraced the deployments. Some Democratic mayors have as well. But the effort is finding blowback in the courts, and the pushback from a number of Democratic officials has been strong. The fight is ongoing.