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| Apple crushes analyst predictions by selling 74.4 million iPhones last quarter |
| If there was any doubt that Apple fans would like the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, it's been definitively put to rest.Apple on Tuesday reported that it sold a stunning 74.5 million iPhones in its holiday quarter. That blew past analyst expectations of 69 million in sales, and helped drive the company to record profits of $18 billion. Read full article » |
| Michelle Obama forgoes a headscarf and sparks a backlash in Saudi Arabia |
| Barack Obama was in Riyadh on Tuesday to pay his respects to the late Saudi King Abdullah. His visit, for which he cut short a much-hyped trip to India, underscores how important the U.S.-Saudi relationship remains to the American leadership. On social media, however, much of the attention has focused on something else: His wife's attire. Read full article » |
| U-Va. sorority sisters ordered to stay home Saturday night for their own safety — while fraternity brothers party |
| Sorority sisters at the University of Virginia were ordered by their national chapters to avoid fraternity events this weekend — a mandate that many of the women said was irrational, sexist and contrary to the school’s culture. Read full article » |
| The new scientific revolution: Reproducibility at last |
| Diederik Stapel, a professor of social psychology in the Netherlands, had been a rock-star scientist — regularly appearing on television and publishing in top journals. Among his striking discoveries was that people exposed to litter and abandoned objects are more likely to be bigoted. Read full article » |
| Medical Mysteries: It seemed like a heart attack, but the tests said no. |
| As Pamela Meredith sank onto her living room sofa to watch an action movie with her visiting grandson, she felt unusually relieved that their busy day was over. The sultry heat of a Washington August, combined with the pace required to keep up with an active 12-year-old, had sapped her energy, which had flagged in recent weeks. As she put her feet up, Meredith was alarmed to see that her normally slim ankles were swollen, obscured by bands of puffy flesh. Read full article » |
| Two weeks after Zuckerberg said ‘je suis Charlie,’ Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad |
| Only two weeks after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a strongly worded #JeSuisCharlie statement on the importance of free speech, Facebook has agreed to censor images of the prophet Muhammad in Turkey — including the very type of image that precipitated the Charlie Hebdo attack. Read full article » |
| ‘The Americans’: TV’s best show returns as strong as ever, with perfect Cold War chill |
| The first four episodes of Season 3 of “The Americans,” which returns Wednesday night on FX, are just as absorbing and dark and impeccably realized as what we saw in Season 2. Now that you know, shred this document if you’re paranoid about spoilers. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Democrats see new chance to attack Kochs after $1 billion spending announcement |
| Forget Jeb, Rand and Ted. For Democrats, it’s all about Charles and David.The announcement this week that the vast political network backed by the wealthy industrialist Koch brothers aims to spend nearly $1 billion on the 2016 elections has reignited Democratic hopes of casting the brothers as electoral villains and linking them closely to Republican candidates. Read full article » |
| DHS, Social Security and SEC take top honors for plain federal writing |
| The guardians of clear and concise writing in government awarded top honors Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the best job last year turning bureaucratese into plain writing for the public. Read full article » |
| The Supreme Court could gut Obamacare. Here’s why that might not matter. |
| The Supreme Court could soon move to void many Obamacare subsidies -- something Republicans are banking on to effectively gut the law. But even if that happens, the American people say they would like the GOP Congress to restore the subsidies. Read full article » |
| Veteran operative Mike Shields is leaving RNC to helm congressional super PAC |
| Mike Shields, the top aide at the Republican National Committee and a veteran political operative, is leaving the party committee to helm a super PAC dedicated to preserving and expanding the party’s House majority. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Kathleen Parker: The sacrifice of Sarah Palin |
| When Democrats were looking for evidence of a Republican war on women, they overlooked Exhibit A — Sarah Palin.This isn’t to say that Palin was part of the war on women, though many Democrats would say so. Rather, she was one of the war’s most conspicuous victims — fragged, you might say, by her own troops. Read full article » |
| Republicans discover that it isn’t easy running Congress |
| “Yes, there have been a couple of stumbles,” John Boehner acknowledged Tuesday.The House speaker had spoken with dry understatement. What has happened since Republicans took full control of Congress three weeks ago has been less a stumble than a pratfall involving the legislative equivalent of a banana peel, flailing arms, an upended bookcase, torn drapes and a slide across a laden banquet table into a wedding cake. Read full article » |
| The lesson from Yemen |
| What went wrong for the U.S.-backed government in Yemen, and what are the consequences for counterterrorism operations there against al-Qaeda’s most dangerous affiliate? Both questions have disturbing answers. Read full article » |
| Montgomery school board is prepared to cut ties with superintendent Joshua Starr |
