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| NBC suspends Brian Williams as its lead anchor for six months |
| NBC said Tuesday night that it is suspending Brian Williams as its lead anchor for six months as a result of a burgeoning scandal involving exaggerated statements he has made about his reporting. The network said that the suspension would be immediate and without pay and that Lester Holt would substitute for Williams while he is out. Read full article » |
| Navy censures 3 admirals in far-reaching bribery investigation |
| The Navy announced Tuesday that it has censured three admirals for ethics violations as part of a historic corruption scandal that has already tarred several other high-ranking officers and is threatening to spread further through the ranks. Read full article » |
| A key player in Yemen’s political chaos? A strongman ousted in 2012. |
| SANAA, Yemen — For more than three decades, Ali Abdullah Saleh had a firm grip on power in this destitute Arabian nation, winning a civil war, deftly managing restive tribes and outwitting political opponents. Then an uprising forced him from the presidency in 2012. Read full article » |
| A quieter Chris Christie emerges in Iowa, hoping to find a path to 2016 |
| WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — A man claiming to be the brash-talking governor of New Jersey showed up at a gathering of Republicans here this week and spoke quietly about his record and his priorities — cutting government, keeping the nation safe and, if necessary, working with Democrats. Read full article » |
| Most U.S. troops will return from Ebola fight by end of April |
| All but 100 of the 1,300 U.S. troops who are assisting the fight against Ebola in West Africa will return home by April 30, the White House announced Tuesday night.The White House cited “the improved epidemiological outlook” and said that the remaining Defense Department personnel would be “leveraging” relations with military forces in Liberia and other regional allies and help strengthen measures for disease prevention. Read full article » |
| Jeb Bush’s chief technology officer resigns after racially insensitive comments |
| Jeb Bush accepted the resignation late Tuesday of the digital guru he had recruited for his likely 2016 presidential campaign after racially insensitive comments the aide previously made surfaced and threatened to undermine Bush’s bid for the White House. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Jeb Bush hits a few hitches as he prepares to start campaign |
| Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is hitting the campaign trail full tilt this week — and feeling the full glare of the front-runner spotlight.On Tuesday, the potential 2016 contender continued an increasingly aggressive fundraising push with a high-profile event in his home state, took on a major policy challenge at a public event, and took assertive new steps to introduce himself to voters on the national stage. Read full article » |
| Jon Stewart is leaving the ‘Daily Show.’ Where will young liberals get their news now? |
| Jon Stewart is leaving the "Daily Show" at the end of the year. Stephen Colbert left the "Colbert Report" a few months ago to take over for David Letterman at CBS.And as they head out the door, so do leading news sources for many of the youngest, most liberal Americans. Read full article » |
| Report warns of bloated IT budgets for federal agencies |
| The U.S. government spends vastly more than the private sector on information technology but doesn’t receive enough bang for its buck, according to a report from an industry group.An recent analysis from the International Association of IT Asset Managers found that federal agencies spent an average of $36,000 per employee on IT last year, compared to less than $5,000 per worker in the private sector. Read full article » |
| Martin O’Malley’s approval rating improved in Maryland since October |
| Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (D), who left office last month and is weighing a 2016 White House bid, is viewed more favorably by voters in his state now than he was during last fall’s race to succeed him. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Brian Williams needs to go |
| Indecision may not be the best quality in a columnist, but in the case of NBC News anchor Brian Williams, that’s what I find in myself: I doubt that the six-month suspension the network announced Tuesday night is enough, and I think he needs to step down. Read full article » |
| Why did Brian Williams do it? |
| These are tough times for NBC’s Brian Williams — and tougher times for journalism. The NBC newsman was suspended Tuesday night for six months amid charges that he misremembered or conflated wartime incidents he reported on from Iraq and Israel. He has also come under scrutiny for possible conflations in reporting from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Read full article » |
| John McCain sees a world on fire |
| John McCain toiled for 28 years in the Senate before he finally won the chairman’s gavel of the Armed Services Committee last month. Now he’s making up for lost time. The 78-year-old Arizonan strode quickly into Tuesday’s hearing of the committee — the ninth he has had in three weeks, with four more scheduled this week alone — and attempted to rush through approval of Ashton Carter’s confirmation as defense secretary without so much as a formal vote. Read full article » |
