Fact: Brie Larson looks absolutely stunning tonight at the #MetGala .

Another fact: Our ocean-loving hearts couldn't help but SEA her outfit's resemblance to ... a pteropod (aka sea angels)! 👼

Learn about sea angels:
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Rep. Mike Collins denounces racism -- four days after he shared a video of counterprotesters at Ole Miss that included a shot of one participant making apelike gestures and noises in front of a Black woman. Via Maegan Vazquez & Patrick Svitek
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Rep. Jennifer Wexton's (D-Va.) ability to speak, hear and move has been affected by a degenerative brain condition. But she continues to work on legislation and address her colleagues, writes Mariana Alfaro by using a text-to-voice app: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

On a day like today, it is worth taking a moment to thank Tyler Charwat, The Post's prize administrator. A year ago he was given an enormous task: to fill the very big (and very elegant) shoes of Jill Grisco. We are lucky to have him as a colleague. washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/05/06/…

Another incredible example of how Jennifer Senior has been able to look within her own life to create transcendent journalism.

“We were committed to telling the unflinching story” of the AR-15 “and what it had done tonight this country,” Peter Wallsten tells The Post newsroom. The common language of mass shootings, he said, is that “they’re war zones.”

This project exemplifies public service, with the kind of visual storytelling and deep reporting that brought something new to longstanding debate

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David is a one-of-a-kind. We are so lucky that he has made The Post his professional home, allowing so many of us to learn from him.

Important recognition today of imprisoned Russian writer and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, writing from the modern-day gulag, where he is jailed for the crime of telling the truth:

The work of Gerry Shih Anant Gupta and others at The Washington Post edited by Alan Sipress has shone a light on India. The fact that their work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting this year speaks to its power.

So thrilled that the extraordinary work of Hannah Dreier has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. She is a wonderful, empathetic journalist, whose revelatory labor coverage enlightens us all.

How polarized have EV sales become in the U.S.? In the past decade, roughly half of all EVs sold went to the top 10 percent most Democratic counties in the United States. Read Shannon Osaka on what this means, and whether it can be changed. #climate washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Kent State University, where 13 students were killed or wounded by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, embodies how a crackdown on student protests can go wrong. Some here fear America has not learned from that history. By Jonathan Edwards wapo.st/3UM8koH

In Burkina Faso, Carmen Abd Ali and I followed a dance troupe from the Sahel region, where many musicians are no longer able to play in the villages where they once toured, because Islamist extremists are in control

Another Josh Dawsey Michael Scherer scoop

Kristi Noem just won't stop talking about killing her dog, by Ashley Parker washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

A new front in the abortion wars has opened, reports Caroline Kitchener as a Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion wapo.st/3wa4JIL

Weeks ago ⁦Maxine Joselow⁩ reported that Biden would expand two national monuments in California. Now it is official. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Police have entered the Columbia campus, and are headed towards Hamilton Hall, occupied by protesters. Follow our live coverage: washingtonpost.com/education/2024…