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| On race, Obama sticks to a game plan of seeking steady progress within the system |
| During racially tense moments that have beset the nation recently, many Americans have longed for President Obama to display some of the passion and soaring rhetoric that made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have turned 86 last week, a civil rights legend. Read full article » |
| Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. |
| The first thing to remember about reporting from North Korea, says Eric Talmadge, is that the answer to almost everything is no.No, you can’t go there. No, you can’t interview that person. No, you can’t have that information. Talmadge, the Associated Press’s bureau chief in Pyongyang and the only Western reporter regularly in the reclusive country, is used to it. North Korea didn’t get to be a totalitarian state with a long trail of human-rights abuses and the worst record of media freedom in the world by being accommodating to reporters, especially the American kind. Read full article » |
| Nationals complete deal with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer |
| The Washington Nationals radically altered the baseball landscape Sunday night, ending a winter of relative inactivity by agreeing to a seven-year contract with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer, according to a person with direct knowledge of the talks. Read full article » |
| Civil rights group closely allied with the NFL calls for the Redskins to change its name |
| After failing for months to persuade Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to meet with Native Americans opposed to the team’s name, a prominent civil rights organization that works closely with the National Football League is calling for the moniker to change. Read full article » |
| Heroic homecoming for Cuban agents brings speculation about future in politics |
| MEXICO CITY — Since their return to Havana last month after 16 years in U.S. federal prison, the remaining three members of the spy ring known as “the Cuban Five” have been a frequent presence on state television. Wherever they go — visiting universities or attending outdoor concerts in their honor — they are celebrated as “Heroes of the Republic.” Read full article » |
| This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died |
| Two years ago, the Smithsonian Institution acquired a conceptual work by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar that reflects on the funeral of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The piece — titled “Life Magazine, April 19, 1968” — is one of Jaar’s lesser-known works, produced when he was culling through the archives of the iconic magazine. Read full article » |
| NFC championship game: Seahawks rally past Packers, 28-22, to advance to Super Bowl XLIX |
| SEATTLE —Russell Wilson stood and watched as his legend grew, raising his arms as the best pass of a bad day landed in wide receiver Jermaine Kearse’s hands.He had predicted it moments earlier in the huddle, Wilson to Kearse for the win, a select kind of nerve by a quarterback who had thrown four interceptions for the first time in his life. Read full article » |
| Crowdfunding propels scientific research |
| In a video presentation on David Eagleman’s Kickstarter fundraising Web page, the 43-year-old neuroscience professor removes his shirt. There’s a legitimate reason: He’s showing off a prototype of a high-tech vest that he thinks will help us expand human perception beyond the limits of our five senses. Read full article » |
| Fox News corrects, apologizes for ‘no-go zone’ remarks |
| Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIf Fox News anchors hadn’t gotten the message before, they will now: The network isn’t going to sanction loose and utterly unsupported chatter about Muslim “no-go zones” in Europe. In its programming last night, Fox News issued two corrections on the matter, one of which acknowledged that “we have made some regrettable errors on air regarding the Muslim population in Europe, particularly with regard to England and France.” That came from Julie Banderas during the Saturday night program “Fox Report.” Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Can Scott Walker’s unflashy style break through in the 2016 presidential race? |
| Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t light up rooms when he enters. He is unassuming in that way, a proud cheesehead who wears a battery-powered electric jacket to keep warm at Packers and Badgers football games. He appears a Midwestern everyman, belied only by his burning ambition to be president. Read full article » |
| The conventional wisdom is wrong on Keystone XL. Here’s how. |
| Poll after poll has shown overwhelming support for building the Keystone XL oil pipeline. So when Congress passes a bill authorizing its construction, people want the White House to sign it immediately, right? Read full article » |
| Five things to watch this week in Annapolis: All eyes on Hogan |
| All eyes in Annapolis will be on the arrival of Larry Hogan this week. Maryland’s new Republican governor is set to be sworn in on Wednesday, ending eight years of one-party rule in the state capital. Read full article » |
| Plunging oil prices force Alaska look for ways to address budget woes |
| JUNEAU, Alaska — After years of being flush with oil money, Alaska now faces drastic budget cuts and having to dip into well-stocked savings to offset unprecedented deficits exacerbated by an unexpected plunge in oil prices. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Falling oil prices hit Venezuela, Iran and Russia hard |
| As oil prices continued to plunge last week, it was instructive to watch the disparate reactions of three governments whose whopping losses are likely to produce some of the biggest international stories of 2015. Read full article » |
| Why wages lag |
| The great wage mystery deepens. In economic recoveries, there usually comes a time when strong job gains lead to strong wage gains. Businesses must pay more to recruit and retain the workers they need. Not this time — or at least not yet. The unemployment rate has dropped from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 5.6 percent at the end of 2014. But hourly wage gains haven’t accelerated. They’ve plodded along at about a 2 percent annual rate, roughly matching inflation. Read full article » |
| What change sounds like |
