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| The anatomy of a failed hostage rescue deep into Islamic State territory |
| On the evening of Thursday, June 26, the Pentagon sent a bold hostage rescue plan to the White House for approval. Dozens of Special Operations forces would fly into Syria under the barest sliver of moonlight, set down in the heart of Islamic State territory and snatch four Americans being held by the militants. Read full article » |
| Storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers but also led to his downfall |
| The story of Brian Williams is almost impossible to believe.And that’s just if you include the parts that are real.It’s almost impossible to believe that a kid reporter who couldn’t find his way out of a small-market dead end would get his big-market break operating an off-camera graphics machine in a Washington newsroom. Read full article » |
| In drive to be 45th president, Jeb Bush faces legacies of 43rd and 41st |
| BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — Jeb Bush came here this weekend to bask in the glow of his extended family. His sister called him “remarkable and brilliant,” a president-in-waiting. His mother said she had changed her mind, that it was time after all for another Bush in the White House. And his father, the 41st president, cheered him on. Read full article » |
| Amid doubts, truce in Ukraine appears to take hold |
| ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — A newly-declared cease-fire in eastern Ukraine appeared to mostly hold through the night Sunday, though both Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels had traded accusations of violations by the morning. Read full article » |
| NPR host Diane Rehm emerges as a key force in the right-to-die debate |
| Diane Rehm and her husband John had a pact: When the time came, they would help each other die.John’s time came last year. He could not use his hands. He could not feed himself or bathe himself or even use the toilet. Parkinson’s had ravaged his body and exhausted his desire to live. Read full article » |
| Judge tangled up over tying the knot |
| CLANTON, Ala. --Bobby Martin had always found comfort in his job as a judge, the way it felt like a neat intersection of legality and morality, but last week it seemed to him like those two virtues had diverged. As the probate judge of Chilton County, Martin, 69, was in charge of issuing marriage licenses, and he’d done so for 26 years, in a courthouse next to the Baptist church he’d attended for decades, in the town he’d lived in since birth, to any heterosexual couple who came through the doors. This place of churches and farmland had always made sense to him, but now he’d been told he would need to start issuing licenses to same-sex couples, and he didn’t know what to do. Read full article » |
| Post reporter and his wife accused of espionage, Iranian hard-liner says |
| An arch-conservative member of the Iranian parliament and outspoken critic of the country’s centrist president has claimed that there is an “espionage case” against imprisoned Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife. Read full article » |
| Jindal, antiabortion activists block Planned Parenthood in New Orleans |
| NEW ORLEANS — Planned Parenthood began construction here last year on a clinic that would perform abortions and provide other medical services for women. “High-Quality, Affordable Health Care for New Orleans,” a sign promised. “Seeing Patients Early 2015.” Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| It’s 2015, not 2016: The presidential races won’t be decided today |
| Sometime in the future, people will look back on these early weeks of 2015 and decide what, if anything, was important in the making of the president in 2016. At this point, it’s all normal people can do to keep their bearings. Read full article » |
| GOP freshmen making an early mark in the Senate |
| Capitol Hill adage: Freshman senators should be seen and not heard. That idea has been in decline for a while, and it was definitely not part of the orientation packet for the big GOP class of 2015. Less than six weeks into their new terms, the dozen newest Republican senators have quickly made a mark on Capitol Hill, both in front of the cameras and behind closed doors. Republican leaders have enlisted them to rebut President Obama and to try to break a logjam with the House GOP. One flashed his comedy chops at a swanky dinner. Another attracted national attention with unusually sharp language at a committee hearing. Read full article » |
| White House will intervene in West Coast ports strike |
| CALIFORNIALabor secretary will aid stalled port talksWith the West Coast dock strike reaching a critical point, the White House announced Saturday that Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez will start talks with the two sides. 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 |
| Slick roads, crashing temperatures, roaring winds and dangerous wind chills overnight |
| Earlier flurries and plunging temperatures are creating hazardous driving conditions. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Crazy cold and windy Sunday with dangerous wind chills; snow possible Monday night-Tuesday |
| WEATHER GANG | Wicked winds and brutal cold make this a good day to not venture out the front door. Read full article » |
| Swift storm causes traffic, power woes in D.C. region |
| As much as for the fierce gusts and the blinding snow the Valentine’s Night storm in the Washington area was memorable for how suddenly it arrived.Temperatures plummeted, winds ramped up, snow made sidewalks and roadways treacherous, and everything seemed to happen within a few furious minutes in which Washington was transformed into the Arctic. Read full article » |
| 14 couples say ‘I do’ on Valentine’s Day in rare opening of D.C. Superior Court |
| Teresa Bell stood in a red lace wedding dress and red pillbox hat, nervously clutching a bouquet of red roses mixed with chocolate hearts covered in red glitter.In a few minutes, she would become one of 14 couples to wed Saturday at D.C. Superior Court’s Marriage Bureau, which opened its doors for the first time on a weekend in decades to accommodate the requests of couples wanting to say “I do” on a day set aside for romantic love. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Virginia basketball escapes Wake Forest, 61-60 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE —Virginia’s offense finally discovered its rhythm without injured guard Justin Anderson on Saturday against Wake Forest. Yet it was the Cavaliers’ trademark defense that nearly doomed them in a 61-60 victory over the Demon Deacons at John Paul Jones Arena. Read full article » |
