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- Wonkblog: DEA warns of stoned rabbits if Utah passes medical marijuana
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:57 AMUtah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Stories of grief, love and penance live among what’s left at the Vietnam Wall
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 09:22 PMThe black and white snapshot of the seven enemy soldiers was left in a box at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with a two-page letter.The writer explained how he had grabbed the picture from the knapsack of a dead North Vietnamese soldier after cursing him, kicking him and firing into his corpse in a fit of rage.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Editorial: Thousands defy Putin in Moscow
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 08:06 PMRUSSIANS KNOW all too well the possible consequences of joining protest rallies in Moscow. Police regularly attack and beat peaceful demonstrators, and some have been sentenced to long prison terms.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Georgia prepares to carry out first execution of a woman since WWII
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 03:19 PMThe state of Georgia plans to execute Kelly Renee Gissendaner on Monday, five days after her lethal injection was postponed due to a winter storm.Gissendaner was convicted of murdering her husband nearly two decades ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Va. cabdriver on FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list detained in Somalia
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 05:03 PMA Northern Virginia man who fled the United States more than two years ago and was recently placed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list is the custody of the Somali government, U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wonkblog: The best places in the world to visit while the dollar is this strong
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:55 AMThis is a great time for Americans to travel internationally. A host of factors have come together to make the prospect more affordable: the American economy is showing real strength, the dollar has greater buying power compared to almost all worldwide currencies, and hotel prices overseas are down, sometimes significantly.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pentagon’s $55 billion mystery plane is secret, but debate on cost is appearing
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:30 AMThe closest it’s come to a public debut was a prime-time tease during a Super Bowl ad that showed its svelte outline veiled beneath a sheet, but revealed not a glimpse of the Pentagon’s most mysterious plane.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Decision in ‘free-range’ case does not end debate about parenting and safety
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 12:06 PMThe Maryland parents who let their children walk home from a park in Silver Spring were found responsible for “unsubstantiated” child neglect in a decision that has not fully resolved their clash with authorities over their views on parenting and children’s safety.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dionne: The GOP’s big ‘yes’ to ‘no’
Sunday - 03/01/2015 - 06:55 PMIt’s a daunting challenge to spin the word “no” into a hopeful and forward-looking political battle cry. There are, of course, circumstances when negative arguments can work. In obviously terrible times, voters are often content to take a chance on a barely sketched-out alternative.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kerry, Russia’s Lavrov meet in Geneva
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 03:56 AMGENEVA -- Secretary of State John F.
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- Hillary Clinton used private e-mail for government business at State Dept.
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 11:32 PMHillary Rodham Clinton used a private e-mail account for her official government business when she was secretary of state and did not routinely preserve and turn over those e-mails for government records collection, the State Department said Monday.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Twin historical traumas shape Xi Jinping’s China presidency
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 05:37 PMBEIJING — It was a homecoming for Chinese President Xi Jinping.To mark China’s Spring Festival, Xi made a visit in mid-February to the small northern village of Liangjiahe, where he was banished in 1969 as a raw 15-year-old during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, where he worked for seven years and where he joined the Communist Party.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Milbank: AIPAC pummels Obama
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 02:26 PMA slide projected onto the wall at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering Monday contained a warning to delegates: “AIPAC is Bipartisan,” it said, next to an image of a Democratic donkey and Republican elephant in boxing gear.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Armed thieves snatch $4 million in gold from truck, North Carolina police say
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 06:03 PMInvestigators are searching for three armed men who made off with 275 pounds of gold, worth more than $4 million, after robbing an armored vehicle in North Carolina, according to news reports.Two armed guards from TransValue Inc.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wonkblog: U.S. millennials post ‘abysmal’ scores in tech skills test, lag behind foreign peers
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:21 AMThere was this test. And it was daunting. It was like the SAT or ACT -- which many American millennials are no doubt familiar with, as they are on track to be the best educated generation in history -- except this test was not about getting into college.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Weather Gang: U.S. runs hot and cold in record-shattering February
