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| Rescuers say Metro didn’t relay severity of situation |
| It took Metro seven minutes to call 911 after a train stopped because of heavy smoke, and even then, officials did not report to emergency responders that passengers were trapped in a tunnel, according to federal safety investigators and reports from city officials and firefighters. Read full article » |
| North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten |
| SEOUL — When Jeon Geum-ju was a girl in Hoeryong, a depressing mining town at the very northern reaches of North Korea, she used to sing at school about the country’s supreme leader.“Kim Jong Il, how hard he works, he works so hard that he sleeps in the car and just eats rice balls,” sang Jeon, now 29, sitting in a restaurant here trying to recall the words that were once ingrained into her. “On his desk there are piles and piles of reports that he has to read and approve. He works so hard for us, the people.” Read full article » |
| Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police |
| Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges.Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs. Read full article » |
| Romney, moving toward 2016 run, outlines vision to eradicate poverty |
| SAN DIEGO — Mitt Romney laid down a marker for a prospective presidential campaign in 2016, telling a Republican audience here Friday night that the party can win the White House with a conservative message that stresses security and safety for the American people, opportunity for all regardless of background and a plan to lift people out of poverty. Read full article » |
| U-Va. rape survivor, author now doubts Rolling Stone account |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE — During her freshman year at the University of Virginia in 1984, Liz Seccuro was gang-raped at a date party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity here.Seccuro wrote a memoir decades later about facing her main attacker and became a prominent advocate for sexual assault awareness and speaker about violence against college women. Read full article » |
| Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty |
| For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. Read full article » |
| It’s official: 2014 was the hottest year |
| Planet Earth set an ominous record last year as global temperatures rose to the highest level since modern measurements began, scientists said Friday in a report that heightened concerns about humanity’s growing toll on the natural systems that sustain life. Read full article » |
| A farewell to Michel du Cille, photographer and artist ‘with a lovely soul’ |
| His friends and colleagues knew Michel du Cille, the many-laureled Washington Post photographer and editor, only as Michel (pronounced “Michael”). But at a memorial celebration Friday afternoon, they learned that the name was shorthand. Du Cille’s full given name was Michelangelo. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| This is what President Obama’s face looked like when he was asked about Mitt Romney running for president again |
| During a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama was asked by ABC's Jon Karl if he had any comment about the news that Mitt Romney was considering a third run for president in 2016. Read full article » |
| After fatal shooting at El Paso hospital, VA police highlight nationwide security lapses in VA’s medical system |
| After last week’s fatal shooting of a psychologist inside an El Paso Veterans Affairs clinic by an Iraq war veteran, the VA’s police force is renewing its long-running calls for more staff, better training and increased resources — from fixing broken radios and cameras to installing metal detectors and developing clear procedures for how to deal with agitated patients. Read full article » |
| Meet the couples who will be part of history in the same-sex marriage battle |
| April DeBoer never intended to be a legal pioneer, much less a public face of perhaps the most significant civil rights challenge to reach the Supreme Court in years. She and her partner just wanted to be able to adopt children as a couple. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| I let my 9-year-old ride the subway alone. I got labeled the ‘world’s worst mom.’ |
| Two Maryland parents stand accused of doing the unthinkable: They trusted their kids, 10 and 6, to walk home from the park. The children got about halfway there when someone saw them and called the cops. Read full article » |
| Fox News to correct guest’s misstatements on Birmingham, ‘no-go zones’ |
| Tomorrow night’s edition of “Justice with Judge Jeanine” will feature an on-air correction of its segment from last Saturday, in which the host, Jeanine Pirro, discussed with terrorism analyst Steve Emerson so-called European “no-go zones” that are off-limits to non-Muslims. “They’re sort of amorphous, they’re not contiguous necessarily, but they’re sort of safe havens,” said Emerson of these mysterious zones. “And they’re places where the governments, like France, Britain, Sweden, Germany — they don’t exercise any sovereignty so you basically have zones where Sharia courts are set up, where Muslim density is very intense, where police don’t go in,” Emerson said in the segment. Read full article » |
| Stop being angry at Western media for ‘ignoring’ Boko Haram |
| “Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks?”“Terrorists killed 2,000 people in Nigeria. So why didn’t the world care?”“Boko Haram may have just murdered 2,000 people — so why aren’t we talking about it?” Read full article » |
| Charles Krauthammer: Obama: Charlie who? |
| On Sunday, at the great Paris rally, the whole world was Charlie. By Tuesday, the veneer of solidarity was exposed as tissue thin. It began dissolving as soon as the real, remaining Charlie Hebdo put out its post-massacre issue featuring a Muhammad cover that, as the New York Times put it, “reignited the debate pitting free speech against religious sensitivities.” Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Maryland’s larger counties lock arms to stanch loss of funding to rural areas |
| Montgomery and Prince George’s officials are trying to make sure their counties are not forgotten by Gov.-elect Larry Hogan.The Anne Arundel County Republican, who will be sworn in Wednesday, has pledged to pay more attention to rural Maryland, which he says was neglected during the administration of outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). Those rural counties also voted for Hogan by overwhelming margins. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Chilly with sun-filled skies today, showers and milder on Sunday |
