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| Elizabeth Warren keeps pressure on Hillary Clinton and Democrats ahead of 2016 |
| Sen. Elizabeth Warren has an explanation for the singular nature of her power. “I’ll always be an outsider. That’s how I understand the world,” the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview. “There’s a real benefit to being clear about this. I know why I’m here. I think about this every morning before I open my eyes, and I’m still thinking about it every night when I go to sleep.” Read full article » |
| Koran-burning preacher’s pulpit of defiance and chili cheese dogs |
| BRADENTON, Fla. — As the week began, there was Terry Jones, infamous burner of Korans and the No. 2 target on an al-Qaeda hit list, in plain sight at a Florida mall. Around the world, millions were mourning victims of the massacre in Paris who included another target on the hit list, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, but Jones was at the food court in DeSoto Square running his french fry stand. Read full article » |
| Renewed scrutiny of Metro infrastructure after fatal L’Enfant Plaza incident |
| Six years after a federal investigation of a deadly Red Line crash exposed Metro’s lax safety culture, last Monday’s electrical meltdown that trapped scores of subway riders on a smoke-filled train suggests a troubling reality: Despite an ongoing $5 billion effort to repair and upgrade the rail system, Metro’s recovery from the 2009 disaster is a long way from complete. Read full article » |
| Electrifying photo: Lightning and the gleaming eye of Cyclone Bansi from the International Space Station |
| It belongs in the meteorological image hall of fame: a haunting photo of lightning filling the eye of a storm. Read full article » |
| Why is tiny Belgium Europe’s jihad-recruiting hub? |
| BRUSSELS — The Belgian teenager was determined to join the jihadist fight in Syria — so much so that, after his nation’s authorities rolled up an alleged militant cell Friday, he was speeding up his plans to depart for war. Read full article » |
| Romney strikes new tone as he looks to 2016 |
| SAN DIEGO — Mitt Romney stepped back into the political arena Friday night, reborn as a prospective presidential candidate with a message almost as surprising as his apparent desire to run again for the White House. Read full article » |
| Alaska Airlines and Delta will unveil new economy-class sections this spring |
| The lowly economy-class section is getting an upgrade in 2015. Or a downgrade, depending on your point of view. At least two airlines are unveiling new coach class sections this spring. Alaska Airlines, with its Alaska Beyond service, will add custom leather seats, roomier overhead bins and new in-flight entertainment options. And Delta Air Lines, which is also in the throes of an ambitious cabin overhaul, will introduce a new basic economy-class fare, creating what some are calling a “fifth class” of service. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Here’s why Mitt Romney is going to have a very hard time selling his new ‘poverty’ message |
| On Friday night, Mitt Romney spoke to the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in San Diego -- outlining a new focus on poverty and income inequality that would be at the center of his 2016 presidential campaign. Read full article » |
| Surovell to announce run for state Senate |
| RICHMOND — Del. Scott A. Surovell plans to announce Sunday that he is running for the Virginia state Senate seat held by Sen. Linda T. “Toddy” Puller, a fellow Fairfax County Democrat who said Wednesday that she will retire this year after 23 years in public office. Read full article » |
| Do 1,800 college students die every year from ‘alcohol-related causes’? |
| “More than 1,800 students die every year of alcohol-related causes.”— article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that appeared in the New York Times under the headline “Why Colleges Haven’t Stopped Binge Drinking,” Dec. 15, 2014 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 |
| Voters in working-class Richmond can relate to jailed Del. Joseph Morrissey |
| RICHMOND — When Joseph D. Morrissey won election to the House of Delegates literally from his jail cell last week, many wondered how voters in his district could have supported a man with his history of bad behavior. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Sunday showers for some; nice tomorrow and warmer through midweek |
| WEATHER GANG | Milder weather arrives today, but it will be dragging some some rain along with it. Read full article » |
| Suspects in separate slayings arrested in Ashland, St. Louis |
| A man sought in connection with an attempt to enlarge a woman’s buttocks in the Washington area was found in St. Louis, authorities said. Meanwhile, a suspect in two brutal killings in Philadelphia was found in the Washington region, officials said. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Justin Peters allows five goals as Capitals lose to Stars in Dallas |
| DALLAS — The red spotlight glowed from the American Airlines Center rafters and shone onto Washington Capitals goaltender Justin Peters, flashing for the second time in 16 seconds Saturday night, one final mark of embarrassment in a 5-4 defeat. The crowd hollered. Peters hunched over and traced his stick around the crease. He slugged from his water bottle and tried to refocus. Read full article » |
| Golfer Robert Allenby allegedly kidnapped, beaten and robbed in Hawaii |
| With its beautiful ocean views and the great weather, Hawaii remains one of the world’s biggest vacation spots.For Australian golfer Robert Allenby, it will be interesting to see if he returns after what allegedly took place this weekend. Read full article » |
| Postgame: In losing another back-to-back, Caps needed crisper effort to help Peters |
| DALLAS — This was the role Justin Peters agreed to accept this summer when he signed a two-year deal with the Washington Capitals, brought aboard because they believed he conformed to their ideal standard of a hard-working, high-character, non-threatening backup goaltender. They wanted someone who could spell Braden Holtby when necessary. In a perfect world, this meant Holtby stabilizing the starting position and Peters challenging him in practice, while starting one game of back-to-backs. Read full article » |
| Washington Wizards beat Brooklyn Nets, 99-90, to avoid home-and-home sweep |
| NEW YORK — To Randy Wittman’s puzzlement, the Washington Wizards were lethargic Friday night. In the coach’s eyes, his players failed to respect their opponent, the reeling Brooklyn Nets. There was no focus and a baffling absence of energy. 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 |
| Venezuelan president receives parade amid looming crisis |
| CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro was greeted by the Venezuelan equivalent of a ticker-tape parade Saturday as he returned to an increasingly stricken economy from a two-week fundraising trip. 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 » |
| 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 |
| Benefits of budgeting: Day 7 of the 21-day financial fast |
| When you prepare for a road trip and you are going to a place you’ve never been, you are likely to map out your journey. Or you probably have a GPS to help you find your way. For me, that’s what budgeting is. It’s a road map to prosperity. It will help you get to where you want to go financially. 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 |
| Cookbook review: Nancy Harmon Jenkins’ ‘Virgin Territory’ |
| American consumers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on extra-virgin olive oil alone, and we’re generally on the same page about the notion that it’s a healthful fat. Yet we know less about it, and about olive oil in general, than we should. Only one in four of us is aware that the oil does not improve with age, and 85 percent of us think “light olive oil” has fewer calories than other olive oils, according to a recent study. (For the record, the designation refers to refined olive oil with little aroma or flavor.) 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: Abruptly cut out of her sister’s life and struggling to get back in |
| Dear Carolyn: I have a long story and I need outside input. I’ve gone to family, friends, etc. — no one knows what to tell me. My older sister stopped speaking to me a year and a half ago. It all started because I asked her to come over earlier than she planned for me to do a practice run on her hair and makeup for her wedding. When I asked her to come over early, she told me forget it. That was one of the last times we spoke. Prior to this, we were very close. I was her maid of honor and I was THRILLED. Read full article » |
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