Thursday, June 1, 2017

The Obamas just bought their rental home in Washington and other top stories.

  • The Obamas just bought their rental home in Washington

    The Obamas just bought their rental home in Washington
      The Obamas purchased the Kalorama mansion they’d been renting. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Looks like former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are putting down deeper roots in Washington: After renting a Kalorama home for their post-White House stint, the couple have purchased the eight-bedroom, nine-and-a-half-bath home for $8.1 million, according to property records. The Obamas have said they plan to remain in D.C. while their younger daughter, Sasha, f..
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  • The Latest: Friend: Man arrested at Trump hotel is no threat

    The Latest: Friend: Man arrested at Trump hotel is no threat
    A Pennsylvania man was arrested early Wednesday at the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, authorities said, after police found a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-style weapon and dozens of rounds of ammunition in his vehicle. Officers acted on a tip at about 1:50 a.m. and saw the weapon in plain view in the vehicle, which the driver had given to a hotel valet, police said. A Glock 23 handgun was found in the glove box, police said, along with 30 rounds of 7.62-millimeter ammunition and 6..
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  • Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in ...

    Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in ...
    The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. President Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being “used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes” and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he ..
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  • Trump is trying to destroy everything people like about Obamacare

    Trump is trying to destroy everything people like about Obamacare
    (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press) In its ongoing effort to dismantle everything about the Affordable Care Act that Americans like, the Trump administration is going after the ACA’s requirement that insurance plans include coverage for preventive health care with no cost-sharing, including birth control. While we knew this would be coming in some form, a draft of the regulation obtained by Vox shows that the administration may go farther than most people realized. It may be planning to gut..
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  • Bryce Harper's suspension reduced to three games

    Bryce Harper's suspension reduced to three games
    Bryce Harper will serve a three-game suspension starting Wednesday night. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — A decision came swiftly, as a day after Bryce Harper announced he would appeal his four-game suspension for fighting Giants reliever Hunter Strickland, Major League Baseball reduced that suspension to three games, according to people familiar with the situation. Harper will begin serving that suspension Wednesday evening and will therefore be eligible to return Sunda..
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  • 'Lord Jesus, watch over me': New police videos show desperate ...

    'Lord Jesus, watch over me': New police videos show desperate ...
    New body camera footage from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando shows officers yelling commands at club-goers during an attack on the nightclub than killed 49 people in June 2016. (The Orlando Sentinel) Police arrive with sirens blasting, grabbing automatic weapons from their cruisers and rushing toward the sound of automatic gunfire. Hordes of young people pour out of a dimly lit nightclub, panicked and afraid, some carrying injured friends. An officer slumps to the ground after a bullet str..
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  • Kabul terror explosion devastates city's embassy district

    Kabul terror explosion devastates city's embassy district
    Terrorists detonated a massive truck bomb in the heart of Kabul’s heavily patrolled diplomatic district, in one of the deadliest strikes in the Afghan capital in years.Witnesses said the bomber drove an explosives-laden sewage tanker truck toward the chain of checkpoints and blast walls ringing the secure Green Zone sector in downtown Kabul, home to the presidential palace as well as to the U.S. and other foreign embassies. After attempting to breach the secure zone, the bomber detonated his dea..
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  • Washington Man Charged With Making Bomb Threat to Casino

    Washington Man Charged With Making Bomb Threat to Casino
    A Washington man has been charged with making threats to bomb or injure property at Silver Reef Casino. | May 31, 2017, at 3:03 p.m.. MORE.
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  • Noose found at exhibit in African American Smithsonian museum

    Noose found at exhibit in African American Smithsonian museum
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 04: The National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C. on January, 04, 2017. (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) A noose was found Wednesday in a public gallery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture museum, the second such incident on Smithsonian grounds in less than a week, officials said. David J. Skorton, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, said in an email a..
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  • Trump revives 'Crooked Hillary' nickname. Clinton fires back with ...

    Trump revives 'Crooked Hillary' nickname. Clinton fires back with ...
    Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (AFP/Paul J. Richards; AP/David Goldman) Perhaps attempting to escape the afterglow of his strange tweet that included the now famous combination of letters “covfefe,” President Trump revived his old favorite moniker for Clinton on Wednesday: “Crooked Hillary.” He was responding to comments made by Clinton earlier in the day at the Recode Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., where she was interviewed on stage by two tech journalists and spoke in ..
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Downpours likely in Washington on Friday morning, then chance of ... .Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he ... .
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he ... .Tillerson says 'all options are on the table' when it comes to North ... .

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