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| Under pressure from Congress, Secret Service deputy director resigns |
| The Secret Service said Monday that its second-ranking official was resigning his post, a departure under pressure of one of the last remaining senior managers who had presided over a string of embarrassing security lapses in recent years. Read full article » |
| Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they’re ready for Warren |
| AMES, Iowa — Thirteen Iowa Democrats wearily took their seats here this weekend and discussed among themselves the source of their angst: Hillary Rodham Clinton.“I’m utterly tired, tired of the Clintons and the whole establishment,” said Carol Brannon, 71, a retired nurse. Read full article » |
| Obama makes clear he is in no rush to push U.S. deeper into Ukraine conflict |
| President Obama promised on Monday that Russia would suffer consequences for its continued aggression in eastern Ukraine, but he made one thing explicitly clear: He was in no rush to push America deeper into the conflict. Read full article » |
| The long-lost Apollo 11 artifacts discovered in Neil Armstrong’s closet |
| Neil Armstrong's widow, Carol, made quite the discovery. More than two years after Armstrong's death, Carol found a white cloth bag inside one of his closets that contained tools, hooks and a small camera. Read full article » |
| How a family adoption trip led to a charge of criminal child neglect |
| For three years, Jessica Smith’s son had been begging her for a little brother.Then the orphanage in Mongolia that had given her Ziggy called to tell her that it had another young boy for her. At the time, Ziggy, whose given name is Zorigt, had just started second grade at a D.C. public school. Read full article » |
| The mysterious nicotine lozenge that ex-smokers are hoarding |
| Bob Berens, a television writer in Los Angeles, first noticed back in July that it was getting hard to find the Nicorette lozenges he’d been consuming religiously ever since he quit smoking seven years ago. Neighborhood stores were tapped out. Soon, he was driving across the city to locate even a single box of the elusive product. Berens couldn’t figure it out. Stores still carried Nicorette gum and Nicoderm patches. Only the brand’s lozenges were gone. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Activist David Brock considers rejoining pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA |
| A clash that threatened to fracture a network of independent groups mobilizing to back a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential run was partially defused late Monday when liberal activist David Brock agreed to consider rejoining the board of a pro-Clinton super PAC. Read full article » |
| Scott Walker’s surge — in two charts |
| Scott Walker, we declared last week, is the first "it" candidate in the 2016 presidential race. But how exactly did he get that way?As we've discussed before, the Wisconsin governor gave a very well-received speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit a couple weekends ago. In the 2004 election cycle, that might not have meant much outside the folks who actually witnessed the speech. But this is the social-media age. Read full article » |
| Can the USPS cling to hope that people still want paper bills? |
| Many Americans still opt for paper billing despite a preference for online payments, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general’s office.The analysis, which covered three consecutive months of 2014 billing data for a major U.S. utility company, found that 91 percent of customers chose to receive their statements by mail, even though only one-quarter of them pay that way. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Bobby Jindal’s unpleasant record |
| Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took his presidential campaign-in-waiting to Washington on Monday trailed by an unwelcome, unsavory and downright unpleasant companion: his record.The interloper followed the Louisiana Republican into the St. Regis Hotel and crashed his breakfast meeting with three dozen reporters, at which Jindal planned to make the case to do for America what he did for Louisiana. Read full article » |
| The universality of evil |
| In 1916, Jesse Washington was accused of rape and murder and swiftly convicted. Washington was black and the woman was white, and the location was central Texas, a state that in the memory of men then alive had bolted from the Union over the issue of slavery. Upon his conviction, Washington was instantly seized by a mob. In downtown Waco, in front of schoolchildren free on their lunch hour, he was horribly mutilated and burned, his charred body hung from a tree. By all accounts, the crowd had a very good time. Read full article » |
| At the prayer breakfast, President Obama struck a patronizing tone |
| There is no doubt that President Obama’s remarks about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast last week were historically accurate. But they were also — let’s face it — glib, facile and patronizing. Read full article » |
| How educating children early and well creates a ripple effect for us all |
