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| De la Renta , titan of fashion, dies at 82 |
| Dominican-born de la Renta, a fashion titan, reshaped the public images of first ladies, society muses and red-carpet regulars with entrance-making evening wear in bold hues. |
| Olympian sentenced to 5 years in girlfriend’s death |
| Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide in South Africa. |
| Ebola patients are vanishing within Liberia’s chaotic medical system |
| Desperate families must search for loved ones at clinics that have lost track of both the living and the dead. |
| The Fix: Obama appears to gift-wrap another sound bite for GOP candidates |
| He told the Rev. Al Sharpton that Democrats in tough races have “supported my agenda.” |
| Extended federal leaves cost $775 million in 3-year period |
| More than 57,000 workers were on paid leave for at least a month while waiting to be punished for misbehavior or cleared and allowed to return to work. |
| Dr. Gridlock: 4.7 million vehicles recalled over air bag that can spray metal fragments |
| At least four people have died after inflator mechanisms ruptured on the defective air bags. |
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| POLITICS |
| Hillary Clinton is a bright spot on a gloomy Democratic election landscape |
| SAN FRANCISCO — In this midterm election season, it may not be good to be a Democrat — but it is very good to be Hillary Rodham Clinton. The presumptive Democratic front-runner for 2016 is among her party’s best assets to raise money and energize voters amid a gloomy election landscape for Democrats this fall, and she is campaigning hard even on behalf of apparent lost causes. Read full article >> |
| First-class travel for lawmakers: A 4-Pinocchio falsehood pops up again |
“Congresswoman Julia Brownley is what’s wrong with Washington. Brownley voted to allow first class air travel for Congress.”
— new ad by the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican-leaning Super PAC Read full article >> |
| The Ebola travel ban is really politically popular. Here’s why it’s not happening. |
When White House press secretary Josh Earnest was asked about the possibility of an Ebola-related travel ban to the United States on Thursday, this was how he responded. "Now, if we were to put in place a travel ban or a visa ban, it would provide a direct incentive for individuals seeking to travel to the United States to go underground and to seek to evade this screening and to not be candid about their travel history in order to enter the country. And that means it would be much harder for us to keep tabs on these individuals and make sure that they get the screening that's needed to protect them and to protect, more importantly, the American public."Read full article >> |
| OPINIONS |
| Dana Milbank: Obama, the pariah president |
| They were fired up and ready to go home. Democrats left nothing to chance for President Obama’s first campaign rally of the 2014 election season Sunday evening. They arranged for him to speak in Prince George’s County, Md., which went 90 percent for Obama in 2012. They put him in the gymnasium of a middle school that shared a campus with Barack Obama Elementary School, which explains the “We Rock at Barack” sweatshirts in the crowd. Some 90 percent of those in the audience were African American — a demographic that still supports Obama to the tune of 84 percent, vs. 30 percent of white Americans. Read full article >> |
| Ebola caregivers deserve a parade |
| A man my age grows up wondering: Could I have hit the beach at Normandy? How would I have handled being trapped near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, thousands of Chinese pouring over the border and a bitter winter coming on fast? What about Vietnam, or later Iraq and then Afghanistan and Iraq again? I come not from the Greatest Generation but the Wondering One — lucky, a reaper of what others have sown, and now, jaw agape, I wonder about health workers who leave the comforts and certainties of the United States and go to Africa to treat Ebola patients. Who are these people? Read full article >> |
| For the GOP, Senate control could be a doubled-edged sword |
| On the theory that chickens should not only be counted before they hatch but also killed, let us consider the downsides for Republicans of winning both houses of Congress. This hypothetical now seems the most likely outcome, according to the various poll aggregators we now treat as oracles. The Post Election Lab, striding furthest out on the ice, puts the odds of a GOP Senate takeover at 93 percent. Read full article >> |
| LOCAL |
| Georgetown rabbi accused of voyeurism is focus of other allegations |
| The case of a Georgetown rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women in the ritual bath expanded significantly Monday when a national rabbinical board said it had known since at least 2012 of complaints by women converts of inappropriate behavior. Read full article >> |
| D.C. area forecast: Showers and clouds through midweek, then nicer weather |
| WEATHER GANG | Temperatures could reach the mid to upper 60s with light winds and some rain. |
| Justice Department reveals plans to review Baltimore Police Department |
| A Justice Department official pledged Monday to conduct a thorough, independent and objective review of the city police force after hearing more concerns from residents about excessive force and other misconduct by Baltimore officers. Read full article >> |
| SPORTS |
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| At the 2014 World Series, Royals and Giants are truly happy to be here |
| KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two teams that, three weeks ago, thought their postseason might last just one day now meet in what might be the most cheerful, least stressful and chummiest World Series anyone can remember. Read full article >> |
| George Mason products have helped cultivate Royals’ success |
| KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some of Bill Brown’s players at George Mason heard stories this fall, as the Kansas City Royals stumbled out of the baseball wilderness and morphed into a postseason juggernaut. The men who built the Royals over eight painstaking years, the players heard, had played for Brown back in the early 1990s — “the dark ages,” Brown said — and used their time with the Patriots as a launching pad for lives in baseball. Read full article >> |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
| Coexistence of aggressive interrogation and civil liberties |
| In his new book “Worthy Fights,” Leon Panetta says the CIA “got important, even critical intelligence from individuals subjected to these enhanced interrogation techniques” — meaning waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other torture-like actions. Read full article >> |
