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| NBC’s Brian Williams steps away from anchor chair amid probe |
| Brian Williams said Saturday that he will step aside as anchor of his nightly NBC News broadcast for “several days” as a result of the controversy generated by his comments about his reporting during the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina. Read full article » |
| Santorums’ new book reveals how faith and love are tested by a daughter’s disability |
| Over and over, Rick Santorum has watched the old video of himself at a presidential candidate forum in Iowa. He can read in his strained expression the struggle that was going on in his mind as he tried to figure out how to answer a challenge put to the Republican contenders: “Bare your soul.” Read full article » |
| Urgency increases from world leaders trying to broker Moscow-Ukraine cease-fire |
| MUNICH — The viability of a joint French and German proposal to halt fighting in eastern Ukraine faced significant hurdles Saturday as European and American officials attending a security conference demanded that Russia withdraw its troops while Russian officials blamed the United States for the escalating violence. Read full article » |
| If you think gas is cheap these days, look what it costs in Saudi Arabia |
| RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Ahmed al-Ghaith pulled his Dodge Durango into a gas station in central Riyadh and told the attendant to fill it up. In a country where gas sells for 45 cents a gallon, that cost him $12. Read full article » |
| Paul looks for an opening in Iowa |
| AMES, Iowa — Sen. Rand Paul, nursing a cold, did not shake many hands on the first day of his swing through Iowa this weekend. Instead, he elbow-bumped activists as he made his way through crowds and hoarsely thanked them for their support. Read full article » |
| Dry winter sparks fears of another food crisis in North Korea |
| SEOUL — As North Korea heads toward the “barley hump” — the lean season before the rice and corn harvest in the summer — aid agencies are warning that an unusually dry winter is compounding chronic food shortages in the impoverished country. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Clinton builds a different campaign for 2016. Will she be different, too? |
| No one can say what kind of candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will be once she starts actively campaigning later this year. Last summer’s book tour and later public appearances highlighted the degree to which she is both rusty as a candidate and still grappling with the message for a 2016 campaign. Read full article » |
| Three weeks into Hogan’s governorship, promises of collaboration fade in Maryland |
| It wasn’t a good week for bipartisanship in Annapolis.In a major address, Maryland’s new Republican governor chided Democrats for the “floundering” economy. Democrats declared the governor’s proposed tax cuts dead on arrival and said his priorities were misplaced. And to underline their dismay, Democrats delayed confirmation of five Cabinet nominees. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Republicans cut and pasted their ‘new’ Obamacare alternative |
| Congressional Republicans took a novel approach to announcing their Obamacare alternative this week: out with the old and… well, back in with the old.On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee put out a news release announcing “Burr, Hatch, Upton Unveil Obamacare Replacement Plan.” The three men, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (Utah), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (Mich.) and Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), are well-regarded legislators, and the press went along with this “news.” Read full article » |
| The right’s crusade against Obama |
| Such is the daggers-drawn state of political discourse in Washington these days that President Obama could go to the National Prayer Breakfast, call the Islamic State a “brutal, vicious death cult” — and still end up being assailed by conservatives. Read full article » |
| Trust the dissidents, not the diplomats |
| Recently leaders of the free world flocked to Saudi Arabia to meet with the new king, where they praised the country as a partner for peace and center of stability. But many dissidents disagreed. As Mansour Al-Hadj, a liberal activist who lived in Saudi Arabia for 20 years, said: “Saudi Arabia is not stable. Deep down, people are not happy. Sooner or later, the winds of change will come to Saudi Arabia. The regime will fall.” Read full article » |
| Revoke the license of any doctor who opposes vaccination |
| Amateurs and hucksters are not the only people telling parents not to vaccinate their children. Unfortunately some doctors — men and women sworn to the Hippocratic Oath — are purveying junk science. They say that vaccines cause autism, as in the famous case of Andrew Wakefield, whose study drawing the link has been retracted. Or that measles isn’t that bad, so your child can skip the shots, as Jack Wolfson, a cardiologist in Arizona, says, adding that “the facts” show vaccines to be full of “harmful things” like “chemicals.” Or that, according to some parents, vaccines cause “profound mental disorders,” as Sen. Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist, warned before he walked the statement back. Or that vaccines cause “permanent disability or death,” in the words of Bob Sears, a pediatrician in California. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| D.C. area forecast: Enjoy a hint of spring today, just don’t get used to it |
| WEATHER GANG| Temperatures may approach 60 in some spots today before cooler air returns. Read full article » |
| Sunrise sunset spectacular in Washington, D.C. (PHOTOS) |
| Both today’s sunrise and sunset were so fantastic, it’s hard to say which was better. Read full article » |