| Expect lots of sunshine on Saturday before Sunday's stormy skies. Read full article » |
| Test-weary second-grader asks school board: ‘Is that all that matters to grown-ups?’ |
| Saige Price is a 7-year-old second grader at Briarwood Elementary School in Florham Park, New Jersey. She recently appeared before the New Jersey Board of Education to talk about her experience in school — and she gave them a piece of her mind. Read full article » |
| Here’s the faith in the ‘American Sniper’ you won’t see in the film |
| Chris Kyle, often described as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, wrote in his autobiography that he prioritized his life in the following order: God, country, family.But God doesn’t make a central appearance in the film “American Sniper,” which opened nationwide Friday. The film offers a few similarities to “Unbroken,” Angelina Jolie’s recent World War II epic about POW Louis Zamperini. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Nets surprise listless Wizards, 102-80 |
| Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett dined together Thursday night. The conversation centered on basketball, their time as teammates on two teams over eight seasons in Boston and Brooklyn and on their current situations, 250 miles and worlds apart. Pierce is a veteran leader on a Wizards team poised for a deep playoff run; Garnett is toiling for a Nets franchise awash in uncertainty. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: January 17 |
| NBA8 p.m. Washington at Brooklyn » Comcast SportsNet Plus, WNEW (99.1 FM)8 p.m. Golden State at Houston » NBA TVNHL7 p.m. Toronto at St. Louis » NHL Network Read full article » |
| Postgame: Late penalty, turnover spoil Barry Trotz’s homecoming to Nashville |
| NASHVILLE — When the reunion finally ended, once all the hugs had been shared and the tears had been shed and the closure had been found, Capitals Coach Barry Trotz reassured himself that no matter the outcome here at Bridgestone Arena, facing the Nashville Predators would have felt bittersweet. “Now it’s good,” he said. “I can just move on. I wish we would’ve got a point, maybe two, but I’ve been happy.” Read full article » |
| Jamar Wilson’s seven points in 30 seconds lift Northwest; Old Mill’s girls beat Meade |
| Northwest senior guard Jamar Wilson experienced 30 seconds he’ll never forget during the end of the Jaguars’ 69-67 win over Clarksburg at home in Germantown. With his team down by five, Wilson sank two free throws with half of a minute remaining to trim Clarksburg’s lead to three. The Coyotes missed two free throws following a foul and Wilson tied the game with a three-pointer on Northwest’s ensuing possession. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| 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 |
| 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 » |
| Metro’s a mess. All the more reason to ride it. |
| From the first reports of a “mass casualty incident” to the grainy YouTube videos of passengers coughing violently, passing out and praying, the horrific events onboard a smoke-filled Yellow Line Metro train Monday shook the city and the region. Then came news that the incident had claimed a woman’s life. It was enough to make you never want to ride Metro again. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Happily, this video of John Kerry awkwardly hugging the French president repeats forever |
| They'll always have Paris.Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way to a awkward hat trick in France this Friday, where he is visiting with French leaders discussing the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Read full article » |
| Mysterious ‘Islamic State TV channel’ appears online |
| On Friday, a number of jihadist-linked Twitter accounts began tweeting links to khilafalive.info, a Web site which claims to be an "official website for the supporters of the Islamic State Caliphate." A selection of video and radio channels were hosted on the site, some playing Islamic State propaganda videos and others jihadi nasheeds (a type of Islamic vocal music). Users were able to "chat" with fellow viewers. Read full article » |
| The Army approved women going to Ranger School, and reaction is mixed |
| The Army will allow female soldiers to attend its grueling Ranger School for the first time in April, service officials announced Thursday. Preparation for the decision has been underway for months, but the reaction immediately exposed the divide in the military over where women should serve in combat units. And it isn’t always pretty. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| The stark disparities of paid leave: The rich get to heal. The poor get fired. |
| President Obama’s push for paid leave this week highlights a glaring disparity in the American workforce: Time off is often feasible for the relatively well-off -- but low-wage earners, who need each paycheck to stay financially afloat, just don’t have that option. 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 |
| Oprah’s in town for that White House screening of ‘Selma’ |
| Friday’s forecast in Washington: sunny, with a chance of an Oprah sighting.But you might need to breathe rarefied air to catch a glimpse: the TV mogul will be attending that screening of “Selma” (she’s the film’s producer) at the White House on Friday afternoon that we told you about. President Obama invited members of the cast and crew, along with some Washington dignitaries, to chow down on presidential popcorn and watch the civil-rights-era flick. 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 » |
| Carolyn Hax: Proposal may dishearten friend over her foot-dragging boyfriend |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn:My boyfriend and I are getting ready to take a trip with two other couples we know, one newlywed couple and one couple that’s been dating for five years. My best friend “C” is the female half of the dating couple. She has been wanting to get married for years now and is very frustrated that her boyfriend is dragging his feet. Literally all C and I talk about lately is her frustration about this. Read full article » |
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