| In 2013’s and 2014’s State of the Union speeches, President Obama proposed universal pre-kindergarten as a means of helping poor children catch up with their richer peers.In this year’s speech, he eschewed all mention of universal pre-K. Instead he spoke of “universal child care,” as a means of helping working parents. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| D.C. Council backs down on marijuana hearing after attorney general warning |
| The D.C. Council abandoned plans to hold a hearing on how to tax and regulate marijuana Monday after the District’s new attorney general warned that it could subject city lawmakers and their staff members to fines and even jail time. Read full article » |
| News conference on Jesse Matthew case scheduled for Tuesday |
| Law enforcement officials in Albemarle County, Va., are expected to announce Tuesday morning that a Charlottesville man who has been charged with abducting University of Virginia student Hannah Graham will now face charges related to her death, according to media reports and a person knowledgeable about the investigation. Read full article » |
| It’s not all in your head: E-mail really is the biggest waste of your time |
| Can we all just stop?How many times have you grumbled about your e-mail. Then, in a burst of faux productivity, fired off a bunch just to get them out of your inbox? How often have you felt virtuously busy and productive all day, only, at the end of it to realize all you’ve done is … e-mail. Read full article » |
| Several icy spots cause problems on some roadways in Prince George’s and Howard counties |
| Updated at 5:56 a.m.Authorities said a crash is blocking all lanes on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at Route 100. It was not immediately known if there were any injuries or how long the closure would last. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Back to business as usual for NFL teams? |
| Richie Incognito is back in the NFL after agreeing to a deal Saturday with the Buffalo Bills.There is increasing speculation that Jameis Winston will be the top overall selection in the NFL draft.So can it really be said that NFL teams have changed the way they view players with troubled pasts in the aftermath of the Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy cases? Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for Feb. 10 |
| NBA8 p.m.Houston at Phoenix » TNT10:30 p.m.Denver at Los Angeles Lakers » TNT Read full article » |
| Boys’ basketball: Jason Jolly’s last-second shot leads Stone Bridge past Potomac Falls |
| When the ball left Jason Jolly’s hand, it seemed as if only a prayer could get it to go in.With the score tied, the clock ticking off the final seconds of the fourth quarter and Potomac Falls defenders draped all over him, the odds were stacked against the Stone Bridge senior guard. But Jolly, all 5-feet-7 of him, muscled his way into the paint, planted, jumped and released the ball before falling slightly backward and hitting the floor. Read full article » |
| Ed Sabol, founder of NFL Films, dies at 98 |
| Ed Sabol, a onetime coat salesman who talked his way into a job as the official motion-picture chronicler of National Football League action and whose dramatic action films played a crucial role in making pro football America’s most popular spectator sport, died Feb. 9 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 98 . Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Back to the future on nuclear spending? |
| The United States isn’t leading by example on the nonproliferation front. It’s increasing spending across the board on its nuclear weapons.President Obama’s budget for fiscal 2016 seeks $8.8 billion for the nuclear weapons programs run by the National Nuclear Security Administration. That figure is up almost 10.5 percent from this year’s congressionally approved figure and is projected to continue to grow. Read full article » |
| EPA watchdog faults own hiring and payroll practices |
| Talk about a taste of your own medicine. A federal watchdog office recently turned its spotlight inward and discovered problems with its own hiring and payroll practices.The inspector general’s office for the Environmental Protection Agency said in a series of reports last week that it doesn’t require managers to verify the employment history or references of job candidates and hasn’t always followed internal overtime policies or guidelines for reporting time and attendance. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Does the Obama administration really understand how economic sanctions work? |
| The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has returned from Antarctica and tried to process everything that has gone down over the past two weeks. The big thing that dropped over the weekend was the administration’s new National Security Strategy, just a short two years after it was scheduled to come out. Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| WORLD |
| American academics condemn Japanese efforts to revise history of "comfort women" |
