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| Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow |
| MOSCOW — Boris Nemtsov, a towering figure in Russian post-Soviet politics and a biting critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down steps from the Kremlin early Saturday, authorities said. The drive-by shooting had the potential to open a violent new chapter in Russian political life. Read full article » |
| GOP states revisit Obamacare as Supreme Court weighs subsidies |
| Officials in several Republican states that balked at participating in President Obama’s health-care initiative are now revisiting the issue amid mounting panic over a possible Supreme Court decision that would revoke federal insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. Read full article » |
| Nuclear deal with Iran gets closer as Netanyahu comes to Washington |
| On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Washington, trying to spur Congress to cut short what he considers a feeble and dangerous deal in the works over Iran’s nuclear program. Read full article » |
| Leonard Nimoy and the lasting dignity of being Spock |
| Everyone who was in the original “Star Trek” TV series eventually came to terms with its pop-cult status, starting with the fact that “Star Trek” is a life sentence. Surrender is the most logical choice. George Takei (Mr. Sulu) has happily reinvented himself as a sort of Oscar Wilde of the fast Facebook post. William Shatner (Captain Kirk) seemed to have exorcised the last of his “Star Trek” demons long ago in a still famous 1986 sketch on “Saturday Night Live” in which he played out his exasperation with the obsessed attendees of yet another “Star Trek” convention at yet another Holiday Inn. Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday morning at 83 from obstructive pulmonary disease, also struggled for a while with the notion that no matter what else he did in his life and career (acting, directing, reciting “Desiderata”), he would always be Mr. Spock, the logically driven Vulcan he first played in the original “Star Trek” TV series nearly 50 years ago. His first memoir was titled “I Am Not Spock.” Twenty years later (once the “Star Trek” movie franchise had validated his and his co-stars’ work and legitimized Trekdom for all) he wrote a second memoir, titled “I Am Spock.” Who could begrudge any of the original crew members of the USS Enterprise a moment (or a decade, or a lifetime) of identity crises? They signed up for Gene Roddenberry’s prime-time science fiction drama in 1966, and the show did all right and lasted just long enough (79 episodes over three seasons on NBC) to sell off in syndicated rerun-ville. Read full article » |
| The White House’s draft of a consumer privacy bill is out — and even the FTC is worried |
| The White House on Friday released what it called a discussion draft of a bill aimed at giving consumers more control over how data about them is collected. But privacy advocates, including Democratic members of Congress, raised concerns that the legislation might actually make things worse. Read full article » |
| Justice Department ramps up scrutiny of candidates and independent groups |
| The Justice Department is stepping up scrutiny of the increasingly cozy ties between candidates and their outside allies, a move that could jolt the freewheeling campaign-finance atmosphere ahead of the 2016 elections. Read full article » |
| GOP hopefuls run the gantlet at conservative conference |
| South of the Beltway, at the massive National Harbor hotel and convention center on the east bank of the Potomac, thousands of conservatives have spent the past few days putting Republican presidential candidates-in-waiting through an endurance test. Read full article » |
| Pirch lets you test your home appliances before you buy them. |
| Buying a major appliance has never been a ton of fun.But two entrepreneurs have come up with a different approach. Pirch is a new kind of retailer that lets you bake artisanal pizza in its ovens and flush its fancy toilets. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Jeb Bush was very, very good at CPAC today |
| Did people walk out when Jeb Bush started speaking at CPAC today in Maryand? Sure. Did he get heckled and booed at times during his q and a with conservative commentator Sean Hannity? Sure. Did Bush more than hold his own with an audience that was ready to embarrass him in front of every national reporter in the country? Yes. Read full article » |
| Ted Cruz says motivating conservatives is key to winning White House |
| PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Ted Cruz may not be running for anything yet, but the senator from Texas nevertheless presented his theory here Friday night for why a presidential candidate like him would be best positioned to win back the White House for Republicans. Read full article » |
| Deals on ethics rules, reporting of sexual assaults wrap up Va. session |
| RICHMOND — In a frenzied final push late Friday, the General Assembly came to an agreement on the knotty issues of campus sexual assaults and ethics legislation — and managed to end the 2015 session one day ahead of schedule. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| At what price Netanyahu? |
| Do we really need the Israeli prime minister to appear before Congress to explain the dangers and pitfalls of certain prospective deals on Iran’s nuclear weapons programs? Would we not know otherwise? Have the U.S. critics of those prospective deals lost their voice? Are they shy about expressing their concerns? Are they inarticulate or incompetent? Do they lack the wherewithal to get their message out? Read full article » |
| ‘Jihadi John,’ a graduate of my radical university |
| Before traveling to Syria and becoming “Jihadi John,” the masked English-speaker who beheads Islamic State captives on video, Mohammed Emwazi graduated with a computer programming degree from the University of Westminster. I studied international relations there, and although I never met Emwazi, I wasn’t surprised he had attended my alma mater. Read full article » |
| Boris Nemtsov’s murder is another dark sign for Russia |
