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| New York commuter train crashes into car, killing at least 7 |
| A commuter train crashed into a car that was stopped at a railroad crossing in Valhalla, N.Y., on Tuesday evening, killing at least seven people and injuring a dozen others.The northbound Metro-North Railroad train, which had departed from New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, smashed into a black Jeep Cherokee at about 6:30 p.m. local time at the Commerce Street crossing in Valhalla, about 25 miles from Manhattan in Westchester County. The Jeep’s driver and six passengers on the train were killed, making the crash the railroad’s deadliest. Read full article » |
| Ferguson, Mo., police begin testing new ‘less-lethal’ attachment for guns |
| About a month after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s assistant police chief, Al Eickhoff, took to Google and searched under the words “less lethal.”Eickhoff, a 36-year veteran of Missouri police work, said he was looking for any new device, weapon or ammunition — any alternative to lethal force — that might have prevented a deadly result when Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson encountered each other in the noonday heat last August. Read full article » |
| Parents with doubts about vaccinations face backlash from pediatricians, peers |
| The letter arrived in the midst of a growing furor about the country’s worst measles outbreak in years.Cindy Shay, a Maryland health-care lawyer, had been taking her children to Bayside Pediatrics in Annapolis for a decade when her doctor wrote last month that he was “no longer able to continue as your child’s pediatrician.” Read full article » |
| GOP majority faces problems as Democrats block bill to fund DHS in immigration fight |
| Congressional Republicans on Tuesday continued their assault on President Obama’s signature accomplishments and his ambitious budget proposal. But they faced stiff resistance from Democrats.The developments illustrated how a GOP majority in both chambers is no guarantee that Republicans will get what they want. Read full article » |
| 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel |
| For 50 years, critics and readers have wondered why Harper Lee never wrote a novel besides “To Kill a Mockingbird.”It turns out she did.The reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist announced Tuesday that in July she will publish “Go Set a Watchman,” a kind of sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The news electrified her fans and the publishing world, which long ago gave up hope of another novel from the beloved author. Read full article » |
| The dark side of Winston Churchill’s legacy no one should forget |
| There's no Western statesmen — at least in the English-speaking world — more routinely lionized than Winston Churchill. Last Friday marked a half century since his funeral, an occasion that itself led to numerous commemorations and paeans to the British Bulldog, whose moral courage and patriotism helped steer his nation through World War II. Read full article » |
| When Mercury’s in retrograde, madness rules. Or so the astrologers say. |
| Two days ago, Jane Heller got a call from the doctor’s office saying that her appointment had to be changed to 3:30 p.m. “I said, ‘What appointment?’ ” she recalls. No one had ever told her that she had been put on the schedule. Read full article » |
| Jill Kelley e-mails depict a striving Tampa socialite and a smitten military brass |
| Judging from her e-mails, Jill Kelley was star-struck by the big-name military commanders rotating between the war zones in the Middle East and her home town of Tampa. And they were equally smitten with her. Read full article » |
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| POLITICS |
| For Christie, a trip to boost foreign policy portfolio has little talk of foreign policy |
| LONDON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie began an overseas trip Sunday exclaiming how much he loved being back in London, one of his favorite cities to visit. The Republican ended it Tuesday by refusing to answer questions lobbed at him all day by reporters. Read full article » |
| Mandatory sick-leave bill sparks heated debate at Md. Senate committee hearing |
| A bill that would mandate paid sick leave for Maryland businesses with 10 or more employees drew strong support and criticism Tuesday during a Senate Finance Committee hearing.Advocates said the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Catherine E. Pugh (D-Baltimore), would help employers by allowing their workers to stay home while ill, preventing the spread of disease and getting them back on the job faster. About 40 percent of private-sector workers — or more than 700,000 Marylanders — lack paid sick leave, according to the advocacy group Working Matters. Read full article » |
| Vaccine debate presents a political minefield — as Hillary Clinton can attest |