| TOKYO — A group of American historians is issuing a call to their Japanese counterparts to remain steadfast in the face of pressure from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to play down the army’s use of “comfort women” during World War II. Read full article » |
| Why a year-old Washington Post article about violence in the Central African Republic went viral |
| Modern journalism thrives on analytic tools that tell us how often and widely our articles are being read. Understanding what readers are reading gives a sense of what news stories they feel are important to their lives. For analytics to really work, however, you also have to understand why readers are reading what they are reading. Sometimes, it's not that obvious. Read full article » |
| Germany’s xenophobic anti-Islam movement shocked the world. Then, it defeated itself. |
| Only a few weeks ago, Germany's Pegida movement attracted tens of thousands of supporters every Monday and was on its way to become a political power.Then, however, things started to go poorly for the German anti-Muslim protesters. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Pension plans, once inviolable promises to employees, are getting cut |
| JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tax revenue is up, home foreclosures are down, and, after a long absence, robust economic growth has returned to this sprawling city. But as far as municipal workers here are concerned, it feels as if the bad times never left. Read full article » |
| How a prep school math teacher has exploded the debate over affordable housing in San Francisco |
| In San Francisco, pretty much everyone agrees on one thing: The city’s housing is crazy expensive. Apartment-hunting causes its own form of PTSD. The rent, to put it simply, is too damn high.But even among those who care very much about creating more affordable housing in the city, a split has emerged around the definition of “affordable” itself. And even as rents have increased more than 50 percent in San Francisco since April 2011, leaving 59 percent of low-income people paying more than half their income in rent, it’s fracturing what political will exists to fix the problem. 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 Velveeta sauce, has turned its attention to the cheaper retailers. So too have General Mills and Campbell's Soup. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Senator: Your futuristic car is putting your privacy and security at risk |
| Cars these days have more in common with smart phones than the Model-T. But a new report from Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warns that the increasing technical complexity of vehicles is leaving drivers' security and privacy at risk. Read full article » |
| Sling TV launches nationwide, adds AMC |
| Sling TV launched its streaming service on Monday, saying that it will soon add AMC to its basic $20 online bundle of channels, which would make it the most complete offering of sports, news, premium shows and lifestyle channels for the Internet. 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 » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Rosie Assoulin: A female designer infiltrates fashion’s ‘boy wonder’ club |
| NEW YORK — The womenswear designer Rosie Assoulin is rooting around under one of the numerous layers of a floor-length skirt worn by a resolutely unflappable young model. In the middle of the Catholic school gymnasium that is serving as her temporary showroom, Assoulin is trying not to cause a stir by crawling around on her hands and knees in front of the crowd of editors who have assembled to inspect her Spring 2015 collection and to ask her to wax poetic about her inspiration. Read full article » |
| No one knows how to guess the Oscars this year, thanks to BAFTA and DGA surprises |
| The Oscars just got even harder to predict. This year, two groups that usually see eye-to-eye looked straight past each other. On Sunday night, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded best film and best director to “Boyhood” and its creator Richard Linklater, while on Saturday the Directors Guild Award went to Alejandro Inarritu for “Birdman.” Read full article » |
| Kris Humphries has a 30th birthday bash, and Roland Martin selfies with Gabrielle Union: Which VIP had the best weekend? |
| From attending the NAACP Image Awards in southern California to partying at local clubs, VIPs like Rep. Chakkah Fattah, Wizard Kris Humphries and model Amber Rose indulged in some off-the-clock entertainment. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Keeping mom out of the loop might give her peace of mind |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hey, Carolyn: I have a question about a child’s relationship with his parents the older they (and he) get. My mother is a fantastic woman and caring mother: Intelligent and earnest, she raised four boys to be happy, productive citizens. She and my father have been married for 40-plus years and are starting to enjoy their retirement and their new grandchildren. All of us have (in our minds) honest, open relationships with her and know how much of a part of our lives she still is. Read full article » |
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