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| Mitt Romney bows out of GOP presidential race over potential for political injury |
| Mitt Romney’s exploration of a third presidential campaign ended Friday after three tumultuous weeks of deliberations that led him to conclude that, while he might emerge with the Republican nomination again in 2016, he might be so badly wounded in the process that he would have trouble defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton in a general election. Read full article » |
| Going to a public college isn’t as affordable as it used to be |
| Michael Bayne has done everything you’re supposed to do to avoid taking on too much debt for college. He lives off-campus to save money on housing. He’s always working at least one job — sometimes two. And he enrolled at an in-state public school, Arizona State University. Read full article » |
| For alleged Russian hacker, a visit to Amsterdam is a costly trip |
| At noon on June 28, 2012, Vladimir Drinkman, targeted as one of America’s most wanted cybercriminals, and his wife hustled into a cab pulling away from their Amsterdam hotel. They had just been tipped off that the police were on to them, but an unmarked police car blocked their getaway. The Russian was handcuffed and arrested on charges of helping to mastermind what has been called the largest criminal hacking scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. Read full article » |
| A GOP governor means new challenges for longtime Md. Senate President Mike Miller |
| The lawmaker at the microphone asked if there were any more nominees to lead Maryland’s Senate, but he already knew the time-honored answer: No one dared challenge the incumbent, the hulking, white-haired man who now rose from his seat to claim his title, as he has every year for more than a quarter of a century. Read full article » |
| John B. Geer had hands up when shot by Fairfax County police, documents show |
| John B. Geer stood with his hands on top of the storm door of his Springfield townhouse and calmly said to four Fairfax County police officers with guns pointed right at him: “I don’t want anybody to get shot . . . And I don’t wanna get shot, ’cause I don’t want to die today.” Read full article » |
| How militias doomed an Iraqi’s attempt to replicate Paris’s ‘love locks’ bridge |
| BASRA, Iraq — When Ayman Karim fell in love last summer, he wanted others to experience his joy. Iraq was reeling from an escalating war with Islamist extremists, and men from his home city of Basra were dying by the dozens. Read full article » |
| Does public radio sound too ‘white’? NPR itself tries to find the answer. |
| It’s a question sometimes whispered but never boldly confronted: Does NPR, and public radio in general, sound too “white”?NPR itself suggested Thursday that the answer might be yes in an unusual bit of public self-examination. In a commentary aired on “All Things Considered,” its signature newscast, and in a subsequent Twitter chat that quickly trended nationally, the public radio network lit the fuse on an explosive discussion about how a broadcast should sound. Read full article » |
| How sorority culture contributes to the campus rape problem |
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| TVs tip over on toddlers with surprising frequency, causing injuries and deaths |
| It's not your imagination — Americans buy nearly three times as many televisions before the Super Bowl as they do before any other sporting event (the World Series is second, the NBA Finals third), according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Clinton backers dismiss impact of Romney exit: Bush will still get bruised, they say |
| Mitt Romney's exit Friday after a brief flirtation with another presidential run dealt a light blow to Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton -- who, said supporters, had stood to benefit from an internecine Republican duel between Romney and Jeb Bush for establishment money, backers and campaign staff. Read full article » |
| D.C.’s $204 million surplus a fiscal puzzler for Bowser |
| The District recorded a $204 million surplus for the past fiscal year, officials reported Friday, bringing the city’s cash reserves to record levels but also presenting new Mayor Muriel E. Bowser with a pressing question: Spend it, or save it? Read full article » |
| Va. Democratic Party sued over way candidate was named to face Morrissey |
| RICHMOND — Three African American residents of Virginia filed suit Friday contending that their constitutional rights were violated by the process recently used to pick a Democratic challenger to convicted Del. Joseph D. Morrissey (D-Henrico). Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged |
| Bernie Sanders is in his natural state – of agitation.It’s just 9 a.m., but the socialist senator, contemplating a presidential run as a Democrat or as a populist independent, is red in the face and his white hair askew. In a conference room at The Washington Post, he’s raising his voice, thumping his index finger on the table and gesturing so wildly that his hand comes within inches of political reporter Karen Tumulty’s face. Read full article » |
| Guns, sex and arrogance: I hated everything about America — until I moved here |
