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| The fatal intersection of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and the Marine veteran who killed him |
| STEPHENVILLE, Tex. — The Rough Creek Lodge and Resort is a remote, 11,000-acre luxury vacation spot where Chris Kyle had helped design the rifle range. It was a place where the former Navy SEAL, depicted in the recent movie “American Sniper,” hung out with fellow veterans, some of them struggling to find their places in civilian life. They bonded over a shared passion: shooting. Read full article » |
| Jeb Bush blows away the GOP competition in 2016 fundraising |
| Jeb Bush’s money juggernaut is far eclipsing the efforts of his would-be rivals for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, putting his two political committees on pace to amass an unprecedented sum of tens of millions of dollars by early spring. Read full article » |
| Without corruption, some ask, can the Chinese economic system function? |
| BEIJING – As China moves into the third year of its far-reaching anti-corruption campaign, experts and officials are worrying that without the grease of bribes, projects are stagnating and the economy is taking a hit. Read full article » |
| McConnell, after his no-shutdowns pledge, quickly finds himself boxed in |
| Less than six weeks on his powerful Capitol Hill perch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is on the verge of watching one of his most important promises — to never again shut down the government — go up in smoke. Read full article » |
| The country’s last black-owned banks are in a fight for their survival |
| Capital Savings Bank opened shop in Washington in 1888, making it the nation's first black-owned bank at a time when the mere notion of offering financial services to the African American community was a novel idea. Now black-run banks are in a fight for survival, even though many advocates argue that many African Americans remain starved for banking services. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Why the media paid more attention to Chris Christie than John Kitzhaber |
| Critics of the "mainstream/lamestream media" (hooray, that's us!) have begun to crystallize around a new point of fury. Why, the conservative site Newsbusters asks, did the media "obsess" over the travails of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) but "barely recognize the name" of just-resigned Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D)? The unsubtle suggestion is that it has to do with those parenthetical letters after their names. Twitter, being Twitter, took up the charge. Read full article » |
| Barbara Bush: ‘I changed my mind’ about Bush dynasty |
| BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- Two years ago, former first lady Barbara Bush said there had been "enough Bushes" in the White House.On Friday night here, the family matriarch declared -- lest there be any doubt -- that she had changed her mind. Read full article » |
| Obama wants to go to Stanford |
| PALO ALTO, Calif. -- President Obama always does well on college campuses. But he has taken a particular shine to Stanford University.Maybe it's because the campus was sun-drenched and a balmy 73 degrees on Friday, a marked contrast to the freezing temperatures in Washington. Or because some of his top advisers went here. Or because it helped spawn the computer revolution -- a fitting place for him to address a summit on cybersecurity. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| When letting your kids out of your sight becomes a crime |
| We all want what is best for our children. We want them to be happy and successful, and we want to protect them from harm. But what if we are protecting them from extremely remote threats while ignoring the things that most endanger their well-being? What if police and child welfare officials, the experts whom we empower to protect our children, are pursuing phantom problems while neglecting those who are truly at risk? Read full article » |
| Why science is so hard to believe |
| There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” in which Jack D. Ripper, an American general who’s gone rogue and ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, unspools his paranoid worldview — and the explanation for why he drinks “only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol” — to Lionel Mandrake, a dizzy-with-anxiety group captain in the Royal Air Force. Read full article » |
| How unrequited love can make us more creative |
| When Sam Smith accepted his fourth Grammy last Sunday, he acknowledged an unusual muse. “I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year,” Smith said of the inspiration for the hit song “Stay With Me.” “Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys.” The award show’s best record had been inspired by unreturned affection. Read full article » |
| After Chapel Hill, the conversation American Muslims need to have |
| Aquiet debate is underway among American Muslims about how to reclaim our faith and affirm our love of the prophet. “Je suis Charlie” may have spread across social media following the massacre at the offices of the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo. But to many Muslims, “Je suis Muhammad” was the truer response. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Report: Hogan’s gas-tax relief would threaten billions in transit projects |
| Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s bill to cancel upcoming gas-tax increases would sap nearly $3 billion from planned road and transit projects over the coming six years, according to a draft document from the state Department of Transportation. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Snow squalls this evening ahead of dangerous wind chills tonight into Sunday |
| WEATHER GANG | Evening snow squalls will usher in frigid air and fierce winds will make it feel worse. Read full article » |
| More than 500 researchers sign NCLB letter to Congress: stop test-focused reforms |
