Saturday, March 3, 2018

Evening Edition: Women and young voters will decide the 2018 elections. If they actually vote.

 
Democracy Dies in Darkness
 
 
Evening Edition
The day's most important stories
 
 
The Take | Analysis
Women and young voters will decide the 2018 elections. If they actually vote.
These are the voters who stand most apart from the president and who are most at odds with many of the priorities he has advanced in office. Their opposition and their energy will determine the level of losses Republicans suffer in the November midterm elections.
@PKCapitol | Analysis
More than 2,100 people are running for Congress — that's record interest
The number of people filing for office is the highest since the Federal Election Commission began keep such records in 1977.
Trump threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs, escalating trade war
His attack on automakers is mostly a direct threat at Germany, which exported $23 billion in cars to the United States in 2016, according to aggregated data. But those businesses also have a sizable presence in the United States, employing thousands of Americans.
 
 
'Just try to keep calm': Read the texts students sent one another when a gunman attacked
The smartphone-wielding students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School broadcast to the world what they saw during the shooting that left 17 dead. But those same students were also bombarded with horrific images themselves, through those same phones.
 
Man fatally shoots self near White House, Secret Service says
No one else was injured in the incident along the north fence line. President Trump, who was at Mar-a-Lago during the shooting, was briefed on the incident.
 
Boston is being lashed by hundred-year storms. Is it ready for the next big one?
Despite the risks, the city approved a 1.3 million square-foot mixed-use development in tony Back Bay, where three feet of sea-level rise would drown homes and hotel entrances off the harbor.
 
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Obama's attorney general rebukes Trump: 'I had a president I did not have to protect'
Eric Holder, who served in the Obama administration, appeared on "Real Time With Bill Maher" and was asked about the revelation that dozens of Trump aides still lack permanent security clearance.
 
Student took his father's gun, then killed both his parents in dorm, police say
Central Michigan University authorities had called the mother of James Davis Jr. to report concerns about the 19-year-old's behavior. Davis's father was an officer at a VA medical center in Chicago.
 
WorldViews | Analysis
Putin says he wishes the Soviet Union had not collapsed. Many Russians agree.
Although the end of the U.S.S.R. heralded the end of Cold War tensions, for many it was the start of years of political and economic uncertainty, as well as a diminished place for the Russian people on the world stage.
 
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Perspective
These are our picks for the real best pictures of the past 42 years
The academy just keeps handing out Oscars to the wrong movies, so here are our winners if we had a do-over.
 
Interactive: How many best-picture winners have you seen?
In the history of the Academy Awards, 89 films have received the highest honor. Select the ones you've seen and find out how you rank as an Oscars expert.
 
 
Voraciously: Create a party menu with recipes to go with the nominees
Here's what to make and eat while you're watching the 90th Academy Awards ceremony.
 
Perspective
The D.C. lifestyle trap: $500,000 in income but still not able to save
A financial adviser has one word for people who are overstretched by 12-hour workdays and high mortgage payments in the nation's capital: Move.
 
 
     
 
 
 
 

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