| USIS suffers another blow as GAO rules for competitor in wake of fraud allegations |
| USIS, the embattled major federal contractor, suffered another blow Monday after government lawyers determined that the Department of Homeland Security recently issued the company a lucrative contract without taking into account allegations of fraud against the company. Read full article >> |
| Health ‘czar’ controversies are a Washington tradition. But a Bush czar thinks Klain might do well. |
In Washington, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Republican critics have harshly criticized President Obama’s pick last week of veteran Washington insider Ron Klain to be the new Ebola czar, blasting his lack of public health credentials. Read full article >> |
| WORLD |
| Islamic State seizes two Yazidi villages as it advances on Mount Sinjar |
| BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants advanced on Mount Sinjar on Monday, seizing two villages and blocking roads as besieged fighters from the minority Yazidi sect pleaded for U.S.-led airstrikes to save them. Read full article >> |
| Turkey clears way for Iraqi Kurdish troops to battle Islamic State in Kobane, Syria |
| MURSITPINAR, Turkey — Turkey said Monday that it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross its border into the besieged Syrian town of Kobane, where Syrian Kurds are battling Islamic State militants. Read full article >> |
| In Ukraine, executions — and propaganda about them |
In the conflict between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists, both sides have been accused of atrocities, including execution-style killings. But there’s a propaganda war going on too, and it has led to not only exaggerations about the number of executions, but a culture in which deaths and injuries sustained in battle are kept off the books in hospitals and other official tallies, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Read full article >> |
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| BUSINESS |
| Newfound tension for tech’s old guard: Abandoning hardware that helped it soar |
| Computing giant IBM became one of the most iconic companies in the United States largely thanks to its groundbreaking hardware, securing a torrent of patents that spanned the tech world, from big servers to tiny chips. Read full article >> |
| FBI: ‘No indication’ JPMorgan was hacked because of sanctions against Russia |
| FBI officials on Monday said there was no evidence that the hack of JPMorgan Chase and other U.S. banks’ networks was payback for western sanctions against Russia. “There’s no indication that [they came] as a result of the sanctions,” said FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Joseph M. Demarest, speaking to reporters and rejecting suggestions raised in earlier media reports that the intrusions were in retaliation for sanctions. Read full article >> |
| How a top housing regulator plans to make it easier to get a mortgage |
When it comes to taking out a mortgage, two factors can stand in the way: the price of the mortgage (as in the down payment and the interest rate), and the borrower’s credit profile. On Monday, the head of the agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac outlined — in very broad terms — how he plans to make it easier for borrowers on both fronts. Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, did not give exact timing on the initiatives. But most of them are designed to encourage the industry to extend mortgages to a broader swath of borrowers. Read full article >> |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Thinking of upgrading to OS X Yosemite? Here’s what other users are already saying. |
Late last week, Apple dropped the newest version of its desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite. The upgrade comes with a visual refresh and a number of new features that more closely integrate OS X with iOS. But should you upgrade? To help you make the call, here's what others are saying about it after using the beta verson or downloading it over the weekend. Read full article >> |
| A top Democrat wants Comcast to reject Internet ‘fast lanes’ |
A top Senate Democrat is taking aim at Comcast over net neutrality, arguing that its previous commitments to an open Internet won't be enough to protect consumers — particularly if its merger with Time Warner Cable goes through. Read full article >> |
| Apple’s Mac computers can automatically collect your location information |
This story has been updated to reflect comment from Apple. Apple has begun automatically collecting the locations of users and the queries they type when searching for files with the newest Mac operating system, a function that has provoked backlash for a company that portrays itself as a leader on privacy. Read full article >> |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Dave Grohl follows his ‘Sonic Highways’ home to Washington, D.C. |
Dave Grohl. Superstar road-tripper next door? Old-school recording studio preservationist? 21st century rock-and-roll diplomat? He’s all of those things in “Sonic Highways,” a new HBO rockumentary series that follows the 45-year-old rock mensch and his Foo Fighters as they traverse America’s asphalt arteries, recording their new album. Eight songs, eight recording studios, eight different cities. Along the way, Grohl finds time to interview the players, producers, scenesters and enthusiasts who made these cities hum — and then record a Foo Fighters ditty about what he’s learned. Read full article >> |
| Frisky ‘Sex With Strangers’: A bodice-ripper with a brain |
| Lots of theatergoers will envy the life-changing lightning that strikes Olivia in Laura Eason’s scrumptious “Sex With Strangers.” Snowbound in a Michigan cabin where she’s working on her novel, Olivia opens the front door to a handsome younger man who, she quickly discovers, not only loves her writing but also her body, and who, as the flakes fall and the fireplace glows, delivers her into a state of besotted bliss. Read full article >> |
| Celebs touch down for Howard University’s homecoming |
| The District proved to be the place to be for Howard alum and non-alum alike. The occasion: HU homecoming weekend. It was jam-packed with concerts, a parade and parking lot tailgate, the actual football game versus Florida A&M University and, of course, countless day and after parties at local clubs and lounges. A slew of famous faces, such as actor and HU alum Lance Gross, actress-singer Letoya Luckett and local rapper Wale, were on hand for the time-honored tradition. Read full article >> |
