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  • Malaysia Airlines plane vanishes over South China Sea

    8 March 2014, 6:39 am by: Simon Denyer

    BEIJING — Search and rescue vessels and planes from Southeast Asia scoured the waters of the South China Sea on Saturday after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 239 people, three of them Americans, suddenly vanished from air traffic control screens and…
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  • Malaysian Airlines flight vanishes over South China Sea

    8 March 2014, 3:23 am by: Simon Denyer

    BEIJING — A Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 people, including four Americans, went missing over the South China Sea as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Saturday, prompting countries in the region to launch maritime search and rescue operations.…
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  • New Post-ABC News poll: Keystone XL project overwhelmingly favored by Americans

    8 March 2014, 12:00 am by: Juliet Eilperin, Scott Clement

    Americans support the idea of constructing the Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States by a nearly 3 to 1 margin, with 65 percent saying it should be approved and 22 percent opposed, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Read…
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  • Maryland online exchange problems cloud doctor’s vision for health care

    7 March 2014, 9:49 pm by: Jenna Johnson

    Peter Beilenson dreamed of bright, affordable health-care centers in working-class neighborhoods, staffed with doctors paid a flat salary — rather than per patient — and lifestyle coaches encouraging healthier living. Read full article >>    
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  • Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within

    7 March 2014, 8:49 pm by: Christian Davenport

    After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence strategies at their own employees to root out spies, terrorists or leakers. Read full article…
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  • Conservatives try to make criminal justice reform a signature issue

    7 March 2014, 8:36 pm by: Wesley Lowery

    Many of the headlines after day two of the Conservative Political Action Conference were about Rick Perry’s well-received speech, in which he harped on what he deemed the “two Americas”: red-state America and blue-state America. Read full article…
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  • Chinese officials debate why China can’t make a soap opera as good as South Korea’s

    7 March 2014, 8:30 pm by: William Wan

    BEIJING — There is no shortage of problems facing China these days: a terrorist attack that recently left 33 people dead and 143 injured, corruption in government, a worrisome slowdown in economic growth. Read full article >>    
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  • As talk of sanctions on Russia heats up, business groups draw cautionary line

    7 March 2014, 7:50 pm by: Howard Schneider, Holly Yeager

    Business groups are pushing to ensure that any economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States are joined by as much of the rest of the world as possible, warning Congress and the Obama administration that unilateral U.S. action would put tens of…
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  • Frank Jobe, pioneer of Tommy John surgery for baseball pitchers, dies at 88

    7 March 2014, 7:06 pm by: Matt Schudel

    Frank Jobe, who performed the first “Tommy John surgery,” a revolutionary ligament-replacement procedure in the elbow that prolonged the careers of countless baseball pitchers and is considered the most important medical advance in the sport’s history,…
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  • Editorial: The West must resist Mr. Putin’s gambits in Ukraine

    7 March 2014, 6:54 pm by: Editorial Board

    THE UNITED States and its allies have responded to Russia’s invasion of Crimea with a flurry of diplomacy aimed at persuading Moscow to accept negotiation and an eventual compromise, with a gently escalating sequence of sanctions as the alternative.…
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  • Millennials don’t trust you, and four other takeaways from Pew’s new report

    7 March 2014, 6:24 pm by: Mark Berman

    A big new report on millennials was released today by the Pew Research Center, covering a lot of the same stuff we’re always hearing about this oft-discussed generation. Millennials are diverse, they’re not making a lot of money and they’re really into…
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  • In standoff with California over testing, U.S. Education Department blinks

    7 March 2014, 5:50 pm by: Lyndsey Layton

    The U.S. Department of Education is allowing California to bypass federal requirements by giving standardized tests in math and reading to millions of public school students this spring without publicly reporting results or using them to hold schools or…
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  • USIS fires manager for pressuring employees to work overtime without pay

    7 March 2014, 5:45 pm by: Christian Davenport

    The company accused of taking shortcuts in hundreds of thousands of security background checks recently fired a manager for pressuring employees to work overtime without pay, according to a company-wide e-mail. Read full article >>    
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  • Assad taking advantage of U.S.-Russia split over Ukraine, observers say

    7 March 2014, 4:16 pm by: Liz Sly

    BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is taking advantage of the rift between Russia and the United States over Ukraine to press ahead with plans to crush the rebellion against his rule and secure his reelection for another seven-year term, unencumbered…
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  • Style Blog: H&M is making a $99 wedding dress. Here’s what that says about economics.

