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| Jeb Bush kept key roles in Florida firm amid signs of trouble |
| After attending his second meeting as a board member for InnoVida, a Miami-based company that marketed prefabricated housing materials for use in disaster zones and other places in need, Jeb Bush had some follow-up questions. Read full article » |
| Russian economic crisis helps save Putin’s post-Olympic dream at Sochi |
| KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — After the television cameras went dark on the Winter Olympic Games last year in Sochi, the areas around the resort city were in danger of becoming expensive ghost towns.President Vladimir Putin spent $50 billion on the Olympics, and had hoped his investment would leave behind a skier’s paradise in the mountainous Russian subtropics. But holiday bookings in Sochi were sluggish over the past year, as Russia grappled with a political crisis and increasing international economic isolation because of its involvement in Ukraine. Read full article » |
| Obama will give State of Union address against backdrop of deep partisan divide |
| The tone and tenor of the Obama White House since Democrats suffered a crushing defeat during the November midterm elections have been anything but conciliatory and have raised doubts about whether the president can — or wants to — break through partisan gridlock before voters choose his successor next year. Read full article » |
| Islamic State threatens to kill two Japanese hostages, demands ransom from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe |
| Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reportedly cut short a trip to the Middle East after a militant in a purported Islamic State video threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless the extremist group receives a $200 million ransom within the next 72 hours. Read full article » |
| Supporters say Clinton developing smarter, more relevant campaign for 2016 |
| In the last weeks before her expected entry into the 2016 presidential contest, Hillary Rodham Clinton is assembling a heavily research-driven campaign designed to prevent a repeat of her poor performance in 2008. Read full article » |
| Virginia doctor tries truck-stop medicine to keep family practice alive |
| RAPHINE, Va. — The massive truck stops just off I-81 here offer diesel, hot coffee and “the best dang BBQ in Virginia.” There’s something else, too: a small-town doctor who performs medical exams and drug tests for long-haul drivers, an innovative effort to keep his beloved family practice afloat. Read full article » |
| Research finds Neanderthals were more thoughtful than we once imagined |
| Maybe it’s their famously protruding brow ridge or perhaps it’s the now-discredited notion that they were primitive scavengers too dumb to use language or symbolism, but somehow Neanderthals picked up a reputation as brutish, dim and mannerless cretins. Read full article » |
| Slow-mo video of raindrops reveals how rain gets its distinctive smell |
| Petrichor: It's a great word and an even better smell — the one that hangs in the air after a rain storm. By filming raindrops in super-slow-motion, MIT researchers think they've figured out how this smell works. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Analysis: Do we even need a State of the Union address anymore? |
| Not to start too pessimistically, but let’s be honest with one another. The pomp and scale that surrounds Washington is a skeleton of the past. That’s not meant to refer solely to the architecture, the fake-it-till-you-make-it pretensions of a young country written in marble. It refers to much of the pageantry that we still embrace, beyond modern utility or necessity. It refers, to be direct, to the State of the Union address. Read full article » |
| Progressive lawmakers invite advocates of low-wage workers to State of the Union speech |
| Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus invited two guests to represent low-wage workers at Tuesday’s State of the Union address, where President Obama is expected to lay out his vision for improving the lives of middle-class Americans. Read full article » |
| Obama’s 2014 State of the Union proposals: What flopped and what succeeded |
| Every president announces a slew of initiatives in his State of the Union address. Here, in order of delivery, is a summary of the key proposals, pledges or priorities announced by President Obama a year ago — and what happened to them. Read full article » |
| Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address: A cheat sheet |
| It's time for the State of the Union, the annual speech where the president proclaims that the state of the union is (fill in the blank) and outlines his legislative priorities.President Obama has been playing spoiler to his speech, announcing a slate of actions and legislation he will outline in his address. So what is this speech, when will it happen and why will it take place? Let's fill you in on some State of the Union basics. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Obama can’t wish away terrorism |
| President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address is remembered today mainly for this bit of rhetorical irony: “America must move off a permanent war footing.” It was the triumph of speechwriting over experience. Obama’s pledge came about three weeks after the fall of Fallujah to the Islamic State. By June, Mosul would be overrun. Global jihadism now has a cause — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sham caliphate — around which to rally. It controls unprecedented territory and resources. It has a stream of thousands of Western recruits cycling in and out of the Middle East. And it encompasses a dangerous competition between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, in which acts of terrorism are a source of street credibility. Read full article » |
| Technology disrupting the American Dream |
| Mercedes-Benz wants to develop a driverless car. Google already has one. This is exceedingly bad news for auto body shops, ambulance-chasing lawyers and others. Soon, truck drivers might be replaced by driverless trucks. What then will happen to the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers, not to mention truck stops, of which there are 276 in Texas alone? (You can Google anything.) Read full article » |
| Dangerously in denial on climate change |
| Last year, government scientists tell us, was the hottest year on record.This news is terribly — what’s the word? — inconvenient.No, not for polar bears or drought victims or coastal dwellers. It’s inconvenient for politicians across the country who, despite whatever data or overwhelming scientific consensus might be proffered, insist on denying global warming. Read full article » |
| IRS budget cuts will compound taxpayer frustration |
| THE INTERNAL Revenue Service may be the least-loved arm of the federal government. For tax-hating Republican lawmakers still angry over what they see as IRS malfeasance, the antipathy is especially strong. That explains why GOP lawmakers repeatedly have cut the agency’s budget over the past several years, including a 3 percent reduction this year . But no matter how therapeutic it may feel to hack away at the IRS, it is deeply irrational. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Fire guts Annapolis mansion; cybersecurity exec Don Pyle, wife, 4 relatives feared inside |
