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Country singer Luke Combs designed a line of Crocs shoes modeled after the guitar he learned to play. The demand was so high that they sold out immediately at this year's CMA Music Fest. (June 20)       

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III speaks at the Department of Justice in May about the Russia investigation. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) If you’re interested in the Mueller report but just don’t want to read it, you’re in luck. On July 11, Arena Stage will present an 11-hour marathon reading of the …

Country singer Luke Combs designed a line of Crocs shoes modeled after the guitar he learned to play. The demand was so high that they sold out immediately at this year's CMA Music Fest. (June 20)       

Photographes of late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld are displayed for an event named “Karl for Ever” at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Thursday, June 20, 2019. The event pays tribute to late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld who died Feb. 19, 2019. (Francois Mori/Associated Press) By Thomas Adamson | AP …

Gray seals can copy the sound of human words and songs, a new research by the University of St Andrews has found. (June 21)       

Joan Biskupic is a CNN legal analyst and Supreme Court biographer. Her most recent book is “The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.” Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit, was nominated by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by …

“Toy Story 4” stars Keanu Reeves and Tom Hanks say a lot more work goes into voice acting than people would expect. (June 21)       

Conductor and composer Darin Atwater leads the Soulful Symphony, and will perform at the Merriweather Post Pavilion this summer. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Darin Atwater is a diminutive man with an outsize footprint. He’s a composer putting the final touches­ on his latest evening-length work. He’s a conductor with a …

Gigi Hadid, Pharrell Williams, Claudia Schiffer, and Stella McCartney were among the stars attending a celebration of Karl Lagerfeld's life in Paris. (June 21)       

(Doubleday) “The World of Nineteen Eighty-Four ended in 1989,” historian Timothy Garton-Ash declared optimistically in 2001. Communism, fascism and European imperialism “were all either dead or mortally weakened. Forty years after his own painful and early death, Orwell had won.” If only. Orwell’s portrait of a world in which the …