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| Jury in ‘American Sniper’ trial finds Eddie Ray Routh guilty of killing Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield |
| Eddie Ray Routh, the man who killed “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and his friend in a rifle range rampage, will spend the rest of his life in prison.Routh, 27, was convicted Tuesday night of first-degree murder in the Feb. 2, 2013, killings of former Navy SEAL Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35. The case drew international attention, and unfolded as the bestselling memoir by Kyle, often called the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history, was made into a blockbuster movie that has grossed more than $300 million. Read full article » |
| Why we’ll never see another show like ‘Parks and Recreation’ again |
| “Parks and Recreation” ends for good on NBC Tuesday night. It’s unfortunate for any fan of the sunny comedy, which seamlessly blended hilarity with deft political commentary.Adding to the sadness? The fact that when you really think about it, we’re never going to see a show like “Parks and Recreation” again. Because a show just like it won’t be given the chance to survive. Read full article » |
| Crisis management, Fox News style: Bill O’Reilly goes for the jugular |
| Bill O’Reilly and Fox News seem to have decided that the best defense is a good offense. A lot of offense.Faced with accusations that he exaggerated some of his reporting exploits over the years, the combative cable news star has gone into full battle mode, employing the public relations equivalent of the nuclear option. Read full article » |
| Obama’s Keystone veto is only his third in six years. It won’t be his last. |
| President Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline legislation Tuesday within hours of its arrival on his desk. Few bills have arrived with such fanfare and died so quickly.Despite the legislation’s demise, the third veto of Obama’s presidency exposed his new political reality — unified Republican control of Congress that will force him to confront critics directly in a way he’s rarely had to before and explain his stands to the American public. Read full article » |
| U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border |
| MOSCOW — U.S. military combat vehicles paraded Wednesday through an Estonian city that juts into Russia, a symbolic act that highlighted the stakes for both sides amid the worst tensions between the West and Russia since the Cold War. Read full article » |
| Hillary Clinton previews 2016, says it’s time to ‘crack every last glass ceiling’ |
| SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Declaring this the time to “crack every last glass ceiling,” Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated forcefully here Tuesday for greater economic mobility for women and said she hopes to lead a divided nation into a “warm purple space” of compromise. Read full article » |
| Fear of the Islamic State spawns a renegade Afghan militia |
| MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — The 25 men who gathered last week in a poor enclave of this ancient city bore the scars of a lifetime of war. One lost four fingers fighting Taliban militants. Another lost his right leg fighting the Soviets. Now, seated in a bare room on a cold morning, they declared readiness to make even greater sacrifices against a new enemy: the Islamic State. Read full article » |
| The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change |
| KIVALINA, ALASKA — This tiny and isolated town of 400 cannot be reached by road. It lies on a fragile barrier island along the Chukchi Sea, 83 miles above the Arctic circle. And for generations, the Iñupiat people of the region have hunted gigantic bowhead whales from camps atop the sea ice that stretches out from the town’s icy shores. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| Emanuel forced into runoff against Garcia for Chicago mayor |
| Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fell short of clinching a second term on Tuesday and was forced into a six-week runoff campaign against liberal challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in a race that has become the latest clash in the nationwide fight to define the Democratic Party. Read full article » |
| Dan Quayle set to co-host super PAC fundraiser for Jeb Bush |
| Former vice president Dan Quayle is set to co-host a fundraiser in Arizona next week for a super PAC backing Jeb Bush, one of a series of high-dollar events that the former Florida governor is headlining as he mulls a possible presidential bid. Read full article » |
| Secret Service conducting drone exercises in U.S. capital region |
| The Secret Service on Tuesday announced plans for conducting drone exercises in the Washington, D.C., area, but the agency provided few details about the program and declined to answer basic questions about it. Read full article » |
| Montana senator twice gets his facts wrong on timber sales and litigation |
