Monday, February 15, 2016

Meet the man who can basically read President Obama's mind and other top stories.

  • Meet the man who can basically read President Obama's mind

    Brian Mosteller, special assistant to President Obama and  director of Oval Office operations, in front of the White House. (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Outside the Oval Office is a small rectangular room with two side-by-side, nondescript wooden desks. In one sits President Obama’s personal secretary. In the other is Brian Mosteller, the man who sweats the small stuff so that the president doesn’t have to. Few have even heard of Mosteller, but if you look closely at photograp..
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  • Meet the man who can basically read President Obama's mind

    Brian Mosteller, special assistant to President Obama and  director of Oval Office operations, in front of the White House. (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Outside the Oval Office is a small rectangular room with two side-by-side, nondescript wooden desks. In one sits President Obama’s personal secretary. In the other is Brian Mosteller, the man who sweats the small stuff so that the president doesn’t have to. Few have even heard of Mosteller, but if you look closely at photograp..
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  • The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports

    The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports
    MARFA, Tex. — In the cloistered chambers of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia’s days were highly regulated and predictable. He met with clerks, wrote opinions and appeared for arguments in the august courtroom on a schedule set months in advance. Yet as details of Scalia’s sudden death trickled in Sunday, it appeared that the hours afterward were anything but orderly. The man known for his elegant legal opinions and profound intellect was found dead in his room at a hunting resort by t..
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  • Republicans like George W. Bush. They don't love him.

    Republicans like George W. Bush. They don't love him.
    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his position on the Iraq war during an interview with CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Feb. 14 following CBS's GOP debate in Greenville, South Carolina on Feb. 13. (Reuters) President George W. Bush holds a news conference at the White House on Jan. 12, 2009. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Nothing Donald Trump says has really damaged Donald Trump -- not calling illegal Mexican immigrants "rapists" and "criminals," and not callin..
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  • Airstrike destroys MSF-supported clinic in northern Syria

    Airstrike destroys MSF-supported clinic in northern Syria
    BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school in northern Syria, killing and wounding dozens of people on Monday, according to opposition activists, who said the strikes were carried out by Russian warplanes supporting a major advance by government troops.An airstrike in the province of Idlib destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by the international aid group Doctors Without Borders, while in the neighboring Aleppo province, a missile struck a children’s hospital in the town of Azaz,..
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  • TV and radio listings: February 15

    TV and radio listings: February 15
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  • Wintry mix to ice this afternoon, following moderate morning snowfall ...

    Wintry mix to ice this afternoon, following moderate morning snowfall ...
    Refresh page to update radar. *A winter storm warning for most of the D.C. metro area except the northern and northeastern suburbs * *A winter weather advisory is in effect for Montgomery, Howard, and Anne Arundel counties* Snow photo gallery | Snow total reports from NWS | Area closings and delays Snow changes to sleet and freezing rain this afternoon. Snowfall totals are generally in the 3-5 inch range but up to 5-9 inches fell in parts of our south and southeast suburbs (“boom” scenario)..
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  • What would George Washington think of the 2016 campaign?

    What would George Washington think of the 2016 campaign?
    When asked about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's (R) public vulgar language before the 2016 New Hampshire primaries, fellow candidate John Kasich (R) reflected on something his wife told him when he became governor of Ohio."'You're the father of Ohio, act like it,'" he said, quoting his wife. Kasich added this about Trump's public profanity: "If you're the president of the United States, you're the father of America, act like it."George Washington, of course, was the father of o..
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  • After major setback, what's next for Facebook in India

    After major setback, what's next for Facebook in India
    Two boys use a Community Information Resource Center, or CIRC, which provides free use of laptops with Internet access in Chandauli, Rajasthan. (Enrico Fabian/The Washington Post) It was a terrible week for Facebook in India. India’s telecom regulator dealt the first major blow to the social media giant’s effort to provide low-cost Internet to the poor last Monday — effectively banning its Free Basics application and others like it after months of controversy. Things went downhill from ther..
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  • 'My demons won today': Ohio activist's suicide spotlights depression ...

    'My demons won today': Ohio activist's suicide spotlights depression ...
    Activists gather at the Ohio statehouse to remember organizer MarShawn McCarrel, who took his own life on Monday. (Kevin Stankiewicz / The Washington Post) A solemn group stood in the shadow of the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, forming a circle on the snow-caked sidewalk. MarShawn McCarrel, 23, a well-known Black Lives Matter activist, had taken his own life on the statehouse steps. Now his friends had come together in his memory. As evening turned to night last week, protest organizer Rashi..
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  • Mickelson leaves Pebble with optimism and disappointment

    Mickelson leaves Pebble with optimism and disappointment
    PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The 5-foot birdie putt to force a playoff at Pebble Beach spun out of the left edge of the cup, and Phil Mickelson couldn’t believe it. He bent over and braced himself, the left hand on his knee and the right hand on top of the putter. “It never crossed my mind that I wouldn’t make that one,” he said. That brief image of shock and dismay — Mickelson on the green, the ball still visible because it’s not in the cup where it’s supposed to be — was reminiscent of a half-doze..
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Scalia's death flips Supreme Court dynamics, hurts conservative ... .Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79 .
Skepticism greets Syria truce deal on worries over Russian bombing .Facebook and the New Colonialism .

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