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| Robert Durst on HBO’s ‘The Jinx’: I ‘killed them all.’ |
| From the moment the HBO series “The Jinx” made its debut, it has been called “the new ‘Serial.’” Both the series and the podcast are about unsolved murders. Both let viewers into the process of uncovering what happened. Both tell stories so compelling, it’s easy to sometimes forget the characters are real. Read full article » |
| 2015 NCAA tournament is Kentucky vs. the field, and the field is the underdog |
| NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It becomes clear, after a short amount of time spent around these singular Kentucky Wildcats, that they don’t have any idea what everyone is yammering about. Do they feel pressure to complete an undefeated season? What kind of question is that? They are too busy throwing lob passes and pinning shots on the glass and cheering from the bench to concern themselves with that. Most of them will not be in college long; they are too busy having fun. Along their march to a 34-0 record, the Wildcats have not carried the burden of history. They have, instead, acquired traces of joyful invincibility. Read full article » |
| When the pope speaks, priest abuse cases get heard |
| NAPLES, Italy — Diego was the shy one in Father Silverio Mura’s class; a 13-year-old, olive-skinned and handsome, who spent his free time indoors watching cartoons. He walked to school alone in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, stopping first to pray to a statue of the Virgin Mary in the rose garden in front of his apartment building. Read full article » |
| Police: Suspect arrested in shooting of two officers in Ferguson |
| CLAYTON, Mo. — Authorities charged a 20-year-old man from the St. Louis area with shooting two officers during a protest last week in Ferguson, and they said the alleged gunman had attended the protest earlier in the night. Read full article » |
| Putin was surprised at how easily Russia took control of Crimea |
| MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed his nation’s capture of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, he said in a documentary aired Sunday, in which he offered details of his deep involvement in last year’s quick and effective takeover. Read full article » |
| In 2016 race, an electoral college edge for Democrats |
| No matter whom Republicans nominate to face Hillary Rodham Clinton in November 2016, that candidate will start at a disadvantage. It’s not polling, Clinton’s deep résumé or the improving state of the economy. It’s the electoral college. Read full article » |
| Virginia pushed into debate of teacher privacy vs. transparency for parents |
| A Loudoun County parent has sued state officials to force the release of evaluation data for thousands of teachers across Virginia, making it the latest in a series of states to grapple with whether such information should be made public. Read full article » |
| POLITICS |
| McConnell: No Loretta Lynch confirmation until vote on human trafficking bill |
| Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as attorney general may hinge on whether Congress works out its gridlock over a human trafficking bill. Read full article » |
| Fact checking Hillary Clinton’s news conference |
| “I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by.”— Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, news conference, March 10Hillary Rodham Clinton’s news conference March 10 left many questions unanswered, and so we were reluctant to fact check it immediately. But enough information has emerged in recent days to at least take a preliminary step at annotating some of her key points. We aim to update this as additional information emerges. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Reform the Secret Service |
| When Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed a White House state dinner five years ago, President Obama said he “could not have more confidence” in the Secret Service.When the Secret Service sent home 11 agents from Cartagena, Colombia, for hiring prostitutes, the White House said Obama had “full confidence” in the Secret Service. Read full article » |
| A deal bigger than Iran |
| There is a revealing contradiction in the Obama administration’s pre-defense of a nuclear deal with Iran. The White House claims that Israeli and Republican critics have no alternative, other than war. But President Obama recently reiterated that he is ready to “walk away” from a bad deal — and that the chances are no better than even that Iran will accept his terms. Read full article » |
| Robots in the workplace |
| For some time, I’ve been collecting news stories about robots and jobs. By robots, I mean almost any automated process that substitutes machines for people. Here are some examples:● The restaurant chain Chili’s installed 45,000 computer tablets in its U.S. locations, says The Post. The tablets enable customers to pay their bills, play games and place some orders. Read full article » |
| The Senate’s 47 percent |
| In September 2002, three Democratic congressmen visited Iraq in an effort to prevent a war they thought was a terrible idea.Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) said very little there, explaining afterward that his sole purpose was to tell Iraqi officials that, “if they want to prevent a war, they need to prevail upon Saddam Hussein to provide unrestricted, unfettered access to the weapons inspectors.” Read full article » |
| LOCAL |
| Washington’s pot legalization draws interest of complementary businesses |
| In a narrow Petworth basement stuffed with high-end gardening supplies, Michael Bayard gingerly explains that tomatoes are best grown indoors given the District’s unfavorably dank weather.Tomatoes, it turns out, are cultivated similarly to marijuana. And since his shop, Capital City Hydroponics, opened in 2011, Bayard has often explained to customers how to grow the food — tacitly aware that some of them just go home and use their new tomato knowledge to grow pot. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Super taste of spring starts week, but chilly Wednesday onward |
| Spring weather fans jump for joy for this week’s opening, but then wear big frowns the rest of the time. Read full article » |
| Wind gusts prove deadly on Appalachian Trail |
| On the windiest day of the month in the Washington region, Sunday’s winds and gusts proved damaging and deadly.A hiker was killed by a falling tree on the Appalachian Trail. Although what caused the tree to fall was not conclusively known, it came down during a time of high, gusty winds, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service said. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Nate Schmidt scores first and Braden Holtby has all the stops as Caps win, 2-0 |
| Braden Holtby stood motionless in the crease and stared straight ahead, calm amid the chaos of Sunday night’s 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins. Sporting a fresh haircut and a renewed focus, the goaltender had already hip-checked one skater into the boards and stealthily punched another from his personal space. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Treasury again tapping TSP federal retirement fund for debt ceiling relief |