| Despite resistance, Alabama heads the right way on same-sex marriage |
| ROY MOORE, Alabama’s top judge, threw a fit this week over a federal court decision ordering the state to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The result was unnecessary and counterproductive statewide confusion as gay and lesbian couples attempted to wed and state officials weighed whether they should listen to Alabama’s chief justice or the federal judiciary. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wants to kill the hated ‘rain tax.’ But can he? |
| One of the few specific promises that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) made on the campaign trail last year was this: If elected, he would kill the much-loathed “rain tax.”That issue is at the heart of legislation the governor unveiled Tuesday — the first non-budget bill he has touted since taking office three weeks ago. But killing a tax isn’t simple, it turns out. And even if Hogan’s bill passes the Democrat-dominated legislature, Maryland taxpayers shouldn’t expect anything to change right away. Read full article » |
| Manslaughter charge prompts church to examine relationship with alcohol |
| With a history of sherries at church coffee hour and wine during Holy Communion, Episcopalians have long endured — and shared — jokes about their drinking (for example: “wherever two or three are gathered, there’s a fifth.”) Yet the relationship is complicated. Read full article » |
| Chance of snow showers tomorrow before weekend blast of bitter cold |
| A pair of cold blasts have their sights set on D.C. heading into the holiday weekend. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Wizards brace for Raptors without Bradley Beal and possibly Kris Humphries |
| On Friday, with their season at a low point, the Washington Wizards arrived at Verizon Center for more than just a practice. They were there to figure out how to stop their five-game losing streak. As always, they practiced and watched film. But the sessions included conversations geared toward putting their predicament in perspective. Read full article » |
| Is Alex Ovechkin Washington’s best pro athlete of the past 50 years? |
| Early on Super Bowl Sunday — before the Skittles and interceptions — Alex Ovechkin was on national television, doing his normal left-shark thing. Against one of the NHL’s best teams, Ovechkin notched two goals, giving the 10-year veteran his 10th straight 30-goal season. The four other men who accomplished that feat to start a career — Mike Gartner, Wayne Gretzky, Mike Bossy and Jari Kurri — are all in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: February 11 |
| NBA7:30 p.m. Washington at Toronto » Comcast SportsNet, WNEW (99.1 FM)8 p.m. Miami at Cleveland » ESPN10:30 p.m. Houston at Los Angeles Clippers » ESPNNHL Read full article » |
| Maryland women’s basketball team remains undefeated in Big Ten play |
| When all else had failed Tuesday night, the Rutgers women’s basketball team turned to brute force. There were daring drives toward the basket, swinging elbows after every rebound and even a post-whistle shove or two, all in hopes of bullying its way to an unlikely road win. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Union, Dems seek better federal pay, but must wait to hear GOP’s plans |
| The largest federal employee union drew a pack of strong and influential friends to a cold-weather Capitol Hill rally Tuesday, but unfortunately for the workers, the powerful aren’t as powerful as they used to be. Read full article » |
| State spokeswoman balancing act on praising/condemning Malaysia |
| The Loop’s On-the-One-Hand, On-the-Other-Hand award this week goes to State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki for her deft handling of Tuesday’s distressing news out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The Malaysian high court upheld a lower court ruling against Anwar Ibrahim, the nation’s opposition leader and former deputy prime minister. Ibrahim was sentenced to five years in prison on a sodomy conviction. He has long held that the charges are politically motivated. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Why Ukraine cannot be a buffer state |
| The war in Ukraine continues to intensify. John Mearsheimer’s op-ed in the New York Times today focuses on the tactical question of whether the United States should arm Ukraine. Mearsheimer — who, back in the day, supported really arming Ukraine — argues that it won’t work. According to Mearsheimer, Ukraine is a core strategic interest of Russia, and great powers do not abandon core strategic interests no matter what the costs are. Arming the Ukrainians would therefore lead Russia to double down in Ukraine and potentially escalate the crisis further. Read full article » |
| Real weekly earnings are up. Here’s why. |
| When we talked wages on jobs day last week, I made the following point: Although hourly wage growth has been flat at about 2 percent, the acceleration of weekly hours and the deceleration of inflation were leading to real gains in weekly earnings. Read full article » |
| 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 » |
| WORLD |