| Scorpion on a plane: Oregon State’s flight delayed because of stinging |
| Some passengers had to wonder ‘Where is Samuel L. Jackson when we need him?’On Saturday night, the Oregon State men’s basketball team lost to USC, 68-55. Afterwards, the team boarded its plane in Los Angeles to return home. But the commercial flight was delayed … after a scorpion stung a female passenger. Read full article » |
| Kings turn tables on Capitals, roll to 3-1 win at Staples Center |
| LOS ANGELES — Defenseman Mike Green reached into the net with his stick, the one he had already whacked against the boards in anger, and flung the puck the length of the ice, like he was hoping to dispose of the evidence. The Washington Capitals had understood the urgency clutched by their hosts, teetering on the playoff fringes and scrapping for their lives. They knew the Los Angeles Kings would emerge feisty Saturday night, and now here came the swift kick that sent them tumbling back down the slope. Read full article » |
| NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to ‘take action’ in second season |
| NEW YORK — In his first year as NBA commissioner, Adam Silver removed longtime league pest Donald Sterling, oversaw two franchises being sold for record prices and negotiated a television rights deal that will soon triple revenues. But after a busy, productive lap as David Stern’s successor, Silver said “it’s time to take action” his second year. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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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 |
| Plot to kill people at a Halifax mall is thwarted, Canadian police say |
| TORONTO — They planned to meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and go to a mall. There, they would pull out their guns and carry out a murderous Valentine’s Day rampage before killing themselves.That is the plot Canadian police said Saturday that they foiled with the arrest of two suspects and the death of another. Read full article » |
| André Brink, South African novelist whose works were banned, dies at 79 |
| André Brink, a South African novelist who challenged his country’s apartheid policies in his writing and who, in the 1970s, was the first writer in the Afrikaans language whose work was banned in his homeland, died Feb. 6 on an airline flight from Amsterdam to Cape Town. He was 79. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| What do falling oil prices mean for the U.S. in the short and long term? |
| Since early 2014, the price of oil has plummeted. It peaked last year at $105 a barrel and is now about $50.The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy. The huge drop in price has a significant impact in the United States — on corporate profits, employment and capital spending. Still, there has been a lot of misinformation — scare-mongering, really — about falling oil prices. A little context here can go a long way. Read full article » |
| How couples cope when money is an unequal yoke |
| There’s an expression in the Christian community that’s used quite often to refer to marriage. Couples are encouraged to avoid being “unequally yoked.”In other words, being with someone who does not share your faith and values. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Odd inventions that we somehow love |
| Whether a toilet looks acceptable or not depends on what part of the world you’re staring down at it from.I’m talking, of course, about bidets. For the most part, they’re nearly indistinguishable from any other standard toilet except for a small upward facing nozzle beneath the seat where water shoots out. Long popular in Japan, it allows users to soak and rinse on top of wiping — a notion that’s generally considered strange in America and hence the technology largely unheard of here. Over there, however, it’s simply cleaner. Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| What happens when your waiter is a drone |
| A Singapore restaurant plans to use drones to transport food and drinks from the kitchen to a wait station near customers’ tables by the end of this year.Infinium Robotics, the Singapore company that’s developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre, showed off the technology here: Read full article » |
| Apple Pay gets a big vote of confidence from the U.S. government |
| Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced on Friday a major new merchant for the company's mobile payment solution: the U.S. government."Starting in September, Apple Pay will be available for many transactions with the federal government, like for example when you pay for admission to your favorite national park," Cook said at a White House organized cybersecurity summit at Stanford University. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| NYFW: Why are designers afraid of women’s sex appeal? |
| Robin Givhan, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning fashion critic, is covering New York Fashion Week. Follow along as she makes her way from runway to runway. Read her stories on Style Blog and follow her on Twitter: @robingivhan. 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 » |
| 40 years of NBC sketch comedy: ‘Saturday Night Live’ by the numbers |
| Fortyis the magic number for “Saturday Night Live” this weekend as the popular sketch-comedy show celebrates four decades on late-night TV. On Sunday night, NBC offers a three-hour special to commemorate the legendary run that shows no signs of slowing down. The number 40 may be the big one this weekend, but over its long stretch the series has piled up plenty of other numbers as well. Here are some of the highlights: Will Ferrell and Dana Carvey as the George BushesTina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary ClintonAnnouncer Don Pardo in May 1980Alec Baldwin with Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon in 1998The Coneheads --- Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman in 1983 Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Swept away by romance of marriage and blind to the reality |
| Hi, Carolyn: My boyfriend and I have been dating for five years now, and it’s been really great. We’ve spent part of college together, overcome the transition of moving to a new and exciting city, landed happy career paths, and moved into our first apartment together last year. All and all, the past five years have been amazing, and we’ve really been able to grow up together, overcome challenges, and positively push each other to be better people. Read full article » |
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