Sunday, April 3, 2016

Sunday's Headlines: In revealing interview, Trump offers new campaign details, predicts ‘massive recession’

Fact-checking Trump's claim that he can eliminate $19 trillion in debt in eight years; U.S.-led strikes are putting a financial squeeze on ISIS; This model of wealthy suburban living is starting to fray; North Carolina pulls away from Syracuse to advance to title game; Villanova's romp gives the Big East needed validation;
 
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In revealing interview, Trump offers new campaign details, predicts 'massive recession'
The billionaire said he would undo many international agreements, warned Americans against investing in the stock market and offered new plans about his potential presidency.
Fact-checking Trump's claim that he can eliminate $19 trillion in debt in eight years
Donald Trump again earned Four Pinocchios, this time for the assertion in an interview with Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
U.S.-led strikes are putting a financial squeeze on ISIS
Months of attacks have sent the Islamic State's oil and cash reserves up in smoke, officials say, taking a deepening toll on the group's ability to pay its fighters or carry out operations.
 
This model of wealthy suburban living is starting to fray
For decades, Fairfax County, Va. — the nation's second wealthiest county — has been a place of good governance and elite schools. Now, years of budget cuts are taking their toll, and a population that is growing older, poorer and more diverse is sharpening the need for basic services.
 
North Carolina pulls away from Syracuse to advance to title game
The Tar Heels used a balanced scoring effort to topple the Orange, 83-66.
 
Villanova's romp gives the Big East needed validation
Villanova gave the new Big East its first Final Four team, then blew away Oklahoma with the Final Four's largest margin of victory ever.
 
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Trump leaves the conservative establishment arrogant and unmoored
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The rallying cry for Clinton supporters: Logic not emotion
The former secretary of state has been criticized for having a "passion gap," but her campaign stops are filled with people excited for non-excitability and thrilled by wonkiness.
El Salvador's gangs call a cease-fire, but skeptics abound
In a rare interview, gang leaders told The Washington Post that they want to stop the violence. But the government sees "no chance of dialogue with the gangs."
Sanders references Holocaust when discussing Trump's 'intolerance' toward Muslims
The Democratic presidential candidate told an audience in Wisconsin that some of his relatives died in the Holocaust as the result of "a lunatic … stirring up racial hatred."
In fatal shootings by police, 1 in 5 officers' names go undisclosed
Of the 990 people shot and killed by police last year, the names of officers in 210 of those cases were not released, according to a Washington Post investigation. Experts say there is little consensus among departments on whether officers' names should be made public.
It's easy to overthink Picasso
Visitors to a Philadelphia exhibition of the 20th-century master's work can enjoy its riches, so long as they don't strive too much to answer the impenetrable but dull question posed by the curators.
What are the chances of a recession? Not what you'd think.
Enjoy the economic expansion. It will end — but not as soon as the doomsayers believe.
The TSA's new strategy for ensuring workers are prepared for the job
After facing withering criticism over embarrassing reports of unprofessional and sometimes illegal behavior by agents, the agency has launched the TSA Academy, an effort to rethink the way employees are trained.
Norway's gray clouds have a silver lining
Visiting Oslo and Bergen in the offseason is not everyone's idea of paradise, but it has its upside.
Paper napkins lose their place at dinner
Paper? Cloth? Nothing? America is changing how it sets the table for family and guests.
 
     
 
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