US and Cuba sign deal restoring passenger flights
Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. (Enrique de la Osa/Reuters) The United States and Cuba signed a deal Tuesday officially allowing flights between the two countries to resume for the first time in more than 50 years. Federal officials said the agreement will allow more than 100 daily round-trip flights between the United States and 10 airports in Cuba. Charter flights between the two countries — currently the only option for passengers seeking air travel — will be allowed to contin..>> view originalUS and Cuba sign deal restoring passenger flights
Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. (Enrique de la Osa/Reuters) The United States and Cuba signed a deal Tuesday officially allowing flights between the two countries to resume for the first time in more than 50 years. Federal officials said the agreement will allow more than 100 daily round-trip flights between the United States and 10 airports in Cuba. Charter flights between the two countries — currently the only option for passengers seeking air travel — will be allowed to contin..>> view originalControversial Missouri professor berates police in 'appalling' new ...
Newly released video shows University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click confronting police weeks before she was caught on video calling for a student journalist to be forcibly removed from a protest. (Columbia Police Dept. and YouTube/Mark Schierbecker) An embattled University of Missouri professor has again found herself to be the subject of public scrutiny, after a video surfaced that shows her engaged in a verbal confrontation with police. Melissa Click, an assistant profess..>> view originalThe absurdity of the debate over replacing Scalia
Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin explains the difficulties ahead facing both Republicans and Democrats as they battle to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat left by the sudden passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post) Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday, debate has raged over how his replacement will be named. Republican leaders on the campaign trail and in the Senate have said the next president should appoint his replac..>> view originalRanking the Grammys performances, from worst to best
The Alabama Shakes, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift took home top prizes at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 15, while The Eagles, Adele and the Hollywood Vampires were among some of the night's most talked about performances. (Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post) The Grammys are purportedly about giving out awards, but the ceremony is really all about the performances. We’ve put them in order, from worst to best, with commentary from The Post’s entertainment reporters. Left ..>> view originalSouth Carolina isn't Bush Country anymore
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush enlisted his brother, former president George W. Bush, on Feb. 15 to try to give him a lift as he looks for a strong showing in South Carolina's crucial primary. (Reuters) “He’s hijacked my party,” Jeb Bush said of Donald Trump on Tuesday on CBS's "This Morning." “Someone has to take a stand.” Bush has deputized himself to take that stand in South Carolina, which will hold its Republican presidential primary Saturday and which is regularly referr..>> view originalIt's time to kill the $100 bill
By Lawrence H. Summers February 16 at 7:00 AM (Photo by Scott Eells/Bloomberg) Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, is a former treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council in the White House. He is writing occasional posts, to be featured on Wonkblog, about issues of national and international economics and policymaking. Harvard's Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government, which I am privileged to direct, has just issued..>> view originalWHO looks for new ways to wipe out mosquitoes, Zika
The World Health Organization on Tuesday encouraged countries hit by the Zika virus to think outside the box and consider new techniques to wipe out the pesky mosquito populations that are carrying the disease across Latin America.As fears about Zika’s ties to a birth defect mount, the global health agency said it is looking into the pros and cons of more novel approaches, from releasing genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot produce viable offspring to sterilizing male populations of the i..>> view originalGAO denies Boeing's protest of stealth bomber award
A B-2 Spirit lands at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Sunday, April 30, 2006. B-2s are replacing the B-1B Lancers at Andersen as part of the continuous bomber rotation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Michael S. Dorus) The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday denied a protest of the $80 billion contract awarded to Northrop Grumman to build the Air Force’s next-generation bomber, allowing the program to proceed. Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which had teamed up to bid on the pr..>> view original'Grim Sleeper' on trial: 'The day of reckoning is here' for accused ...
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2015. (Nick Ut/AP) In the summer of 1985, authorities said, Lonnie Franklin Jr. began to kill. For more than 20 years, not far from his south Los Angeles home, police said Franklin preyed on numerous young, black women — many struggling to make it. One victim was a man. One was a 15-year-old girl. With some victims, police said, Franklin initiated sexual contact, then shot or strangled them and dumped their bodie..>> view original2016: The 'race to the bottom' election
Republican presidential candidates, from left, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, businessman Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson take the stage before the CBS News Republican presidential debate at the Peace Center, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Conventional wisdom dictates that the presidential race is typically won by the candidate best able to appeal to the collective b..>> view original
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