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| Tom Brady on DeflateGate: ‘I didn’t alter the balls in any way’ |
| New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he was “as surprised as anybody,” including Coach Bill Belichick, to learn of DeflateGate, the controversy over whether the team used underinflated footballs to advance to Super Bowl XLIX, on Monday morning and told a packed media room that “I didn’t alter the ball in any way.” Read full article » |
| House Republicans pass watered-down antiabortion bill |
| House Republicans passed a watered-down antiabortion bill Thursday after withdrawing a more restrictive measure that some female GOP lawmakers argued would hurt the party’s efforts to broaden its appeal to women and younger voters. Read full article » |
| The ECB takes out the bazooka: It’ll buy over 1 trillion euros of bonds to save Europe’s economy |
| The European Central Bank announced it will begin buying government bonds with newly printed euros in its latest bid to reverse the continent's long, slow slide into economic stagnation.Specifically, the ECB will buy €60 billion, or $69 billion, of assets a month—including government, institutional and private sector bonds—and will do so until at least September 2016, or until there's a "sustained adjustment in the path of inflation" toward their close-to-but-below 2 percent goal. To give you an idea how far away that is, prices are actually falling in Europe—a seriously worrisome sign—with euro-zone inflation currently at -0.2 percent. It's no wonder that Europe's economy still has 11.5 percent unemployment and is growing so slowly that it's not clear whether it's even gotten out of its last recession. Hence, the ECB's €1.1 trillion, at the very least, promise. Read full article » |
| The next energy revolution won’t be in wind or solar. It will be in our brains. |
| This is the first in a three-part series titled “Your Brain on Energy” for our new Energy and Environment coverage.In the arid lands of the Mojave Desert, Marine regimental commander Jim Caley traveled alongside a 24-mile stretch of road and saw trucks, tanks and armored tracked vehicles all idling in the heat — and wasting enormous amounts of expensive fuel. Read full article » |
| Now we know how many drivers Uber has — and have a better idea of what they’re making |
| Uber drivers in many of the company's major markets are making about $6 an hour more than their traditional — and professional — taxi-driver counterparts, according to a rare analysis of internal data the company released Thursday along with Princeton economist Alan Krueger. In Washington, the difference is about $4.60, in San Francisco it's about $10 and in New York it's closer to $15. Read full article » |
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| Relatives identify family members believed dead in Annapolis mansion fire |
| The relatives of the family believed to have perished in a mansion fire in Annapolis released a statement identifying the victims that rescue crews have been searching for amid the charred ruins.The statement confirmed that fire officials have been searching for Don and Sandra Pyle along with their grandchildren: Alexis (Lexi) Boone, 8; Kaitlyn (Katie) Boone, 7; Charlotte Boone, 8; and Wesley (Wes) Boone, 6. Lexi and Katie are the children of Randy and Stacey Boone. Charlotte and Wes are the children of Clint Boone, 37, and his ex-wife, Eve Morrison, 39. Read full article » |
| The trial of Eddie Routh, the man who killed Chris Kyle, will be ‘American Sniper’s’ darkest chapter |
| Eddie Ray Routh barely knew Chris Kyle when he shot and killed the famed Navy SEAL sniper on a remote Texas shooting range on Feb. 2, 2013.Routh, who admitted to police that he killed Kyle and the marksman’s friend Chad Littlefield, will have his day in court early next month. By then, news of Kyle’s life, his “unverifiable” legacy and his tragic death will have already ricocheted around the world, thanks to the box office hit “American Sniper.” Read full article » |
| Iraqi Sniper: The legendary insurgent who claimed to have killed scores of American troops |
| In "American Sniper," the wildly successful yet controversial film that tells the story of Chris Kyle, said to be the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, the titular marksman has a clear foe: A mysterious insurgent dubbed "Mustafa," believed to be a former Syrian Olympian. Read full article » |
| A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? |
| On Dec. 10, 2013, an American expat in Japan e-mailed a handful of writers, many of them Washington Post reporters, a suicide note.Under the subject line “Saving a Legacy,” the 66-year-old English teacher and unknown writer named Dennis Williams composed a chilling piece of fan mail. Read full article » |
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