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  • Suspect arrested in University of Chicago threat that paralyzed...

    Suspect arrested in University of Chicago threat that paralyzed...
    All Monday classes and activities at the University of Chicago were canceled after a threat of gun violence on campus was made. The FBI says someone made a specific reference online to the quad on the university's Hyde Park campus. (Reuters)A suspect has been arrested after a top-ranked university had to cancel classes due to a threat of gun violence against its campus community.Jabari Dean, 21, was arrested for allegedly threatening to murder University of Chicago students and staff, the U.S. A..
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  • Clinton email classification rate rises

    Clinton email classification rate rises
    The classification rate for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s government emails rose again Monday, as the department released more than 5,000 additional messages and deemed at least 6 percent of them to contain information that had to be kept from the public.All told, some 325 messages in the new batch of emails were deemed “classified,” and one was deemed “secret.” Most of the classified messages were exchanged with fellow State Department employees, but a few of them were betw..
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  • George Lucas: To feel the true force of 'Star Wars,' he had to learn to...

    George Lucas: To feel the true force of 'Star Wars,' he had to learn to...
    George Lucas is a pioneering filmmaker who redefined how films are made. The Post's Hank Stuever chronicle's Lucas's most prolific contribution to cinema, "Star Wars." (Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post)NICASIO, Calif. —At the ranch, yes.Yes.Feel it flowing within you. The gate, the road, the hills, the trees, the vineyard. You, him, the house. Luminous beings are we. This was all built in the 1980s with piles of that initial “Star Wars” money, yet the main house was made to look several..
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  • Rob Gronkowski reportedly is week-to-week with minor injury

    Rob Gronkowski reportedly is week-to-week with minor injury
    Rob Gronkowski lies on the turf after hurting his knee in the fourth quarter of the Patriots’ game Sunday. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)The New England Patriots, their Super Bowl aspirations hinging on the latest injury to befall the team, reportedly have gotten very good news on the health of irreplaceable, irrepressible tight end Rob Gronkowski.Gronk suffered a bone bruise on his right knee in the team’s first loss of the season Sunday night,ESPN’s Dianna Russini reported. She added that he is..
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  • Five observations from the Redskins' win over the Giants

    Five observations from the Redskins' win over the Giants
    The Washington Post's Gene Wang and Scott Allen discuss the Redskins' Week 12 win over the Giants. (Thomas Johnson and Kyle Barss/The Washington Post)TheWashington Redskinstook care of business against the New York Giants, jumping out to a 20-0 lead, and then holding on fora 20-14 victoryto improveto 5-6and move into first place inthe NFC East.Up next, a Monday Night Football date with the Dallas Cowboys at FedEx Field.But first, here are five observations from Sunday’s win:1. Versatility, disci..
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  • After 33 years, ‘Christmas in Washington’ has been canceled - The Washington Post

    After 33 years, ‘Christmas in Washington’ has been canceled - The Washington Post
    The first family, from third left to right, Malia Obama, Sasha Obama, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, join performers Aloe Blacc, left, Darius Rucker and Rita Ora, right, on stage singing the Christmas carol during the taping of the 2014 Christmas in Washington presentation at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 14, 2014. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)After more than three decades and five administrations, “Christmas in Washington,” the celebrity-packed holiday spe..
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  • Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald posts...

    Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald posts...
    Protesters rallied around Chicago's City Hall while a judge set a $1.5 million bond for the white Chicago police officer charged with Laquan McDonald's murder after a patrol car's dashboard camera video showed him shooting the black teenager 16 times. (Reuters)CHICAGO — The bond for Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officercharged with murderfor shooting a 17-year-old last year, was set at $1.5 million, a judge said early Monday afternoon.A few hours later, Van Dyke was released. He posted the ..
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  • Watchdogs are on the lookout for Obama appointees 'burrowing in”

    Watchdogs are on the lookout for Obama appointees 'burrowing in”
    Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, appears on Groundhog Day. In Washington, some federal workers practice a different kind of “burrowing.’’ (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)It’s known as “burrowing in” — no, not what gophers and groundhogs do, but the quadrennial tradition practiced by that unique Washington animal: the federal worker.As each administration winds down, some political appointees traditionally seek to continue their government service as career employees beyond the ..
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  • Congress sets Jan. 12 date for Obama's State of the Union

    Congress sets Jan. 12 date for Obama's State of the Union
    President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Jan. 12, marking an early start to what’s expected to be a year more dominated by politics than accomplishments.“As we look ahead to the new year, we have both an opportunity and an obligation to find common ground to advance the nation’s interests at home and abroad. We also owe it to the American people to present solutions that address the challenges they face,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a letter issuing the invi..
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  • The radical, unrepentant ideology of abortion clinic killers

    The radical, unrepentant ideology of abortion clinic killers
    Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear Jr. (El Paso County Sheriff’s Office via AP)Paul Hill died as defiantly as he had lived.America’s most infamous abortion clinic killer was executed at 6 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2003. As the hour approached, supporters gathered outside the Florida State Prison near Jacksonville to promise divine retribution for Hill’s death. They howled as a storm broke above their heads, seeing the weather as a sign of heaven’s wrath.Inside the execution chamber, howe..
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