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• Civilian victims identified in Planned Parenthood shooting

  

  Colorado Springs —An Iraq War veteran and a married mother of two were identified Sunday as the two civilians killed Friday when a gunman opened fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic here.The 29-year-old veteran, Ke’Arre Marcell Stewart, was a DJ, an entrepreneur and, by all accounts, a devoted father to his two young daughters. “He was always trying to make things better for him and his family,” said his aunt Tronda Stewart.Jennifer Markovsky also had two children, a son and a daughter. The 3..

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• Jordan Zimmermann agrees to deal with Tigers

  

  Jordan Zimmermann will wear a uniform other than the Nationals for the first time in his career next season. (Photo by John McDonnell/The Washington Post)The Detroit Tigers pried away homegrown Washington Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann,the best starter in the team’s brief history, with a five-year deal Sunday worth $110 million, pending a physical, according to reports. An anchor of the rotation that transformed the Nationals into a contender over the past five seasons, Zimmermann beco..

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• The numbers still support the Redskins controlling the NFC East

  

  Quarterback Kirk Cousins has the Redskins in first place in the NFC East. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)The Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants, 20-14, on Sunday and took one more step toward making a playoff appearance more realistic.It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise —the numbers favored the Redskins way back in Week 4. And they continue to do so.The Redskins are now 5-6 and at the top of the NFC East, alongside the Giants (5-6), followed by the Philadelphia Eagles (4-7) and..

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• Pastor calls gunman a 'domestic terrorist' during Colorado memorial

  

  A woman speaks at a vigil at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Colorado Springs on Saturday, a day after a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city. (Matthew Staver for The Washington Post)Two memorial services, one city.At the first, a somber message emphasizing the importance of faith and family in a time of crisis.At the second, a stiffer message driven less by faith and more by change, with the hope that future crises might be avoided.Geographically, the memorial services..

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• Mike London out as Virginia head football coach

  

  Mike London is out at Virginia. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)CHARLOTTESVILLE – After a fourth consecutive losing season, Mike London stepped down as Virginia’s head football coach, the school announced Sunday.Virginia announces that head football coach Mike London has resigned. Details forthcoming.— Virginia Football (@UVa_Football)November 29, 2015The move ends months of speculation as to London’s future as Virginia joins more than a dozen major programs across the country hunting for head coaches, i..

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• GOP candidates hunker down as primary race escalates

  

  The race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination enters a new and urgent phase this week after an already brutish stretch in which the dominance of Donald Trump and Ben Carson has exasperated rivals and the party’s political class.Less than 10 weeks before Iowa’s caucuses and just weeks before the holidays pause the campaign season, many of the candidates in a field that still numbers more than a dozen are camping out in a single state as they try to build up their support and survive th..

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• The Latest: EU position on climate acceptable to Poland

  

  PARIS — The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local:10:45 p.m.Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo says that the EU’s position for climate talks in Paris is acceptable to coal-using Poland and she expects the conference will end in a deal.Szydlo spoke Sunday in Brussels where she attended an EU-Turkey summit that focused on a response to the influx of migrants from war-torn Syria. On Monday, she will attend the opening of the ..

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• Donald Trump's dangerously circular logic

  

  undefinedThere was a remarkable -- and telling -- exchange Sunday morning between NBC's Chuck Todd and Donald Trump over the Republican presidential frontrunner'smuch-debunked claims about "thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001terrorist attacks.Here it is -- in close to its entirety:TRUMP: Chuck, I saw it on television.  So did many other people.  And many--CHUCK TODD:In Jersey City--DONALD TRUMP:--many people.  I said hundreds. In the a..

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• Kobe Bryant announces he will retire after season

  Longtime Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant announced Sunday that he will retire at the end of this season.In a post Sunday evening on the Player’s Tribune website, Bryant wrote a poem addressed to “basketball” and said he’d reached the end of the road.“You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream / And I’ll always love you for it / But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer / This season is all I have left to give,” he wrote.The poem, which he titled “Dear Basketball,” said that his heart..

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• The maddening case of Matt Ryan

  

  Matt Ryan has struggled for the Falcons following a hot start. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)In his eighth season, Matt Ryan has become the most maddening kind of NFL quarterback. He cannot make his team a legitimate Super Bowl contender, but it would be difficult to acquire a markedly better replacement. He will make his team respectable most seasons, but at the cost of a sizeable chunk of the salary cap. He’s Alex Smith with better receivers, Jay Cutler with social grace. He looks like a franchise quar..

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