"The Washington Post" wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the 2021 United States Capitol attack. The "New York Times" wins the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting on the war on terror's failed bombing campaigns and the most awards overall. 2022-05-9
Elon Musk surpasses Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos. 2020-11-24
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by "The Guardian" yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone. The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper "The Washington Post" and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government. The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd". 2020-01-22
"The Washington Post" reports that U.S. special operations personnel temporarily halt the training of all Afghan army and police recruits while a full background check of 27,000 people is ongoing. 45 NATO troops have been killed this year in so-called green-on-blue attacks. 2012-09-2
Journalists from Al Jazeera and "The Washington Post" are arrested by Egyptian authorities; Swedish television loses contact with correspondent Bert Sundström. 2011-02-3
"The Washington Post" reports that an FBI informant so frightened Muslim worshippers by referring to violent jihad while spying on an Islamic community centre in Irvine, California, that they reported him to the authorities. The FBI spy, a convicted fraudster, sues the FBI. 2010-12-6
Ads website Craigslist faces allegations of "pay to rape" underage prostitution after a letter is published in "The Washington Post". 2010-08-8
A two-year "Top Secret America" investigation by "The Washington Post" concludes that United States intelligence gathering has grown so much since the September 11 attacks that neither its true cost, size nor effectiveness in keeping the country safe is actually known. 2010-07-19
"The Washington Post" reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. 2010-06-21
"The Washington Post" wins four awards at the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes. 2010-04-12