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| Jeb Bush has become the GOP front-runner for 2016 — so now what? |
| Mitt Romney’s decision to forgo a third try at the White House has settled the question of whether the 2016 GOP presidential field has a front-runner — bestowing a coveted status on former Florida governor Jeb Bush that also raises new challenges and perils. Read full article » |
| Kids in Liberia go back to school — in a building where dozens died of Ebola |
| MONROVIA, Liberia — The bodies had been removed from the classrooms. The blood and vomit of Ebola patients had been wiped away.Now, Tete Johnson needed to decide whether she was ready to send her fourth-grade son to a school that had only recently been used as an Ebola isolation center. Read full article » |
| She fought for patients’ rights, then she was put in a hospital against her will |
| The morning of the recommitment hearing, Alison Hymes sat in a small waiting area of a Virginia mental hospital in a navy blue sweatsuit, clutching a green composition book to her chest.She’d scribbled down a list of arguments in favor of releasing her from Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. They included: “Been here too long” and “Becoming institutionalized.” Read full article » |
| New Islamic State video appears to show beheading of Japanese journalist |
| TOKYO — The Islamic State released a video Saturday purportedly showing the beheading of Kenji Goto, a Japanese journalist being held hostage by the extremist group, after negotiations for a prisoner exchange stalled. Read full article » |
| Good cop, bad cop on North Korea? Washington plays the tough guy. |
| SEOUL — Differences between the United States and South Korea over their approach to North Korea are becoming increasingly apparent, and Seoul’s interest in exploring renewed contacts with its estranged Communist sibling could call into question the likely success of the Obama administration’s harder line. Read full article » |
| John B. Geer had hands up when shot by police, four officers say in documents |
| John B. Geer stood with his hands on top of the storm door of his Springfield, Va., townhouse and calmly said to four Fairfax County police officers with guns pointed at him: “I don’t want anybody to get shot . . . . And I don’t wanna get shot, ’cause I don’t want to die today.” Read full article » |
| Can the Seahawks defense do to Tom Brady what it did to Peyton Manning? |
| PHOENIX — Last season’s Super Bowl ended with the debate raging about where the Seattle Seahawks’ defense ranked among the all-time greats, and with Peyton Manning taking offense to being asked whether his team’s performance had been embarrassing. Read full article » |
| Expedia acquired Travelocity. Here is how it will it affect you. |
| Let’s just call Expedia’s $280 million acquisition of Travelocity, and the reportedly imminent sale of Orbitz, what it is: the latest chapter in an online-travel soap opera.If you’re an industry insider, this is juicy. But for the average traveler, it’s hard to figure out whether it means anything at all. So what if Expedia bought its former rival? And does it really matter who owns Orbitz? Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| 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 » |
| Chris Christie heads to London to polish up foreign policy credentials ahead of 2016 |
| LONDON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives here Sunday for a three-day tour of the United Kingdom designed to burnish his foreign policy credentials and cultivate relations with a critical American ally ahead of a likely presidential campaign. Read full article » |
| FACT-CHECK: Does Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan want to cut school funding? |
| Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan went on the defensive Friday morning when asked to explain why he has proposed to cut education funding by $144 million.“Well, first of all, it’s not true,” Hogan (R) said during the Marc Steiner Show’s annual “Annapolis Summit” broadcast. “We haven’t cut education. I’m spending more on K-through-12 education than any governor in the history of the state. We actually increased spending on education. . . . We just didn’t increase at the rate that people would like us to and that we would like to, frankly.” Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged |
| Bernie Sanders is in his natural state – of agitation.It’s just 9 a.m., but the socialist senator, contemplating a presidential run as a Democrat or as a populist independent, is red in the face and his white hair askew. In a conference room at The Washington Post, he’s raising his voice, thumping his index finger on the table and gesturing so wildly that his hand comes within inches of political reporter Karen Tumulty’s face. Read full article » |
| Guns, sex and arrogance: I hated everything about America — until I moved here |
| As a college student, I hated almost everything about America. Growing up in India, I never viewed the United States as the promised land of freedom and wealth idealized in movies. I never fantasized about a utopia of gold-paved streets. Instead, I saw America as a land of rudeness, overabundance and arrogance — the last place I ever wanted to be. Don’t get me wrong. Like many young people in India, I enjoyed Hollywood films, American pop music and TV shows. The humor in “Diff’rent Strokes” and “I Love Lucy” was totally endearing. Read full article » |
| Letting the air out of America’s season of wretched excess |
| Beer, Benjamin Franklin supposedly said but almost certainly didn’t, is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Without cannonballing into deep theological waters, perhaps DeflateGate proves the same thing. Read full article » |
| Dartmouth’s new college try |
| Dartmouth is giving drinking a new college try. That is, the drinking problem on its campus — and, by the way, on almost every college campus across the country. The logical thinking of Dartmouth’s mathematician president, Philip J. Hanlon, is that drinking — specifically, drinking to health- and safety-threatening excess — is not going to disappear. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Metro rushes to install more ‘low-smoke’ power cables after L’Enfant Plaza incident |
| The electrical malfunction that filled a Metro tunnel with smoke Jan. 12, killing one passenger and sickening scores of others, involved a type of power cable that the transit agency had planned to remove from the subway over the next decade, replacing it with cable that is designed to emit fewer noxious gases if it starts to burn. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Chance of wintry mix today and this evening; just rain late tonight into early Monday |
