Evening Edition: German head of ‘anti-Islamization’ group quits after photo shows him posing like Hitler

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Republicans invite Netanyahu to address Congress as part of spurning of Obama Republicans in Congress moved quickly Wednesday to reject many of President Obama’s proposals from the State of the Union address — and invited the prime minister of Israel to rebut Obama’s Iran policy from the same congressional podium next month.  Read full article »

A flogging in Saudi Arabia is just one sign of a new crackdown on rights activists

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Mohammad al-Qahtani usually talks to his family at 2 a.m., when his prison cell block in Saudi Arabia is quiet and his wife is making dinner for their five kids in their home in exile in Rochester, N.Y.  Read full article »

German head of ‘anti-Islamization’ group quits after photo shows him posing like Hitler

Lutz Bachmann, the German leader of "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West," has resigned after a picture emerged apparently showing Bachmann dressed up and posing like Adolf Hitler.  Read full article »

NFL faced with yet another Patriots cheating scandal, this time heading into Super Bowl

Suddenly, 2015 isn’t looking all that much rosier for Roger Goodell than 2014.A domestic violence scandal that began the season may be mostly behind him, but now he must quickly confront an on-the-field story that involves the season’s end, with America’s biggest game coming on Feb. 1. That’s because one of the teams may have qualified for Super Bowl XLIX by using footballs that were not in compliance with NFL rules. Eleven of the 12 footballs measured by game officials and used by the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game were under-inflated, a fact that was discovered when the Indianapolis Colts intercepted a Tom Brady pass.  Read full article »

Heroin addiction sent me to prison. White privilege got me out and to the Ivy League.

I was a senior at Cornell University when I was arrested for heroin possession. As an addict — a condition that began during a deep depression — I was muddling my way through classes and doing many things I would come to regret, including selling drugs to pay for my own habit. I even began dating a man with big-time drug connections that put me around large amounts of heroin. When police arrested me in 2010, I was carrying six ounces, an amount they valued at $50,000 — enough to put me in prison for up to 10 years. Cornell suspended me indefinitely and banned me from campus. I had descended from a Dean’s List student to a felon.  Read full article »

Virginia lawmaker Joseph D. Morrissey faces new criminal charges

A Virginia lawmaker who was elected to the House of Delegates while serving a jail term now faces felony charges for allegedly entering a forged document into court and lying under oath, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Henrico County.  Read full article »

America’s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies: The rise of fake engine noise

Stomp on the gas in a new Ford Mustang or F-150 and you’ll hear a meaty, throaty rumble — the same style roar that Americans have associated with auto power and performance for decades.It’s a sham. The engine growl in some of America’s best-selling cars and trucks is actually a finely tuned bit of lip-syncing, boosted through special pipes or digitally faked altogether. And it’s driving car enthusiasts insane.  Read full article »