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| Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing |
| TALLAHASSEE — The case against Tadrae McKenzie looked like an easy win for prosecutors. He and two buddies robbed a small-time pot dealer of $130 worth of weed using BB guns. Under Florida law, that was robbery with a deadly weapon, with a sentence of at least four years in prison. Read full article » |
| Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush’s low-key wife |
| In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris. Read full article » |
| Congress split over ways to face Islamic State |
| Congress returns to Washington this week after a 10-day break to confront the difficult business of how the United States should wage war against terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State.The formal task is to write and approve an “authorization for the use of military force,” or AUMF, but the broader goal is to demonstrate to the world that there is unified, bipartisan support for U.S. military engagement against a new, more mystifying enemy than the ones the United States faced when Congress last approved similar resolutions, in 2001 and 2002. Read full article » |
| Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. |
| Frank Schembari loves books — printed books. He loves how they smell. He loves scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences, folding a page corner to mark his place.Schembari is not a retiree who sips tea at Politics and Prose or some other bookstore. He is 20, a junior at American University, and paging through a thick history of Israel between classes, he is evidence of a peculiar irony of the Internet age: Digital natives prefer reading in print. Read full article » |
| Two Chicago universities, one private and one public, vie for Obama library |
| CHICAGO — It would be crushing here if the winner was New York. The bid from Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born, seems an afterthought.Four short words sum up the confident pitch from the South Side for the right to host the 44th president’s official library and museum: “Bring it on home.” Read full article » |
| Hungary taking aim at NGOs and, critics say, democracy |
| BUDAPEST — Veronika Mora was getting ready for work when her home phone rang. “I’m at your office,” she recalls a policewoman telling her. “Where are you?” Mora, the head of a nonprofit agency that distributed millions of euros in grants to government watchdogs including Transparency International, arrived 30 minutes later to find two dozen officers waiting for her on a crisp Budapest morning last fall. For hours, they combed through file cabinets and downloaded data on organizations that had been deeply critical of the Hungarian government. Read full article » |
| Giuliani’s false claims about Obama’s speeches |
| “I’m not condemning his patriotism — patriots can criticize. They’re allowed to criticize. I don’t hear from him what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are. When he called us an exceptional country, he said we’re an exceptional country, but so is Greece.” Read full article » |
| D.C.-area weather delays and closings for Feb. 23 |
| The following is a list of weather-related closings and delays for Monday Schools● Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open on a two-hour delay.●Culpeper County Public Schools will open on a two hour delay. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Jeh Johnson calls for increased vigilance after Mall of America terror threat |
| Americans must be vigilant in light of a terror threat calling for attacks at malls such as the Mall of America in Minnesota, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday."If anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they've got to be particularly careful," he said on CNN's "State of the Union." "There will be enhanced security there, but public vigilance, public awareness and public caution in situations like this is particularly important, and it's the environment we're in, frankly." Read full article » |
| Why Congress doesn’t need to shut down Homeland Security this week |
| The Department of Homeland Security will run out of money if Congress doesn’t approve a new round of funding for the agency by Sunday.Republicans have threatened to withhold appropriations for the agency until President Obama halts his recent executive actions to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Read full article » |
| Mike Huckabee, tour guide in the Holy Land |
| MASADA, Israel — Whether or not Mike Huckabee becomes president of the United States, the nation of Israel — and especially Israel’s hard-line right wing — have few more devoted fans than the former Arkansas governor, evangelical pastor and gung-ho tour guide to the Holy Land. Read full article » |
| John Legend’s very political Oscar acceptance speech |
| Common and John Legend spoke about voting rights and incarceration after winning Best Original Song for "Glory" for Selma. "'Selma' is now because the struggle for justice is now," Legend said. "We know that the voting rights that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised in this country today." He also said there are "more black men under correctional control today than were in slavery." The speech, and their performance of the song, left the Dolby Theater speechless and sparked a response on Twitter.https://twitter.com/ |
| OPINIONS |
| Scott Walker’s spineless silence |
| ANOTABLE moment of the 2008 presidential campaign came when Republican nominee John McCain faced down at a rally some of the more vitriolic haters of Barack Obama, who were shouting that the Democrat was a “terrorist” and an “Arab.” Read full article » |
| I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too. |
| I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we vote Democrat, of course we want our kids to vote Democrat. Read full article » |
| When even one drink could kill you |