| THE MONTGOMERY County Board of Education is unlikely to renew the contract of Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr when it expires June 30, sources tell us. The prospect of a search for new leadership, less than four years after Mr. Starr took the helm, underscores the need to appraise what might have gone wrong. Did Mr. Starr not live up to expectations, or did the board have the wrong expectations of what was needed for the 154,000-student system? It’s not an academic question but one that will be critical to any effort to recruit a new superintendent. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Broken traffic cameras contributed to massive revenue decline, D.C. police say |
| D.C. police acknowledged this week that a sharp decline in revenue from the city’s network of traffic enforcement cameras was due in part to problems maintaining some of the equipment — undermining earlier claims that the drop was mainly due to motorists doing a better job obeying the law. Read full article » |
| Delays on Metro’s Silver and Orange lines |
| Updated at 6:26 a.m.Metro said trains are no longer sharing a track on the Silver and Orange lines. But it warned that riders should expect residual delays in both directions due to an earlier problem with a train at the East Falls Church stop. Read full article » |
| ‘Typhoid Mary’s’ last outbreak 100 years ago this winter ended with life detention |
| Patrolman John Bevins spotted her. Despite the veil she was wearing, he recognized her distinctive, mannish walk as she entered a house in Queens. He notified his superiors, but when they knocked on the door, she wouldn’t let them in. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Wintry pattern persists with two weather-makers to watch |
| We’re locked into a wintry pattern now, and we’re watching two potential storm threats. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Capitals fall to Blue Jackets, 4-3, as losing streak extended to four games |
| COLUMBUS, Ohio — His sweater stained with blood and strips of gauze dangling from a chin gashed open by a blistering puck, forward Nicklas Backstrom entered the penalty box shaking his head, one last display of confusion and frustration during a Tuesday night stuffed with both. The Washington Capitals had spent a good portion of their 4-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets recovering from mistakes and climbing from self-dug holes, but now, with their anchor watching from behind glass, a final dose of undisciplined play buried them for good. Read full article » |
| Stephen Curry’s amazing first-half pass had nothing on his incredible second-half pass |
| Stephen Curry is proving this season, again and again, that he can do more than just shoot the ball with remarkable accuracy. He can also pass it to teammates from seemingly anywhere on the court, and from any angle. Read full article » |
| Down big against lowly Lakers, Wizards climb back to win, 98-92 |
| LOS ANGELES — On what would have been former Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss’s 82nd birthday, a motley crew of journeymen, long-term projects and placeholders — an ensemble unworthy of the Showtime glitz Buss created in his three decades running basketball’s premier franchise — took the Staples Center floor to play the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. Read full article » |
| Anthony Davis is ‘The Special Man’ as Pelicans pay homage to legendarily cheesy local ad |
| Anthony Davis probably needs to lead his Pelicans into the playoffs before he gets any serious consideration for the MVP award, but there is no doubt that he is a special player. But did you also know that Davis is also “The Special Man”? Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Gowdy: Benghazi investigation ‘incomplete’ without Clinton testimony |
| (This post has been updated.)Whether she runs for president or not, Hillary Rodham Clinton is probably not done answering questions about Benghazi, Libya.The House panel investigating the deadly attacks on the Benghazi mission in September 2012 met Tuesday in a fiery public hearing where Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who is chairing the 12-member select committee, said he would “ratchet up” the investigation and claimed the administration wasn’t cooperating. Read full article » |
| Parole chief leaving, cites lack of interest from Obama, Holder |
| There’s one issue, perhaps the only one, that Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on: reducing the population of the nation’s overcrowded and expensive prisons, partly through reducing sentences for low-level and nonviolent offenders. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| As a kid, I was bullied. But I bullied, too. Does that make me a victim or an aggressor? |
| The bus seat was sticky. I remember that, and the way sunlight blocked squares on the floor dust.I was 11, sitting alone. Across the aisle sat Katie and John (whose names have been changed). Blue-eyed, blond and bouncy-curled, Katie was a proto-cheerleader, with a doll-face and all the right logos on her sweatshirts and sneakers. Read full article » |
| The new mandatory civics exams are asking all the wrong questions. Here are the right ones. |
| Last week Arizona became the first American state to require high school students to pass a citizenship test to graduate.Ten other states are considering their own versions of a high school civics education requirement. Given this trend, you might wonder what lawmakers presume every high school grad must know about being an American. The short answer? Geography, history and the U.S. Constitution. Read full article » |
| Local area academic finds unique way to evade Juno |
| For obvious reasons, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts are well versed in the dark arts of fleeing an apocalyptic event. As we’re trained to be academics, however, we do not always apply these dark arts in the simplest of manners. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| In Argentina, distrust over president’s move to abolish intelligence agency |
