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| Two police officers shot amid Ferguson protest |
| This post has been updated.Two police officers have been shot near a protest in Ferguson, Mo.“Two officers shot in #Ferguson,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Susan Weich tweeted at around 12:30 a.m. local time. “Shots came from a house up the hill across from police station … Witness said one of cops shot in face … First officer taken away was white.” Read full article » |
| Battle escalates as Iraqi forces try to recapture Tikrit from Islamic State |
| BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces pressed into one of the Islamic State’s most important strongholds Thursday, further breaking the militants’ hold on the city of Tikrit in what is shaping up to be a decisive battle for pro-government forces in their fight to eradicate the jihadists. Read full article » |
| U.S. economy’s surprise risk: The dollar’s surge could weaken growth |
| The surging value of the U.S. dollar promises new bargains for American consumers and travelers but also presents big threats to the U.S. economy — in a trend that is shaping up to be one of the most unexpected and significant factors driving the global economy this year. Read full article » |
| Some top Democrats are alarmed about Clinton’s readiness for a campaign |
| Senior Democrats are increasingly worried that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not ready to run for president, fearing that the clumsy and insular handling of the nine-day fracas over her private e-mails was a warning sign about the campaign expected to launch next month. Read full article » |
| With Iran letter, Tom Cotton emerges as leading GOP national security hawk |
| Sen. Tom Cotton was working to build support for his now-controversial letter to Iranian leaders when he ran into an unexpected obstacle: Mother Nature.“As a practical matter, the snowstorm really impeded my efforts,” said Cotton (R-Ark.), in reference to the late-winter blast that led lawmakers to rush home from Washington last week. “Everybody left on Wednesday, so I had to mostly work the phones into the weekend.” Read full article » |
| 7 ways to nip narcissism in the bud |
| Have you heard? There’s a new study creating quite a buzz, probably among your friends too: It that found parents have a key role in whether their children become little despots.The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that parents who “overvalue” their kids between the ages of 7 and 11 raised children who scored higher on tests of narcissism. In other words, parents who described their offspring as “more special than other children” and as deserving “something extra in life” had kids who think they’re God’s gift to the world. Read full article » |
| Sugar industry had major influence in government’s research on dental care |
| Decades-old documents have surfaced showing that the powerful U.S. sugar industry dramatically influenced the government’s medical research on dental care — and ultimately what officials recommended for American diets. Read full article » |
| POLITICS |
| Bush severs final corporate ties, clearing the path for a 2016 bid |
| Jeb Bush resigned Wednesday from two companies in which he had an ownership interest, severing the last of his formal ties with businesses that helped make him a millionaire.Bush announced that he is selling his ownership stake in Jeb Bush & Associates, the consulting firm he launched after he left the governor’s office in 2007, and in Britton Hill Partners, a business advisory and investment group named for the highest point of land in Florida. In recent years, Britton Hill has included three fast-growing funds investing in energy, shipping and aviation companies. Read full article » |
| No one knows the size of the government’s contracted workforce |
| How large is the U.S. government’s contract workforce? The answer could help gauge how much federal agencies are outsourcing work to the private sector.But no one has managed to nail down a definitive number to date. That includes the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which took a crack at it after the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee requested an analysis. Read full article » |
| Obama’s odd series of exaggerated gun claims |
| “What we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries. I mean by like a mile. And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready availability of firearms, particularly handguns.” Read full article » |
| Study: No inexpensive housing is left on open market in D.C. |
| The District’s supply of low-cost rental apartments has continued to plummet in recent years, putting housing out of reach for a greater share of low-wage earners, according to a study by a D.C. think tank. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Hillary Clinton has little to fear from Martin O’Malley |
| Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor and a man who would very much like to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, is making his case.“We took measurable actions to reduce storm-water runoff and to expand the number of acres planted with winter cover crops, to upgrade clean technology at all of our sewer treatment plants,” he says. “We reduced nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment levels by 14, 15 and 18 percent, respectively.” Read full article » |
| Lessons from Hillary Clinton’s e-mail saga |
| Open letters are the next new thing, so let’s imagine Hillary Clinton sending a simple note to all voters:Dear fellow American,I want to offer you what has always been the Clinton deal. You get peace and prosperity. I put up with endless scrutiny, countless attacks and bottomless mistrust. It’s a good deal for you, and I can handle the rest. Read full article » |
| The legal drug epidemic |
| When is this country going to wake up — really wake up — to the catastrophe that prescription opioid painkillers have caused since they came into widespread use in the early 1990s?Before then, deaths related to prescription opioid overdose were practically unknown. In 2013, though, opioids killed 16,235 people; that’s approximately half as many as died in traffic accidents that year, and about 2,000 more than were murdered. Both traffic accidents and murder have been declining for years, however, while painkiller-related deaths quadrupledbetween 1999 and 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read full article » |