| BORIS NEMTSOV was a courageous Russian politician who never gave up on the dream that the country could make the transition from dictatorship to liberal democracy. Once an elected governor and a deputy prime minister in the government of Boris Yeltsin, he stubbornly continued to speak out and organize against the regime of Vladimir Putin after other opponents fled the country or lapsed into silence. Most recently, he called on Russians to participate in a protest march Sunday in Moscow. On Friday evening, he was gunned down, gangland-style, on a bridge near the Kremlin — a terrible blow to the cause of human rights and another dark sign of where Russia is headed. Read full article » |
| Jeb Bush, CPAC piñata |
| It happened just as Jeb Bush was about to explain why he thinks conservatives need to stop being perceived as “anti-everything”: Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference let it be known that, as part of their anti-everythingness, they are also anti-Bush. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Schools face new challenges as poverty grows in inner suburbs |
| The District and dozens of other city centers across the country are becoming younger, more affluent and better educated while poverty rates in inner suburbs are rising, according to a study from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Staying cold this weekend with chance of Sunday wintry mix |
| The storm ahead won't be big but may bring enough freezing rain to cause problems. Read full article » |
| D.C.-area news briefs |
| MARYLANDSchool bus driver charged with DUIA commercial bus on its way to pick up students in Montgomery County for a field trip was stopped by state police Friday north of Baltimore after witnesses said it was operating erratically, police said. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Wizards’ slump deepens with 89-81 loss at lowly Philadelphia |
| PHILADELPHIA — It would have been reasonable to believe the Washington Wizards had reached their lowest point Wednesday, when they lost by 20 to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the worst team in the Western Conference. On Friday night, the Wizards laid waste to such reason, plunging even further with an 89-81 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, a team constructed to lose with its sights set on the NBA draft lottery. Read full article » |
| Cricket World Cup 2015: New Zealand defeats Australia |
| In a battle of the co-hosts of the 2015 Cricket World Cup — and also, along with India, the two most impressive teams thus far — New Zealand defeated Australia by one wicket before more than 40,000 fans in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday night. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for Feb. 28 |
| NBA7 p.m. Detroit at Washington»Comcast SportsNet, WNEW (99.1 FM),WFED (1500 AM)9 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix»NBA TVNHL8 p.m. New York Rangers at Philadelphia»WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) Read full article » |
| Randy Wittman opens possibility for Bradley Beal return Saturday against Pistons |
| PHILADELPHIA — Friday morning, as the Washington Wizards (33-26) concluded shoot-around, Bradley Beal got some shots up with teammates. His fibula was pain-free but he already knew he wouldn’t play Friday night in the Wizards’ 89-81 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, Washington’s eighth straight game without him. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| This bill would halt Congress’s pay if Homeland Security shuts down |
| A potential Department of Homeland Security shutdown would directly affect lawmakers’ pocketbooks under a bill introduced in the House this week.The Democratic measure, sponsored by Reps. Brad Ashford (Neb.), Gwen Graham (Fla.), Scott Peters (Calif.) and Ami Bera (Calif.), would halt pay for members of Congress if they don’t agree to a new round of funding for the agency by Friday, in which case DHS would partially close. Read full article » |
| Fiction is fact on ‘House of Cards’: Real-life SCOTUS lawyer plays SCOTUS lawyer |
| The Washington as imagined in “House of Cards” requires some suspension of disbelief — but at least one scene this season will mirror real life.Fans who stayed home Friday to get an early start bingeing on the addictive series may have noticed a rather convincing performance by a character playing a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court. Read full article » |
| What’s in a name? A lot, the Supreme Court says. |
| Reporters covering the Supreme Court got an important message Thursday from the court: There was an error in the transcript of Wednesday’s oral arguments in an employment discrimination case.The case involved a woman who claimed Abercrombie & Fitch denied her a job because her headscarf didn’t comport with the company’s dress code. The company argued the woman didn’t say she wore the the headscarf for religious reasons. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Meet the 91-year-old whose wartime PTSD makes him the perfect guide for today’s veterans |
| They come into our office at the VA hospital in Montrose, N.Y., hesitantly. Eyes filled with doubt, hands restless. They want us to help them file compensation claims for disabilities resulting from their military service. Some have debilitating physical injuries, but almost every one also displays mannerisms — fidgeting in their seats, knees bobbing up and down during interviews, avoiding eye contact — that indicate that they have PTSD. The symptoms jump out at me because I have lived with PTSD for more than 70 years. Read full article » |
| Why shy teachers like shy students |
| The more similar the personalities of teachers and their pupils, the more likely the teachers are to grade them highly, according to new research from Germany. The findings again open up the debate around the subtle biases teachers have about their pupils and how important it is to try to minimize their impact on children’s progress through school. Read full article » |
| How China is exploiting Edward Snowden… or thinks it’s exploiting Edward Snowden |