| BUENOS AIRES — They use fake names, drive cars with false documents, carry unregistered guns.They work for an agency with a broad mandate, like a mix of the FBI and the CIA, with a secret budget and vague objectives that allow them to investigate almost anything. Decades after the most notorious abuses during Argentina’s dirty war, the spy service here has yet to shed its bad reputation. Read full article » |
| Pilot in White House drone crash is intelligence agency employee |
| The man who crashed a recreational drone on the grounds of the White House this week, causing a brief lockdown and exposing an unresolved security vulnerability at the compound, is a government intelligence worker, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said Tuesday. Read full article » |
| Retired generals: U.S. set for failure in Iraq and Syria without clear strategy |
| Without a clear strategy from the White House and the return of a robust defense budget, the United States is set for failures in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, argued former generals James Mattis and John Keane, as well as former admiral William Fallon in congressional testimony Tuesday. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| A new study argues cutting unemployment benefits created 1.8 million jobs |
| Just looking at the economy's overall size, you wouldn't think that the last year was much different from any of the others since the recession. The U.S. economy grew at about the same rate in 2014 as it did in the previous four years -- less than 2.4 percent, according to the Federal Reserve's most recent projection. Yet last year was different. People started going back to work. The percentage of Americans working, more or less stuck in a ditch since 2009, increased from 58.6 percent in December 2013 to 59.2 percent last month. Employers added an average of 246,000 positions a month, about 3 million jobs overall. Read full article » |
| To thine own self be true? Maybe not at work |
| The job market may be improving, but for many people, finding the right new gig is still a huge challenge. After years of cutbacks in corporate programs, few Americans have had much on-the-j0b training at all. And even if your workplace is giving out promotions, the competition for getting one is especially stiff after years of pent-up demand. Read full article » |
| Lyft cars still think pink, but streamline the ‘stache |
| SAN FRANCISCO — The pink mustache is out.Ride-hailing company Lyft has pulled the pink furry mustache that drivers display on the front of their cars and replaced it with a 5-inch-long pink “glowstache” that goes on the dashboard. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The age of the Apple Watch begins in April |
| The dawning of the age of the Apple Watch is at hand. The tech world's highest-profile wrist gadget will ship in April, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Tuesday.Development of the timepiece "is right on schedule," Cook said on a conference call, adding that he was already enjoying his own. "My expectations are very high on it. I'm using it every day and I love it and I can't live without it," he said. Read full article » |
| Five ways technology can help us cope with blizzards |
| There has been innovation in every aspect of how individuals prepare for major snow storms — everything from funky new snow removal devices to new ways of pre-treating road surfaces for anti-icing before the onset of a major storm. Now, the real promise is in taking some of Silicon Valley’s hottest technologies — the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, renewable energy and autonomous vehicles — and using them to improve the way cities respond to blockbuster snow events such as the Blizzard of 2015: Read full article » |
| Microsoft’s huge Xbox sales foreshadow gaming’s growing importance within company |
| Headed into Friday's earnings report, Microsoft was riding a wave of goodwill thanks to a wide-ranging announcement last week that introduced a new version of Windows and its prototype smart headset, the HoloLens. Both are being looked as a way for Microsoft to leave behind its reputation as an uninspired relic of the last computing age. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Smithsonian aims to open first international space in a London cultural complex |
| The Smithsonian plans to open its first international exhibition space at a new cultural complex being developed at the former Olympic park in London, officials announced Tuesday.The deal would mark the first time in the institution’s 168-year history that it would have a public presence outside the United States. It also would make the Smithsonian part of an elite group of museums — including the Guggenheim in New York and the Louvre in Paris — that have opened venues in other parts of the world. Read full article » |
| Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I feel the complete fool’ for calling black actors ‘colored’ |
| Benedict Cumberbatch has apologized for a comment he made during a conversation about British actors working in America, saying that he was “devastated to have caused offense” for using what he called “outmoded terminology.” Read full article » |
| A legal stew for ex-Table chef Frederik de Pue, prominent business partners |
| The legal battle between Frederik de Pue, a Belgium-born chef once positioned to become one of Washington’s major players, and a D.C. power couple who were his business partner and landlord has all the ingredients of a sizzling kitchen fight. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Family history leads her to not serve alcohol at an open house. Is that fair? |
| Dear Carolyn:I recently invited my family to our home for an afternoon open house. This is not something I do often, maybe once every five years, in part because my family is hard to be around as a group. There are seven sibs, three with alcohol addiction. A couple of their kids also struggle with addiction. Read full article » |
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