| As a college student, I hated almost everything about America. Growing up in India, I never viewed the United States as the promised land of freedom and wealth idealized in movies. I never fantasized about a utopia of gold-paved streets. Instead, I saw America as a land of rudeness, overabundance and arrogance — the last place I ever wanted to be. Don’t get me wrong. Like many young people in India, I enjoyed Hollywood films, American pop music and TV shows. The humor in “Diff’rent Strokes” and “I Love Lucy” was totally endearing. Read full article » |
| Letting the air out of America’s season of wretched excess |
| Beer, Benjamin Franklin supposedly said but almost certainly didn’t, is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Without cannonballing into deep theological waters, perhaps DeflateGate proves the same thing. Read full article » |
| Dartmouth’s new college try |
| Dartmouth is giving drinking a new college try. That is, the drinking problem on its campus — and, by the way, on almost every college campus across the country. The logical thinking of Dartmouth’s mathematician president, Philip J. Hanlon, is that drinking — specifically, drinking to health- and safety-threatening excess — is not going to disappear. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Sons of Metro victim Carol Glover sue WMATA for $50 million |
| The sons of Carol I. Glover, the Alexandria woman who died this month after being trapped on a smoke-filled Metro train, filed a $50 million lawsuit against the transit agency Friday, saying they hope that no other passenger will have to suffer the same fate as their mother. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Mostly sunny and cold today, wintry mix approaches by Sunday afternoon |
| Sunshine won’t do much to counter the chill. Today’s high: 33 degrees. Read full article » |
| Man found guilty in abduction and rape of ex-fiance who killed herself |
| The Fairfax County woman’s testimony at her ex-fiance’s trial this week was harrowing, laying out how he held her hostage in her own apartment, raped her twice and then bound her arms and legs with packing tape. The graphic account led a jury on Friday to find Charles Albert Massey III guilty of abduction and rape and sentence him to 67 years in prison. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Super Bowl 2015 Cheat Sheet: Info, picks, analysis, betting tips, commercial previews and more |
| Too busy on Super Bowl Sunday to scan the Internet for flashy headlines? While you’re serving the guests at your Super Bowl party, we’re serving up the hottest and choicest pieces of Super Bowl content The Washington Post has to offer — all in one place. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: January 31 |
| NBA7 p.m. Toronto at Washington » Comcast SportsNet, WNEW (99.1 FM), WFED (1500AM)9 p.m. Los Angeles Clippers at San Antonio » ESPNNHL1 p.m. Washington at Montreal » Comcast SportsNet, NHL Network, WJFK (106.7FM), WFED (1500 AM) Read full article » |
| Girls’ basketball: Champe beats Loudoun Valley to take the lead in Conference 28 |
| Champe has long been searching for a marquee win since the school opened its doors three years ago. Getting a victory over Loudoun Valley would certainly fit the bill, given that first place in Conference 28 was on the line during Friday night’s matchup in Aldie. Read full article » |
| WCAC girls’ basketball: Banged-up St. John’s guts out OT win at St. Mary’s Ryken |
| St. John’s girls’ basketball Coach Jonathan Scribner saw junior Sarah Overcash grab her leg in pregame warm-ups and figured it would add to the growing list of maladies that completely altered the trajectory of the Cadets’ season. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Is Rep. Mark Meadows, new chair of government-ops panel, open to federal workers? |
| 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 » |
| CRS Report of the Week: The Affordable Care Act and Small Business: Economic Issues |
| It’s Friday morning which means it’s time for the Loop’s weekly CRS report brought to you from us because Congress won’t.This week we feature CRS’s analysis of Obamacare’s impact on small business — a flash point in the partisan fight over the law. 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.” Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| We’re all agoraphobics now |
| Agoraphobia, from the Greek agora for marketplace, today afflicts 3.2 million adult Americans, a number no doubt underestimated because agoraphobics are notoriously hard to count. Originally conceived as the fear of wide-open spaces, the condition once conjured Munch’s (an agoraphobic himself) “The Scream”: a weakened individual cowering in the frenetic modern city. This definition has since mutated. Today it’s understood as the end game of panic anxiety disorder, the fear of one’s own fear response — being driven mad by the inescapable thunder of a panic attack. Because of this fear, agoraphobics map out safe zones (their homes, usually) and retreat into private worlds, which can become prisons. Read full article » |
| Even in 2015, the public doesn’t trust scientists |
| America risks drifting into a new Age of Ignorance. Even as science makes unparalleled advances in genomics to oceanography, science deniers are on the march — and they’re winning hearts and minds more successfully than the academic experts whose work they deride and undermine. Read full article » |
| Conservatives: Here’s one version of an anti-poverty agenda. Let’s see what you’ve got. |
| Someone recently quipped that people with car elevators shouldn’t complain about inequality, but I disagree. I welcome Mitt and Jeb and Marco (sounds like a cool boy band, no?) to the debate over inequality and poverty in America. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Greece really might leave the euro |
