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| Is this North Korea? Chinese netizens squirm as party tightens grip on Internet. |
| BEIJING — Google has been steadily strangled, and Gmail finally blocked more effectively than ever. Instagram and Flickr recently went black, while Microsoft Outlook was hacked. In the past few days, virtual private network (VPN) services, the tools that many people use here to evade online censorship, came under renewed attack. Read full article » |
| Here's what a Hamas training camp for teens looks like |
| Judging by the orderly rows of hundreds of young wannabes lined up in crisp military fashion at their graduation ceremony here Thursday, the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas will have plenty of eager recruits this year. Read full article » |
| Obama budget proposal would boost spending beyond ‘sequestration’ caps |
| President Obama will present a federal budget proposal on Monday that would exceed restrictive spending caps mandated by Congress four years ago and propose new capital gains and bank taxes, an effort that is likely to get bogged down in congressional opposition to taxes and big budget deficits. Read full article » |
| Greece’s leftist government sparks fears of a Russian beachhead in Europe |
| LONDON — Just days after shaking European economic policy to its core with a sweeping win in Greek elections, the radical leftist party Syriza is challenging a fundamental tenet of the continent’s foreign policy by seeking a softer stance on Russia. Read full article » |
| Taliban claims responsibility for attack on Americans at military base near airport |
| KABUL — The Taliban claimed responsibility Friday for a shooting incident at a military base attached to Kabul’s international airport yesterday that killed three American civilian contractors and an Afghan national, saying the attacker had infiltrated the ranks of the security forces. Read full article » |
| Senate passes Keystone XL pipeline bill despite Obama promise to veto |
| The Senate approved legislation Thursday mandating construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, setting the stage for a veto showdown with President Obama.In a 62-to-36 vote, 53 Republicans and nine Democrats approved a bill seeking to force completion of the 840-mile pipeline, a measure Obama has vowed to veto while federal environmental reviews continue. Read full article » |
| Kerry hit with $50 fine for not shoveling his sidewalk in Boston |
| So you’re a big shot in Washington, flying about the globe, trying to deal with the explosive Middle East, attending Saudi King Abdullah’s funeral with President Obama?Yeah, well, not worth a hill of beans in Boston, it seems. Read full article » |
| Teacher: I see the difference in educational privilege every day. I live it. I am disgusted by it. |
| Here is a post by a Colorado teacher who vividly explains the difference in the lives of fortunate students and the less fortunate students whom she teaches. Her last post on this blog was a nuanced look into the psyche of some students of color who live in poverty, which you can read here. This public school teacher often blogs anonymously under the name Shakespeare’s Sister at Daily Kos. She teaches 11th grade AP Language and Composition in the Denver area. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| New signals of Rubio weighing a 2016 bid as senator makes California fundraising stop |
| Sen. Marco Rubio this week may be sending the clearest signals yet that he intends to run for president rather than seek reelection to a second term in 2016. In a week when the Senate was consumed with a bill to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, Rubio (R-Fla.) was in California raising money for his political action committee and reelection campaign. He was the only Republican senator who did not vote on final passage of the Keystone bill Thursday. Read full article » |
| Americans’ increasing distrust of science — and not just on climate change |
| Eight in 10 Americans believe science has made life better for most people, but they still don't trust scientists -- and/or aren't aware of their consensus -- on many of the most important science-related issues of the day. Read full article » |
| Report criticizes DEA’s poor monitoring for racial bias in ‘cold consent’ stops |
| Federal drug agents who questioned a black Pentagon attorney for suspicion of drug trafficking as she prepared to board a plane for government business triggered a critical watchdog review of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s “cold consent encounters” program. Read full article » |
| The Obama administration’s illusionary job gains from the Trans-Pacific Partnership |
| “Estimates are that the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] could provide $77 billion a year in real income and support 650,000 new jobs in the U.S. alone.”—Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in an opinion article titled “Alliances for Peace,” Jan. 14, 2015 Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| An invasion of artificial outrage |
| The invasion, evidently, has begun.“What’s not acceptable,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) explained recently, “is people that want to come and conquer us.” Yes, the conquest of the United States: pretty unacceptable. “That’s not immigration, by the way,” he continued, “that’s colonization.” Ditto on being colonized, as the British learned to their chagrin. “If they want to come here and they want to set up their own culture and values, that’s not immigration, that’s really invasion — if you’re honest about it.” Read full article » |
| Do we really mean ‘never again’? |
| Amid the ritual expressions of regret and the pledges of “never again” on Tuesday’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a bitter irony was noted: Anti-Semitism has returned to Europe. With a vengeance. Read full article » |
| Will Washington allow the pursuit of positive foreign policy? |
| NEW DELHIPresident Obama’s trip to India was strategically important, symbolically resonant and deftly executed. But it coincided with a snowstorm in some Northeastern states, so it struggled to get airtime and ink in the United States. In India, on the other hand, newspapers devoted pages to the visit every day, and television coverage was wall-to-wall. It even got the attention of the Chinese government, which denounced the new friendship. Read full article » |
| Five reasons Netanyahu should not address Congress |