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 01:08 PMThe crazy, bisected weather pattern continued in February, when dozens of monthly cold -- and warm -- records were broken across the Lower 48.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In the Loop: Portrait artist says he painted Lewinsky reference in Bill Clinton’s official painting
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 11:03 AMA cursory glance at the official painting of President Bill Clinton that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery would easily miss an ode to the lowest point of his presidency — Monica Lewinsky.But it’s there, the artist revealed in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Zimbabwe’s Mugabe condemns ‘white’ safaris, eats baby elephant at birthday bash
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 05:20 AMWhen considering what to get Robert Mugabe for his birthday, one first must understand that Zimbabwe’s president is a man who demands the finest.His birthday parties don’t cost hundreds of thousands; they cost millions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Iraqi forces open battles to reclaim strategic city from Islamic State
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 09:25 AMBAGHDAD — Iraqi forces backed by Shiite militiamen opened a large-scale operation Monday seeking to retake the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit, a critical stepping stone for possible wider attempts to reclaim territory in northern Iraq.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact Checker: Obama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’ earns Four Pinocchios
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 03:00 AM“I’ve already said I’m happy to look at how we can increase pipeline production for U.S. oil, but Keystone is for Canadian oil to send that down to the Gulf.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- After four months, North Korea’s Ebola quarantine comes to an end
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 01:27 AMTOKYO — North Korea has lifted its four-month-long Ebola quarantine, bringing an end to a period of isolation that was notable even by the Hermit Kingdom’s standards.Embassies and international aid agencies in Pyongyang received a "note verbale" from North Korea's State Emergency Anti-Epidemic Committee informing them that the quarantine was now over for all visitors except for those arriving from a handful of west African countries.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Netanyahu says no ‘disrespect’ meant to Obama
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 09:53 PMIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his controversial speech to Congress scheduled for Tuesday is not meant to signal any “disrespect” for President Obama but that he feels “a moral obligation” to warn lawmakers of the dangers of cutting a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mystery paralysis in children is perplexing parents — and researchers
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 08:36 PMBALTIMORE — For most of the children who fell ill last year during an outbreak of enterovirus, the symptoms were relatively mild — fever, runny nose, coughing and sneezing.But then there was this mystery: More than 100 kids suffered an unexplained, polio-like paralysis that struck quickly but, even now, continues to stump researchers and upend the lives of the families across the country.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Supreme Court questions Arizona redistricting commission
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 04:48 PMCritics say that allowing politicians to control political redistricting often means that representatives choose their constituents, instead of the other way around.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Duke reportedly had known of sexual assault allegations against Rasheed Sulaimon since March 2014
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 09:16 AMOn Jan. 29, Rasheed Sulaimon became the first player ever dismissed from the Duke men’s basketball team under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, with the NCAA’s all-time victories leader saying the junior guard “repeatedly struggled to meet the necessary obligations.”Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pentagon’s $55 billion mystery plane is secret, but debate on cost is appearing
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:30 AMThe closest it’s come to a public debut was a prime-time tease during a Super Bowl ad that showed its svelte outline veiled beneath a sheet, but revealed not a glimpse of the Pentagon’s most mysterious plane.Read full article >>
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mikulski, a role model for generations of women in politics, to retire in 2016
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 12:56 PMSen. Barbara Mikulski, the Maryland Democrat who is the longest-serving woman in congressional history, announced Monday that she will leave the Senate next year at the end of her fifth term.Mikulski, 78 and in good health, departs the way she came in — with a sharp tongue, an unabashed liberalism, and a reputation for straight talk.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Netanyahu: Speech not intended to ‘inject Israel into the American partisan debate’
Monday - 03/02/2015 - 10:13 AMIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he does not intend to "inject Israel into the American partisan debate," during his upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress.Netanyahu, speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday, said his scheduled remarks before Congress Tuesday are not intended to show disrespect to President Obama.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sen. Mikulski said to be retiring from Senate
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police fatally shoot apparently homeless man in Los Angeles. Incident captured on video.
Sunday - 03/01/2015 - 11:56 PMWarning: Graphic video accompanies this story.Police shot and killed a man described as homeless on Sunday in downtown Los Angeles.Officers responded to radio calls about a robbery and battery about noon on San Pedro Street near the Union Rescue Mission, Los Angeles police officer Dave Romero told The Washington Post.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share