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| Scott Walker gets a crash course in foreign policy |
| On a recent Monday at Washington’s Willard InterContinental hotel, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was schooled on the world by some of the GOP’s leading foreign-policy lights. In a two-hour tutorial, seated around a table in the Taft Room sipping sodas and coffee, they used detailed regional maps to lead the likely presidential candidate on a tour of the globe’s hot spots: Israel and the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and Ukraine. Read full article » |
| North of Selma, black leaders ‘fighting the same battle’ |
| MONTEVALLO, Ala. — There will be no party here this weekend. While thousands are gathering just an hour or so south in Selma to remember one of the high marks of the civil rights movement, black leaders say there is nothing to celebrate. Read full article » |
| U.S. sees even bigger test for Iraq and Iran in the aftermath of Tikrit battle |
| ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The top U.S. military officer will press the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during a visit to Iraq this week about its plans for avoiding sectarian fallout once the Iranian-backed operation to dislodge the Islamic State from the city of Tikrit concludes. Read full article » |
| Holder says he’s ‘prepared’ to dismantle Ferguson police department if necessary |
| Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday the Department of Justice is ready to take any and all steps that are needed to reform the Ferguson, Mo., police department, including the potential dismantling of the force. Read full article » |
| Bush finds Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practice ‘baffling’ |
| Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Friday that he found it “baffling” that Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private e-mail server while secretary of state, a practice that has prompted sharp criticism of Clinton in recent days. Read full article » |
| What’s Larry David really like? Ask his Maryland fraternity brothers. |
| Larry David is definitely hot these days. Or as he would put it, he’s “pretty, pretty hot.” The legendary “Seinfeld” co-creator is making his Broadway debut with “Fish in the Dark,” the play he wrote and stars in as a cranky guy who sounds a lot like his character on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Read full article » |
| The birthday present I wasn’t expecting? Spam. |
| My mom wasn't the first one to wish me a happy birthday this morning. It wasn't my fiance.It was Sephora.The message came while I was fast asleep, of course, when my nearest and dearest wouldn't dare interrupt my beauty sleep. But when I opened my mailbox this morning, there was a cheerful "Happy Birthday, Hayley" message with a 7:30 a.m. time stamp, offering a free gift, which actually ended up requiring a purchase if I wanted to redeem it online. Read full article » |
| Georgetown’s Tyler Adams, his career cut short by heart ailment, gets one last start |
| Georgetown Coach John Thompson III gathered his men’s basketball team after practice Thursday afternoon, ready to share a secret. Two days before senior day at Verizon Center, Thompson told his players he didn’t believe in the standard tradition of starting seniors in their final home game and that all of the Hoyas seniors already had started at some point this season, anyway. Read full article » |
| POLITICS |
| Jeb Bush targets Obama’s foreign policy at Iowa event |
| URBANDALE, Iowa -- In his first public appearance in Iowa as a likely presidential candidate, Jeb Bush presented himself as a solid conservative, touting his record as governor of Florida and sharply criticizing President Obama's foreign policy leadership. Read full article » |
| Reid endorses Van Hollen in Md. Senate race |
| U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, once considered the likely stand-in to House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, has abandoned leadership prospects there for a chance to serve in the Senate, securing a major endorsement from that chamber’s leading Senate Democrat. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Why parents want to believe in a vaccine conspiracy |
| For the first three years of my son’s life, I lived a kind of “Gaslight” experience. Sometimes everything seemed fine. But other times, ordinary activities such as piling him into the stroller and going to the park would feel odd somehow, false. Something was not right, but I could not say what or why. I felt as though I was playing the part of mommy, while the real me was clenched up somewhere in the background, nauseated with an unnamed fear for my son. Read full article » |
| Five myths about daylight saving time |
| 1. Daylight saving time was meant to help farmers.Many of us heard, at some point in elementary school, that DST was developed because of farming. The idea that more daylight means more time in the field for farmers continues to get airtime on the occasional local news report and in state legislatures — “Farmers wanted it because it extends hours of working in the field,” Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn offered after filing a bill that would abolish DST. Even Michael Downing, who wrote a book about DST, has said that before researching the subject, “I always thought we did it for the farmers.” Read full article » |
| Bill Cosby sexually assaulted me. I didn’t tell because I didn’t want to let black America down. |