| Here are five reasons Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should politely decline House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to address a joint session of Congress:● It’s inappropriate. It doesn’t matter what good allies the United States and Israel are, and it doesn’t matter how bad relations may be between Netanyahu and President Obama. Allies don’t go big-footing around in each other’s politics. It also doesn’t matter how worthy the cause. In 1793, when Citizen Genêt traveled through the United States, drumming up support for revolutionary France (and overtly violating President George Washington’s policy of U.S. neutrality), he no doubt thought it was a worthy cause — and so did the many Americans, including numerous Jeffersonian Republicans and Washington opponents, who welcomed him with open arms. But it was an unacceptable intrusion into the U.S. political system. Thomas Jefferson himself, then secretary of state, took Washington’s side. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Boy, 6, critically injured after sledding into passing car in McLean |
| A 6-year-old boy was listed in critical condition Wednesday after he was struck by a passing car while sledding on a steep driveway in McLean.Fairfax County police said the incident occurred about 5:40 p.m. The boy was part of a small group of children who were under adult supervision and were snowboarding and sledding at a property in the 7000 block of Matthew Mills Road. Read full article » |
| Delays on Metro’s Blue Line |
| Riders: Prepare for some residual delays Friday morning on Metro’s Blue Line.Metro said trains are delayed to Largo Town Center station because of an earlier train malfunction at Franconia-Springfield station. Read full article » |
| Super Bowl is small fries compared to this: World cycling race is coming to Richmond |
| The world champion is a guy you’ve never heard of, he won with a gutsy gamble in a place you couldn’t find on the globe, and his name is impossible for Americans to pronounce: Kwiatkowski.As we sit today in the glow of the Super Bowl and on the precipice of March Madness, it’s hard to conjure up another championship in the United States that might attract more eyeballs worldwide. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Nasty wind chills today and tonight; Super Bowl Sunday snow concerns remain |
| A slight chance of snow flurries early, but the story of the day is the wind. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Chad Grimm, son of founding Hog Russ Grimm, joins Washington’s coaching staff |
| Washington’s new defensive coordinator Joe Barry is bringing San Diego’s former defensive quality control coach and, along with him, a storied name in Redskins history to his coaching staff.Chad Grimm, son of former offensive lineman Russ Grimm, a founding member of Washington’s vaunted “Hogs,” was announced Thursday as the latest to join Barry’s defensive staff. Read full article » |
| Jeff Gordon may be retiring, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still having ‘fun’ |
| One week ago, the world of NASCAR suffered a blow when Jeff Gordon announced that this year would be his last as a full-time driver. On Thursday, the circuit got just about the best news possible: Dale Earnhardt Jr. isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: January 30 |
| NBA8 p.m. Dallas at Miami » ESPN10:30 p.m. Chicago at Phoenix » ESPN, NBA TVNHL10 p.m. Buffalo at Vancouver » NHL Network Read full article » |
| Maryland-Ohio State postgame: Terps not ‘tough enough’ in blowout loss |
| COLUMBUS, Ohio — Maryland’s players quietly filed out of the visiting locker room at Value City Arena Thursday night, walking one by one back to the team bus after being blown out 80-56 by Ohio State. There had been no trace of dejection like this all season. After losing at Illinois three weeks ago, the Terps could chalk it up to a lack of defensive energy. Even after a 19-point loss at Indiana last week, Maryland could at least be comforted by the fact that the Hoosiers had an exceptional shooting game, blowing Turgeon’s team out of the gym with 15 three-pointers. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Strong conservative chairman says he is open to federal employee perspectives |
| Mark Meadows is a difficult man to predict.As the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on government operations, the North Carolina Republican is in a key position to affect federal workplace and employee issues. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| India has outlawed homosexuality. But it’s better to be transgender there than in the U.S. |
| The gay rights movement in the United States has experienced historic successes in recent years. Gay couples can marry legally in 36 states, and growing social acceptance is evident in the rising numbers of openly gay athletes, politicians, and billionaires. And yet, progress in the associated transgender movement has lagged far behind. Transgender women — those born biologically male, but who have female gender identity — are far more likely than other LGBT people to be the targets of harassment and violence, and the protections afforded to gay Americans are sometimes challenged when applied to transgender people. Read full article » |
| The Daily Dish, remembered |
| I’m writing this en route to Antarctica in a country where it is perfectly respectable — nay, expected — to consume succulent red meat for three meals out of the day. Furthermore, for two of those meals, red wine is encouraged as well. This is a polite way of saying that I’m in a gastronomical paradise, which means it would take a hell of a lot to drag me out of my beatific headspace to comment on goings-on back in the United States. Read full article » |
| The conspiracy theorists are right. Research shows nations really do go to war over oil. |
| The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda in 1994. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Anger attends wake and funeral for Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman |
| BUENOS AIRES — There were candles, roses and black banners that read “We are all Nisman,” but the crowd that assembled for the prosecutor’s wake, on the night before he was to be buried, was too angry to be solemn. Read full article » |
| Why some Indians want to build a statue of Mahatma Gandhi’s killer |
| For several weeks now, a small Hindu fringe group in India has been attracting attention around the world because of its plans to erect a bust in honor of Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi in 1948. Read full article » |
