Roberta Bell, a grandmother of eight, lost her job as a Louisiana prison guard after she offered to care for an inmate's newborn baby. She's said she has no regrets. https://wapo.st/3pGf388 #press

A man who was arrested last month with weapons in his van near former president Barack Obama’s home in D.C. was denied bail Wednesday by a federal judge who found that the potential danger he posed to the public was grounds to keep him detained. https://wapo.st/43ih7kg #press

The person accused of shooting seven people in Philadelphia on Monday night, killing five of them, was charged with murder Wednesday.

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Perspective: For 40 years, the U.S. government has ignored what sorts of democracy promotion work — and which ones don’t. https://wapo.st/46xLcza #press

Several advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging a Virginia law that automatically stripped the right to vote from more than 300,000 convicted felons is an illegal vestige of historical efforts to keep Black residents from casting ballots. https://wapo.st/4406NhV #press

Withholding information for the patient’s best interest was the norm in medicine for centuries. It wasn’t until 1979 that the majority of U.S. physicians said they’d tell a patient when they had cancer. https://wapo.st/44g4Hu3 #press

Deion Sanders said Thursday that he was about to have surgery to remove blood clots from his legs, clarifying that he was not getting a foot amputated. https://wapo.st/3Jpa0PZ #press

Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard.

See how high the heat index is expected to reach where you live in the next seven days here. https://wapo.st/3CI2DiN #press

Opinion by Paul Waldman | With mass shootings now happening just about every day, Americans must ask this question: How many more guns will it take to make us safe? https://wapo.st/3pveY6H #press