| Like many of the women who say they were assaulted by Bill Cosby, it took me two decades to gain the courage to reveal it publicly. His accusers — mostly white, so far — have faced retaliation, humiliation, and skepticism by coming forward. As an African-American woman, I felt the stakes for me were even higher. Historic images of black men being vilified en masse as sexually violent sent chills through my body. Telling my story wouldn’t only help bring down Cosby; I feared it would undermine the entire African-American community. Read full article » |
| Let states take the lead in education |
| Given all the challenges facing education reform, we need to remember who really should make the decisions about what happens in our schools: state and local authorities and, most important, parents. This tends to get lost in a lot of education policy debates, whether on school choice, accountability, teacher pay or standards. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Maryland weighs ‘Death With Dignity’ legislation |
| Terminally ill patients and those who have cared for them asked Maryland lawmakers on Friday to give people facing death the right to end their lives on their own terms.The emotional testimony comes as the Maryland General Assembly weighs a “Death With Dignity” bill, a measure that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications to terminally ill patients. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Warming trend arrives just in time for daylight saving time |
| It appears we’ve turned the weather corner just in time for daylight saving time. Read full article » |
| D.C. is spending $1 million on another study of the 16th Street NW corridor |
| For years, District transportation officials have studied ways to improve bus service along the busy 16th Street NW corridor. More and longer buses and a limited-stop route have drawn more riders but have done little to alleviate delays and crowding. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| At Duke, a swirl of reaction in the wake of accusations against hoops program |
| DURHAM, N.C. — John Guarco is a sophomore at Duke, a double major in economics and political science who recently was elected vice president of student government on a campaign platform that focused on combating sexual assault. After a recent student newspaper story asserted a men’s basketball player had been allowed to remain on the team for months after two women claimed he had sexually assaulted them, Guarco expressed a common sentiment when asked for his reaction. Read full article » |
| Wizards looking to take away positives from near collapse |
| The Washington Wizards can take plenty of negatives away from their performance Friday night. They nearly squandered a 35-point lead, which would have been the second-largest collapse in NBA history. They didn’t have an answer for another small-ball lineup. They scored just 32 points and committed 14 turnovers in the second half. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for March 7 |
| NBA7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Cleveland»NBA TV8:30 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee»Comcast SportsNet Plus, WNEW (99.1 FM)NHL1 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston»NHL Network Read full article » |
| Up 35 in third quarter, Wizards hold off Miami rally for 99-97 win |
| The mood in the Washington Wizards’ locker room at Verizon Center on Friday night was subdued. Players were stonefaced. Laughter was absent. The Wizards had just beaten the Miami Heat, 99-97, but there was no satisfaction in the chatter . Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Shuffle at the top of the State Department |
| A Washington Post defector rises in the government ranks.Jon Finer, an excellent reporter, writer and foreign correspondent — he reported from some 20 countries and was embedded with the Marines during the Iraq War — inexplicably went to work in the White House in 2009 in the chief of staff’s office and then as a special adviser and speechwriter to Vice President Biden. He then went to the National Security Council and has served, since September 2013, as deputy chief of staff at the State Department. Read full article » |
| Frank Underwood finally goes too far |
| We loved “House of Cards”: the lies, chicanery, double-crosses, duplicity, an occasional murder, sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Sure. Just a slightly fictionalized version of everyday life here in River City. Read full article » |
| FBI’s head-scratching whistleblower rules |
| Something is backward when the nation’s premier law enforcement agency makes it difficult for people to report wrongdoing.The agency in this case is the FBI. The people, its employee whistleblowers. The wrongdoing is waste, fraud and abuse within the bureau. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Of course Darren Wilson won’t be prosecuted. Our laws are too weak to bring anyone to justice when black men are killed. |
| In the last two weeks, the Justice Department announced that neither George Zimmerman nor Darren Wilson will be prosecuted for federal civil rights violations. Independent federal investigations found insufficient evidence to pursue criminal civil rights charges against the two men who killed unarmed black teenagers. Read full article » |
| Wage growth is flat, yet purchasing power is up. Here’s why. |
| Today’s jobs report was yet another in a series of solid monthly updates, providing one more bit of evidence that the growing economy is finally reaching the labor market. Averaging over the past six months to filter out the monthly bips and bops, payrolls are up about 290,000 per month, or 3.5 million jobs per year if the recent pace sticks. That’s a historically healthy pace of job growth. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Battered women in China could finally get a measure of legal protection |
