Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Kris Letang suspension could help Caps regain home-ice advantage and other top stories.

  • Kris Letang suspension could help Caps regain home-ice advantage

    Penguins defenseman Kris Letang is suspended for Game 4. (Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports) The NHL Department of Player Safety announced on Tuesday that Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang will be suspended one game for his hit on Marcus Johansson of the Washington Capitals. That means the Penguins will be without arguably their most important player for Game 4. [Penguins’ Kris Letang suspended one game for interference on Marcus Johansson] Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang suspended ..
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  • Pedestrian struck and killed by hijacked Metrobus in DC, police say

    Pedestrian struck and killed by hijacked Metrobus in DC, police say
    Authorities say a pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metrobus that was hijacked in Northeast Washington. A suspect is in custody. (AP) Authorities say a pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metrobus that was hijacked Tuesday morning in Northeast Washington. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said a man was taken into custody at a gas station when the bus was stopped. The pedestrian who was killed was not immediately identified. She said the suspect was “violent and resistant.” The entire ..
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  • Washington Ballet's Septime Webre turned company into a big tent

    Washington Ballet's Septime Webre turned company into a big tent
    Outside it was pouring rain, and the carpet squished as Septime Webre, the Washington Ballet’s artistic director, walked around the low-ceilinged basement of a housing project in Adams Morgan. Water was leaking in through its cracked foundation. It was 1999, and Webre had just moved to Adams Morgan from New Jersey to start his new job. Beside him stood Rhonda Buckley, founder of the Sitar Arts Center, which ran after-school programs for underserved children in that damp, windowless room. She w..
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  • How the Leicester City fairy tale began in Thailand

    How the Leicester City fairy tale began in Thailand
    Leicester City won their first top-flight championship in 132 seasons, becoming just the sixth team to win the Premier League in the past 23 years. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) Even if you know nothing about English soccer, you probably are aware of what has been billed as the greatest sporting upset of all time. Leicester City FC started the English Premier League season in August at 5,000-to-1 odds to win the 38-game competition by season's end in May. But after its nearest chall..
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  • Melania Trump: From professional pretty person to potential first lady

    Melania Trump: From professional pretty person to potential first lady
    Melania Trump tries on the classic political-spouse “adoring gaze.” (Mary Altaffer/AP) It is not easy sliding into the role of first lady — or for the sake of this presidential election cycle, first spouse. The evolution from independent person to “better half,” “secret weapon” or “incredibly accomplished genius who puts her family and children first unlike her wildly ambitious husband,” can be awkward and painful. And Melania Trump, a former model — a professional pretty person — has been b..
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  • Captain James Cook's centuries-old ship discovered in Newport ...

    Captain James Cook's centuries-old ship discovered in Newport ...
    A replica of the Endeavour lies at anchor after it was removed from a sandbar in Botany Bay, Sydney. (Mark Baker/AP) More than 200 years ago, the storied ship of captain James Cook — the one the legendary explorer used to "discover" Australia's East Coast — was scuttled by the British Navy. Now marine archaeologists believe they've found it off Rhode Island in Newport Harbor. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project is planning to announce Wednesday that it probably has located the HMS E..
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  • Oscars, Tonys, Emmys: Which one is more diverse?

    Oscars, Tonys, Emmys: Which one is more diverse?
    Lin-Manuel Miranda with the cast of “Hamilton” (Joan Marcus/The Public Theater via AP) “Hamilton” got a record 16 Tony nominations this morning, one more than former champs “The Producers” and “Billy Elliot.” All those nominations for the diversely cast musical have a side effect: They’re making the Tony Awards exceptionally inclusive just months after the Oscars were ridiculed on social media for nominations that were conspicuously monochromatic. [Tony Awards 2016: Complete list of nomina..
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  • Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, dies at 69

    Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, dies at 69
    Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther who guarded the legacy of her son, the perennially popular and controversial “gangsta” rapper Tupac Shakur, after his drive-by shooting death in 1996, died May 2 at a hospital near her home in Sausalito, Calif. She was 69. Her death was announced by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, which said deputies responded to her home for a report of possible cardiac arrest. A coroner will determine the cause of death. Ms. Shakur gave birth to her son in 1971, a mont..
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  • Trump sees a decisive Indiana victory, demise of Cruz, Kasich ...

    Trump sees a decisive Indiana victory, demise of Cruz, Kasich ...
    INDIANAPOLIS — Businessman Donald Trump seemed poised to run away with the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday — hoping for a big victory in Indiana that would crush the hopes of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and the “#NeverTrump” movement that had coalesced behind him. A complete victory in Indiana would give Trump 57 more convention delegates. That wouldn’t be enough to clinch the nomination yet, but it would put the business mogul and reality-TV star in position to reach the necessary 1,23..
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  • Rebel shelling hits Aleppo hospital amid cease-fire efforts

    Rebel shelling hits Aleppo hospital amid cease-fire efforts
    A Syrian man walks past destroyed buildings on Monday in Aleppo's Bab al-Hadid neighborhood, which was hit by airstrikes. (Karam Al-Masri/AFP/Getty Images) ISTANBUL — A Syrian rebel assault on government-held parts of Aleppo killed as many as 19 people, activists and Syrian state media said Tuesday, in attacks that included a deadly rocket strike on a hospital even as diplomats struggled to find ways to quell the fighting. The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, ..
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