| Thousands in dark in Gaithersburg; outage may last through Sunday, Pepco says |
| More than 8,000 homes and businesses in the Gaithersburg area of Montgomery County lost power Saturday night. On its Web site, Pepco said many might be without electricity until Sunday morning. The cause of the outage was not known immediately. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| John Wall paces Wizards to 114-77 rout of Nets as Bradley Beal sits with toe injury |
| John Wall turned his back to the basket at the three-point line to begin his post-up on Jarrett Jack, exhibiting the latest weapon in his expanding arsenal. Wall banged his way into the paint, then spun off the helpless Brooklyn Nets point guard. He encountered Cory Jefferson’s thrashing limbs and flipped a two-handed underhand scoop off the backboard. Read full article » |
| Bryce Harper does his best impersonation of Happy Gilmore |
| We all know Bryce Harper to be fiercely competitive. And we all know Harper goes full speed no matter the venue. And we all know that mammoth home runs are par for the course for the star outfielder of the Washington Nationals. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: February 8 |
| NHL12:30 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)3 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington » Comcast SportsNet, NHL Network,WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (1500 AM)7:30 p.m. Montreal at Boston » NBC Sports Network Read full article » |
| Virginia’s Justin Anderson breaks finger, expected to miss four to six weeks |
| Virginia junior guard Justin Anderson will be out four to six weeks with a fractured finger in his left, shooting hand, the school announced Saturday night. He is scheduled to have surgery on Sunday. Anderson suffered the injury in the first half of No. 3 Virginia’s 52-47 win over Louisville, and he did not play in the second half. His pinky and ring finger were wrapped together. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Rep. Schock's former senior aide featured in film about 'saving' Jews |
| It turns out that the Facebook comments that led to congressional staffer Benjamin Cole’s resignation Thursday weren’t the only series of eyebrow-raising remarks from his past floating around online. Read full article » |
| Postal Service reports $754 million loss for first quarter |
| Record-high volume in holiday package deliveries wasn’t enough for the U.S. Postal Service to overcome its financial troubles last quarter, as the agency more than doubled its net loss from the same period in 2014. Read full article » |
| Feds seek better pay, benefits |
| Like kids before Christmas, federal employee organizations are preparing wish lists — also known as their legislative priorities. But these folks don’t confuse hope with optimism. They know Congress is not a generous Santa: Much of what they want, they won’t get. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| I’m addicted to Facebook. And I’m okay with that. |
| This article originally appeared on Role Reboot.We are obsessed with Facebook, and obsessed with why we’re so obsessed with it. “There is something undeniably totalitarian about the combination of mass media, Web, and social media,” that great social networking grouch Jonathan Franzen once (or 20 times) intoned ominously. Read full article » |
| Islamic poets wrote their own crude irreverent satire, centuries before Charlie Hebdo |
| In the weeks since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, friends keep asking me why Muslims are so easily offended. They aren’t referring to the people who commit violence in the name of Islam, but rather figures like Tariq Ramadan, an Egyptian-born academic who condemns violence, but also the publication of inciting images. What it is about Islam, they wonder, that leaves people unable to take a joke? Read full article » |
| Scott Walker thinks my university has fat to trim. Yet my department is barely scraping by. |
| You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.Yet there I was on a cold January morning, the interview I needed to get less than 15 minutes away, panic mounting as each attempt to dial out on my department-issued speakerphone produced an electronic wail rather than a ring tone. I’m writing my dissertation on how Web sites owned by sports teams and leagues challenge our society’s most deeply held values about journalism. I collect my data by talking to the people who work for these sites. I need a working phone. My cell was acting as my voice recorder, so I couldn’t use it to make calls — not that the reception in my office is good enough to be trusted. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Germany is battling a measles outbreak that is 10 times worse than the one in the U.S. |
| The United States has been shocked by a surge in measles cases with more than 100 incidents in January alone.This, however, is much less worrisome than a current outbreak in Germany.While authorities there had hoped to completely eliminate the disease this year, 254 new cases emerged in January, primarily in Berlin. If we consider that the German population is only one fourth of the United States', the German measles surge was about 10 times worse than the one in the United States in January, relative to the total population. Read full article » |
| Islamic State claims American hostage killed in bombing in Syria |
| The Islamic State claimed that a 26-year-old Arizona woman taken hostage by the group in Syria was killed Friday when a Jordanian fighter plane bombed a building where she was being held.The claim could not be immediately verified, nor was it clear that Jordanian planes had bombed that location, described as being near Raqqa, the group’s de facto capital. The group released photos showing rubble of a building it claimed had been struck in airstrikes, but no images of the hostage, Kayla Mueller. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| The industry that charges low-income Americans to fix credit errors they can fix themselves for free |
