The issue is a natural for the sport born on frozen ponds, the league commissioner said.
| Sally Yates said to be Obama’s nominee for Justice Department’s second in command |
| The Obama administration plans in the coming days to nominate a U.S. attorney from Georgia to become the second-highest-ranking official in the Justice Department, according to U.S. officials.Sally Quillian Yates , a longtime prosecutor and the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia since 2010, is expected to be announced as the pick for deputy attorney general, the official who runs Justice Department operations day to day. Yates, who has served as the vice chair of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s advisory committee, is the first woman to serve as the U.S. attorney in Atlanta.Read full article >> |
| Maryland Gov.-elect Hogan plans traditional ball, as well as ‘people’s celebration’ |
| Tickets went on sale online Sunday to some of the festivities surrounding the inauguration of Republican Larry Hogan as Maryland’s next governor.Hogan, who will be sworn in on Jan. 21 in Annapolis, plans to hold a traditional inaugural ball in Baltimore that night at the city’s convention center. Tickets are $100 each, according to a Web site set up for the Wednesday night event.Read full article >> |
| It’s the best of the Loop 2014! Do you remember the time…? |
| Here at the Loop we have (maybe too much) fun. We chronicle official Washington’s ridiculous, outlandish, sometimes unethical, often hypocritical, and definitely eye-roll worthy words and actions. And 2014 did not disappoint.Read full article >> |
| The ominous lesson from the Sony Pictures hack |
| “In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film ‘The Interview,’ we have decided not to move forward with the planned Dec. 25 theatrical release.” — Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dec. 17Read full article >> |
| Obama’s faulty logic on Cuba |
| The most revealing sentence in President Obama’s explanation of his radical revision of U.S. Cuba policy last week was his admonition to Americans, and Cubans, that they should not seek the “collapse” of the Castro regime. “Even if that worked,” the president asserted, “we know from hard-earned experience that countries are more likely to enjoy lasting transformation if their people are not subjected to chaos.”Read full article >> |
| The duck that roared |
| Politics in a democracy is a team sport that leans heavily on individual high performers. This explains the paradoxical closing of President Obama’s most difficult year in office.He ends 2014 in surprisingly buoyant spirits, having proved that he still has the power to push policy in new directions in foreign affairs and on issues ranging from immigration to climate change.Read full article >> |
| Wizards struggle offensively as six-game win streak comes to a halt against Suns |
| Paul Pierce drove to the basket and flipped in a layup off the backboard to stoke another threat of a Washington Wizards comeback in the waning moments Sunday night at Verizon Center. Maybe the Wizards would break through and escape triumphant as they have made a habit of doing this December. For most of the 18,207 in attendance, a thrilling rally was just a matter of time.Read full article >> |
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| TV and radio listings for Dec. 22 |
| NFL8:30 p.m. Denver at Cincinnati»ESPN, WNEW (99.1 FM)NHL7 p.m.Ottawa at Washington»Comcast SportsNet, WJFK (106.7 FM)COLLEGE FOOTBALLRead full article >> |
| Blackhawks dedicate win over Maple Leafs to assistant equipment manager who is found dead |
| After their 4-0 win over the Maple Leafs on Sunday, the Blackhawks’ celebration at center ice was subdued. Their minds were on the tragic loss they had suffered earlier in the day.Clint Reif, a 34-year-old assistant equipment manager, was found dead in his Chicago-area home Sunday morning. The cause of death is still under investigation. The Blackhawks issued this statement later in the day:Read full article >> |
| Gross case illustrates agency’s use of workers for secret Cuban projects |
| Although his high-profile scene in the diplomatic-relations drama starring the United States and Cuba will eventually fade to subplot, the role Alan Gross played raises critical questions about the way this country uses people to represent its interests.Read full article >> |
| Medicare appeals office cuts seniors’ waiting time to see a judge in half |
| The federal office responsible for appeals for Medicare coverage has cut in half the waiting time for beneficiaries who are requesting a hearing before a judge. The progress follows an announcement in January that officials were going to work through a crushing backlog by moving beneficiaries to the front of the line and suspending hearings on cases from hospitals, doctors and other providers for at least two years.Read full article >> |
| The nuclear option and its fallout |
| The Senate Democrats’ move last year to eliminate filibusters on most nominations — it now takes only a simple majority to confirm — has helped President Obama dramatically increase his impact on the federal judiciary for years to come.Read full article >> |
| Stripped of duties, controversial Indian diplomat defends conduct |
| A controversial Indian diplomat whose arrest on visa fraud charges triggered a diplomatic row with the United States last year said Sunday that she had been unfairly stripped of her duties in India’s Ministry of External Affairs, even as officials investigate further charges against her.Read full article >> |
| Remembering the tsunami disaster, 10 years later |
| Swimming in the waters off Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, Michael Dobbs thought the day couldn’t get any better.“It was the most idyllic, peaceful day that you could imagine,” Dobbs said.The former Washington Post reporter and his family were vacationing on Taprobane, the private island that his brother, hotelier Geoffrey Dobbs, purchased in the mid-1990s.Read full article >> |