| A waterfront mansion in Annapolis was destroyed in a four-alarm fire Monday morning, and officials said the cybersecurity executive who lived there, his wife and four other relatives were unaccounted for that night. Read full article » |
| For parents, now begins the anxious waiting game for college financial aid |
| For the many high-school seniors who already have submitted their college admissions applications, the season of waiting for an acceptance letter has begun. For their parents, there’s a different anxiety-ridden waiting game: For the financial-aid offers that will spell out just how much this is all going to cost. Read full article » |
| Delays on Metro’s Blue and Silver lines |
| Metro said riders should expect delays Tuesday morning on its Blue and Silver lines.The delays are in both directions and the problem is a disabled train outside the Morgan Boulevard station on the Blue Line. Read full article » |
| Man suffers life-threatening injuries after stabbing in Alexandria |
| Alexandria Police said they are investigating a stabbing near King Street that has left one man suffering from life-threatening injuries.There was little information immediately available. In a Twitter message, police said the incident occurred around 3 a.m. Tuesday in the 3200 block of South 28th Street. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| The Nationals’ signing of Max Scherzer could bring about the eventual departure of Jordan Zimmermann |
| When Max Scherzer joined the Washington Nationals’ talented and crowded starting rotation Sunday night, he may have sealed the departure of Jordan Zimmermann, who will become a free agent after the 2015 season. Read full article » |
| Rob Gronkowski tweet pokes fun at controversy around #DeflateGate |
| Rob Gronkowski, the New England Patriots’ party animal/all-universe tight end, is known for his loose sense of humor. Earlier this month, Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel published a profile focusing on Gronk’s recovery from multiple injuries and his serious (yet lighthearted) approach to treatment with physical therapist Ed Garabedian. Read full article » |
| Suns selling Gerald Green-inspired, 4.5-finger foam hand |
| Last week, the Phoenix Suns team shop began selling a rather unusual product: A foam hand with only four and a half fingers, in a tribute to swingman Gerald Green. And as the Suns took on the Lakers Monday night, TNT gave the item some airtime. Read full article » |
| Georgetown stuns No. 4 Villanova, 78-58, for statement win in Big East |
| Georgetown toyed with the fourth-ranked men’s basketball team in the country Monday night, punishing Villanova in the first half on the way to a commanding lead before closing out a 78-58 victory at Verizon Center. 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 » |
| 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 |
| How not to think about foreign policy for 2016 |
| Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote up an interesting exchange she had with a sitting GOP governor-turned-2016 presidential aspirant. She posited that a big difference between governors and senators who aspired for the White House was that the former had a comparative advantage in domestic policy and the latter had a comparative advantage in foreign policy: Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| WORLD |
| Fiercest fighting in months besets Yemeni capital, boosting fears of coup |
| SANAA, Yemen — Intense clashes erupted Monday in the Yemeni capital amid an apparent push by Houthi insurgents to seize more power from the country’s embattled president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a key U.S. ally against al-Qaeda. Read full article » |
| North Korean defectors are crucial — but sometimes unreliable — witnesses |
| SEOUL -- Always get a second source. It’s one of the fundamental rules of journalism. But what do you do if the first source is an escapee from one of the most brutal prison camps on the planet, a camp so brutal that only one person is known to have escaped from it? Read full article » |
| Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon appear in a selfie, sparking a new Mideast conflict |
| There is breaking news in the Middle East.“Miss Lebanon’s selfie with Miss Israel sparks uproar.”That was Monday morning’s headline in The Daily Star, a Lebanese newspaper.The Israeli newspaper Haaretz went with: “Asymmetrical warfare: Did Miss Israel photobomb Miss Lebanon?” Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Diversification delivers: Day 9 of the 21-day financial fast |
| You have to invest and when you do, you need to make sure you’re diversified. A lot of people worry about the ups and downs of the stock market and wonder if it’s worth it to invest. But you can’t afford to be afraid of investing because the biggest risk to your money is inflation. You have to do what you can to make sure your money can buy what you need in the future. 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 |
| Can taxi unions build an app to take on Uber? |
| NEW YORK CITY — Last Friday, in the Taxi Workers Alliance’s recently expanded new offices in an industrial area of Queens, union cab driver activists from across the country, plus a couple from Europe, convened for a council of war. 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 |
| Everyday Zen: On the road with Willie Nelson at 81 |
| LAS VEGAS — Another Saturday night on Earth. How is this one different? “Honestly, nothing is distinct after a while,” Willie Nelson confesses. He’s talking about life on the road at 81, when wisdom makes the totality of life feel intensely connected to the present — but also when age makes the details feel slippery. Read full article » |
| Civilities: A gay college senior asks about coming out on a résumé |
| Dear Civilities: I’m a gay college senior who is comfortably out on campus. Now that I’m looking for a job, I’m wondering whether I should mention it on my résumé, allude to it in a cover letter or bring it up in an interview. I don’t want to closet myself again, or lead a double life, but I’m also afraid that being too out could hurt my chances in the job market. What do you recommend? If I should come out, how do I do that without showing up in a “Love = Love” T-shirt? — Name withheld, Durham, N.C. 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: My aging dad has traveled to visit annually — until now. I’m crushed. |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi Carolyn! My healthy-enough-to-travel 70-year-old father just told my mother he doesn’t feel like taking a trip to see me. They’ve visited me at least annually for 20 years, and it’s something we all look forward to, or so I thought. After I got over the initial sting of rejection by realizing it wasn’t personal, my emotions ran from concern (“He’s becoming more and more of a shut-in”) to annoyance (“He’s just being lazy,” “He would flip if I don’t visit them as planned”) to helplessness (“What can I realistically do from 250 miles away?”). Can you give me some tips for sorting myself out, especially so that I don’t loop back to annoyance/rejection, which isn’t a healthy place to be? Read full article » |
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