| The latest tweet from Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded straightforward enough: “The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork.”But the issue of vaccinations has long been politically and emotionally fraught — involving not just public health but also the proper role of government, the prerogatives of parents and medical riddles that have yet to be solved. Read full article » |
| Nancy Pelosi, strongly defending Obama agenda, may write a book on bad messaging |
| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) staked a claim this week to being the staunchest defender of the early years of the Obama administration, when Democrats ruled Congress and passed a series of major laws that almost none of them have embraced in recent years. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| With latest Obamacare repeal vote, GOP sets ‘record’ for futility |
| It is unfair to say Republicans have achieved nothing in their dozens of attempts since 2010 to repeal Obamacare. In Tuesday’s repeal effort by House Republicans — their first of this Congress and their 56th overall — it became clear that they had succeeded at one thing: They had bored even themselves into a slumber. Read full article » |
| Seeking a vaccine for ignorance |
| Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun.We find this historical anecdote preposterous today, but people were persecuted for lesser heresies in Galileo’s time. Though we are now centuries removed from such dim-wittery, we find ourselves in a not-dissimilar pickle. Read full article » |
| A GOP outbreak of scientific illiteracy |
| Move over Michele Bachmann. Here comes the 2016 Republican presidential field on the scientifically indisputable but ideologically fraught issue of vaccination.You may recall Bachmann’s campaign implosion in 2011, when the then-Minnesota congresswoman warned of “very dangerous consequences” of the HPV vaccine, citing a woman whose daughter “suffered mental retardation as a result.” Read full article » |
| Mr. Paul’s and Mr. Christie’s irresponsible comments about measles vaccinations |
| TWO POTENTIAL Republican presidential candidates, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, have made irresponsible comments about vaccines at a time when measles has reappeared in the United States. Their remarks call into question their judgment and their fitness for higher office. Read full article » |
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| LOCAL |
| Some Va. Republicans want to amend U.S. Constitution, but a party split is in the way |
| RICHMOND — Conservative Republican legislators fed up with Washington are pushing a measure meant to rein in federal spending and power, but they face fierce opposition — from fellow conservatives.Virginia Republicans, so often split along establishment and tea party lines, have seen a new fissure erupt over whether to join a national movement calling for the states to make an end run around Congress and amend the U.S. Constitution on their own. Read full article » |
| Commuters could see delays on three Metro lines |
| Updated at 6:10 a.m.Well,that was relatively short, but there may still be residual delays on the Red, Orange and Silver lines.Metro said just after 6 a.m. that two issues — one on the Red Line and another impacting the Orange and Silver lines — have been resolved. Read full article » |
| Route 1 northbound in Elkridge closed because of fatal crash |
| Authorities said Route 1 northbound lanes in Elkridge were closed in both directions early Wednesday after a fatal crash involving a pedestrian at Bonnie View Lane. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Troy Brouwer scores twice as Capitals take down Kings, 4-0 |
| Hours before forward Troy Brouwer celebrated his 500th career game with two goals in the Washington Capitals’ 4-0 thumping of the Los Angeles Kings, he reflected on the longevity of a career he never saw coming. He recalled the morning of June 27, 2004, the second day of that year’s NHL draft, when his father burst into his Vancouver bedroom to break the big news, wearing nothing but underwear. Read full article » |
| Seven months later, does Maryland miss the ACC? |
| Many Maryland fans felt their innards quiver when the Terps announced they would be leaving the ACC three years ago. Many current and former Maryland athletes felt the same.“I don’t think going to the Big ten is a good move for Maryland!” wrote Greivis Vasquez on Twitter, perhaps the most popular men’s basketball player of the past decade. Read full article » |
| National Signing Day 2015: Maryland football primer |
| Less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to sign his national letter of intent inside his Northeast Washington school’s gym, Friendship Collegiate offensive lineman Quarvez Boulware announced his decision to commit to Maryland on Tuesday night. Read full article » |
| National Signing Day 2015 TV schedule: A look at when the top recruits are making their announcements |