| As Christmas approaches, Baghdad Christians lament empty pews |
BAGHDAD — A choir dressed in crimson robes sang ancient hymns below a Christmas star strung with fairy lights at a recent service in the Iraqi capital, the heavy scent of incense hanging in the air. But the season here has a somber edge, and the priest has a serious message for his congregation: Stay. Read full article >>
| America’s got talent, but it’s flowing in the wrong direction |
| DOWNEY, Calif. —Lisa Rapp’s mother came to Southern California a war bride. She stayed for two decades, scrubbing floors, missing her parents in Scotland, socking away dollars to someday see them again. When she’d finally saved enough it was 1969 and Lisa was just turning 12, and the two of them flew charter across the Atlantic. They stayed for the whole summer in a house with a coin-operated television. One night, while Lisa slept, her mother fed sixpence into the set and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.Read full article >> |
| New leaders at law firm Pillsbury Winthrop experiment with changes to business model |
| When Debby Baum and Sheila Harvey were young lawyers in the early 1980s, they were regularly reminded that the legal profession was an old boys’ club.When Baum showed up to take depositions, receptionists and other attorneys routinely assumed she was the court reporter, there to transcribe the interviews. Harvey, who early in her career wanted to go into maritime law, was once told by a law firm that many of the firm’s clients believed in the superstition that it was bad luck to have a woman aboard a ship. They said she was have to stay on shore, and instead focus on contracts-related work .Read full article >> |
| This Aussie contractor is optimistic about the defense market |
| To Washington contractors, this might seem like the period of great uncertainty in the business, what with congressional bickering, shifting budgets and heightened competition. But to one of the region’s newest contractors, there couldn’t be a better time to enter the American defense market. Read full article >> |
| Amazon adds one-hour delivery for Prime members, starting in Manhattan |
| Amazon.com launched a new offering on Thursday that is aimed squarely at fulfilling its mission of delivering goods to its shoppers faster than any of its rivals.Members of the Amazon Prime program in Manhattan now have access to Prime Now, a benefit in which shoppers can get two-hour delivery of an order of "daily essentials" for free or pay $7.99 for one-hour delivery. Prime Now is available in selected areas of the borough, and the tech giant plans to bring it to other cities in 2015. Customers can use this option on orders placed between 6 a.m. and midnight.Read full article >> |
| Jenga app review: A physical game rebuilt for flat-screen fun |
| jengaA physical game rebuilt for flat-screen funJenga is one of those classic game-night titles that you’d expect might not translate that well in the digital age. But the official app does a fantastic job of making the transition. It accomplishes that by making sure it’s not just a one-trick pony. The game has a lot of modes that make it more fun for short or long play. If you’re playing on the go — in the car, for example, you can do a “pass-and-play” mode that lets you play with the people you’re with. You can also play alone with the classic format, in an arcade mode that has some special blocks or against random players online.Read full article >> |
| This tiny legal tweak could change the way you watch TV and get online |
| Federal regulators are giving a small bump to companies like Aereo and Google Fiber ahead of the holidays.The Federal Communications Commission is suggesting that new online video providers be treated just like the country's traditional cable and satellite TV companies. With a proposed tweak to the nation's TV rules, that means companies offering live television over the Internet — such as the now-shuttered Aereo — would be given the same privileges (and requirements) that apply to companies such as Comcast or Time Warner Cable.Read full article >> |
| Where are the new Christmas classics? It’s increasingly hard to write a seasonal song that becomes a standard. |
| This time of year, Run-D.M.C.’s Darryl McDaniels doesn’t like to leave the house. “I’m scared to go to the mall, because every five steps somebody’s screaming, ‘It’s Christmastime in Hollis, Queens!’ Kids, grandmothers, it’s crazy,” McDaniels says. “I can’t be going shopping till after Christmas.” Read full article >> |
| Watch: George Clooney makes an appearance on ‘Downton Abbey’ |
| Move over, Amal. George Clooney just kissed the hand of Maggie Smith. She fainted, of course.That’s the best part of this holiday “Downton Abbey” sketch, a commercial for a charity telethon called “Text Santa.” With nearly all the cast in tow, “Downton” makes fun of itself, setting up a bit in which Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) has a Christmas-Carol-esque dream in which an angel shows him what his estate would be like if he did not exist.Read full article >> |
| ‘Rocket Man’ is a married man: Elton John weds longtime partner, David Furnish |
Can you feel the love (this afternoon)?British rock star Sir Elton John legally and ceremonially wed his longtime partner, David Furnish, Sunday.The event, which was relatively low-key for a celebrity wedding, has been fully documented on social media. Furnish and John posted a photo from the signing of their marriage certificate on Instagram (John’s Instagram account seems to have been made specifically for this purpose — wedding photos are the only ones in his feed) as well as several images of the ceremony at their home in the British town of Old Windsor, west of London.Read full article >>
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