| More than 500 education researchers around the country have signed an open letter to Congress and the Obama administration about how the No Child Left Behind law should be rewritten, saying that they “strongly urge departing from test-focused reforms that not only have been discredited for high-stakes decisions, but also have shown to widen, not close, gaps and inequities.” Read full article » |
| David Carr, candid memoirist and N.Y. Times media columnist, dies at 58 |
| “I’m not what you would call the classic Timesman,” David Carr once said, with no little understatement. A journalist who became the leading media columnist of his era and one of the most prominent reporters at the New York Times, Mr. Carr was a onetime crack addict and alcoholic who had never worked for a daily newspaper before arriving at the august Times in 2002. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Nats promotional schedule includes Star Wars day, a Anthony Rendon gnome and a Jayson Werth chia-beard |
| The Nats released their 2015 promotional schedule Friday afternoon, a calendar highlighted by the franchise’s first Star Wars day, an Anthony Rendon gnome, a tribute to Frank Robinson and a Jayson Werth Chia Pet whose face will sprout actual green chia-stuff. Read full article » |
| Cricket World Cup 2015: New Zealand defeats Sri Lanka |
| New Zealand opened the Cricket World Cup with an impressive 98-run victory over Sri Lanka on Friday night in Christchurch, New Zealand.Spin bowler Daniel Vettori, 36, took two wickets for 34 runs and also had two catches. But the man of the match was Corey Anderson; he took two wickets in 3.1 overs and, batting sixth, added 75 runs on 46 deliveries. New Zealand’s opening partnership of captain Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill scored 111 runs before McCullum was out for 65. Read full article » |
| Boys’ basketball: No. 13 McNamara upsets No. 1 DeMatha |
| With his team down three points at halftime against top-ranked DeMatha in Forestville, McNamara Coach Marty Keithline told his players to stick with what the team does best, which is sharing the ball, playing aggressive and collectively rebounding. Read full article » |
| Girls’ basketball: Wakefield knocks off Mount Vernon |
| Wakefield Coach Marcia Richardson feels her team will have a target on its back entering the postseason after Friday night’s 62-48 victory over Mount Vernon. The Warriors (13-9, 8-3 Conference 13) received 22 points from senior forward Lyric Hatcher and 17 from sophomore guard Summer Matlack. This win over Mount Vernon (13-9, 7-4) ended a 19-game skid against the Majors. Wakefield has now won eight of its last nine games. Read full article » |
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| Who’ll succeed Ebola Czar Ron Klain? |
| Now that Ebola czar Ron Klain has left the White House, the question arises as to who will take over his duties.Word is that Amy Pope, deputy assistant to the president for homeland security, will be tasked for the job — though not as a czarina. She will oversee the Ebola response as part of her portfolio, according to a senior administration official. Read full article » |
| In lawsuit response, Rep. Farenthold office denies former staffer’s claims of discrimination |
| Rep. Blake Farenthold’s office admits to some inappropriate comments alleged in a lawsuit but strongly denies that a former communications director was fired because she complained of gender discrimination and a hostile work environment. Read full article » |
| Obama aide John Podesta says ‘biggest failure’ was not securing the UFO files |
| Outgoing Obama counselor John Podesta remains a devoted fan of things extraterrestrial. When Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, returned to White House duty in late 2013, we wrote that his arrival meant “the Obama presidential library will be inundated — just as the Clinton library in Little Rock has been — with Freedom of Information Act requests, such as this one: for ‘e-mails to and from John Podesta, containing the words either, X-Files or Area 51.’” Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Forget opposites attract — to be happy, find someone like you |
| Relationships are often interpreted as the outcome of an exchange of goods and services. Common knowledge says that the sexes want different things from a partner.These preferences are often reduced to shallow, one-dimensional demands — beauty for men and resources for women. “Opposites attract,” they say. No one asks, “Why did that beautiful, young woman marry that old, old man?” because they already know the answer. He had something she wanted and she had something he wanted. Read full article » |
| No, atheism does not need a moment of reckoning |
| After the discovery that the man who murdered three Muslim students in North Carolina on Wednesday was an atheist, it was a matter of hours before the media conversation shifted from simple horror and mourning to a discussion of the attack’s implication for atheism. Read full article » |
| Why the debate over austerity won’t end anytime soon |
| As 2015 unfolds, the U.S. economy continues to rebound and the Eurozone economy continues to… not do that. So you would think that the debate over the merits of austerity would have been settled. After all the United States deployed expansionary fiscal and monetary policies for a longer time than Europe, with a more modest switch back to austerity after 2010. The Eurozone abandoned fiscal stimulus pretty early, the European Central Bank prematurely raised interest rates, and the result is an economy that is underperforming the Great Depression. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Turkey’s Erdogan to Obama: Where’s outrage about Chapel Hill shootings? |
| In the wake of a shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., that left three young American Muslims dead, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan made an unusual public criticism of American domestic policy Thursday, specifically challenging President Obama. Read full article » |
