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Our latest Visual Forensics investigation shows how on Oct. 7, Hamas exploited vulnerabilities created by Israel’s reliance on technology at the “Iron Wall” to carry out the deadliest single assault in Israel’s history. Watch: https://youtu.be/mcSoNyNd428?si=djeMf...

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With the NFL facing a class-action discrimination lawsuit, The Post analyzed three decades worth of coaching data and interviewed 16 of the league’s 24 living current and former Black head coaches.

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The entire investigative file of an officer-involved shooting in Overland Park, Kan., from January 2018 was released, giving insight into how police investigated an officer who killed a teen threatening suicide. Watch our examination into the investigation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTVX9...

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How did this image of Che Guevera change Cuba forever? Post Opinions' new explainer, "Outside the Revolution," cracks open how a totalitarian dictatorship used propaganda to mask its brutal repression. Watch — https://youtu.be/6BXzcEgCplE — and let us know if you've seen such tactics where you live.

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With the help of exiled Cubans, Post Opinions explores the power of state propaganda, how dictators exploit the myth of Castro's revolution and why art can be both a tool of oppression and emancipation. Watch our latest short doc here, premiering on the one year anniversary of Cuba's largest pro-democracy protests in a generation: https://youtu.be/6BXzcEgCplE

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A new investigation by The Post reveals at least 178 cases from 2019 to 2021 in which calls for help resulted in law enforcement officers shooting and killing the very people they were called on to assist.

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At least seven of the 10 dead after Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival were clustered in a small area enclosed on three sides by metal barriers that became dangerously crowded, according to a Washington Post investigation. The review — based on exclusive video, interviews with witnesses and expert crowd analysis — reveals how a crowd surge at a performance by Scott turned one pocket of the audience into an epicenter of chaos and distress. Watch: https://youtu.be/LGXwJnZSIkQ

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D.C. police requested backup at least 17 times in 78 minutes during Capitol riot, a Post examination finds. Watch: https://youtu.be/rsQTY9083r8

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Paul Sereno is a University of Chicago paleontologist whose decades of expeditions in Niger have added nine species to the world’s dinosaur record. Niger’s government is working with his team to build two museums that would house his discoveries, but right now, those plans are on hold. Watch: https://youtu.be/VdALnZHLQ2k

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