Must Reads: The Jan. 6 pastor doing book burnings and exorcisms

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Try four weeks FREE, then $4 every four weeks for one year  Sign up for this newsletter Read online Compelling, ambitious stories you can't afford to miss.     We'll be back next Saturday with a full newsletter, but here are our top picks for this week: (William DeShazer for The Washington Post) 1. A Jan. 6 pastor divides his Tennessee community with increasingly extremist views Greg Locke is an "ambassador" of a movement where he and other pastors around the country appear at rallies and tent revivals preaching Donald Trump's fraudulent claims that the election was stolen as a new "holy war," says the head of an organization dedicated to religious freedom. By Annie Gowen ●  Read more »       Plus, here's how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden's laptop. 2. Inside Hunter Biden's multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives. By Matt Viser, Tom Hamburger and Craig Timberg ●  Read more »       3. What I've learned from writing a personal finance column for 25 years On March 30, 1997, the first Color of Money column appeared in the business section of The Post. It was the start of a long journey of helping people figure out the world of personal finance. Perspective ●  By Michelle Singletary ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   (Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post) 4. Voices from the siege of Mariupol The devastated city's mayor says Russian forces "are destroying everything that lives." By Loveday Morris and Paul Sonne ●  Read more »       5. Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok Targeted Victory pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. "Dream would be to get stories with headlines like 'From dances to danger,'" one campaign director said. Exclusive  ●  By Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell ●  Read more »       6. Inside Ted Cruz's last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) went to extraordinary lengths to court Trump's base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principles. By Michael Kranish ●  Read more »       7. Corporate landlords are gobbling up U.S. suburbs. These homeowners are fighting back. One in four homes sold in the Charlotte metro area last year were bought by investors — the second-highest share of all metros that Redfin analyzed. The trend hits predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest. By Peter Whoriskey and Kevin Schaul ●  Read more »       (Oksana Parafeniuk for The Washington Post) 8. As Russian shells fall, a race to get children with cancer out of Ukraine Even brief disruptions in finely calibrated chemo and radiation protocols can be disastrous, oncologists say. By Steve Hendrix ●  Read more »       ADVERTISEMENT   9. Their coaches died of covid. They refuse to give up on their season. A covid-19 tsunami kept this high school basketball team in online school, canceled recent games and, most most devastating of all, had taken the lives of their beloved coaches. By Karin Brulliard ●  Read more »   10. A policing strategy abandoned after Breonna Taylor's death spreads to other cities At least nine jurisdictions either plan to or have adopted the crime-reduction strategy known as "place network investigations" — a model that examines geographic connections that allow crime to flourish. By Amy Brittain ●  Read more »         Photo of the week (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) "The slap" by Will Smith was a moment seen around the world during Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast.  After comedian Chris Rock made a joke at the expense of Jada Pinkett Smith, Smith's wife, the actor strode onto the stage, struck Rock across the face and returned to his front-row seat, where he twice yelled, "Keep my wife's name out your f---ing mouth." On Friday, Smith announced his resignation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The culture has little patience for the damaged thug in a T-shirt and jeans who's lucky if his power extends the length of a neighborhood block, but it has the stamina to dissect the psychic pain of a mogul in a made-to-measure Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo," wrote senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan about the incident.  Now check out the other best photos from this week.    We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Post Most for the most popular and interesting stories of the day, from politics to opinions to world news, to keep you in the know. In your inbox, every day. Sign up »

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