| How a method used to wipe out smallpox is making a comeback in the fight against Ebola |
| Scientists are launching tests of two experimental Ebola vaccines in West Africa. In one of the countries, Guinea, they are turning to a method that helped wipe smallpox off the globe.In the 1960s, as smallpox raged across parts of Africa, Asia and South America, the leading global strategy was to vaccinate masses of people against the disease. Smallpox, which is caused by the variola virus, spreads by direct contact or through droplets of saliva transmitted in a person's breath. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Your healthy habits are eating into the packaged foods industry |
| The strategies of some of America’s largest packaged foods companies appear to be running up against their shelf life.This week, Kraft Foods said its profits fell 62 percent last year, results that led chief executive John T. Cahill to call 2014 a “difficult and disappointing” year for the company behind Jell-O and Oscar Mayer. Read full article » |
| One of the $564 million Powerball lottery winners might actually be a lot luckier than the others |
| The only thing better than winning the lottery might be winning the lottery in Puerto Rico.One of the three winners of the recent $564 million Powerball jackpot purchased their prize ticket at a gas station in Ponce, a municipality in southern Puerto Rico, marking the first time anyone outside the continental United States has shared in the lottery's winnings. The victory is something of a miracle for the island, where Powerball has only been operating since October. It also raises a question that could be worth more than $30 million for the lucky ticket holder: Will the winner have to pay federal taxes on the prize money, or will the cash come free of federal taxes like all other lottery prizes that are doled out on the island? Read full article » |
| A major airline’s flight attendants must ask permission to get married |
| Over the last 20 years, Qatar Airways has undergone a remarkable transformation. Backed by tiny Qatar’s government riches, the airline has added routes to every populated continent, soaring from the 90th-largest international carrier to the 10th. Its prices on flights to D.C., New York, Miami and Dallas are cheap enough to pose a major challenge for U.S. carriers, who are trying to fight back. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| How to use Apple’s new security features (and why you should) |
| Apple said late Thursday that it's offering users a new security feature for its Messages and Facetime features. Now Apple users can opt to be asked to enter a second, one-time use code, in addition to their normal username and password when they log in on a new device. The code can be texted to you, or show up on an Apple device already linked to your account. Read full article » |
| Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘We believe deeply that everyone has a right to privacy and security.’ |
| Apple's Tim Cook was the only major tech CEO at President Obama's cybersecurity and consumer privacy summit at Stanford University on Friday. Cook used the platform to make a case for a strong right to privacy -- and throw some shade at the competition. Read full article » |
| Top cable lobbyist: ‘Customer service right now is completely unacceptable.’ |
| Here's something you probably didn't expect the cable industry to admit: "Customer service right now is completely unacceptable."That's some real talk from cable's biggest trade group, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Its leader, Michael Powell, is acknowledging the frustration many consumers feel when they look at their bills every month or call their providers for service. Read full article » |
| Mattel and Google have designed a new toy. And it’s ‘meh.’ |
| After plenty of hype, Mattel and Google announced Friday what they've been working on: a new View-Master that relies on Google's virtual-reality Cardboard platform.The new device allows kids -- the target market -- to experience augmented or virtual reality with simulated 3-D images from films or television shows. The updated View-Master resembles a pair of ski goggles and is powered by an Android smartphone. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Valentine’s Day? How about we just don’t. |
| It’s Valentine’s Day! Bring on the flowers and the stuffed teddy bears, the candy hearts and the drugstore aisles lined with pink and red. March out the prix-fixe menus, the Hallmark cards and the heightened expectations of those who are young and in love and anxious for a diamond-studded proposal. Read full article » |
| Beloved by journalists, David Carr was always looking for the next David Carr. |
| In a business known for eating its own (just ask Brian Williams), David Carr enjoyed a singular status. Among journalists, a breed that doesn’t bestow it lightly and doesn’t agree on much else, he was accorded a near-universal respect. Read full article » |
| ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ and other new movies, reviewed |
| In this week’s new releases, the film adaptation of E.L. James’s best-selling erotic romance novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” features a superb performance by its lead Dakota Johnson, but ultimately the film falls short. “Kingsman: The Secret Service” is a witty action-packed thriller about a spy organization; the film receives three stars. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Truth in dating counts, even in the short term |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion.Dear Carolyn:I am a serial monogamist. I love having one person to go on dates with, be there for, have there for me and come home to at the end of the day. My relationships have typically not inhibited my friendships or growth as a person — usually they help me discover things about myself. I am comfortable being single, but I prefer having a partner who is more than a friendship. Read full article » |
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