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Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin was mocked on Thursday for repeating her claim that the "walls are closing in" on President Trump.Rubin, an MSNBC contributor who describes herself as a "conservative opinion writer," has become a celebrity among liberal circles in recent years for expressing her disdain for the sitting Republican president. In her latest column, she celebrated…

Washinton Gov. Jay Inslee is ordering restaurants to keep a daily log of their dine-in customers if they want to reopen their doors during the coronavirus pandemic. Eight Washington counties were approved to move on to Phase 2 under Mr. Inslee’s four-phase plan to reopen the state, which will allow restaurants to reopen for dine-in…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Washington state choir practice that saw one symptomatic person infect nearly 87 percent of those who attended, was officially deemed a "superspreader event," according to a report published on Tuesday.Of the 61 Skagit Valley Chorale members who attended the 2 1/2…

A transcript unearthed Sunday indicates that The Washington Post’s newsroom was deeply divided over whether it was even worth reporting that incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was speaking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 -- before the Post published details in a column from an opinion writer who “was able to just throw this piece of…

Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she contracted the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Conn., emergency room on May 1. “You would have thought it was a stomach virus,” said her daughter,…