| Reuters’ Paul Carsten had an exclusive Wednesday on China’s crafty steps to shut out Western technology companies. In essence, China is using the outrage over Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations to kick out Western firms and open up a secure market for indigenous Chinese tech firms: Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Israel to let water flow to West Bank development at center of political feud |
| JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has intervened to allow the newly constructed Palestinian city of Rawabi in the West Bank to connect to Israeli-controlled water sources, Israeli senior officials said Friday. Read full article » |
| Sweden blocks plan to honor woman who hit a neo-Nazi with a purse |
| When Danuta Danielsson stepped out of a crowd in the Swedish city of Växjö in 1985 and hit a neo-Nazi with her purse, the photo quickly became famous around the world. Danielsson was widely praised back then: Her mother had reportedly survived a German Nazi concentration camp, according to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. Read full article » |
| Afghanistan’s new leader will attend talks at Camp David next month |
| President Obama will host Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Washington next month, the White House said on Friday, as U.S. officials consider making changes to the administration plan for ending the military mission in Afghanistan. Read full article » |
| Watch: Israeli politician’s awkward imitation Frank Underwood from ‘House of Cards’ |
| Michael Oren, Israel's former ambassador to the United States and a candidate in the country's upcoming elections, appeared in a video heralding the new season of Netflix's hit show "House of Cards." He then goes on to urge voters to cast their ballot in favor of his Kulanu party, a small centrist faction, on March 17. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Inside one of the most intense, and unusual, Pentagon contracting wars |
| The much-anticipated contract was awarded just before Christmas. BAE Systems trumpeted its victory in a press release and got to work building the Army a new armored vehicle. Finally, one of Pentagon’s most intense—and bizarre—contracting wars was over. Read full article » |
| Don’t let emotions lead you to an unaffordable choice of college |
| It’s that time of year when parents and high school seniors are struggling with college choices. For many, the decision isn’t easy and can lead to family feuds.A dad from Virginia wrote to me asking for my thoughts on his family’s decision about where his daughter should go to college. Read full article » |
| Career Coach: Why do bosses fail? Sometimes they are too cautious |
| Have you ever prepared a report for a manager about a future opportunity for your firm, and waited and waited and waited, hoping it would eventually be implemented? And you wondered what was the hesitation? Sadly, this phenomenon seems to be a more common occurrence than we would like to see. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Should texts, e-mail, tweets and Facebook posts be the new fingerprints in court? |
| In an episode of the CBS show “Criminal Minds” that aired last year, an FBI team is on a frantic hunt for a missing 4-year-old. The team soon realizes that the girl has been given away by a relative, Sue, and that there’s no way Sue is going to reveal her whereabouts. Read full article » |
| Why Silicon Valley is the new revolving door for Obama staffers |
| In 2004, when Barack Obama was running for the U.S. Senate, he made his first visit to Google’s campus and saw firsthand how a search on the Internet worked. It left such a strong impression that he returned during his first presidential run vowing to protect the industry. Read full article » |
| Security firm finds link between China and Anthem hack |
| A Northern Virginia cyber security firm says it has uncovered links between Chinese government-sponsored researchers and the hack of health insurance giant Anthem.Malicious software used in the Anthem hack conclusively matches malware that was used to target a small U.S. defense contractor and that the FBI has said originated in China, said Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer of ThreatConnect. Read full article » |
| The ‘unstealable’ bike to begin shipping in September |
| Three college kids in Chile captivated the Internet last August when they released a video of an “unstealable” bike. The video showed off the prototype of a bicycle in which the frame transformed into a locking mechanism. A thief would have to cut through the frame to take it, making it not worth the trouble to steal. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| The guy who made Ted Cruz into a ripped, tattooed smoker |
| There's an image of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that seemed to be everywhere at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference: the senator shirtless, buff and tattooed, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Read full article » |
| O’Reilly clarifies remarks about what he saw in Northern Ireland |
| In his long and sometimes stormy career as a journalist and cable-news pundit, Bill O’Reilly has occasionally mentioned his exploits in conflict zones around the world. “I’ve been there,” he once said. “That’s really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I’ve seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven’t.” Read full article » |
| ‘Focus,’ ‘Maps to the Stars’ and other new movies, reviewed |
| In this week’s new releases, Will Smith stars in “Focus,” a film about a con artist and head of a criminal organization that specializes in small jobs. Julianne Moore stars in “Maps to the Stars,” a film that paints a satirical portrait of Hollywood. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Conquer social anxiety one small step at a time |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion.Dear Carolyn:In high school, I was very awkward and insecure. I avoided interacting with boys at all because I was afraid of rejection. Now in my 20s, I have grown into myself and I feel much more confident. Read full article » |
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