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| Good morning. It’s Friday, Feb. 21, and if you’re feeling increasingly nervous about flying, here’s the most important rule for staying safe. Now let’s get to the news. | |
 |  | President Donald Trump is expected to take control of the U.S. Postal Service. | | |
 | Trump ally Kash Patel was confirmed as director of the FBI. | | | Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 30. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) | |
 | The IRS started mass layoffs yesterday. | | |
 | Three empty buses exploded in Israel in a suspected terrorist attack. | - Last night: No injuries were reported in a Tel Aviv suburb. Explosives were found at other sites, officials said. Israel ramped up military actions in the occupied West Bank in response.
- What else to know: The bodies of hostages Hamas returned to Israel yesterday included two young children from the Bibas family — but not their mother, Israel said.
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 | The Pacific Northwest is about to be hammered by heavy rain. | - The forecast: An atmospheric river will hit Washington and Oregon this weekend and early next week. About 1 to 3 inches of rain will fall around the coast.
- In Los Angeles: Residents whose homes survived last month’s fires are reckoning with neighborhoods that look nothing like the places they once loved.
- Last weekend: A few inches of rain caused “catastrophic” flooding in Kentucky and West Virginia — here’s why.
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 | Narcissists feel more “social pain,” a new study found. | | |
 | A German court ruled that Birkenstocks are not art. | | | Birkenstock’s history in Germany goes back to the 1700s. (Ethan Swope/Getty Images) | - Who said they were? The maker of the famously comfy shoes and sandals, who wanted to designate them as “applied art” to guard their copyright aga
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