| Why a Russian film nominated for an Oscar is stirring angst at home |
| MOSCOW — If the accolades it has already racked up are any indicator, then "Leviathan" — a movie about official corruption, the Orthodox church and the powerlessness of ordinary people against them — is Russia’s best chance for nabbing an Oscar since the film "Burnt by the Sun" won in 1994. Read full article » |
| 3 reasons why U.S. should not arm Ukraine |
| In Washington, there are growing bipartisan calls to arm Ukraine as it combats a resilient Russian-backed insurgency in the country's east. The pro-Moscow separatists stepped up their offensives into government-held territory, adding impetus to the efforts of European diplomats who hoped to convene peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in the Belorussian capital Minsk on Wednesday. Read full article » |
| U.S. is closing its embassy in Yemen as security concerns mount |
| The United States will close its embassy in Yemen amid mounting concerns over deteriorating security in the country’s capital, where Shiite rebels have seized control of the government and ousted a critical U.S. counterterrorism ally. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| How growing income inequality is hurting Social Security |
| Here’s another reason to be concerned about income inequality: it poses a direct threat to the already shaky fiscal health of Social Security, according to a report released Tuesday by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Read full article » |
| The U.S. just barely cracks the top 20 countries when it comes to retirement security |
| Want more retirement security? It might be time to move to Switzerland.The United States ranked 19th in the world for retirement security, according to an annual ranking of 150 countries by Natixis Global Asset Management. It’s held that spot for three years. 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 » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Twitter’s CFO is really bad at using Twitter |
| Twitter's chief financial officer is having a really rough day -- on Twitter, at least. Anthony Noto's account sent tweets with spammy links to other users -- including founder Jack Dorsey's mom."His account was sending spam tweets," a Twitter spokesperson told The Washington Post. "We’ve locked the account down and deleted the tweets. There's no indication any account information was accessed." Read full article » |
| The Switchboard: Google wants to be your next WebMD |
| Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.Ross Ulbricht didn’t create Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts. This guy did. Wired reports: "To the average Silk Road user, Variety Jones was just a high-volume marijuana seed dealer, who took great pains to please his customers and ship his product the same day as their order. But behind the scenes, Jones may have had some sort of ownership, partnership or investment in the Silk Road.” Read full article » |
| Nintendo is reportedly working on a Legend of Zelda TV series. Its last live-action attempt was a disaster. |
| Netflix is reportedly working with Nintendo on a live-action television adaptation of the Legend of Zelda -- a long-running, action-adventure video game series in which players attempt to rescue Princess Zelda in the fantasy land of Hyrule. 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 » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| What it’s like to take a political science class with professor Marco Rubio |
| MIAMI — It’s a Monday morning, and Sen. Marco Rubio is scaring the hell out of some college students.“I can buy information on any single individual in this classroom,” he says, standing in front of about 40 political science students at Florida International University. “I can overlay it with your voter information and make a profile — but I’m not done. I can get you directly. . . . I’m going to send an ad to [your] computer or, increasingly, directly to [your] television set. No matter what channel you are watching at 8:12, you’ll get an ad directed only to you and people like you.” Read full article » |
| Michelle Obama redecorated a White House room — and it’s more modern than the rest |
| Visitors on the White House public tour Tuesday were surprised to see a side of the mansion previously off-limits. The small Old Family Dining Room, just off the State Dining Room, has been refurbished by Michelle Obama in the first major project that will leave her mark on the interiors of the historic building. Read full article » |
| What are kids doing at the gym? |
| The gym has long been a kid-free oasis, a place where adults could burn off the stresses of daily life — including those brought on by children — along with a few hundred calories. If there were children at the gym, they were confined to its on-site day care, where they could play with toys, draw or watch TV. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Mom should join her daughter for sunny spring break |
| Dear Carolyn:My college-age daughter would like me to take her someplace warm during her spring break in March. My husband’s work schedule prohibits him from going on such a trip. I would love to take her, and could fit it into my work schedule. Read full article » |
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