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| In campaign against terrorism, U.S. enters period of pessimism and gloom |
| U.S. counterterrorism officials and experts, never known for their sunny dispositions, have entered a period of particular gloom.In congressional testimony recently, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. went beyond the usual litany of threats to say that terrorism trend lines were worse “than at any other point in history.” Read full article » |
| ‘The march is not yet over,’ Obama tells crowd at foot of Selma bridge |
| SELMA, Ala. — President Obama returned to this small city where civil rights protestors endured brutal beatings 50 years earlier and sought to recast their decades-old bravery as the highest form of patriotism: one that confronted the nation’s flaws and sought to change them. Read full article » |
| A mostly white voter wave is reshaping politics in D.C. |
| A surge of young, mainly white voters living in newly affluent neighborhoods emerged as a powerful force in last November’s elections in the District, a seismic shift that mirrors the evolution of the city’s population and could reshape its politics in years to come. Read full article » |
| MH370 report: Underwater locator beacon battery had expired |
| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane’s data recorder had expired more than a year before the plane vanished on March 8, 2014. Read full article » |
| Iowa agriculture summit splits GOP 2016 field on subsidies, immigration |
| DES MOINES — A day-long forum on agriculture here, where likely Republican presidential candidates courted Iowa’s farming industry, revealed sharp policy differences among the contenders, from immigration to energy subsidies. Read full article » |
| Protests held after black man is fatally shot by police officer in Wisconsin |
| An unarmed 19-year-old black man was fatally shot Friday night by a white police officer in Madison, Wis., touching off protests and chants of “Black lives matter” that continued into Saturday.The police chief on Saturday called the incident a “perverse perfect storm” of details that for some appeared to fit the national narrative of officer-involved deaths of black men. Read full article » |
| ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’: Too good for NBC, but still not that great |
| Not too many moons ago, a television story like this would have required smelling salts to revive all the showbiz industry reporters who had passed out from the news: A creator/performer of Tina Fey’s talent and buzzworthiness announces that she’s moving her finished, warmly anticipated midseason NBC comedy series to a different network, one that viewers can access only through a subscription fee and broadband connection. On top of that, NBC, with which Fey has been happily allied her entire career, has agreed to (and apparently helped arrange) this sudden departure. Read full article » |
| Some parents across the country are revolting against standardized testing |
| A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation’s public schools. Read full article » |
| 5 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 » |
| POLITICS |
| Pelosi shows Democrats how to wield power despite House GOP majority |
| Nancy Pelosi had a plan. Democrats were outnumbered, obviously, and she no longer had the power to impose her will the way she did when she was speaker of the House. But neither did the current speaker, John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). Read full article » |
| Selma, in 7 photos |
| President Obama -- along with many others including civil rights activist and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) -- commemorated the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama on Saturday. As we wrote earlier, the president delivered a remarkable address. But, the story of the day is told even better in photos. Here are a few. 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 » |
| 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 » |
| Obama needs the aid of the GOP |
| Michael Froman received from a Harvard Law School classmate, Barack Obama, a job that validates the axiom that the unlikelihood of any negotiation reaching agreement grows by the square of the number of parties involved. In trade negotiations, even one’s own country is troublesome, as the catfish conundrum illustrates. And the degree of difficulty in achieving a free-trade pact is proportional to the number of Democrats in Congress. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Off-duty Prince George’s officer dies in crash after losing control of his cruiser |
| A Prince George’s County police officer died early Saturday morning after his cruiser crashed into a wooden fence, authorities said.The department is investigating what triggered the crash that killed 26-year-old Brennan Rabain, who was off duty that morning. There was a female passenger riding in the cruiser with Rabain at the time, said police, who would not identify her or explain why she was there. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Slowly but steadily marching toward spring |
| WEATHER GANG | Sunshine and 50s today and Monday continue to melt the snow. Rain on Tuesday? Read full article » |
| For an Arlington dog named Sampson, a hairy moment as sinkhole opens |
