Sudden fees. No warning. Welcome to shopping with tariffs in 2025.

(Illustration by The Washington Post; iStock)

As new tariffs take effect, consumers are receiving ransom notes to pay additional fees to get their products.

By Rachel Lerman and Taylor Telford

Comey under investigation for ‘threat’ to Trump on social media, officials say

See how your city’s population has changed since April 2020

A brain-dead woman is being forced to carry a baby to term, and we are in hell

Here’s how to claim your piece of Apple’s $95 million Siri settlement

Trump cast himself as U.S. pitchman in his Mideast trip. What did he sell?

The first direct Ukraine-Russia talks in years lasted less than two hours

Diddy trial: Cassie Ventura faces more cross-examination in Sean Combs’s sex-trafficking case

As Republicans weigh Medicaid work requirements, Georgia offers a warning

Pope Leo XIV’s oldest brother isn’t quite papal material

Weight loss praise turns judgmental upon mention of GLP-1 drugs

10 questions, plus a bonus wager! It’s the weekend edition of On the Record.

Climate

Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around the clock

(John Muyskens/The Washington Post)

For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.

By Scott Dance and John Muyskens

On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch

Storms knocked power for thousands around Great Lakes region, with more tornado risk coming