| By the time she made it to the American Bill Pay Web site, with its testimonials and its guarantee to solve credit woes, Kimberly Cox couldn’t afford another problem.She was squeaking by on $720 per month in disability checks. Her credit score was a measly 530. She lived with her son, Logan, who moonlighted on weekends as a bullrider at amateur rodeos in western Arkansas. Neither had health insurance, and one rodeo night, a 2,000-pound bull bucked hard, knocking Logan to the ground. Read full article » |
| How big food brands are boosting profits by targeting the poor |
| Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's a good deal.Several of America's largest food manufacturers have been shifting their retail strategy, selling less of their packaged foods in traditional grocery stores and more of those foods in dollar and discount stores, according to a recent Reuters story. Kraft, which sells Veveeta sauce, has turned its attention to the cheaper retailers. So too have General Mills and Campbell's Soup. Read full article » |
| TurboTax resumes processing state returns after fraud reports prompt halt |
| TurboTax temporarily stopped processing state tax returns after noticing an increase in suspicious filings, the tax preparation software company said Friday.The company resumed e-filing of state returns at 6 p.m. Friday after halting the transmission of returns late Thursday to investigate reports of fraudulent state tax returns being filed through its software. The firm noticed an increase in “suspicious filings” and attempts from scam artists to use stolen personal information to file fraudulent state returns, giving them the ability to steal state tax refunds. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Google is serious about taking on telecom. Here’s why it’ll win. |
| First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecom — and it’s no experiment.In recent months, Google has said it’s bringing ultra-fast Internet to at least 18 cities, including Atlanta and Nashville. It announced pilot tests of a low-cost, modular smartphone. The company’s joined an influential lobbying group for upstart telecom firms. And now Google is considering an entry into wireless service, as first reported by The Information, a technology news site founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin. Read full article » |
| Docusign: Just sign here electronically |
| DocuSignSign here,and ask somebodyelse to do it, tooIt’s tax season, which probably means there are documents that need your signature. But if you don’t want to hunt down a fax machine or mess with scanners, consider adding your John Hancock via DocuSign’s mobile app. The app lets you save your signature by drawing on the touch screen or snapping a photo of your pen-and-paper signature with your phone — a process that requires you to get the lighting just so. You can also save a version of your initials, and request signatures from other people. (You need an account to use it.) Plus you can add your signature to documents saved in a Dropbox, Google Drive or Box account. Read full article » |
| Outlook: An update for smarter e-mail |
| OutlookMake that e-mailwork harderand smarterMicrosoft has updated its Outlook app for iOS and Android devices, adding many productivity features that can improve the way you use e-mail on your phone , especially your work e-mail. It adds a lot of features you can find elsewhere such as a priority inbox, the ability to set e-mails to come back to your inbox later and calendar integration. It draws all of those features together in a clean, seamless way and also supports multiple types of accounts. Read full article » |
| Why cable stocks surged after the FCC’s net neutrality proposal |
| It's the mystery of the morning.When Tom Wheeler, head of the Federal Communications Commission, announced his proposal Wednesday to regulate Internet providers, such as phone companies, shares of cable companies unexpectedly surged. Here's what happened to the stock prices of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter and Cablevision minutes after the news dropped. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Cure for the midwinter vegetable blues: Braise ’em |
| Even the most dedicated herbivore can get discouraged by the monotony of root vegetables, potatoes, onions, brassicas and such that crowd our midwinter produce sections. Fortunately, there’s a surefire remedy for the winter vegetable blues: braising. Read full article » |
| Pondering solutions to global warming in snowy Cambridge |
| Everyone needs a mission. I hope it doesn’t come off as immodest when I say that my professional mission in life is to save the world from superstition, madness and despair. It’s a heavy burden. There are times when, overcome with a sense of humility, I tell myself, “Although you are clearly the best person for this job, possibly you need help, the way Batman needed Robin.” Read full article » |
| Actor Jeffrey Wright in town to speak about Ebola |
| Hey isn’t that… Actor Jeffrey Wright, who you might remember from a ton of stuff including “The Hunger Games” franchise and HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” out at the Park Hyatt’s Blue Duck Lounge on Thursday night? Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Stop thinking of dating as solely a numbers game |
| Dear Carolyn: I’m an average-looking guy . . . let’s say a 6, and after years of dating, I’ve come to the conclusion that I have four options when it comes to women, none of which seems to add up to long-term happiness. Read full article » |
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