| For Tom Cotton, letter to Iran is anything but a ‘fiasco’ |
| There are a lot of people, including some Republicans, who by now have concluded that Tom Cotton’s Iran gambit was a truly terrible idea. I’d hazard a guess that at least some of the 46 other Republican senators who signed on to Cotton’s letter to the government of Iran essentially trying to sabotage negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program didn’t think through all the ramifications, and now wish they had. The move has been lambasted not only by the White House and liberals like me, but by centrist analysts, foreign policy experts who say that it helps Iranian hardliners, and even some conservatives who worry that, as Greg observed yesterday, it makes it easier for hawkish Democrats to side with President Obama on the underlying issue. Read full article » |
| LOCAL |
| Brown, Ivey plan to run for House seat |
| The race to succeed Rep. Donna F. Edwards in Congress in 2016 has drawn two Prince George’s County Democrats with strong name recognition who were on opposite sides of last year’s bitter gubernatorial primary. Read full article » |
| Warmer temperatures but icy roads reported in upper Montgomery County |
| Yes, temperatures have been warming up in the last few days of weeks of bitter cold in the D.C. region. But authorities reported icy conditions in upper Montgomery County on Thursday morning.In a Twitter message, Pete Piringer — a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire Department — said a car is off the road because of icy conditions in the area in the 27400 block of Clarksburg Road near Damascus. Read full article » |
| D.C. area forecast: Sunshine dominates today but unavoidable late week wetness lurks |
| At last. springlike weather has arrived with warmth that seemed so far away last week! But showers sneak in late Friday. Read full article » |
| Why reports of progress on No Child Left Behind rewrite may not be a good sign |
| There are reports on Capitol Hill that some progress is being made on the rewrite of No Child Left Behind, at least between the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate education committee. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the Republican committee chairman, and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, recently issued a statement saying: Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Cam Talbot, New York Rangers turn back Capitals, 3-1 |
| The puck skittered across the Verizon Center ice, parallel to the Washington Capitals’ blue line, one of the defenseman-to-defenseman passes so integral to their system. They had spent most of Wednesday night fighting from behind, the run of good blue-line health evaporated and their ranks of forwards trimmed by one. And now, as they launched one last furious charge, hoping to finally exhaust the short-rested New York Rangers, the knockout punch came flying in from nowhere. Read full article » |
| Ronda Rousey’s response to Laila Ali’s verbal jab: ‘I’m around’ |
| Ronda Rousey definitely does not seem like the type to shrink from provocation, be it verbal or physical. So after Laila Ali recently took a shot at the MMA star, Rousey essentially offered to settle the issue between them — in the octagon. Read full article » |
| Buzz Williams leaves Virginia Tech huddle to coach woman in free-throw competition |
| Virginia Tech Coach Buzz Williams is fond of tweeting out motivational speaker-type phrases, including such recent offerings as, “Talent is the desire to practice” and “The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.” On Wednesday morning, with his 11-21 team facing the potential end of its season in an ACC tournament game, he offered this thought: Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings: March 12 |
| NBA7 p.m. Memphis at Washington » TNT, WNEW (99.1 FM), WFED (1500 AM)9:30 p.m. Cleveland at San Antonio » TNTMLB SPRING TRAINING1 p.m. Miami vs. Minnesota » MLB Network Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| State IG report: Lapses in e-mail record keeping at agency |
| In perhaps the mostly timely inspector general report of all time, the State Department’s watchdog released its review of the agency’s e-mail record keeping Wednesday, highlighting specific lapses and confusion. Read full article » |
| Pope Francis has tackled a lot of tough issues. The latest? Money in politics. |
| Pope Francis has made his opinion known on a variety of hot-button issues like Cuba, gay rights and climate change.Now he’s sharing his thoughts on campaign finance.His belief? Separate special interest money from politics. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Why failure can be a good thing, even when we don’t learn anything from our mistakes |
| If ever you doubt that nature loves futility and failure, go to the sea. Walking in the surf last month in South Africa, I saw a plethora of little blue snails burrowing into the sand. The precision and the effort they put into it was amazing: first the pinprick of a hole in the beach, then a wriggle until only the round ends of their shells peeked out. They looked snug, at home. And then, of course, the wave: it demolished all their effort, sending them tumbling back and leaving them squirming, slimy foot upturned, in the receding surf. Repeat. Every effort they made was repulsed, and still they turned themselves over and persisted in rooting into the sand. Read full article » |
| Dear Hillary, here are 6 things harder to carry than two BlackBerrys |
| Today, Hillary Clinton came clean about e-mail-gate. Sort of.The former secretary of state told reporters that she decided to use a single, private e-mail account because at the time, her BlackBerry couldn’t handle two different e-mail accounts. Carrying two phones, she said, would have been inconvenient. Read full article » |
| A coda to the Cotton letter |
| On Monday, I wrote that an Obama-signed executive agreement on Iran would very likely outlast his administration. Regardless of the agreement’s legal status, it would be politically costly for any successor to Obama to renege on any actual deal, assuming that it’s (a) successfully negotiated; and (b) adhered to by Iran as closely as the 2013 interim agreement. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| The sun set on the British Empire, but Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘Top Gear’ is still a global superpower |
