Source: Craig Whitlock / The Washington Post The nation’s military chiefs have told Congress in writing that they oppose or have strong reservations about a controversial bill that would reshape military law by taking sexual-assault cases out of the hands of commanders, setting up a likely clash with lawmakers who are pushing the idea. In a rare joint [...]
Source: Clarence Williams / The Washington Post An Arlington deputy sheriff was arrested and charged with murder Thursday by Alexandria police in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man last week. Police arrested Craig Patterson, 44, at a Spotsylvania County home Thursday evening, Alexandria police officials said on their Web site just before 11 p.m. [...]
Source: Philip Rucker and Aaron Blake / The Washington Post The FBI has intercepted a letter addressed to President Obama that may contain the poisonous substance ricin. A spokesperson in the FBI’s Washington Field Office said that a “suspicious letter” sent to Obama was intercepted at a White House mail facility on Thursday morning. FBI [...]
Source: AP / The Washington Post RICHMOND, Va. — Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. for approximately $4.72 billion, the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese company. The deal would take the world’s biggest pork producer private. Hong Kong-based Shuanghui owns a variety of global businesses that [...]
Source: Brigid Schulte / The Washington Post In a trend accelerated by the recent recession and an increase in births to single mothers, nearly four in 10 families with children under the age of 18 are now headed by women who are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, according to a report released Wednesday [...]
Source: Dan Morse / The Washington Post A Gaithersburg man accused of killing a friend with a hatchet stuffed the man’s body into a large trash can as part of an attempted coverup, according to charging documents made public Tuesday. Claude A. Allen III, the son of a former top White House aide, also gave [...]
Source: AP / The Washington Post NEW YORK — The founder of an online currency transfer business was indicted in the United States along with six other people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme described as “staggering” in its scope, authorities said Tuesday. Arthur Budovsky is the founder of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based website [...]
Source: Colbert I. King / The Washington Post The observance of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Bureau of Colored Troops in the District occurred this week, only a few days before Memorial Day. It seems fitting that the sesquicentennial of the Colored Troops Bureau falls close to the day originally set aside to remember those [...]
Source: Krissah Thompson / The Washington Post As head of the world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Howard Dodson Jr. acquired the diaries of Malcolm X, the papers of Nat King Cole and Lorraine Hansberry, the collections of anthropologists Melville J. Herskovits and St. Clair Drake, and the prints of Harlem [...]
Source: Nick Anderson / The Washington Post The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government’s cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by law. The proposal cleared the GOP-led House on a largely [...]
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