Some Democrats accuse Sanders supporters of harassing ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his boosters are intensifying their courtship of convention delegates who could determine the winner of the Democratic presidential nomination, prompting some party leaders and supporters of front-runner Hillary Clinton to claim harassment. The Sanders campaign says it has no connection to the efforts of outside supporters to lean on superdelegates, the party leaders and elected officials who can cast nomination votes for any candidate and who are seen as increasingly pi..>> view originalPaul Ryan delivers Shermanesque rejection of running for president
At a news conference April 12, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) reiterated that he does not want to be his party's nominee for president, saying, "I should not be considered, period, end of story." (Reuters) House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday delivered a forceful statement rejecting calls from establishment Republicans who want him to usurp their party’s presidential nomination from the remaining contestants in that race. Ryan, who has spent a couple of months making these stat..>> view originalNorth Carolina governor says he wants bathroom law partially ...
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory explains his executive action on Apr. 12, after public outcry over the state's "bathroom bill." (Youtube/Office of Governor Pat McCrory) North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) responded to a backlash against the state’s new law banning anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people by signing an executive order Tuesday aimed at calming the firestorm, even as he left the most controversial provisions intact. McCrory said he was expanding protecti..>> view originalFabian Barnes, founder/director of Dance Institute of Washington ...
The Dance Institute of Washington is reeling from the unexpected death Friday of its founder and director Fabian Barnes, 56, the hard-driving and big-hearted former Dance Theatre of Harlem soloist who devoted his life to training underprivileged children in classical ballet. Barnes had been sick for some time, though no one knew the details, said Jared Fischer, a longtime DIW staff member and grant writer. Sarah L. Kaufman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is the author of TH..>> view originalBrazil president lashes out at VP over impeachment effort
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff attends a ceremony focusing on education at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Rousseff on Tuesday called her Vice President Michel Temer the “head of the conspiracy” that seeks to remove her from office in her most direct attack on him so far. (Eraldo Peres/Associated Press) By Jenny Barchfield and Mauricio Savarese | AP April 12 at 4:57 PM RIO DE JANEIRO — Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday l..>> view originalAuthorities: Woman dismembered in home, body parts dumped
John Charlton appears in court at the King County Jail Courtroom in Seattle on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Charlton was arrested for investigation of homicide after police said human remains were found over the weekend in a homeowner’s recycling bin. (Grant Hindsley/seattlepi.com via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT (Associated Press) By Walker Orenstein and Lisa Baumann | AP April 12 at 7:39 PM SEATTLE — A man dismembered a nurse and mother of three in he..>> view originalStephen Hawking joins futuristic bid to explore outer space
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking, left, joined by a group of of scientist including Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, right, announce the new Breakthrough Initiative focusing on space exploration and the search for life in the universe, during a press conference, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at One World Observatory in New York. The $100 million project is aimed at establishing the feasibility of sending a swarm of tiny spacecraft, each weighing far less than an ounce, to the Alpha Centauri star sys..>> view originalThe problem with almost all movies
Rachel Orr / The Washington Post By now, most people have heard of “the Bechdel test.” To pass this famous three-part test, which measures whether female characters in a film are anything more than superficial, a movie has to (1) have at least two female characters (2) who talk to each other (3) about something other than a man. It seems like a pretty low bar, but at least 40 percent of films fail, according to BechdelTest.com, a site that crowdsources these test results. “Birdman” fails. Th..>> view originalObama to forgive the student debt of permanently disabled people
(istock) The Obama administration plans to forgive $7.7 billion in federal student loans held by nearly 400,000 permanently disabled Americans. By law, anyone with a severe disability is eligible to have the government discharge their federal student loans. The administration took steps four years ago to make the process easier by letting people who are totally and permanently disabled use their Social Security designation to apply for a discharge, but few took advantage. The Department of ..>> view originalThe most out-of-touch places in America
Writer Charles Murray created a quiz that claims to determine whether or not you live in a "bubble", isolated from the mainstream American experience. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post) In his 2012 book "Coming Apart," conservative writer Charles Murray argues that America’s upper class has fallen out of touch with mainstream (white) culture. Murray calls this insular group “elites,” but a better term might be “fancy people.” Fancy people drink wine instead of cheap beer; they watch auteu..>> view original
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