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| Obama budget would fund public works program with tax on overseas profits |
| President Obama will unveil a $4 trillion budget Monday, featuring an ambitious public works program, a one-time tax on foreign profits kept overseas by corporations, tax credits for middle-class Americans, and a 1.3 percent pay raise for federal employees and troops. Read full article » |
| Private moments helped shape Obama’s education about war |
| Air Force One, its windows blacked out to guard against attack, touched down in Afghanistan well after dark.President Obama’s war-zone visits are usually short and ceremonial. In his six hours on the ground, he appeared alongside Afghanistan’s leader, pinned Purple Hearts on the wounded and spoke to a hangar full of U.S. troops. Read full article » |
| After 17 years on Argentine bomb case, prosecutor was sure ‘truth will triumph’ |
| BUENOS AIRES — Moments before Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman presented his findings in the case that had come to define his life, and just days before his violent death would horrify the nation, he texted a group of friends a solemn message. Read full article » |
| How Rand Paul tried to lead an eye doctors’ rebellion |
| The letters came from a young ophthalmologist in Kentucky. He was recruiting for an eye doctors’ rebellion.“We won’t be trod upon,” he wrote, using the language of 1776. “You can’t promulgate injustice without consequences.” Read full article » |
| Building 197: Navy Yard workers begin returning to the scene of a deadly rampage |
| They begin returning Monday to the place where they hid beneath desks, barricaded themselves behind office doors and fled down corridors as 12 colleagues were shot to death at the Washington Navy Yard. Read full article » |
| ‘Downton Abbey’ recap: A rare instance of fisticuffs |
| Approximately 16 people chose to watch “Downton Abbey” instead of the Super Bowl on Sunday night. If you’re reading this, you are probably one of them. I’m kidding of course. The audience for “Downton Abbey” was likely in the hundreds. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| If Hillary Clinton decides not to run in 2016, how bad would it be for Democrats? |
| Emily Bell, who runs the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, tweeted this simple but provocative question a few days ago: “What are the odds on Hillary not running?”I replied that it was about 10 percent. Others, such as Politico’s Ben White, said it was more like 0.1 percent. The question, and the back-and-forth over it, got me thinking about what would happen in the unlikely event that Hillary Rodham Clinton decided not to run. After all, she has only hinted at her interest publicly and has yet to take the steps — leadership PAC, etc. — that would indicate clear interest. Virtually everything we know about Clinton’s plans come from staff movements and quotes to reporters from “those in the know” who demand anonymity to share their knowledge. Read full article » |
| Iowa: No country for Republican establishment men |
| There is something about today's Republican Party. The grass-roots base -- call it the "tea party" if you must -- simply loves to joust with the party establishment.And nowhere is that more the case than in the first contest of the 2016 presidential election: the Iowa caucuses. Read full article » |
| What to expect with the White House’s 2016 budget |
| The White House is scheduled to release its 2016 budget request on Monday morning, and the Federal Eye plans to publish agency-by-agency details with help from reporters throughout the Post newsroom.The budget proposal is not law, but instead a wish list that lays out the White House’s spending and tax priorities, this time for President Obama’s final year in office. We plan to publish details for at least 16 key federal agencies, from the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to NASA and the Internal Revenue Service. Read full article » |
| Rand Paul’s recruiting letter for his opthamology board |
| Around 2002, some eye doctors began to get fiery letters from an ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky. He was trying to recruit them to do something odd: sign up to be "board-certified" by a medical board that hadn't existed a few years before. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Robert Samuelson: Challenging what we know about the housing bubble |
| We are constantly learning new stuff about the housing bubble — and some of the new stuff contradicts the old. This is obviously important, because the bubble led to the 2008-2009 financial crisis and Great Recession. What we don’t understand may one day come back to bite us. Read full article » |
| Obama’s fight with his own party over foreign policy |
| For more than two years, a breach has been opening between President Obama and the foreign policy establishment of the Democratic Party. Last week, as Russia pressed a new offensive in Ukraine and the Senate debated sanctions on Iran, it cracked open a little wider. Read full article » |
| E.J. Dionne: Why Obama’s new budget will put pressure on Republicans |
| When President Obama releases his budget Monday, the words “dead on arrival” will be widely incanted because they are part of a quasi-religious Beltway ritual.This year, those words will be misleading. Read full article » |
| Vietnam’s concerted effort to keep control of its past |
| Five years ago I began an experiment — not of my own devising — to study censorship in Vietnam. In 2009, I signed a contract to publish one of my books in Hanoi. Called “The Spy Who Loved Us,” the book tells the story of Pham Xuan An, Vietnam’s most celebrated journalist during the Vietnam War. (He ended his career as bureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon.) Only after the war did we learn that An had received a dozen military medals as a communist spy and served as North Vietnam’s deadliest secret weapon. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Body found in water near southern tip of National Airport is that of a woman |
| D.C. police said Sunday that a body discovered in a waterway near the southern tip of Reagan National Airport on Saturday is that of a woman.Officer Hugh Carew, a D.C. police spokesman, said the body was discovered in a waterway near the 3800 block of Thomas Avenue sometime before noon. Read full article » |
| Residual delays on Metro’s Green Line |
| Riders may see some residual delays Monday morning on the Green Line.There was an earlier train malfunction at the Suitland stop. Trains were sharing a track between the Branch Avenue and Naylor Road stops but that has ended. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Morning rain gives way to very strong winds, and cold |
| CAPITAL WEATHER GANG | Gusts may reach 50 mph and those strong winds will usher in very cold air. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Alex Ovechkin passes a milestone, but Caps lose sixth of seven, losing 4-3 to Blues |