| The world's worst portmanteau is back: Grexit.That's short for "Greek exit," as in Greece leaving the euro. And it's once again a possibility now that the left-wing, anti-austerity party Syriza has won power in the latest elections. The risk, as I've said before, is that the rest of Europe is in good enough shape that Germany finally thinks it can let Greece leave, and Greece's budget is in good enough shape that it finally thinks it can leave too. Neither of them wants that, but neither of them doesn't want it so much that they'd do anything to avoid it—so both might call each other's, as it turns out, non-bluffs if Syriza tries to force Germany to renegotiate Greece's gargantuan debt. Read full article » |
| Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens |
| Starting Monday, thousands of Croatia's poorest citizens will benefit from an unusual gift: They will have their debts wiped out. Named "fresh start," the government scheme aims to help some of the 317,000 Croatians whose bank accounts have been blocked due to their debts. Read full article » |
| Who was Imad Mughniyah, a senior Hezbollah figure killed in joint CIA-Mossad operation? |
| In 2008, Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah's international operations chief, was killed when a bomb planted in an SUV in Damascus was detonated as he walked by. Although Israel's intelligence organization was believed to be behind the attack, The Washington Post has revealed that the bombing, which killed Mughniyah instantly, was a joint CIA-Mossad operation. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Meet the man who bought 30 shares in Shake Shack — before he’d ever tried their burger |
| Jason McDonnell bought 30 shares of Shake Shack Friday morning and sold them 10 minutes later for a $100 profit.Then he headed out the door to try his first-ever Shackburger.“I figured I bought their stock and made some money, I might as well give them some business,” the 26-year-old said. Read full article » |
| UberX slashes prices in the D.C. area during slow winter months |
| UberX announced Friday that it would slash prices by 15 percent in the D.C. area, delivering yet another blow to a cab industry already struggling to compete with fares from UberX — a cheaper offshoot of Uber. 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 » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| How to watch the Super Bowl online for free |
| Live sports can be the bane of the cord cutter's existence. But U.S. viewers will be able to easily (and legally) tune into the Super Bowl online this weekend.(For the non-sport fan readers: Super Bowl XLIX is happening this Sunday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 pm. It will be held in Arizona, where the New England Patriots will face off with the Seattle Seahawks.) Read full article » |
| Positive computing: The tech buzzword you need to know for 2015 |
| We usually think about technology making us smarter, more productive or more social — but not always more compassionate, wiser or happier. The “positive computing” movement, championed by Rafael Calvo and Dorian Peters of the University of Sydney, hopes to change all that. Supporters of positive computing make the case that technology should contribute to well-being and human potential. And that’s a message that’s starting to attract interest in places such as MIT, Stanford and Google. Read full article » |
| The case for not banning drone flights in the Washington area |
| The irony of living in the District of Columbia just keeps getting richer. Residents of the capital of the world’s leading democracy already have no voting representatives in Congress. Now their ability to fly drones — restricted to a level unmatched across the United States — is about to get even more limited. 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 » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Getting all torqued up at the Washington Auto Show |
| Cars make people do incredibly foolish things. They appeal to the gear-operated part of the libido, impairing our vision and reducing the brain to mush. At which point, logic takes off at 80 mph on some empty stretch of sanity’s interstate. Read full article » |
| WaPoFood Weekend Kitchen: Self-cleaning pots and pans, sort of |
| Something will be simmering atop my stove on Super Bowl Sunday, but it won’t be the least bit appetizing, or edible. Ingredients: water and several tablespoons of a powdered food-and-beverage-stain remover for metal, porcelain and glass. Read full article » |
| Everything you need to know about the ‘American Sniper’ culture wars controversy |
| Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” — the Oscar-nominated military film that stars Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle — continues to do big business at the box office and is expected to pass the $250 million mark over Super Bowl weekend, according to industry estimates. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Being the godmother is an offer she could refuse |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion.Hi Carolyn:Can I turn down being the godmother? My sister is 12 years younger than I am and is six months pregnant at age 35. I have one 22-year-old son and, as much as I love being his mother, am looking forward to finally being able to do a lot of the things I put off while he was at home and in college. Read full article » |
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