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Opinion: Can Michelle Rhee Save Public Schools?
By Richard Whitmire - AOL NewsIf school reformer Michelle Rhee hasn't yet parachuted into your hometown, chances are she soon will. You'll recognize her immediately -- she's the blunt-talking, young Korean-American woman praised by governors, scolded by teachers unions and pursued by the press. Alex Wong, Getty Images Former Washington, D.C., public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is taking her successful reform ideas nationwide. As someone who spent the better part of a year researching a book about Rhee, allow me to set the scene for what made her famous in Washington, D.C.; why she's visiting your state; ...
Feds: Va. Man Makes DC Subway Bomb Threat Online
By not in system - AOL NewsALEXANDRIA, Va. (Dec. 14) -- Federal authorities say an Arlington man is accused of making a threat on Facebook to blow up the D.C. subway system. A judge ordered a mental evaluation for Awais Younis on Tuesday. He was arrested last week on charges of communicating threats across state lines. A sworn statement from an FBI agent says Younis told a friend on the social networking site that he could use pipe bombs to kill people on the Metro system and in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood. The friend alerted the FBI. Younis also made threats online against the friend. ...
FBI: DC Sting Ended Before Suspect Could Flee US
By Allan Lengel - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 28) -- The FBI decided to end its sting and arrest a Northern Virginia man now charged with plotting to blow up D.C. -area subway stations because it was concerned he was about to leave the country to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to a court document and law enforcement sources. FBI agents arrested Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., on Wednesday on charges that he conspired with people he thought were al-Qaida operatives to blow up the Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House subway stations in Northern Virginia. In some other ...
Dead Sea Scrolls to Hit the Web: 4 More Ancient Texts Google Should Digitize
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 19) -- Google announced today that, in a combined effort with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the search engine will soon be offering digital versions of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, an artifact widely considered to be among the greatest archaeological findings of the past century. Why stop there? Knowing Google, odds are it won't. Surge Desk considers four other candidates for the next big digitization of the world's great archaeological texts: 1. The Rosetta Stone Staying with the theme of critical archaeology in multiple languages, the Rosetta Stone is a section of Ancient ...
Md. Police Kill Discovery Gunman, 3 Hostages Safe
By not in system - AOL NewsSILVER SPRING, Md. (Sept. 1) -- Police shot and killed a man upset with the Discovery Channel network's programming who took two employees and a security officer hostage at the company's headquarters Wednesday, officials said. All three hostages escaped safely. Police spent several hours negotiating with the gunman, who was upset about the network's programming, after he burst into the suburban Washington building about 1 p.m. waving a handgun and with canisters strapped to his body. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Montgomery County Police Chief ...
How Congress Spends Billions on Itself: About This Series
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. One way it does that is to release (in cooperation with the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call) massive, searchable databases culled from the House of Representatives' expense reports. There's enough in the data dumps to keep oversight-obsessed numbers junkies busy for weeks. Being oversight-obsessed numbers junkies, that's just what we have done. Full Report How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water Interns and Pages: $4.4 Million News and ...
Opinion: Supreme Court Gun Ban Ruling Can Make Us All Safer
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- In a sharply divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that state governments are not able to ban most Americans from owning most types of handguns. The majority decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, stated that firearms are "essential for self-defense." Predictably, gun control advocates bemoaned the ruling. But the court's decision is not just correct on constitutional grounds. It will help make the country safer. Another View The gun pushers lobby must be disappointed, since the Supreme Court ruling continues to allow for a wide variety of reasonable gun ...
Reporter Was Passenger in D.C. Vintage Plane Wreck, Still Files Report
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyThe crash of a vintage aircraft at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. this morning, as harrowing as it may have been, appears to have had a relatively happy ending for both the pilot and the single passenger, who happened to be a reporter who filed one of the first stories on the incident. Yes, incredible as it may be, Washington Post transportation writer Ashley Halsey III was aboard one of the many vintage aircraft circling the D.C. skies Tuesday morning, specifically a World War II-era Boening Stearman Model 75 biplane. The aerial event was organized for the premiere of "Legends ...
Photo Shows Obama Speechwriter, Spokesman Playing Beer Pong Sans Shirts
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyAll work and no beer pong makes Jack a dull boy? White House Spokesman Tommy Vietor and Chief Speechwriter Jon Favreau may have been caught red cup-handed, with their shirts off, standing around a beer pong table at Washington, D.C. bar and restaurant Old Glory over the weekend, according to the celeb-spotter website FamousDC.com. The photo allegedly shows Vietor and Favreau, both age 29, surrounded by a group of other revelers, cast in celestial beams of light so bright they are apparently forcing the two muscular lads to don their shades. The two Obama administration phenoms were getting ...
Betty White: SNL Gig Showcases the Bawdy Broad's Genius
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyHello Betty! It's so nice to have you back where you belong. In a world where women on television seem to get younger and thinner and more vapid by the moment (and the 99.9 percent of the rest disappear, fade back, or take on more serious roles), suddenly the sassiest, smartest, sexiest woman on air is . . . 88½-year-old Betty White, the Old School comedienne, born in 1922 and armed with tongue-in-cheek double entendres alongside nods to her once-and-future sexual prowess and her aging peer-group. All of which kicks anyone born in 1992 to the curb. Sorry kids. Maybe she never left us, ...
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