| Inside another losing locker room, the Washington Capitals’ sixth in seven games, forward Brooks Laich turned his head and looked toward the corner stall. He saw goaltender Justin Peters quietly packing up, slipping into his sneakers and walking away. He reflected on a 4-3 loss to the St. Louis Blues at Verizon Center, in which the hosts allowed 40 shots on goal, tying a season high. He tapped his leg and issued the verdict, absolving Peters of responsibility after another outing spent shackled by the blunders of his teammates. Read full article » |
| The five best athlete cameos in Super Bowl XLIX ads |
| Super Bowl XLIX has come and gone but its commercials will live on the Internet forever. While there was a whole lot going on from the adorable to the horrifying, The Early Lead was most interested in those spots which featured professional athletes. Here are five of the best. Read full article » |
| Forget the Lombardi Trophy, Gisele Bundchen is all the congratulations Tom Brady needs |
| To paraphrase the Harbaughs’ favorite saying, who’s got it better than Tom Brady?The New England Patriots quarterback won his fourth Super Bowl in six tries and was named MVP for the third time Sunday night in the victory over Seattle and, this time, he celebrated with two of his three children and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen. (The couple’s youngest child, Vivian, was a little too young for the celebration.) Read full article » |
| Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell gets roasted after bad call |
| There’s no telling what would’ve happened had the Seattle Seahawks decided to run the ball during the last play of Super Bowl XLIX rather than throw it. Marshawn Lynch may have scored the go-ahead touchdown; or the Patriots could’ve still stopped him. Only one thing’s for certain, the Patriots would not have intercepted the ball and Darrell Bevell, the Seahawks offensive coordinator who claimed responsibility for the call, would’ve been having a much better night. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Obama’s pick for ambassador to Mexico withdraws |
| (This post has been updated.)Still waiting for her confirmation hearing more than four months after she was nominated, President Obama’s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Mexico withdrew her nomination earlier this week. Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| 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 |
| Egypt frees Australian, one of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists |
| BAGHDAD — Egypt freed and deported Sunday one of the Al Jazeera journalists who had been jailed for more than a year in a case that drew international condemnation and sparked a worldwide campaign for their release. Read full article » |
| Map: If the size of countries reflected their populations |
| This map, compiled by Reddit user TeaDranks, shows what the world would look like if a country's size was proportional to its population. As you can see, our sense of geographic space gets rather radically rearranged as a result. Read full article » |
| Lawyers seek to exonerate ex-Army officer who ordered soliders to shoot Afghan men |
| Every morning, Clint Lorance wakes up in his Army-issued prison cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and looks at a photo of two dead Afghan men.To this day, the former first lieutenant does not know their names, but he knows he is responsible for their deaths. Read full article » |
| Richard von Weizsaecker, German president from 1984 to 1994, dies at 94 |
| Richard von Weizsaecker, a onetime soldier in Hitler’s army who used his largely ceremonial office as president of Germany to denounce his country’s Nazi past and to condemn intolerance toward immigrants and other minorities, died Jan. 31. He was 94. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Biotech investments hit a 15-year low in the Washington region |
| Biotechnology companies in the Washington region attracted less money from investors in 2014 than any other year since 1999, recent data show, even as the sector saw a significant increase in venture capital dollars in other parts of the country. Read full article » |
| The 21-day financial fast is done. Now what? |
| Although the group fast that began Jan. 11 is over, it doesn’t mean your journey to financial freedom is ending. You still may have some work to do.Did you finish your budget?Have you started your emergency and life happens funds? If you’ve already got them set up, have you taken the money you saved doing the fast to boost the funds? What about having that long-term care conversation with your elderly parents or adult children? 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 » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| 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 » |
| Verizon Wireless to allow customers to actually opt-out of controversial supercookie tracking |
| Verizon Wireless said Friday that it will allow customers to opt out of having the company's controversial tracking code inserted into their Web traffic.The company previously offered a way for customers to opt-out of having their data used in its online advertising program. But the company continued to insert a unique code into their Web traffic, angering civil liberties groups who said the technology could be used to track customers movements on the Internet -- even if they took steps to protect their privacy. Now, the company is taking steps to give users more control. 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 |
| Georgetown could be barreling toward a newfangled future. Are we ready? |
| If you squint, perhaps you can begin to envision it all, here on the banks of the Potomac, amid the skyline of red-brick Federals and Gothic towers:Zippy cable cars flying across the river, alongside Key Bridge — which, by the way, is lit up like a glamorous Christmas tree. Read full article » |
| Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 |
| Over here in the Style section, we only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. And this year’s crop had something for everyone: bro humor, celebrity athlete cameos, nostalgia, sentimentality and plenty of cute animals. Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| Carolyn Hax: A month into a couple’s blissful dating, a Big Question emerges |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn:I recently started dating a man whom I really like, and the feeling is mutual. I haven’t felt this connected to someone in years, but there is a gigantic red flag waving right in my face and I don’t know what to do. For all of his wonderful qualities, he and I do not feel the same way about having children; he wants them, and I very much do not. Read full article » |
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