    7 March 2014, 3:06 pm by: Caitlin Dewey

    The floor-length, vaguely Grecian-looking white gown that H&M debuted today isn’t the discount retailer’s first foray into the wedding business -- but it’s certainly H&M’s first wedding dress at a decidedly H&M price point. Read full article >>    
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  • Home equity is rising, but don’t get too excited about it

    7 March 2014, 3:01 pm by: Dina El Boghdady

    The amount of the equity people have in their homes hit $10 trillion in the fourth quarter, the highest level since 2007. It's a tidbit of data from the Federal Reserve that generated lots of excitement this week about how the comeback will lift consumer…
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  • Milbank: At CPAC, a Grand Old Free-for-all

    7 March 2014, 2:18 pm by: Dana Milbank

    Paul Ryan, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, disputed the notion that “the Republican Party is in this big, massive civil war.” “I don’t see this great divide in our party,” the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee…
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  • The Fix: The best — and weirdest — moments from CPAC (so far)

    7 March 2014, 1:55 pm by: Matt DeLong

    Conservative activists are currently gathered in Maryland for three days of speeches by potential Republican presidential candidates, members of Congress and other bigwigs as part of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Here are some of…
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  • The Fix: John McCain vs. Ted Cruz, Round 203

    7 March 2014, 1:26 pm by: Chris Cillizza

    On Friday in an interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Arizona Sen. John McCain blasted his colleague Ted Cruz over the Texas senator's critique of the party's last three losing presidential nominees. Read full article >>    
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  • Crimea solidifies ties with Russia ahead of referendum on leaving Ukraine

    7 March 2014, 12:50 pm by: Carol Morello, Kathy Lally

    SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Russia and Crimea moved to solidify ties Friday as pro-Russia parties in Crimea planned campaigns for a referendum on splitting from Ukraine and Moscow enthusiastically greeted a visiting Crimean delegation. Read full article >>    
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  • GovBeat: It took Massachusetts just two days to ban upskirt photos

    7 March 2014, 12:14 pm by: Niraj Chokshi

    On Wednesday, taking photos up the skirts of women in public in Massachusetts was ruled legal. By Friday, lawmakers there made sure it wasn’t. Gov. Deval Patrick signed the bill on Friday morning, his office said. Now taking such photos is punishable with a…
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  • The Switch: This lawmaker thinks you should know about ‘icky’ smartphone snooping

    7 March 2014, 12:12 pm by: Amrita Jayakumar

    As retailers increasingly use shoppers’ smartphones to track their real-world browsing habits — from the moment they set foot in a store to their journey through the aisles — a Maryland lawmaker wants to make sure people know they’re being watched.…
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  • Huckabee pleases CPAC crowd with family-values filled speech

    7 March 2014, 11:10 am by: Wesley Lowery

    Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee pleased the crowded ballroom at CPAC this morning as he slammed President Obama's foreign policy, echoing criticism leveled by many other speakers that seizes on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Read full article >>    
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  • Putin rebuffs Obama on Ukraine, says Russia ‘cannot ignore calls for help’

    7 March 2014, 11:06 am by: Karen DeYoung, Anne Gearan

    A day after President Obama ordered sanctions over Russia’s military takeover in Crimea, Russian President Vladi­mir Putin emphatically rejected the U.S. position, saying his country could not “ignore calls for help” from ethnic Russians in Ukraine…
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  • The Switch: Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue

    7 March 2014, 10:58 am by: Andrea Peterson

    Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he repeatedly tried to go through official channels to raise concerns about government snooping programs but that his warnings fell on the deaf ears. In testimony to the European Parliament…
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