| “Unfortunately, every logging sale in Montana right now is under litigation. Every one of them.”— Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), interview with Montana Public Radio, Feb. 18, 2015“Nearly half of the awarded timber volume in Fiscal Year 2014 is currently under litigation.” Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Harry Reid takes the stage in the DHS fiasco |
| For Harry Reid and his Senate Democrats, revenge is a dish best served bold. For years, they complained that the Republican minority had tied the chamber in knots. But now, just weeks into their stint in the minority, Democrats are brazenly using the same knot-tying procedures. Read full article » |
| Is Twitter really America’s conscience? |
| Denizens of social media were rankled during Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast when actor Sean Penn made a crack about Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and green cards.Or so we are told by the minders of buzz. Read full article » |
| A compelling argument on Iran |
| Prussian King Frederick the Great offered this rebuke to those who refused to allow any concessions: “If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.” President Obama might make a similar retort to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on the alleged “bad deal” the United States is contemplating with Iran. Netanyahu rejects any concessions that allow Iran to enrich uranium; he thinks the U.S. goal of a one-year “breakout” period before Iran could build a bomb isn’t enough. Read full article » |
| Focus legislative energy on a national carbon policy, not Keystone XL |
| CLIMATE CHANGE warriors of all stripes were focused on the White House on Tuesday, where President Obama vetoed a bill that would have authorized construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Like all the other attention slathered on this overblown issue, the focus was misplaced. It would have been better placed on the Capitol, where Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), without much fanfare, reintroduced a bill that would address the nation’s greenhouse-gas emissions in a serious way. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| D.C. mayor: Despite legal pot, city will not become ‘like Amsterdam’ |
| City leaders declared Tuesday that marijuana possession will become legal in the District at 12:01 a.m. Thursday — but warned the public that many pot-related activities will remain illegal, including selling the drug, growing it outdoors, possessing it in federally subsidized housing and smoking it anywhere in public. Read full article » |
| Wednesday morning Metro delays |
| Updated at 6:28 a.m.Normal service is back on the Silver Line, Metro said, after earlier delays.Silver Line: Normal service has resumed at Wiehle-Reston East. Read full article » |
| Author: To flourish creatively, embrace daily routines like Georgia O’Keefe |
| Think being an artist is all about living outside of traditional boundaries? Imagine you could finally write that great novel if you could just quit your stinking job? Dream of a radical life without rules—one that would allow you the freedom to paint or compose or create art whenever inspiration strikes? Believe that routine is the enemy of creativity? Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: A very brief thaw today ahead of a light snow threat tonight |
| Expect a brief, but temporary thaw today. More Arctic air is on the way. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Dez Wells scores 26 points to lead No. 14 Maryland over No. 5 Wisconsin, 59-53 |
| Before Maryland stepped into the ringing chaos of Xfinity Center on Tuesday night, Dez Wells told his teammates three simple words. “Follow my lead,” he told them, as if he already knew what type of night it would be. Read full article » |
| David Price, the Tigers, and the 2016 class of free agent pitchers |
| LAKELAND, Fla. — In the nearly seven full years David Price spent in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, he felt at home, and not just because he could ride his three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder from his house to the ballpark almost with his eyes closed, the picture of comfort, but because everything and everybody was familiar. Then last July 31, the jolt for which a player prepares but can never truly be prepared: He was traded to the Detroit Tigers. Read full article » |
| MMA veteran pummels Internet heckler who challenged him to a fight |
| Josh Neer has been a professional MMA fighter since 2003, winning bouts in the UFC, among other outfits. He got the nickname “The Dentist” for reasons you can probably imagine.In other words, the 5-11, 171-pound Neer doesn’t seem like someone you’d want to antagonize. And he certainly doesn’t seem like someone you’d want to challenge to a fight, yet that was exactly what a man named Patrick Martin did, with predictable results. Read full article » |