| BEIJING — China stands on the verge of passing a landmark new domestic violence law, a victory decades in the making that owes much to the extraordinary, and very different, stories of two battered women whose suffering helped prompt a national debate. Read full article » |
| A new film shows us Scandinavians aren’t so nice after all |
| "Underdog," a new film by Swedish directer Ronnie Sandahl, comes with a fair amount of hype, after winning a variety of awards, including the Critics Choice at the 2014 Zurich Film Festival. However, when the film opens in Sandahl's home country later this month, as Swedish Web site the Local notes, some people are expecting the film to cause some controversy. Read full article » |
| U.S.-style TV debates are making a mess of Britain’s elections |
| LONDON — Clad in a bright yellow chicken costume, British Prime Minister David Cameron appears on the front page of the Daily Mirror, a left-leaning British newspaper, on Friday under the headline: “Why are you such a chicken, Mr. Cameron?” Read full article » |
| BUSINESS |
| How fear fuels the business of egg freezing |
| BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too long to freeze her eggs. The patient radiated health, he says, but age had damaged her pregnancy chances. Read full article » |
| Maker of TurboTax says it received inquiries from federal investigators about tax fraud |
| Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, said Friday that federal authorities from the Department of Justice and other government agencies have asked the company for more information after a surge in tax fraud hit users of the popular do-it-yourself tax preparation software. Read full article » |
| Remembering Thomas J. Stanley, who redefined what it means to be rich |
| The rich are different.In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Rich Boy,” he writes: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”Fitzgerald’s literary characterization of the rich has defined for many what it means to be wealthy. People envision lives full of extravagant things. But two academics in an extraordinary book published 19 years ago surprised us with findings about regular rich people. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Clash of the billionaires: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are duking it out over space |
| A panel of administrative judges at an obscure federal agency ruled this week that a largely behind-the-scenes clash of billionaire entrepreneurs, which pits Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, can continue. Read full article » |
| How the Apple Watch will transform the most successful store strategy in a generation |
| When Apple stores opened their doors nearly 15 years ago, they looked like nothing else in U.S. malls. The sleek, hardwood floors and spare design gave them an aspirational sheen, while shared tables for testing the gadgets made the experience feel communal and accessible. If you needed a reminder that Apple was foremost an innovator, you got it from the absence of traditional cash registers and checkout lines. Read full article » |
| What it will take for a head transplant to work |
| In 1970, a team of neurosurgeons pulled off a feat that was every bit as remarkable as it was controversial. Led by the renowned Robert J. White, they removed the head of a living rhesus monkey and hours later reattached it to a separate body. Though paralyzed, the donor body supplied enough blood to the brain to allow the monkey to consciously smell, hear, taste and see for a few days before the body’s immune system rejected the transplant. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| BREAKING: Some evil genius made a video game that simulates writing the news on deadline |
| One thing I really wish about video games is that they were more like work. For journalists, that “dream” is now a reality with the Coop Times, a game that simulates the terrifying feeling of writing on deadline. In this case, the deadline is simulated by an ominous black bar that descends over the screen as you scramble to type something — anything — on whatever random topic the game’s editors assign. Read full article » |
| Robin Givhan at Paris Fashion Week: Christian Dior, Balenciaga, John Galliano, Isabel Marant |
| Robin Givhan, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning fashion critic, is covering Paris Fashion Week. Follow along as she makes her way from runway to runway. Read her stories on Style Blog and follow her on Twitter: @robingivhan . Read full article » |
| PSA: Daylight saving time could affect your Saturday night |
| Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, giving us an extra hour of sunlight in exchange for an hour of sleep. But it can also play havoc with your Saturday night fun.When we jump from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m., Metro will close all rail stations. This will technically be an hour earlier than usual, though the "last train" times will remain the same. For example, if you usually leave 14th Street bars by 2:15 a.m. to make sure you're aboard one of the last Green Line trains leaving U Street toward Branch Avenue, you're going to want to make sure you're on your way at 1:15 a.m. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Girlfriend’s honesty threatens to unhinge relationship |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion.Dear Carolyn:My girlfriend believes in too much honesty. Every time she meets my friends, and often when we go to events of my choosing, I’m treated immediately afterward to a litany of all the reasons the friends/events were terrible. I’m not insisting that she come, and I don’t want to hear it. Read full article » |
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