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| NASA’s useless $349 million tower |
| In June, NASA finished worked on a laboratory tower that was immediately shut down. No wonder. The rocket program it was designed for had been canceled in 2010. Now NASA will spend $700,000 a year to maintain it in disuse. |
| Obama seeks Latino support in immigration battle with GOP |
| The president faces pressure from frustrated activists to do even more to protect illegal immigrants. |
| Millennials just aren’t that into working for the government |
| Only 7 percent of federal workers are under the age of 30 — the lowest figure in nearly a decade. |
| Where Hitler envisioned a Nazi paradise, a German vacationland rises |
| Not everyone supports turning a complex built by the Third Reich into luxury condos, a hotel and spa. |
| Odds are stacked against low-income Americans seeking a college degree |
| PART 3 | When you live on the margins, even a small disruption can knock you out of school. |
| Colleges, including U-Va., rarely expel attackers after sex assaults |
| Instead, federal data suggest that students receive minor penalties and can finish their studies. |
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| POLITICS |
| Cheney’s claim that the U.S. did not prosecute Japanese soldiers for waterboarding |
| Chuck Todd:“When you say waterboarding is not torture then why did we prosecute Japanese soldiers?”Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney:“Not for waterboarding. They did an awful lot of other stuff. To draw some kind of moral equivalent between waterboarding judged by our Justice Department not to be torture and what the Japanese did with the Bataan Death March, with slaughter of thousands of Americans, with the rape of Nanking and all of the other crimes they committed, that’s an outrage. It’s a really cheap shot, Chuck, to even try to draw a parallel between the Japanese who were prosecuted for war crimes after World War II and what we did with waterboarding three individuals—all of whom are guilty and participated in the 9/11 attacks.”Read full article >> |
| On a cold day in Christie’s home state, Obama recalls the pair’s warmer moments |
| JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — Theirs has been a relationship filled with ups and downs, from tossing footballs and inspecting sand castles together on a Jersey Shore boardwalk to flinging verbal barbs and criticizing each others leadership and decision-making.Read full article >> |
| Surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy, opposed by gun lobby, confirmed |
| President Obama's pick to serve as the next surgeon general was confirmed Monday evening more than a year and half after being nominated, the first of nearly a half dozen of the president's picks set for confirmation this week as Democrats prepare to cede control of the U.S. Senate.Read full article >> |
| OPINIONS |
| The new climate denialism: More carbon dioxide is a good thing |
| For years, the fossil-fuel industries have been telling us that global warming is a hoax based on junk science.But now these industries are floating an intriguing new argument: They’re admitting that human use of coal, oil and gas is causing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to rise — but they’re saying this is a good thing. We need more CO2 in our lives, not less. Read full article >> |
| John Kerry and Susan Rice: South Sudan’s leaders need to set aside their dispute |
| In 2011, the world’s newest nation was born amid joyous celebrations. The international community welcomed South Sudan not just with cheers but also with promises of help. The hope and promise of that day are now at grave risk of being squandered if the nation’s leaders don’t at long last provide leadership. Read full article >> |
| Catherine Rampell: As Congress cripples the IRS, tax rates are likely to rise |
| Get ready for your tax rates to go up.Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sometime soon.Not because politicians, or their constituents, are clamoring for higher tax bills; because Congress is effectively forcing itself to raise rates soon as a direct result of two distinctly foolhardy policies: aggressively defunding the nation’s main revenue collection agency, and continuing to complicate and Swiss-cheese-ify the tax code.Read full article >> |
| LOCAL |
| Part of three Metro lines closed by water main break; “tens of thousands” commuters impacted |
| Updated at 7:01 a.m.Metro said tens of thousands of riders are going to face “a serious disruption” Tuesday in their morning commute because of a water main break in downtown D.C. that has forced the transit system to suspend service on part of its busiest lines.Read full article >> |
| D.C. area forecast: Showers invade today and then retreat, as we warily watch weekend |
| Showers are likely today and temperatures could reach into the 50s. |
| In 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Albert Darago, then 19, took on a German tank by himself |
| Albert Darago had never fired a bazooka before. He was an “ack-ack” guy, a fuse-cutter on a 90mm antiaircraft gun. But on Dec. 19, 1944, the brass was looking for volunteers to go after some German tanks. And Darago said sure.Read full article >> |
| SPORTS |
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| When Flip Saunders returns to the District, he’ll encounter some unfamilar Wizards |
| When Nick Young approached Kevin Seraphin, his teammate with the Washington Wizards for a season-and-a-half, at Verizon Center a couple of weeks ago, Young could not conceal his shock. It has been less than three years since Washington shipped Young, now with the Los Angeles Lakers, to the Los Angeles Clippers, but Young didn’t recognize these Wizards. Only Seraphin and John Wall remained from his time in the District, a forgettable epoch in Wizards history.Read full article >> |
| Washington Capitals spend more time analyzing video breakdowns of their play |
| Late Tuesday night, whether the Washington Capitals win or lose, defenseman Matt Niskanen will board the team’s chartered plane and whip out his laptop. The ninth-year veteran will scroll through his shifts against the Florida Panthers, pre-loaded from a flash drive by the team’s video coordinator, to begin another round of self-evaluation. Up and down the aisles, similar scenes will unfold, faces glowing from computers and tablets, with greater frequency than many Capitals could ever remember.Read full article >> |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