| Cold weather can crack underground pipes, often creating sinkholes that can trap trucks, gulp down cars and, as happened last week in Arlington, even swallow a cherished pet. Sampson, a pit bull, and owner Marisa Peacock were out for a walk Wednesday in a park near their home when the 80-pound dog “just fell through the earth,” Peacock said. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Bradley Beal sits as Wizards lose ninth straight away from home, 91-85 |
| MILWAUKEE — For all the doom and gloom surrounding the Washington Wizards and their frustrating string of performances since late January, which peaked with the least satisfying victory imaginable Friday against the Miami Heat, they arrived in Wisconsin on Saturday with their goals still within reach. Read full article » |
| Cricket World Cup 2015: New Zealand defeats Afghanistan |
| New Zealand continued its strong start to the Cricket World Cup with a six-wicket victory over Afghanistan on Saturday in Napier, New Zealand. The Black Caps are one of two teams undefeated in the tournament; India is the other. New Zealand’s best win thus far was over Australia. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: March 8 |
| NBA1 p.m. Chicago at San Antonio » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2), WTEM (980 AM)3:30 p.m. Los Angeles Clippers at Golden State » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2), WTEM (980 AM)NHLNoon Detroit at Boston » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) Read full article » |
| Postgame: Six goals from six skaters fuel Capitals in most dominant win this season |
| In one stall stood forward Curtis Glencross, the bushy Abraham Lincoln beard dangling from his ears, discussing his first three-point game of the season. Across the Washington Capitals’ dressing room was forward Alex Ovechkin, back after a one-game absence because of a lower-body injury, who announced the return with his league-leading 44th goal. Soon to arrive would be forward Brooks Laich, minus the frustration of a two-month scoring drought, one more boon during a Saturday night filled with revelry. 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 |
| Police in Brazilian city aided revenge killings, report says |
| TERRA FIRME, BELEM, Brazil — The corner where 16-year-old Eduardo Chaves was killed is just a few hundreds yards from a center that is a police station and a community center in this bustling slum. But no police intervened on Nov. 4 when he was executed by a convoy of masked men on motorbikes and in cars. He was one of 10 boys and young men gunned down that night. Read full article » |
| Richard Beeston, correspondent in Cold War hot spots, dies at 88 |
| As a foreign correspondent, Richard Beeston bore witness to bloody conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. During the 1960s civil war in Yemen, he brought back powerful evidence of poison-gas attacks by the Egyptian military. He briefly covered the Vietnam War and chronicled political tensions from Moscow and Washington. 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 » |
| BUSINESS |
| 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 » |
| Can Robert Putnam make you care about poor kids? |
| Robert Putnam wants a show of hands of everyone in the room with a parent who graduated from college. In a packed Swarthmore College auditorium where the students have spilled onto the floor next to their backpacks, about 200 arms rise . Read full article » |
| Many metrics can be used to value markets. Which should you trust? |
| “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”Let’s take a look at the valuation of U.S. markets. This is relevant to investors, as valuation determines future expected returns. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| 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 » |
| 6 things that will make you wish you had a self-driving car today |
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| 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 » |
| 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 » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| The one ingredient that has sustained me during bouts of leukemia |
| The night before I began my first clinical trial for leukemia, my then-girlfriend Jessica and I argued about a hoagie.“You know you can’t eat that,” she said. Clutching the classic Philly Italian cold-cut sandwich in my hands, I looked at her, uncomprehending. “You can’t leave meat and vegetables under the Texas sun all day,” she continued. “It’s a salmonella hothouse.” Read full article » |
| On Love: Kiawaana Smith and Adrian Harrington |
| Kiawaana Smith and Adrian Harrington’s love story began in 2013, with the sort of 21st-century snooping that has become standard procedure in dating, when a friend insisted Kiawaana look up Adrian on Facebook. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Ready to cut off sister who refuses to heed boyfriend warning |
| Dear Carolyn: My sister is 25 and six years my junior. She is someone I love dearly and is my best friend despite what seems like a significant generational gap. She just moved out of my parents’ house, loves to party and finally secured a stable job, thanks to family connections. Meanwhile, my husband and I recently bought a home, adopted a dog, are expecting our first child and are established in our careers. Read full article » |
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