| Netanyahu’s Congress speech stirs growing backlash in Israel and the U.S. |
| House Speaker John A. Boehner's decision last week to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress in March, just ahead of an election in Israel, appears to be backfiring.Netanyahu is expected to speak his mind about the threat posed by Iran, a move aimed both at giving momentum to congressional efforts to expand sanctions on the regime in Tehran as well as burnishing the Israeli premier's "Churchillian" chops back home ahead of elections he risks losing. Read full article » |
| CIA promotes top paramilitary officer to lead spying branch |
| The CIA’s top paramilitary officer was named head of the agency’s spying branch on Thursday, a move that may signal a broader organizational shake-up by Director John Brennan in the coming months.The new head of the National Clandestine Service, as the spying directorate is known, served on an internal panel set up by Brennan last year to evaluate sweeping changes he has proposed that would blur, if not eliminate, long-standing boundaries between analysts and operatives. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Hershey’s plan to hook Americans onto impulse-buying chocolate again |
| Online shopping, curbside pickup and self-checkout aisles have made it quicker and easier than ever for Americans to buy the things they need. That’s a huge problem for the candy and chocolate industries, which have made billions over the years off waits at the register — and customers’ last-minute impulse buys. Read full article » |
| 100 years of stock market gains and losses, visualized |
| This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site.Are there good and bad days to play the stock market? Unfortunately no one can predict this for the future, but we can analyze what happened in the past. Read full article » |
| Danny Meyer’s strategy for growing Shake Shack |
| It took Danny Meyer, founder of the soon-to-be-public company Shake Shack, nearly 10 years after opening his first restaurant, in 1985, to open his second one. And after he launched the first permanent Shake Shack location in New York's Madison Square Park in 2004, it was almost five more years before he opened another. He told the New York Sun back in 2008: "I am not generally the greatest engine of growth in our company, because I really believe in honing and refining and working at something." Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The FCC has set a new, faster definition for broadband |
| Federal regulators have set a new definition for broadband that establishes 25 megabits per second as the baseline for high-speed downloads, up from 4 Mbps previously.With this standard, the Federal Communications Commission will be able to argue for much stronger action on Internet providers — a point that's rankling Republicans on the commission as the agency moves to promote the adoption of fast, cheap and reliable Internet in America. Read full article » |
| Happy Data Privacy Day. Legally speaking, you’re mostly on your own. |
| Today is Data Privacy Day -- an actually recognized pseudo-holiday that the U.S. Congress first made official in 2009, two years after the European Council did the same.It's nice to have a day on which we all personally recognize the importance of data privacy. Because, legally speaking, we're more or less on our own. Apart from specific kinds of data such as health information, financial information, and student records, there really isn't a broad privacy law here in the U.S. of A. Read full article » |
| The Alibaba spin-off means Marissa Mayer will lose her safety net |
| Yahoo plans to spin off the company's nearly $40 billion stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding into a separate company, avoiding a big tax burden and distributing shares of the new company to stockholders. The announcement pleased investors, sending the company's stock price up on Wednesday. Read full article » |
| The Switchboard: FCC tells hotels they can’t block WiFi |
| Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of handpicked stories from the Switch team.FTC: The Internet of things is already here — and it needs to be secured. The Federal Trade Commission is taking a closer look at the Internet of Things, the Switch reports. "In a report out Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission says that while there's not need yet for Congress to write legislation regarding the Internet of Things, lawmakers do need to swiftly pass rules laying out when companies must admit they’ve been hacked." Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Kennedy Center’s ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status |
| If you think you remember “Gigi” well, a newly buffed revival wants you to have some freshened perspective on the Oscar-winning 1958 film musical, later turned into a stage version by its creators, the “My Fair Lady” team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Read full article » |
| Lonnae O’Neal: The other talk — the one for daughters |
| Renewed attention to rape and sexual misconduct allegations against comedian Bill Cosby has exposed a hidden contour of many women’s lives. And reminded me, once again, of the need for “the talk” with my daughters. Read full article » |
| Why it’s so hard to let go of stuff (and tips for how to do it) |
| You’re decluttering or downsizing and can’t bring yourself to part with a box of childhood items or clothing. What gives? In our latest Home Front chat, Laura Cambridge, a professional organizer and owner of Dynamic Organizing, offered an explanation for why we have a hard time letting things go: Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Judging her boyfriend’s gift too harshly could hurt both people |
| Hi, Carolyn:I have been dating a man for about six months now. We exchanged gifts for Christmas and I do not know what to make of what I received. He gave me earrings he clearly bought on a trip he took a good six months before he met me. We did not open gifts in front of each other and I have not said anything other than thank you. I am torn on how to proceed — I was raised to be grateful for any gift given and feel like expressing disappointment will make me look ungrateful. At the same time, I don’t really want to walk around wearing something that was probably bought with another woman in mind. Read full article » |
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