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Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/03/pala…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.

Sources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff
The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington.
Agents arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on explosive charges.
Calls to relatives of Cole listed in public records were not immediately returned.
The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, …

5 years later, authorities arrest a suspect in Washington pipe bomb case. Here's what to know
The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington, D.C. The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, and the Capitol riot by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/04/usps-amazon-delivery/<…

Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.

In an interview, Washington Post top editor Matt Murray says Jeff Bezos supports "reinvention" and wants WaPo to be "a bigger, relevant, thriving institution" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/jeff-bezos-matt-murray…

Jeff Bezos remains committed to Washington Post amid brutal layoffs, top editor says
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos remains committed to the publication, its top editor told CNN in an interview Wednesday, hours after the Post laid off hundreds of employees.

Sportswriters at WaPo say they spent the last two years seeking guidance for reinvention from top editors, but never saw leaders support visionary ideas (Bryan Curtis/The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-sports-department-d…

Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change

Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.

Sources: WaPo plans to end the sports section in its "current form", restructure the metro desk, and eliminate the books section as part of a "strategic reset" (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/washingto…

The Washington Post Is Slashing Its Newsroom in ‘Strategic Reset’
The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper is making significant cuts to international, sports, metro and books

Sources: WaPo told its ~45-person sports staff that some will be re-assigned within the newsroom, as it cuts one of the great American newspaper sports sections (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019090/2026/02/04/washington-post-…

The Washington Post eliminates sports section as part of wider layoffs
The Post's sports section was a longstanding foundation for sports fans in the D.C. region.

Ex-WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron says "this ranks among the darkest days in the history of" the paper; WaPo laid off Amazon beat reporter Caroline O'Donovan (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/

Washington Post Layoffs Cut More Than 300 Employees at Jeff Bezos Paper
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.