After backlash, Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning's visiting fellow ...
Chelsea Manning’s invite to join Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a visiting fellow has been rescinded. (Reuters) Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government rescinded a visiting fellowship offered to Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who spent seven years in prison for leaking classified government secrets, after the university faced forceful backlash from CIA Director Mike Pompeo among others. “I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow wa..>> view originalTrump and Democrats strike DACA deal. Yes? No? Sort of? Trump's ...
At 6:11 Thursday morning, President Trump tweeted that despite news reports to the contrary, he and Democratic congressional leaders had reached “no deal” on protections for young undocumented immigrants brought here as children. At 6:20 a.m., after a night of fretting by his supporters, he tweeted that the big, beautiful border wall he had long promised “will continue to be built.” Then, at 6:28 a.m., he tweeted a duo of missives outlining the very deal he claimed didn’t exist. Confusion reign..>> view originalDoes Washington rank as a great waterfront city?
Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Charleston and Annapolis are recognized and remembered worldwide for their unique relationships to rivers, lakes or seas. London, Copenhagen, Paris, Nice and Florence are likewise defined by their waterfront imagery. Should Washington be on this list of memorable waterfront cities? Many city waterfronts share similar aesthetic and functional attributes: public visibility and accessibility for pedestrians as well as vehicles and boats; new as well as his..>> view originalTrump's inflammatory Air Force One gaggle, annotated
President Trump insisted "many" Republican members of Congress support his plan to work with Democrats to make a deal on DACA, during a flight from Florida to Washington, D.C. aboard Air Force One on Sept. 14. (The Washington Post) President Trump just pivoted back to being President Trump. While headed back from an empathetic visit to Hurricane Irma-stricken Florida and on the heels of more bipartisan dealmaking in Washington, the president reverted to his unapologetic, combative, dubiou..>> view originalAntifa: Guardians against fascism or lawless thrill-seekers?
Self-described antifa activists John Cookenboo, left, and Vincent Yochelson in Oakland, Calif. (Nick Otto/For The Washington Post) BERKELEY, Calif. — On the morning of the protest, Sean Hines woke with a sense of purpose he’d seldom felt. He was a 20-year-old high school dropout with no car, no job and no money. A year and a half ago, he’d been arrested for a drunken brawl. Now Hines was about to be arrested again, but for something he believed in. In his Santa Rosa halfway house, Hines dr..>> view originalCatch 22? For Indians, win streak goes extras and extends to a record
CLEVELAND — For anyone who may have questioned whether a team could be any better at any given moment — or a single stretch of baseball any more sublime and intoxicating — than the Cleveland Indians and the Winning Streak That Will Not Die had been over the course of three straight weeks without a loss, the answer came in moments small and large Thursday night at Progressive Field. And it amounted to: yes, absolutely. It came crashing in with epic hits and thunderous roars at the end, all of t..>> view originalWith Trump, it is never over
President Trump gestures. (Rick Scuteri/Associated Press) The tweet by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) read like a primal scream. “Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair,” he bellowed. “No promise is credible.” King wasn’t alone in his horror that President Trump appears on the verge of doing a deal with his old friends, Chuck and Nancy — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — that would write..>> view originalNorth Korea fires another missile over Japan, triggering warnings ...
SEOUL — North Korea fired another missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Friday morning, just a day after Pyongyang said that Japan “should be sunken into the sea” with a nuclear bomb and that the United States should be “beaten to death” with a stick “fit for a rabid dog.” This was the second time in less than three weeks that North Korea sent a ballistic missile over Japan, and the launch came less than two weeks after North Korea exploded what is widely believed to be a hy..>> view originalAs flooded Houston neighborhoods dry out, residents wonder: Are ...
On block after block of Houston’s Meyerland neighborhood, residents are dealing with the detritus of homes flooded by Hurricane Harvey. (Patricia Sullivan/The Washington Post) HOUSTON — The suburban Houston enclave of Meyerland has long presented a facade of prosperity and permanence. Built half a century ago on what had been rice fields, it totals more than 2,000 spacious homes, many with swimming pools, all set amid unfurling green lawns. In 1955, Vice President Richard M. Nixon attended..>> view originalAfter massive Equifax breach, let's make it free to freeze your credit
The credit reporting agency, Equifax, announced on Sept. 7 that a hack has impacted the credit histories of up to 143 million Americans. Here's what you should do if you believe you are affected. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) Whatever your political affiliation, there is now one financial issue on which we can all agree. We need Congress to pass legislation allowing consumers to temporarily freeze and unfreeze their own credit files at no charge to help thwart identity theft. In case ..>> view original
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