For the past week, the world has been transfixed by a massive leak of top-secret Pentagon documents. Today, we hear directly from one of the teenagers who was part of the Discord channel where it all started, and get inside the head of the alleged leaker.

The gamers behind a leak of state secrets

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A young woman in Texas desperately tried to terminate her pregnancy before ultimately choosing adoption. Today on Post Reports, how abortion restrictions and fate collided to entwine two women’s lives.

One woman’s failed abortions led another to motherhood

Today, a look inside the pro-Palestinian protests taking root on college campuses and why universities have been struggling to respond to them.

The mounting antiwar protests on college campuses

The Senate is expected to pass a bipartisan bill that would force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a national ban. How did Congress finally achieve consensus on this?

TikTok might get banned. For real this time.

Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant legal challenge to the rights of unhoused people in decades. On “Post Reports,” we hear from a correspondent who visited the city at the center of the debate.

Can cities fine unhoused people for sleeping outside?

Rodeo stars find meaning in navigating primal forces. No one ever went harder than J.B. Mauney.

The gamers behind a leak of state secrets

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