| With the federal government due to hit its debt ceiling on Monday, the Treasury Department again will use financial maneuvers to stave off a default, including several involving federal retirement funds. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Do experts and the public think differently about the apocalypse? |
| In this day and media-saturated age, you can’t go about your business without encountering chatter about the apocalypse. And over the past month, two different takes about the end of the world have come out. It’s interesting to compare and contrast them. Read full article » |
| Texting has made us less trusting, more selfish |
| Consider the following two situations.In the first scenario, a man and a woman sit across from each other at a romantically lit table in a fancy restaurant texting — looking down and talking to others, maybe each other — but rarely glancing up except to place drink and food orders. Read full article » |
| Cheating in schools is rampant. But there’s an easy fix. |
| Today, cheating is ubiquitous.Here’s just a recent smattering: the current controversy over Asian students’ SAT scores, a cheating scandal in an Atlanta school district, and new research that suggests college courses might actually encourage cheating. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| China wants cleaner air — without an environmental movement |
| Even by China’s standards, it has been a contradictory couple of weeks on the environment.First, a powerful documentary on air pollution, produced with official support, was released online and swiftly went viral, garnering more than 200 million views within days before being blocked by government censors. Today all references to the film have been scrubbed from the Chinese Internet, more effectively than the air ever could be. Read full article » |
| Crunch time as Iran nuclear talks resume |
| Secretary of State John F. Kerry flies to Switzerland on Sunday for the next round of talks over Iran’s nuclear program, amid soaring expectations that a historic agreement is imminent.A cascade of signals from Washington and Tehran suggests the governments taking part in the talks believe they can reach a framework for a deal by late March despite domestic opposition. Read full article » |
| Marine Silver Star recipient killed in crash offered friendship freely |
| The names of the seven Special Operations Marines killed in a helicopter crash off the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday were released Friday, triggering mourning and thoughtful remembrance of what they were about. Read full article » |
| A guide to the political parties battling for Israel’s future |
| [This post has been updated.]Israelis will elect a new parliament March 17. The main contest pits the right-wing Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a surprisingly strong challenge from the Zionist Union, a center-left political alliance led by Isaac Herzog of the Labor party. Read full article » |
| BUSINESS |
| For high-end apartments in the Washington area, signs of a renters market |
| Banners hanging from roofs, flyers stuck on parked cars and signs on street corners are all delivering the same message: All those fancy new apartments going up in and around Washington? The rents may be going down. Read full article » |
| The rise of luxury toilet paper |
| Americans have a new favorite way to flush money down the drain: luxury toilet paper.Sales in the United States of what the industry calls "luxury" rolls — anything quilted, lotioned, perfumed or ultra-soft, from two- to four-ply — climbed to $1.4 billion last year, outpacing all other kinds of toilet paper for the first time in nearly a decade, data from market research firm Euromonitor International show. Read full article » |
| The income gap between bosses and workers is getting even bigger worldwide |
| Income inequality has become a hot-button political issue in the United States. The size of Wall Street bonuses has been compared against the median household income. More and more companies are upping the pay of minimum-wage workers amid growing protests. And someday soon, companies are expected to be required to disclose the ratio of pay between CEOs and their median employees. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| 10 stunning images show the beauty hidden in pi |
| Saturday -- March 14, 2015, or 3/14/15 -- marks an extremely nerdy holiday. It is the official celebration of π, the magical, mathematical and infinite constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Read full article » |
| What to do with $10,000? Try an old-fashioned ‘coffee can fund.’ |
| If I were given $10,000 today, how would I invest it? I would build a coffee can portfolio. As you’ll see, it is an elegant and simple solution to a set of knotty problems.Those problems are largely behavioral issues of our own making. For example, most investors tend to buy high and sell low, the opposite of what you should do. Read full article » |
| Steve Jobs once said ‘Apple will never make a TV again.’ That doesn’t mean it won’t. |
| We all got a sneak peek into "Becoming Steve Jobs," a forthcoming biography by Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli's on Friday, thanks to excerpts Cult of Mac's Luke Dormehl gleaned from the book preview on Amazon, as well as some previews from Fast Company itself. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| How cellphones ruined Friday night pajama parties |
| I’m always glad I’d finished dating by the time caller ID came along.As a teen, I used to be a little intense, and it would have been much harder to deny calling someone, say, five, six (11) times in a row when your number keeps popping up on caller ID. Read full article » |
| Former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s got a plan to get off the E-list |
| Maybe the small screen isn’t the best medium for former congressman Anthony Weiner’s third comeback? But what do we know?As our colleague Scott Allen reported Friday, Weiner (D-N.Y.), who hightailed it out of Washington with his tail between his legs in 2011 following a sexting scandal, is part of an ever-expanding C-list cast of sorta celebrities making cameos in “Sharknado 3.” Read full article » |
| White House chief of staff Denis McDonough runs Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon |
| Hey isn’t that… the White House chief of staff and the president’s closet pal, Denis McDonough, running in Washington’s Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon on Saturday?We’re told McDonough, 45, completed the half- |
| Carolyn Hax: Readers’ advice on raising kids, returning gifts, and more |
| While I’m away, readers give the advice. On being asked to return something given to you as a gift:Just about the time I got my first apartment, my parents were reclaiming my brother’s room as a den (he had married at this point). My mother gave me his bed. I bought a dresser and nightstand to match, and when I later married this became my guest bedroom set. Read full article » |
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