| Marcin Gortat sits entire fourth quarter against the Warriors |
| A seething Marcin Gortat, usually gregarious and effusive, was blunt Tuesday night as the Washington Wizards gathered their belongings for a late-night flight to Minneapolis. The Wizards had lost their fourth straight game, but his frustration went beyond the team result. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| GAO cites Homeland Security’s progress in fixing management problems, praises Johnson |
| The Department of Homeland Security has made significant progress in fixing its numerous management challenges, and Secretary Jeh Johnson has shown “exemplary commitment” in improving the agency charged with safeguarding Americans, government auditors said. Read full article » |
| VA secretary says he made a ‘mistake’ in wrongly saying he was in the special forces |
| Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert “Bob” McDonald apologized again Tuesday for falsely stating that he served in Special Forces, saying that he made the error when trying to make a “connection” with a reportedly homeless veteran. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| You think your drunk college-age daughters are bad with their iPhones? Imagine them with guns. |
| Since my 17-year-old daughter left for college last fall, campus rape has been on my mind. According to a study in the Journal of American College Health, women in college are at their highest risk for rape during their first semester. Read full article » |
| Twitter’s outrage machine should be stopped. But Justine Sacco is the wrong poster child. |
| Recently, various media figures have grown obsessed with the phenomenon of mob-driven Internet harassment and public shaming. It has become popular to publicly criticize the mass outrage that erupts following social media gaffes and to pen 2,000-word apologies for one’s own contributions to “Internet vindictiveness.” Some writers have gone so far as to call Twitter pile-ons “online lynchings” and “digital lynch mobs.” The media’s martyr of choice is Justine Sacco, the public relations executive who became famous in 2013 for a tweet she winged off before boarding an 11-hour flight from London to Cape Town: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” By the time Sacco touched down in South Africa, her tweet had gone viral, and the globally trending hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet tracked the public’s movement from outrage to glee at the prospect of seeing her life in ruins. Her employer, IAC, fired her the next day. Read full article » |
| The curious incident of the wage and price data not barking in the night |
| In a recent post on this page, I pointed out that even while the unemployment rate falls to within spitting distance of the Federal Reserve’s full employment rate (the lowest they think unemployment can fall without setting off rising inflation), neither wages nor prices have accelerated. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Kerry says major decisions coming on Iran, Ukraine and Islamic State |
| The Obama administration is on the cusp of major decisions on Ukraine, the Islamic State and Iran, Secretary of State John F. Kerry told lawmakers Tuesday, though he declined to specify the direction in which those decisions are heading. Read full article » |
| Why, to many critics, Mother Teresa is still no saint |
| Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic missionary who became an international icon for her charitable work, has been dropped into modern India's religious debate after the head of the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) criticized the intentions behind her work. Read full article » |
| Marcus Luttrell, Navy SEAL friend of Chris Kyle, warns killer Eddie Ray Routh following verdict |
| Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL veteran who befriended the late Chris Kyle and inspired the 2013 movie “Lone Survivor,” took to social media Tuesday night to respond to the guilty murder verdict of Kyle’s killer — and to share a warning. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| Saving money is like cold weather: You can hate it, but you still need to do it |
| There are a lot of folks tired of the snow and arctic temperatures many areas of the country are experiencing these days. I know I am tired of the bone-chilling cold. And I bet there are also a lot of folks just as tired of financially focused people like myself telling them they aren’t saving enough. So by informing those folks that this week — Feb. 23 to 28 — is America Saves Week, I expect some rolled eyes or sighs. Few people like to be told the obvious, especially when they don’t think they can do anything about it. Read full article » |
| The hidden dangers of Lincoln Town Cars, America’s favorite taxi cab |
| When "60 Minutes" veteran newsman Bob Simon was killed earlier this month while riding in a for-hire Town Car, the crash was regarded as a tragic accident. But an auto safety expert says known hazards in the 2010 Lincoln Town Car, including its recent recall for a steering defect, could have contributed to the crash -- and are still keeping many taxis and town cars unsafe. Read full article » |
