Source: Michael D. The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama set a confrontation with Senate Republicans in motion on Tuesday morning by naming a slate of judges to a top appeals court and daring his rivals to block their confirmations. In a formal Rose Garden ceremony normally reserved for Supreme Court nominees and prominent cabinet [...]
Source: Michael Cieply / The New York Times LOS ANGELES — After years of complaint and self-criticism about the shortage of prominent movies by and about black Americans, film companies are poised to release an extraordinary cluster of them across an array of genres in the last five months of 2013. At least 10 new [...]
Source: Richard Perezp-Pena / The New York Times The undergraduate dean at Harvard will step down this summer, she and the university announced on Tuesday, months after she came under fire for her handling of a search of some junior faculty members’ e-mail accounts. Evelynn M. Hammonds, the first woman and the first African-American to [...]
Source: The New York Times ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Obama used a commencement speech before Naval Academy graduates on Friday to urge them to follow an “inner compass” and to warn that rising numbers of sexual assaults in the military threatened to erode America’s faith in the armed forces. The president praised the military as [...]
Source: Thom Shanker / The New York Times WASHINGTON — A sergeant first class on the staff of the United States Military Academy at West Point faces charges for allegedly videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were in the shower, according to Army officials. The Army is contacting a dozen women to [...]
Source: Peter Baker / The New York Times President Obama will attend a memorial service this week for the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Tex., in what will be his latest foray as the country’s comforter in chief. Mr. Obama, who spoke at emotional services for victims of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., [...]
Source: Samir Naji al Hasan / The New York Times ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my [...]
Source: Pam Belluck / The New York Times A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. In his ruling, he also accused the federal government of “bad faith” in dealing with the requests [...]
Source: Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear / The New York Times President Obama plans to return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in solidarity with federal workers who are going to be furloughed as part of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester, an administration official said Wednesday. The voluntary move would [...]
Source: Bill Carter / The New York Times “The Tonight Show” will begin a new era in February when Jimmy Fallon succeeds Jay Leno as host of the most storied and successful program in late-night television. NBC plans to announce on Wednesday its plan to install Mr. Fallon as the show’s sixth host at the conclusion of the network’s coverage [...]
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