| WEATHER GANG | Precipitation will change to rain tonight, but a bit of snow earlier could slicken roads. Read full article » |
| Wintry mix may slicken roads on Super Bowl Sunday; most areas change to rain Sunday night |
| Game over for Super Bowl snowstorm? Not quite, but it would probably take a Hail Mary for snow lovers to get the win. Icy roads are still possible on Sunday, though. Read full article » |
| A roundup of news from across the Washington region |
| THE DISTRICTBody found in water near National AirportA body was discovered in a waterway near the southern tip of Reagan National Airport, and D.C. police are investigating the matter.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 » |
| SPORTS |
| No. 4 Duke closes strong, snaps No. 2 Virginia’s undefeated run, 69-63 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE — The formula for beating Duke, many believe, starts with defending star freshman center Jahlil Okafor. Contain him, and Virginia’s chances to beat the No. 4 Blue Devils on Saturday would be exponentially improved. Read full article » |
| John Wall stars through maladies in loss to Raptors but may sit out against Hornets |
| As John Wall spent his Saturday night nearly recording a triple-double, his head pounded and he avoided light at all costs. When the Washington Wizards starting lineup was announced before the game, he used his hand to block the beaming light shining on him. During the game, a 120-115 overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors, he draped a towel over his head when he sat on the bench. And after the game, he purposefully averted the radiant bulbs glittering just a few feet from his face. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: Feb. 1 |
| NFL 6:30 p.m. Super Bowl XLIX: New England vs. Seattle » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11), WJFK (106.7 FM) NHL1 p.m. St. Louis at Washington» NBC Sports Network, WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (1500 AM) MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Read full article » |
| Ledecky sets another record; Holton-Arms girls, Gonzaga boys are WMPSSDL champs |
| Katie Ledecky set a national high school record Saturday night under the most unlikely of circumstances.It didn’t seem possible. Not at a dimly lit pool in Prince George’s County. Not without a cast of collegiate and pro swimmers pushing her. Not when the second of two individual events was scheduled to begin 10 minutes after the end of her first. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| 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 » |
| CRS Report of the Week: The Affordable Care Act and Small Business: Economic Issues |
| It’s Friday morning which means it’s time for the Loop’s weekly CRS report brought to you from us because Congress won’t.This week we feature CRS’s analysis of Obamacare’s impact on small business — a flash point in the partisan fight over the law. 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 |
| Afghan police clash with protesters at rally against Charlie Hebdo |
| KABUL — Police clashed with protesters at a demonstration here Saturday against the French satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo, injuring at least two dozen people, said Afghan police officials and witnesses. 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 » |
| Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens |
| Starting Monday, thousands of Croatia's poorest citizens will benefit from an unusual gift: They will have their debts wiped out. Named "fresh start," the government scheme aims to help some of the 317,000 Croatians whose bank accounts have been blocked due to their debts. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| The fall — and overhaul — of the American mall |
| The Falls Church High School band played, Virginia Lt. Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. spoke and 4,000 balloons were released into the air. As many as 30,000 people came to mark the day.With the opening of the Landmark Regional Shopping Center, in the summer of 1965, Washingtonians finally had a mall to celebrate.Editor’s note: Readers told us they wanted to see more about Washington business in The Post, and we’re delivering it. Starting today, you’ll find a regular infusion of Capital Business coverage in the Sunday edition — as well as coverage throughout the week. Also, our weekly stock table will highlight companies with a strong Washington presence. 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 » |
| 100 years of stock market gains and losses, visualized |
| This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site.Are there good and bad days to play the stock market? Unfortunately no one can predict this for the future, but we can analyze what happened in the past. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| How to watch the Super Bowl online for free |
| Live sports can be the bane of the cord cutter's existence. But U.S. viewers will be able to easily (and legally) tune into the Super Bowl online this weekend.(For the non-sport fan readers: Super Bowl XLIX is happening this Sunday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 pm. It will be held in Arizona, where the New England Patriots will face off with the Seattle Seahawks.) Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| 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 |
| ‘The Great British Baking Show’ on PBS: Food Network, take note. |
| Dear Food Network,Loving the new baking show — on PBS. Even those of us who would rather pluck a bucketful of fresh thyme leaves than watch competitive cooking on television are, in a word, enchanted. We are eating up every episode of “The Great British Baking Show,” nee “The Great British Bake Off,” whose last-season finale drew more than 13 million U.K. viewers, a 50 percent audience share. 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 » |
| WaPoFood Weekend Kitchen: Self-cleaning pots and pans, sort of |
| Something will be simmering atop my stove on Super Bowl Sunday, but it won’t be the least bit appetizing, or edible. Ingredients: water and several tablespoons of a powdered food-and-beverage-stain remover for metal, porcelain and glass. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Wife doesn’t agree with his idea of how to spend time off |
| Hi, Carolyn: I have a young baby, 4 months old. I also have a wife. I expressed to my wife recently that I might take a day off for my birthday. She said I am mid-30s and should grow up and save my personal days for important things such as when the baby gets sick, and vacations. I reminded her I wasn’t able to use all of my personal leave last year (it is use it or lose it) and one day isn’t that big a deal. She remains disgusted with me on this topic. Read full article » |
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