Sunday, February 21, 2016

Uber driver who killed six in Kalamazoo shooting spree chose ... and other top stories.

  • Uber driver who killed six in Kalamazoo shooting spree chose ...

    Uber driver who killed six in Kalamazoo shooting spree chose ...
    Kalamazoo County officials say that a man who opened fire across the area on Saturday, killing six people and injuring two others, appears to have gunned down people at random during the four-hour rampage in western Michigan. Earlier in the day, working as an Uber driver, he reportedly gave a harrowing ride to a local man. On Sunday morning, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting said police identified the gunman as Jason Brian Dalton, 45, of Kalamazoo. Dalton was taken into custody hours ..
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  • Ted Cruz has an evangelical problem

    Ted Cruz has an evangelical problem
    Ted Cruz has an increasingly serious demographic problem. More than 8 of 10 Cruz supporters in South Carolina considered themselves to be evangelical Christians, according to preliminary exit polls. His candidacy depends almost exclusively on evangelicals. Among non-evangelicals, he won 13 percent of the South Carolina vote. That puts him behind Donald Trump, Marco Rubio *and* John Kasich. [Full South Carolina exit polls] South Carolina seemed a natural target for Cruz after he rode a wave..
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  • London Mayor Boris Johnson backs 'Brexit,' boosting anti-EU ...

    London Mayor Boris Johnson backs 'Brexit,' boosting anti-EU ...
    LONDON — Mayor Boris Johnson, one of the most charismatic figures in U.K. politics, threw his considerable influence behind the push for a British exit from the European Union on Sunday, instantly galvanizing the campaign and potentially tipping the country toward a vote to leave in a June referendum. The decision to defy Prime Minister David Cameron, a fellow Conservative, represents a personal gamble and a major coup for the “leave” camp, which has been riven by bickering factions and has l..
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  • India's 'ice bucket challenge' for anti-nationalists

    India's 'ice bucket challenge' for anti-nationalists
    Police stop demonstrators during a Feb. 15, 2016 protest against the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) outside the school’s campus in New Delhi. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters) It has been more than 10 days since the arrest of a university student in New Delhi on charges of sedition because he was present at a campus event where anti-India slogans were shouted. Since then, the slogans and the arrest have split Indians — between those who call the government action an assault on fre..
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  • Jeb Bush: The big campaign that just couldn't

    Jeb Bush: The big campaign that just couldn't
    Jeb Bush suspended his campaign for president on Feb. 20. The Fix's Chris Cillizza breaks down why he was never going to be president. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) At the start of the Jeb Bush campaign experience, there was this now-quaint idea that Bush's biggest problem was also his biggest asset. Meaning, of course, his last name. But Bush, being the earnest hard-working Bush brother that he is, told America he was going to win this thing on his own, prove to the American peop..
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  • The Kalamazoo rampage was the 42nd mass shooting this year

    The Kalamazoo rampage was the 42nd mass shooting this year
    Police meet early Sunday at Kalamazoo Valley Community College after searching for a gunman involved in multiple shootings on Feb. 20, 2016 in Kalamazoo, Mich. (Mark Bugnaski/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP) On Saturday night, a 45-year-old man shot and killed six people and injured two others in and around Kalamazoo, Mich., authorities say. According to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker, that act was the 24th mass shooting in the United States during the first 21 days of February and the 42..
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  • Hillary Clinton acknowledges voter concern that 'she's in it for herself'

    Hillary Clinton acknowledges voter concern that 'she's in it for herself'
    Hillary Clinton met students taking part in a job skills program called YouthBuild in Las Vegas on the day before the Nevada caucuses. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledged in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that she needs to prove she is driven not by selfish ambition but by a desire to improve voters' lives. "I understand that voters have questions," the former secretary of state said in an interview t..
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  • Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's iPhone

    Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's iPhone
    WASHINGTON — The county government that owned the iPhone in a high-profile legal battle between Apple Inc. and the Justice Department paid for but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily and immediately unlock the phone as part of the terrorism investigation into the shootings that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. If the technology, known as mobile device management, had been installed, San Bernardino officials would have been able to remotely unlock t..
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  • Pope to Catholic leaders: Don't allow executions this year

    Pope to Catholic leaders: Don't allow executions this year
    Pope Francis delivers his message from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of hishe Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. Francis told tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square Sunday that he is proposing Catholic leaders should “make a courageous and exemplary gesture” and ensure that no convicted inmate is executed during the church’s Holy Year of Mercy, which runs through Nov. 20. (Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press) By Frances D'E..
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  • How Donald Trump won South Carolina

    How Donald Trump won South Carolina
    Donald Trump won the Feb. 20 South Carolina GOP primary. Here's how. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Donald Trump's win in South Carolina is much, much bigger than his win in New Hampshire. We don't yet know the margin by which Trump won — votes are still being counted — but we know it won't match his 20-point victory in the Granite State. That doesn't matter. What matters is how Trump won — and what it suggests about states further down the line. Preliminary exit poll data from Sou..
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