| Hill needs a lesson on sexual harassment |
| A report accompanying the massive “cromnibus” spending bill that cleared the Senate on Saturday calls for congressional staffers to have sexual-harassment training.The recommendation doesn’t have the force of law, but lawmakers want the House’s chief administrative officer to develop an online program on the subject and then brief Congress “on strategies for dissemination of new training.”Read full article >> |
| What makes patriots perpetrators of torture? |
| CIA employees “are among the best and brightest our nation has to offer,” CIA Director John Brennan said last week.That’s true.It’s also true that some of them committed torture.Read full article >> |
| Defense spending bill would put mental-health experts on discharge boards |
| Military personnel facing less-than-honorable discharge would have their cases reviewed by at least one mental-health professional under the defense-spending bill that Congress sent to President Obama late last week.Read full article >> |
| WORLD |
| Israel, Palestinians gird for showdown over U.N. resolution on withdrawal |
| Israel and the Palestinians are girding for a showdown at the United Nations this week over a resolution that would recognize a Palestinian state and demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in less than two years.Read full article >> |
| North Korea calls for UN probe into CIA's “brutal medieval” actions |
| TOKYO – North Korea has asked the U.N. security council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval" treatment of terrorism suspects just as the council agreed to consider a resolution calling for Pyongyang to be brought before an international court for its own human rights violations. Read full article >> |
| Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed |
| A funny thing happened on the way to Vladimir Putin running strategic laps around the West. Russia's economy imploded.The latest news is that Russia's central bank raised interest rates from 10.5 to 17 percent at an emergency 1 a.m. meeting in an attempt to stop the ruble, which is down 50 percent on the year against the dollar, from falling any further. It's a desperate move to save Russia's currency that comes at the cost of sacrificing Russia's economy. So even if it "works," things are about to get a lot worse.Read full article >> |
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| BUSINESS |
| PetSmart’s goldmine: Americans are spending more than ever on fancy dog food |
| America’s hyper-profitable obsession with its dogs and cats has reached a new peak. The year’s biggest private-equity buyout, announced Sunday for more than $8 billion, wasn’t for a big-idea Web startup or a profitable mega-firm, but for PetSmart, the strip-mall chain hocking kitty litter and puppy chow.Read full article >> |
| Why big spending on political campaigns makes racial inequality worse |
| Throughout U.S. history, minorities have had an unequal voice in politics — because they were denied the right to vote, or because when they could vote they had to pay poll taxes, or because, in the absence of poll taxes, even subtler obstacles, such as gerrymandering, emerged.Read full article >> |
| Immigration isn’t killing the middle class |
| Editor’s note: This is the first of several guest posts related to our Liftoff & Letdown series about the fate of America’s middle class. To go with those stories, we’ve invited a wide range of researchers to weigh in on what is — and is not — holding back U.S. workers.Read full article >> |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The future of U.S. innovation might rest on this obscure patent lawsuit |
| Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush with cash. Tech companies hate them. Lawmakers hate them. But despite bipartisan efforts, limiting their influence has proven a difficult legislative task.Read full article >> |
| Skype’s new tool will let you translate your video call (almost) in real-time |
| It's not the Universal Translator of our Star Trek-inspired dreams, but it's still pretty impressive.On Monday, Skype showed off a preview of a new tool in the works that provides automated, nearly simultaneous translation between Spanish and English during video calls. Basically, you just have your conversation as normal (well, maybe a little slower than normal) and the program will convert your words between languages automatically. You also get a written transcript of your conversation as you go.Read full article >> |
| From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996 |
| Our goal is not to confuse or alarm you, but we must, as agents of the news media, speak the truth. And so we say, with all due solemnity, that if it were 16 years ago, you would right now be reading this article at Excite.com.Read full article >> |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Camille Cosby breaks her silence, compares allegations against her husband to Rolling Stone’s campus rape story |
| In her first public comments since an avalanche of negative stories about her husband began, Camille Cosby criticized the media for publishing rape allegations against Bill Cosby without “vetting” his accusers — and she compared the news coverage of those allegations to Rolling Stone’s explosive story about campus rape.Read full article >> |
| A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR |
| The pretty blond woman is plucking at the bristles of a hairbrush with gold-manicured fingertips, tapping her nails softly against the wooden handle as she holds it close to a microphone. Bathed in soft lighting, she smiles knowingly into the video camera, as if sharing a secret.Read full article >> |
| Anthony Pirog lets loose at the Fridge |
| The two opening numbers Anthony Pirog played Sunday night at the Fridge were the same ones that begin his recent album, “Palo Colorado Dream” — the title track and “The Great Northern.” They’re lyrical and delicate, with enough sustain for a gamelan troupe or a U2 anthem. On the album, things get wild after that. At this gig, they got wilder.Read full article >> |
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