| National Signing Day is upon us, and there are a number of big-name football recruits who have yet to announce their decisions.ESPNU will have blanket coverage of National Signing Day on Wednesday, and most of the big names will make their announcements on the network. Here’s the full TV schedule (247 composite national ranking along with final college choices in parentheses). Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Is HUD lax on ethical and legal violations? Its inspector general thinks so |
| Senior Department of Housing and Urban Development officials have faced minor consequences for alleged ethical and legal violations including nepotism, conflicts of interest, sexual harassment and financial fraud. Read full article » |
| CREW files ethics complaint against Rep. Schock for ‘Downton Abbey’ office decor |
| (This post has been updated.)Furthering our colleague Ben Terris’s dead-on assessment that “Washington has always been more ‘Veep’ than ‘House of Cards’,” Rep. Aaron Schock’s choice of post-Edwardian era office decor has made him the subject of an ethics complaint. Read full article » |
| Obama budget seeks authority to shift funds from Veterans Choice program |
| President Obama’s 2016 budget asks for authority to reallocate funds from a temporary program that Congress established last year to help military veterans struggling to obtain care at Department of Veterans Affairs health clinics. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Why a few unvaccinated children are an even bigger threat than you think |
| The measles outbreak traced back to Disneyland has spread to eight states, with as many as 95 cases reported by January 28. Media outlets are highlighting the rise of anti-vaccination sentiments. Scientists are expressing their dismay at people who reject sound medical advice and put their families and communities in harm’s way. Read full article » |
| We’re all agoraphobics now |
| Agoraphobia, from the Greek agora for marketplace, today afflicts 3.2 million adult Americans, a number no doubt underestimated because agoraphobics are notoriously hard to count. Originally conceived as the fear of wide-open spaces, the condition once conjured Munch’s (an agoraphobic himself) “The Scream”: a weakened individual cowering in the frenetic modern city. This definition has since mutated. Today it’s understood as the end game of panic anxiety disorder, the fear of one’s own fear response — being driven mad by the inescapable thunder of a panic attack. Because of this fear, agoraphobics map out safe zones (their homes, usually) and retreat into private worlds, which can become prisons. Read full article » |
| Even in 2015, the public doesn’t trust scientists |
| America risks drifting into a new Age of Ignorance. Even as science makes unparalleled advances in genomics to oceanography, science deniers are on the march — and they’re winning hearts and minds more successfully than the academic experts whose work they deride and undermine. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| Map: If the size of countries reflected their populations |
| This map, compiled by Reddit user TeaDranks, shows what the world would look like if a country's size was proportional to its population. It's an adapted version of a Population Map made in 2005 by cartographer Paul Breding and published by ODTmaps.com, based in Amherst, Ma. TeaDranks evidently changed its scale and adapted its numbers to reflect contemporary population data. Read full article » |
| Why Danish students are paid to go to college |
| When 23-year-old Danish engineering student Louis Moe Christoffersen arrived in Baltimore in late January for an exchange semester, he immediately noticed a difference: Everything was so much more expensive at U.S. colleges than at home. Read full article » |
| Ashton B. Carter expected to win easy approval as new U.S. defense secretary |
| Facing no significant opposition on Capitol Hill, Ashton B. Carter is expected to win easy approval from the Senate to become the next secretary of defense. But when he appears for his confirmation hearing Wednesday, he’s still likely to face a grilling from lawmakers — about President Obama’s national security policies. Read full article » |
| Cuban dissidents, divided on U.S. outreach, call for more consultation |
| Visiting Cuban dissidents told Congress on Tuesday that while they might disagree on the wisdom of President Obama’s new policy toward Cuba, they were united in believing that further U.S. engagement with Havana should be based on consultation with political activists on the island. Read full article » |
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| BUSINESS |
| When money opposites attract |
| We hear so often that many couples are money opposites, that their differences lead to some fierce financial fights.Nonetheless, would you believe a new survey that says Americans find frugality desirable in a mate? Ally Bank reported that 55 percent of Americans are attracted to people who are good at budgeting and saving. Another 18 percent of survey participants are drawn to mates who are penny pinchers and avoid debt (that’s my sweet spot). Read full article » |