| The strong dollar is the biggest threat to the economic recovery |
| The good news, if you're planning on taking a trip abroad, is that the dollar is on a tear. But the bad news, if you're planning on working in the U.S., is that, well, the dollar is on a tear.In the last six months, as you can see above, the dollar is up 12 percent, on a trade-weighted basis, against a broad index of currencies. That's made it an opportune time to take, say, that European vacation you've been thinking about, but maybe couldn't afford when the euro was worth $1.45 instead of the $1.13 it is now. But it's also made our exports more expensive for everybody else and our imports cheaper for us, both of which hurt demand for the things Americans make. That's already widening the trade deficit—how much more we buy from abroad than sell abroad—and dragging down economic growth. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Here’s how the clash between the NSA Director and a senior Yahoo executive went down. |
| In an unusual public exchange, the director of the National Security Agency and a senior Yahoo executive clashed over cyber-spying Monday, illustrating the growing chasm between Washington and Silicon Valley over whether intelligence officials should have broad access to the products being developed by the nation's top technology firms. Read full article » |
| Pebble releases a new smartwatch as the threat of the Apple Watch looms |
| Pebble, the company that first cracked the smartwatch market, is back with a new model as the competition for consumers' wrists heats up in earnest.The company showed off the new Pebble Time on Kickstarter on Tuesday. The watch has a color e-paper screen and boasts seven days of battery life and a microphone so that users can reply to notifications by voice or dictate short voice memos. The slimmed-down watch will come in three face colors — black, white and red — and have swappable silicone bands. Read full article » |
| Google Wallet just got a lot better. That doesn’t necessarily make your life any easier. |
| Google announced that it has bought Softcard, a mobile payments system developed by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. (It was formerly called Isis, but changed its name last year to avoid any association with the Islamic State.) The purchase is big for Google, which has had its mobile payments system for years but has had trouble gaining ground against competitors such as, well, Softcard and the recently launched Apple Pay. Read full article » |
| Here are the new, racially diverse emoji |
| Apple users, take note — racially diverse emoji are on the horizon.After much discussion over the lack of people of all hues in the emoji keyboard, Apple appears set to revamp its offerings. The new versions of iOS and OS X, currently being beta tested, reportedly include a range of emoji that allow you to change the skin tone of any emoji in the people set (which means, yes, you can text a black Santa). Those with access to developer beta testing posted screenshots of the keyboard: Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets |
| NEW YORK — Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rock star among star folk. He’s one of the most famous astrophysicists on the planet, posing for GQ magazine, gracing a Superman comic, hosting “Cosmos” and appearing regularly on “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Read full article » |
| What to do if a frozen pipe bursts in your home |
| Be patient if you need a plumber this season — you’re not alone.Christopher Thompson of Michael & Son Services said the plumbing company is swamped — it received a flood of service calls about frozen pipes, for example, after the President’s Day snowstorm. Read full article » |
| Month’s best music: Metro Boomin, Jib Kidder, Colleen Green and more |
| A ranked selection of notable new recordings we heard in February.1. Metro Boomin’s Soundcloud page.Eavesdropping on rap’s vanguard has never been easier: Just bookmark this Atlanta producer’s Soundcloud page and keep hitting refresh. You’ll be treated to a steady diet of downloadable anthems, many of which feature Young Thug, a rapper whose slushy precision parallels Metro’s equally paradoxical ooze-n-boom. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: This diamond ring doesn’t mean what it did before |
| Dear Carolyn:I’m clumsy. About two months ago, a car cut me off, causing me to wreck my scooter. The result: a broken hip and two broken legs, a month in the hospital, and a month out of work, too. In the wake of my accident, family and friends came together to support me not only emotionally, but also financially. To the tune of about $3,500. The generosity was amazing, except for the predicament it’s put me in. Read full article » |
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