Let us count the days since the NFL’s final four teams last tasted the championship round.Kansas City Chiefs: 358Philadelphia Eagles: 722Buffalo Bills: 1,457Washington Commanders: 12,062It’s been a rough few decades for Washington, but with rookie sensation Jayden Daniels upstaging a star-studded field in the divisional round, the Commanders are back in the NFC Championship Game for the first time since January 1992. That’s a span of seven presidential administrations and so long ago that this twice-renamed franchise’s 65-year-old minority owner, Magic Johnson, was still a month away from his final All-Star Game performance when the 1991 Redskins got this far.The…
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Gazans took in the scale of devastation to their old neighborhoods and Israelis awaited news about three newly released hostages as a day-old cease-fire between Hamas and Israel continued to hold on Monday.With the 15-month war paused, Palestinians have been returning to parts of the Gaza Strip they had fled, picking their way through vast swaths of rubble and trying to salvage what they could — a sofa, a mattress, a chair or a crate — from the wreckage of their former homes.“People can barely recognize the crushed places where they used to live,” said Montaser Bahja, an English teacher,…
When your child is having a meltdown at the grocery store or refusing to get out of bed for school in the morning, it’s tempting — and understandable — to want to scold them and list off all the reasons why these behaviors are not OK.But it turns out that talking might not actually be the best approach to course correction, says psychologist Caroline Fleck. Fleck is an adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University and author of the upcoming book “Validation.”Instead, she says, more parents should try listening and affirming: “The single greatest thing that we can do as parents…
The Athletic has live coverage of Ohio State vs Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff national championship game.Two of college football’s biggest brands will face off for a national title Monday night when Notre Dame and Ohio State meet in the College Football Playoff Championship Game in Atlanta. Who will come out on top? The Athletic’s writers make their picks for who will raise the trophy.Matt Baker: The Buckeyes were my preseason title pick because they have consistently amassed enough talent and are bound to break through eventually. We’ll conveniently skip past anything I may or may not have…
At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela. The violence, carried out over the last four days in a northeast region called Catatumbo, is some of the worst the country has suffered through in recent years. And it has raised concerns that the country is moving in the opposite direction of “total peace” — a goal made a priority by the country’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, who is more than halfway through his four-year…
A January report from WalletHub compared the 50 U.S. states to determine which one is the best place to raise a family.The states were evaluated across five key dimensions:Family FunHealthy and SafetyEducation and Child CareAffordabilitySocio-economicsWalletHub used 50 relevant metrics, including shares of families with young children, pediatricians per capita, quality of public schools, and housing affordability — each graded on a 100-point scale — to determine which states had the most favorable conditions for family life.The report found that, in the last few years, raising a family has become more expensive, as the cost of living continues to rise.It can…
Throughout the season, Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg has been considered the 2025 NBA Draft’s likely No. 1 pick. Beginning the season at 17 years old after reclassifying into the 2024 recruiting class, Flagg is among college basketball’s youngest players, and his season started with some growing pains. He averaged 15.2 points while shooting 44 percent from the field and 27 percent from 3 during his first seven games in November, turning the ball over three times per game. It wasn’t a bad start, as he also averaged eight rebounds, four assists, 1.4 steals and 1.4 blocks. But publicly —…
The amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza surged dramatically on Sunday, with more than 630 trucks entering the impoverished and hungry enclave on the first day of the cease-fire, according to United Nations officials — the highest figure since the start of the war more than 15 months ago.The truce allowed the U.N. World Food Program to “bring in urgently needed food aid at scale and begin pulling the war-ravaged territory back from starvation,” the agency said in a statement on Sunday. Tom Fletcher, the U.N. relief chief, said in a statement on Monday that more than 300 of the…
The Athletic has live coverage of Ohio State vs Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff national championship game.ATLANTA — The bracket plastered along the College Football Hall of Fame’s glass window starts with 12 teams and funnels down to two: Notre Dame and Ohio State, the teams that will play Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door. To get to this point required decades of debate, years of planning and a month of actual football, all of it designed to answer the sport’s eternal question: How best to decide a national champion?Bill Hancock oversaw the purported solutions to that question…
The White House on Monday said that President Trump would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the pact among almost all nations to fight climate change.By withdrawing, the United States would join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only four countries not party to the agreement, under which nations work together to keep global warming below levels that could lead to to environmental catastrophe.The move, one of several energy-related announcements in the hours immediately following his inauguration, is yet another about-face in United States participation in global climate negotiations. During his first term Mr. Trump withdrew from the…