| After what has been described by the BBC as a "fracas" and what the British media says was a fist-fight over catering, Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British broadcaster's flagship driving show "Top Gear," has been suspended. The future of the show hangs in the balance. Read full article » |
| 3 ways the Fukushima nuclear disaster is still having an impact today |
| Four years ago, after a devastating tsunami left 18,000 Japanese dead, Japan faced another, potentially bigger, catastrophe: 300,000 people had to be evacuated as several reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started to melt down on March 11, 2011. Read full article » |
| After helicopter crash, 11 service members presumed dead |
| Seven Marines and four soldiers were missing and presumed dead Wednesday after their military helicopter crashed in waters off the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise, military officials said. Read full article » |
| Defense secretary: Politics dictates timeline in authorization for war |
| The Obama administration’s three-year time limit in its proposed congressional authorization for war against the Islamic State has little to do with how long the fight might take, top administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday. Read full article » |
| BUSINESS |
| This retirement letter from Google’s CFO is like few you’ll ever read |
| It's common for corporate executives who are retiring to say they'll be spending more time with their family. But Google's chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, appears to really mean it.In an unusually reflective and candid letter posted Tuesday afternoon to Google Plus, Pichette wrote that "after nearly 7 years as CFO, I will be retiring from Google to spend more time with my family. Yeah, I know you've heard that line before. We give a lot to our jobs. I certainly did." He said he wrote the letter because "I want to share my thought process because so many people struggle to strike the right balance between work and personal life." Read full article » |
| Catalog retailer LL Bean to triple domestic stores by 2020 |
| FREEPORT, Maine — L.L. Bean, known for selling its trademark boots via catalog for more than a century, plans to make a bigger push into brick-and-mortar retail by more than tripling the number of domestic stores over the next five years, officials said Wednesday. Read full article » |
| Tempted by Detroit’s $500 properties? 5 things to know |
| DETROIT — Sixty-two thousand properties have faced foreclosure in Detroit this year over unpaid taxes. About half will likely be auctioned for $500 apiece this fall.Buying homes or vacant lots for $500 might sound inviting, even in a city as troubled as Detroit. After all, look at New York: Decades of crime and decay gave way to a real estate boom that has gentrified even outlying working-class neighborhoods. Properties that sold for thousands in the bad old days are now worth millions. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| DirecTV has been tricking consumers into paying more for TV, the FTC says |
| Ever seen a DirecTV advertisement that seemed too good to be true? Government consumer watchdogs say you were right to be wary.The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it is charging DirecTV, the nation's largest satellite television provider, with deceptive advertising -- alleging the television provider tried to trick consumers into deals that would leave them paying more than expected for television service. Read full article » |
| Twitter updates its rules to specifically ban ‘revenge porn’ |
| Starting Wednesday, Twitter will change its rules to prohibit users from posting of "revenge porn" -- intimate, and possibly explicit, images or video posted publicly without consent -- to its social network. Read full article » |
| Review: Google laptop impresses, but don’t try it offline |
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s a lot to love about Google’s new high-end Chromebook Pixel laptop: a vivid, high-resolution touch screen, powerful speakers and next-generation USB ports meant to standardize power chargers. All for $300 cheaper than the original model. Read full article » |
| Apple’s iTunes store outage drags on |
| Having trouble getting your apps to update on Wednesday? It's not just your phone.Apple's iTunes Store, App Store and Mac App Store were all down for several hours in the morning, with disruptions lasting for many hours. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| This Life: The doorbell rang, and a stepdad had to face secrets and tragedy |
| Gary Hensley was just starting to get the kids ready for bed one night in January 2014 when a Facebook message showed up on his phone: “Is it true? Oh my god, I’m shaking — is it true?” Read full article » |
| These are good times for fashion. So why weren’t the clothes more interesting at Paris Fashion Week? |
| PARIS — These are good times for fashion. But not such creative times for clothes. Culturally we have never been more fascinated by the style, aesthetics, personalities and glamour that the industry produces and attracts. From an obsession with the hip-hop power chic of Fox’s successful drama “Empire,” to the Twitter storm triggered by a president exchanging his conservative navy suit for a khaki summer-weight one, fashion has settled into our consciousness as both entertainment and social barometer. Read full article » |
| When should you start teaching your kids about money? Now. |
| We fret about teaching our kids how to use the potty, why they should eat vegetables and why good manners matter. All of those things are important, necessary and pretty consuming for parents who are trying to do the right thing. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Be careful not to alienate son who is in a poor relationship |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn:My son came on a family vacation alone and confided to his parents, siblings and friends that he was unhappy in his four-year relationship. He is 34, and she is 31. They never talk, she is very needy, she does not like his family or friends and she discourages him from seeing or calling us (we live a few hours away). He said she wants all his time and all his attention. She thinks they should “be enough” for each other not to need others. I think that’s a hallmark of an abusive relationship. Read full article » |
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