Andrew Ba Tran

• Investigations

The number rose again last year, with police killing 1,096 people, including a 2-year-old, the youngest to die since The Post began tracking fatal shootings.

Fatal police shootings by officers in at least 2,250 departments are missing from federal records since 2015, according to The Washington Post database.

• Investigations

The Washington Post has collected data on every fatal police shooting since 2015, and found that fewer than half are tracked by the FBI

Explore our zip code level extreme heat map of the United States to see how heat waves and dangerous temperatures will affect your city in the coming years.

• National

Gun purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021, according to a Washington Post analysis. Gun deaths reached a 25-year peak in 2021.

Here is a detailed map of wildfire exposure across the country. See how many properties are at risk in your region.

• National

A recent wave of shootings has left dozens injured in mass violence in public or crowded places.

• Investigations

Residents in wealthy enclaves from Beverly Hills to suburbs of Austin to Florida beach communities sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shut down commerce, according to a Washington Post analysis of leaked fundraising data.

• Climate and Environment

Without dramatic action to curb carbon emissions and adapt to unavoidable change, experts say the damage wrought by rising temperatures will only get worse.