| The recipe, scribbled above the bar at the Brooklyn club, looked delicious — mezcal muddled with basil and lime, and a dash of club soda. But the first sip raised a familiar itch in my throat. The bartender had not rinsed the milk, an ingredient in a previous order, from the shaker, which meant my lips would now be swollen for hours. Read full article » |
| Scott Walker’s cowardice should disqualify him |
| What Rudy Giuliani did this week was stupid. What Scott Walker did ought to disqualify him as a serious presidential contender. As the world now knows, Giuliani, the former New York mayor, said at a dinner featuring Walker, the Wisconsin governor, that “I do not believe that the president loves America.” According to Politico, Giuliani said President Obama “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.” Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Fairfax prosecutor resumes probe in police killing of John Geer in 2013 |
| The Fairfax County prosecutor is resuming his investigation into the Fairfax police department’s shooting of John Geer in 2013, obtaining the documents that police refused to give him 15 months ago and preparing to make a decision on whether to charge the officer involved, the prosecutor said Saturday. Read full article » |
| Major delays on I-95 north near Lorton |
| Updated at 6:10 a.m. Read full article » |
| Man slain in Northeast D.C. |
| D.C. Police said it is investigating a homicide early Monday in Northeast. There were no immediate details available on the man’s death. His was not released, pending notification of relatives. Police said they had no suspects at this time. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Back into the deep freeze; slick spots likely on sidewalks and roads |
| WEATHER GANG | Half the days this week, including today, highs will struggle to reach freezing. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Capitals’ four-game winning streak is snapped in 3-2 loss in Philadelphia |
| PHILADELPHIA — The Washington Capitals came together with equal parts elation and shock, mobbing forward Joel Ward and blessing him for the miracle.“How’d that happen?” Ward asked his four teammates amid smiles and hugs as the crowd at Wells Fargo Center, moved to a stunned silence, wondered something similar. With one smooth motion, Ward had spun around and rifled the puck into the top shelf, the only spot it would fit. He had turned a broken play into a tie game. Read full article » |
| Cricket World Cup 2015: England defeats Scotland |
| After getting trounced in its first two Pool A matches at the Cricket World Cup, England bounced back against Scotland in Christchurch, New Zealand. England got off to a hot start and cruised, 303-8. Meanwhile, Scotland was bowled out, 184-10. Read full article » |
| Goodbye, B.J. Upton. Hello, ‘Melvin Upton Jr.’ |
| So B.J. Upton’s initials stand for “Bossman Junior,” which is a reference to his father, whose nickname was “Bossman,” except now Upton wants to be called by his real name, which is the same as his father’s, meaning he is now “Melvin Upton Jr.” Got all that? Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for Feb. 23 |
| NBA8 p.m. Toronto at New Orleans»NBA TVNHL10 p.m. Detroit at Anaheim»NHL NetworkMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| DHS staff would remain on job with no pay if Congress does not fund agency |
| Once again, it is federal employees who could take a hit because Uncle Sam can’t get his budget act together.Temporary funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires Friday. If Congress and President Obama can’t agree on an appropriations bill by then, it will drape the agency in confusion. Read full article » |
| Can you measure Oscar best picture nominees with politics? |
| When Americans sit down to watch the Academy Awards Sunday night, the movie they root for to win the night’s biggest prize could have something to do with their politics. And the people who come on stage to accept the golden statuette? They have their political preferences too. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| The Walmart wage bump: who gets it and who pays for it. |
| Well, would ya look at that? Walmart, tired of waiting for Congress to raise the minimum wage, says it’s doing so on its own, providing pay raises to half a million of its work force.In April of this year, according to a fact sheet the huge retailer released Thursday, they’ll increase their starting wage to $9/hour, and the next year, move those “associates’” pay up to $10, which is about what the White House proposed for the federal minimum ($10.10 by 2016). For their managers, they plan to raise the starting wage “for some of them to at least $13/hour this summer and at least $15/hour early next year.” Read full article » |
| I’m a therapist. Movies are the best tool I have to help my patients. |
| When a shy client named Angie came in needing help, I recommended an unusual course of treatment: a movie screening.Angie (whose name has been changed to protect her identity) grew up in an isolated, rural area with few friends and little exposure to life outside her family’s farm. She was a gifted computer programmer but was uninterested in her physical appearance. Her hair and clothing often looked unwashed; she wore the same denim jacket week after week. Angie had never had a boyfriend, and longed for a romantic connection. Read full article » |
| Please address me as Mister. I insist. |
| We were all gathered in the lunchroom of my Catholic grade school. I was in seventh grade, about to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. The archbishop wandered in to give us a little pre-Mass pep talk. His excellency told us to call him “Archbishop Jim.” His intention was surely to make us feel more comfortable around him, but I was shocked. He was a direct successor to the Apostles. He had the power of transubstantiation in his hands. He could forgive sins in the name of God. At a minimum, he was a lot older than me, and my parents told me to call adults “Mr. Maese,” not “Brook.” Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Ukrainian military says it won’t pull back until rebel attacks stop |