| Coke bets on super milk; more protein, less sugar |
| NEW YORK — Coke is coming out with premium milk that has more protein and less sugar than regular. And it’s betting people will pay twice as much for it.The national rollout of Fairlife over the next several weeks marks Coca-Cola’s entry into the milk case in the U.S. and is one way the world’s biggest beverage maker is diversifying its offerings as Americans continue turning away from soft drinks. Read full article » |
| Here’s how a debt collector plans to turn around failing for-profit colleges |
| Student debt collector ECMC Group on Monday completed its controversial purchase of more than half the campuses of Corinthian Colleges, the embattled for-profit education company that was once one of the biggest in the country. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| New tech companies say freelancing is the future of work. But there’s a downside for workers. |
| Now that he works for himself as a network technician, Robert Wooldridge is sometimes able to bring his 8-year-old daughter to work with him, as he hops to job sites all around the Washington area. She particularly enjoyed playing in a nearby mall, drawing pictures as he hooked up the monitors for an e-cigarette kiosk. Read full article » |
| How two ‘free’ games made enough money to buy Super Bowl ads |
| Two mobile game developers paid big bucks to get big names to sell their apps during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Actor Liam Neeson did a riff on his role in the "Taken" film series for Clash of Clans, while model Kate Upton was featured in an ad for "Game of War: Fire Age." Read full article » |
| The FCC is moving to preempt state broadband limits |
| Federal regulators are moving ahead with a proposal to help two cities fighting with their state governments over the ability to build public alternatives to large Internet providers.The Federal Communications Commission this week will begin considering a draft decision to intervene against state laws in Tennessee and North Carolina that limit Internet access operated and sold by cities, according to a senior FCC official. The agency's chairman, Tom Wheeler, could circulate the draft to his fellow commissioners as early as Monday and the decision will be voted on in the FCC's public meeting on Feb. 26. Read full article » |
| Verizon Wireless to allow customers to actually opt-out of controversial supercookie tracking |
| Verizon Wireless said Friday that it will allow customers to opt out of having the company's controversial tracking code inserted into their Web traffic.The company previously offered a way for customers to opt-out of having their data used in its online advertising program. But the company continued to insert a unique code into their Web traffic, angering civil liberties groups who said the technology could be used to track customers movements on the Internet -- even if they took steps to protect their privacy. Now, the company is taking steps to give users more control. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| After 20 years, Vanity Fair has perfected the formula for its Hollywood issue cover |
| Poor Amy Adams looks a little precarious on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 2015 Hollywood issue. But hey, getting awkwardly hoisted onto Channing Tatum’s shoulder is a small price to pay to be a part of the ever-buzzy annual photo shoot. Read full article » |
| ‘Real Housewife’ NeNe Leakes in dispute with local T-shirt company |
| Think of the legal battle between “Real Housewife of Atlanta” NeNe Leakes and local entrepreneur/designer Arsha Jones as something of a David and Goliath situation. Only in this version of the tale, Goliath is wearing five-inch heels and sloshing white wine all over the place because that’s how things go when Housewives get mad. Read full article » |
| ‘AGENT CARTER’: Once wary of a comic-book role, theater-sprung British star Hayley Atwell takes her Marvel hero to the next stage |
| HAYLEY ATWELL didn’t know quite what she was getting into. Marvel Studios had called and wanted the British actress to climb aboard its first Captain America feature film. Superhero projects weren’t her thing, though. Atwell did enjoy period dramas, but it’s rather a different beast when a time-spanning role meets Spandex. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Grandmother’s attitude causes a rift with granddaughter |
| Dear Carolyn:My daughter is approaching the age of big life events, though these events most likely are a way off for her, personally. Seeing her friends’ lives changing has made her think about her dreams for the future a lot more. Most of it is pretty much what you would expect: a great job, a nice home, a husband, maybe kids, a chance to make a difference in the world. Good stuff, and well within her reach if she chooses to stay on her current path. Read full article » |
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