| When he opened the 114th Congress, House Speaker John Boehner declared that “too many are working harder only to lose ground to stagnant wages and rising costs.”Jeb Bush called the fundraising arm of his presidential exploration “The Right to Rise PAC,” a nice play on words emphasizing his hope for a conservative revival and his promise to put forward ideas that would help “all Americans to rise up” and “to move up the income ladder.” Read full article » |
| Focus on growth for the middle class |
| The most challenging economic issue ahead of us involves a group that will barely be represented at this week’s annual Davos summit: the middle classes of the world’s industrial countries. As the Center for American Progress’s Inclusive Prosperity Commission, which I co-chaired with Ed Balls, the top economic official in Britain’s Labor Party, concludes in a new report, nothing is more important to the success of industrial democracies than sustained increases in wages and living standards for working families. Read full article » |
| Knowledge, religion and vitriol at Duke |
| DURHAM, N.C.Iwear several Duke hats these days, as an alumnus, a director of the alumni association and the uncle of a Duke freshman. I know the school well. But none of my roles prepared me for the tsunami set off last week by evangelist Franklin Graham’s Facebook post calling on the university to reverse its plan to broadcast a Muslim call to prayer this past Friday from the top of Duke Chapel. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| If you were trapped in a smoke-filled Metro train, what would you have done? |
| Put yourself where Alexandria resident Jeffrey Todd found himself last Monday: Your subway train stops in a tunnel, goes dark and fills with smoke.Do you pry open the doors to escape or sit tight, await further instructions and pray for rescue as you see other passengers overcome by the thickening smoke? Read full article » |
| Professional photographers challenge $100 fee to shoot in Fairfax County parks |
| It’s not an easy life for many professional photographers in the Washington region. A recent survey of 346 local portrait photographers found that more than 55 percent of them make less than $30,000 a year. And now, a group of photographers is pushing back against the Fairfax County Park Authority’s demand for $100 every time they shoot in a public park. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: A chilly week with a chance of wet snow Wednesday |
| WEATHER GANG | It looks like a typical January week with afternoon temps around 40 most days. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| At midpoint of NBA season, Wizards ‘have to keep at the task and keep plugging away’ |
| As the commotion dwindled in the winning locker room Saturday night in Brooklyn, Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal verbalized the feeling floating around the confined space at Barclays Center.“Tonight was how we play,” Beal declared, “and how we are and how we should be.” Read full article » |
| Tom Brady’s AFC championship win had Gisele Bundchen extremely fired up |
| If Gisele Bundchen got excited while rooting for hubby Tom Brady’s Patriots during last week’s playoff win over Baltimore, how would she react during Sunday’s Super-Bowl-or-bust contest against the Colts? Let’s just say that the exclamation points — and the emojis — were flying. Read full article » |
| Chris Pratt and Macklemore trolled Ellen DeGeneres after the Seahawks beat the Packers |
| Chris Pratt has only recently become a huge movie star, but the actor, who was raised in Washington state, has always been a huge Seahawks fan (as has his wife, actress Anna Faris). Ellen Degeneres, on the other hand, is a well-known supporter of the Packers. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Obama’s State of the Union policy success rate dropped dramatically after his reelection |
| (This post has been updated.)On Tuesday, President Obama will give Congress his legislative priorities wishlist. The State of the Union is a president’s best opportunity to make those appeals. But the success rate of his annual policy proposals have varied widely in the last 5o years. Read full article » |
| Wounded veterans starting federal jobs would get sick leave under new bill |
| Wounded veterans hired by the federal government would start their jobs with a stockpile of paid sick leave under a new bill introduced in Congress this week.The bipartisan measure would give service-disabled veterans 104 hours of paid sick time after they enter the federal workforce; non-veteran employees begin with none and accrue hours over time. Read full article » |
| How police spent billions seized from Americans |
| Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday effectively ended the Equitable Sharing process in which local and state police seized billions in cash, cars and other property under federal law without evidence that a crime occurred. The Justice Department’s new policy prohibits federal agencies from “adopting” local seizures into the Equitable Sharing program, with a few limited exceptions. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| The French are honoring the satirists of Charlie Hebdo by … prosecuting satirists |
| In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the principal message has been, quite rightly, to defend free expression and to condemn those who would use violence to respond to messages they dislike. Yet at the same time, the French Ministry of Justice has ordered prosecutors to enforce with “utmost vigor” a law that itself imposes violence, albeit of the state-sanctioned variety, on speech whose messages the French majority dislikes. Read full article » |
| Political science news you can use about Cuba |
| As the Post’s Karen DeYoung reported Thursday, last month’s announcement of a thaw in Cuban-American relations is starting to see some implementation:The Obama administration announced new rules easing travel and trade restrictions against Cuba on Thursday, moving quickly to implement steps the president ordered less than a month ago when he said the United States would reestablish diplomatic relations with the island’s communist government…. Read full article » |
| What do the academy and the military have in common? |
| One of the common tropes in the War on College is that the academy is so politically homogeneous and liberal. And that accusation is pretty much accurate. Poll after poll shows that academics are far more liberal than the rest of the country. I don’t need the polls to tell me this. Compared to the rest of the country, I’m a RINO-type moderate. Compared with the rest of the academy, I’m slightly to the right of Attilla the Hun. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Belgium terrorist plotter still on the loose, authorities say |
| BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities are still pursuing the mastermind of a foiled plot to kill police officers, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said Sunday, as hundreds of Belgian soldiers fanned out across the country to protect high-profile targets. Read full article » |
| Plan to expand bombing campaign in Syria stalls amid U.S.-Turkey disagreements |
| A plan to expand the U.S.-led coalition bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, along the Turkish border west of the besieged town of Kobane, has been put on hold because Turkey and the Obama administration have failed to agree on its parameters. Read full article » |
| Failure to stop Paris attack was ‘intelligence failure,’ former defense secretary says |
| Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Sunday for improvements to be made in how terrorists are tracked and information is shared between the United States and its allies, saying that the failure to stop recent attacks in and around Paris was an intelligence failure. Read full article » |
| U.S. kept secret law enforcement database of Americans’ calls overseas until 2013 |
| The U.S. government amassed a secret law enforcement database of Americans’ outbound overseas telephone calls through administrative subpoenas issued to multiple phone companies for more than a decade, according to officials and a government affidavit made public Thursday. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| The salvation of saving: Day 8 of the 21-day financial fast |
| I learned to save from my grandmother, Big Mama. She saved even though she had a low-paying job and was raising my four siblings and me. Big Mama knew that saving was her saving grace. She knew that you have to save for a rainy day because there is always rain. I learned from my grandmother to love saving. I do it not to get more stuff. I do it because it gives me peace. Read full article » |
| Traveling to Europe is about to get a whole lot cheaper |
| If you've been thinking about taking a European vacation, it's almost time to book those tickets. (Well, as long as you weren't planning on going to Switzerland). That's because the euro is falling so fast against the dollar—down to $1.15 per euro, from a high of $1.45 a few years ago—that it shouldn't be long before the two are worth the same amount. Read full article » |
| Work long hours? You’re more likely to drink too much |
| In recent months, science has reminded us that bad bosses can make us sick. It's warned us that sitting too long is hazardous to our health. It's shown us that by giving up sleep to clock in more hours at work, our jobs are literally killing us. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The coming revolution in much cheaper life-saving drugs |
| Randy Hillard was supposed to be dead by now.In 2010, the Michigan State University psychiatry professor was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer and given less than a year to live. He started wondering how he could die in the most comfortable way possible given the circumstances, even briefly researching an assisted suicide organization in Switzerland. Read full article » |
| The time a major financial institution was hacked in under 15 minutes |
| Online attacks against such prominent targets as Sony, Target and Home Depot have brought cybersecurity and digital privacy to the forefront of the national consciousness. But as the technologies we use grow more sophisticated, so will criminals' attempts to defeat them, according to Chris Doggett, North American managing director of Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based international information security firm. In an interview this month in Washington, Doggett said financial fraud and identity theft pose far more danger to Americans than shadowy hacking groups such as Lizard Squad, which has taken partial credit for breaching Sony's systems. He added that no network is ever completely secure — as one major Wall Street client found out when Doggett was working as a private security consultant. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Read full article » |
| The Switchboard: European regulators look into alleged ‘sweetheart’ Amazon and Apple tax deals |
| Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.Join us today for our weekly live chat, Switchback. We'll kick things off at 11 a.m. Eastern. You can submit your questions now, right here. Read full article » |
| 3 reasons why the Internet of Things (still) doesn’t make sense |
| If there was one big buzzword out of this year’s CES, it was the “Internet of Things.” Just about every major tech company seemingly wants to sell products or services as part of the Internet of Things. According to Cisco chief executive John Chambers, the Internet of Things could be a $19 trillion opportunity, with more than 50 billion objects hooked up to the Internet by 2020. The momentum behind the Internet of Things seems to be pretty much unstoppable, right? Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| ‘Downton Abbey’ recap: Mary’s bored already and the police pay a visit |
| “Downton Abbey” began this week with Mary and Lord Gillingham lounging in bed in Mary’s Liverpool hotel room. Gillingham looks pleased with himself. Mary looks … bored.“Have you ordered something for yourself? You can’t have mine,” Mary says to Gillingham when room service delivers breakfast. And that’s pretty much all you need to know about Mary in 10 words. She’s a one-percenter to the core. I’ve got mine. The rest of you are on your own. Read full article » |
| Grateful Dead plan. . . a reunion? A farewell? Whatever: Trey Anastasio will be there. |
| So many questions raised by the news that the four surviving original members of the Grateful Dead will play Chicago’s Soldier Field over July 4th weekend, with Trey Anastasio of Phish standing in for their much-missed leader, Jerry Garcia. Read full article » |
| WaPoFood Weekend Kitchen: Toss 3 in the oven for 1 hour, expand weeknight options |
| No matter how busy you are, you’ve got time to do this: ■ Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.■ Use coarse kosher salt to create 4 small piles on one half of a rimmed baking sheet. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Her boyfriend thinks she’s not growing enough. Time to ditch him. |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn:My boyfriend of 21/2 years recently said our relationship is slowing due to my inability to challenge him. He thinks my job, one that will allow me to move cross-country for him soon, does not offer opportunities for my professional growth, and therefore our growth. Read full article » |
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