| KIEV — The Ukrainian military said Monday it will not pull back its heavy weapons from the front-line until separatist rebels completely stop attacking them.Continuing rebel attacks in the country’s embattled east are preventing a withdrawal of heavy weapons, a key component of a cease-fire deal which went into effect Feb. 15, Lt. Col. Anatoliy Stelmakh told reporters Monday. Read full article » |
| Map: These will be Europe’s most polluted cities by 2030 |
| When Europeans talk about air pollution, they often think of India or China, but rarely consider their own continent to be at risk. And while levels of air pollution have decreased throughout Europe over the past decades, a new study by Austrian scientists concludes that smog is far from being defeated on the continent. Read full article » |
| U.S. weighs more sanctions against Russia over violations in Ukraine |
| The Obama administration is weighing a new round of sanctions against Russia in response to its continued “land-grabbing” in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Saturday. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| The rise of the non-compete agreement, from tech workers to sandwich makers |
| A few months ago, the Huffington Post reported on a surprising piece of the standard employment contract at Jimmy John's: A "non-competition" clause, preventing employees from working at any other shop within three miles that sells sandwiches for two years after they leave. It's convenient for the company, if it keeps sandwich-makers from taking their talents -- and inside knowledge -- to a rival. It's not so great for workers, who have much more limited options if they want to quit. Read full article » |
| The hidden costs of being an Uber driver |
| Be your own boss and leave the drudgery of the 9-to-5, Monday-through-Friday workweek behind.Those are the dreams of many workers, especially those who have faced flat wages for years while paying more for essentials such as education, health care and housing. Read full article » |
| The underrated economic benefit of parents who work less |
| The term “family-friendly” in American culture stirs images of Old Navy sales, theme park Groupons and child-protected basement screenings of "The Lego Movie." The White House is striving to change that soft connotation, connecting family-friendly workplace policies to a stronger labor force and economy. It comes just in time for election rhetoric: as the Upshot’s Nate Cohn points out, "the parent agenda" appears to an emerging focus for the Democratic party. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The 12 threats to human civilization, ranked |
| Earlier this month researchers at the Global Challenges Foundation released a thorough and unsettling look at what threatens human civilization. They define a civilization collapse as a “drastic decrease in human population size and political/economic/social complexity, globally and for an extended time.” Read full article » |
| This musician is suing YouTube for libel because of its automatic takedown notice |
| Last February, a D.C.-based band called the Rasta Rock Opera was celebrating a modest viral hit, a music video featuring two young kids on a Valentine's Day date. Guitarist and composer Stevie Marco passed the video around on social media platforms to professional contacts and friends -- including the kindergarten class of one of the video's young stars. Read full article » |
| Activists in the war against revenge porn are finally seeing results |
| For years, if your intimate photos appeared online without your permission, there appeared to be little recourse. The images spread on the Web while those responsible for posting them often went unpunished. Read full article » |
| Conditions for people who make your gadgets are improving — barely |
| Apple’s latest report on the conditions in its supplier factories included an announcement that it was banning “bonded labor”in its supply chain. The move applies to workers who travel across borders and pay to get jobs in its supplier factories. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| ‘Downton Abbey’ recap: An arrest is made and a wedding is put in jeopardy |
| It’s the penultimate episode of “Downton” and do you know what that means? It means second-to-last. But you knew that. It also means that many plots need a speedy resolution and this episode felt like a Nascar sprint to tie up loose ends. Read full article » |
| Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood |
| LOS ANGELES — Sunshine is everywhere on a recent afternoon in West Hollywood. The 180-degree view from the penthouse of the Soho House lays out the city below as its mythic ideal. “Lead guitars and movie stars,” as Mick Jagger once sang. It’s easy to imagine the pretty, casually tousled young couple lounging on the balcony as having wandered out of the corner of a movie — maybe Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere,” set at the Chateau Marmont a few blocks back on the Sunset Strip — or about to wander into their own. Read full article » |
| ‘The DUFF,’ ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2′ and other new movies, reviewed |
| In this week’s new releases: A high school senior challenges a superficial label placed upon her by her peers in “The DUFF,” but this pseudo-feminist film fails to earn even a single star; the brand of comedy showcased in “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” caters to its audience. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: When and what to tell the kids about Mom and Dad divorcing |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn:My husband and I have a 4-year-old and a 5-year-old, and we are getting divorced, but we are still living together for several months. My soon-to-be ex and I are both reading [on the topic] and doing co-parenting sessions with a therapist on and off. The kids can see that we don’t get along, although we (mostly I) have really tried to keep the peace in their presence, but they don’t know about the pending separation and divorce. Read full article » |
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