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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Washington DC stories: 172 news summaries

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 Rare Leopard Cubs Born at Zoo 

Twins are DC Zoo's first clouded leopard babies in 16 years

Mar 25, 09 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Zoo just got a tiny bit cuter with the birth of two rare clouded leopard cubs at its conservation center, the Washington Post reports. The babies are the first of their endangered species, called ghost leopards for their blurry black-and-tan spots, born at the zoo in 16 years.... More »

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endangered species • Washington DC • leopards • National Zoo

ANALYSIS

 Health Care 
 Debate Turns 
 Nastier 


Mar 21, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The claws have come out in the Capitol Hill debate on whether the government should create a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers, Politico reports. One of the first tangible signs begins today with an advocacy group's TV ad campaign against Sen. Charles Grassley in his home state... More »

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Congress • Washington DC • Charles Grassley • health care reform • AFSCME • Obama administration • President Obama • Health Care for America Now • ad buy

Cops Eye Link in Mother-Daughter Murders

Striking similarities causing cops 'great concern'

Mar 18, 09 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police are hunting for possible links between the grisly murders of a pair of mothers and daughters in the Washington DC area, reports the Washington Post. Both cases could "possibly" be the work of a serial killer, said a police official. Both moms were in their 40s and were... More »

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Maryland • crime • Washington DC • police • murder • serial killers • double homicide

Global Warming Will Buoy East Coast Sea Level

Altered Atlantic current means higher flood risk from Boston-DC

Mar 16, 09 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The effect of climate change on Atlantic currents will boost the threat of flooding along the US East Coast more than glacial melting alone, a study predicts. New York, Boston, and Washington, DC, are expected to experience more shoreline encroachment and have higher risk of storm surges as changing currents... More »

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New York City • Boston • Washington DC • Greenland • sea level • flooding • glacier • ocean temperature • glacial melt • ocean currents

(Newser) - It looks like President Obama would rather spend time with his daughters than make a fool of himself. Fishbowl DC reports that Obama will be the first president since Grover Cleveland to skip the annual Gridiron Dinner, an affair in which Washington reporters and politicians—the president included—do song-and-dance... More »

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Washington DC • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • President Obama

(Newser) - A legend about a DC watchmaker who etched a secret message inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch is true, the Washington Post reports. Smithsonian officials opened the watch today and found it amid the tiny gears: "Jonathan Dillon April 13, 1861. Fort Sumter was attacked by the rebels... More »

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Washington DC • Abraham Lincoln • Civil War • legend • Smithsonian Insitution • Fort Sumter • pocket watch • message

 Capitol Goes Gaga for Pitt 

Brad discusses New Orleans, lawmakers swoon

Mar 6, 09 8:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Brad Pitt was in Washington yesterday for a serious reason, but the effect he had on lawmakers was not entirely professional, with many employees ditching their offices to nonchalantly hang out in the halls hoping to catch a glimpse of the superstar, AP reports. It wasn’t all fun and... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Hurricane Katrina • Brad Pitt • New Orleans • Washington DC • Harry Reid • Capitol Hill • housing • celebrity • Dick Durbin • Ninth Ward

Spitzer Moves Into DC
Real Estate

Disgraced NY gov buys $180M office tower a block from tryst hotel

Mar 6, 09 5:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer is now working in real estate in the city where his downfall began, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ex-governor of New York has worked with his father's real estate company to buy an office block in Washington DC, only a block away from the hotel where he... More »

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real estate • Washington DC • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • governor • Mayflower Hotel • Ashley Dupre

(AP) - A Salvadoran immigrant in prison for attacking two women joggers in the park where Chandra Levy's remains were found is named in an arrest warrant issued today in connection with her death. Investigators questioned Ingmar Guandique—now in federal prison in Adelanto, Calif.—in 2002 about Levy's slaying after... More »

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Washington DC • murder • federal prison • El Salvador • Chandra Levy • Ingmar Guandique • warrant

Smithsonian Gallery Names New Director

Former MoCA chief takes over Hirshhorn after yearlong search

Feb 27, 09 8:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Richard Koshalek, former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, will become the new head of the Hirshhorn Museum—the modern gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Koshalek expanded MoCA over 20 years, leaving in 1999 to run the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.... More »

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art museum • Washington DC • art • Washington • Smithsonian Insitution • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles • Hirshhorn Museum

Senate OKs Congressional
Seat for DC

Measure expected to clear House, but legal challenges remain

Feb 26, 09 4:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Washington, DC, moved a step closer today to getting a congressional representative. The Senate voted 61-37 to give the district—and its 600,000 residents—a seat in the House of Representatives, the Post reports. The measure now goes to the House, where it is expected to pass next week.... More »

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Congress • Washington DC • Senate • House of Representatives

OPINION

Congrats, DC: Sen. Burris Is
on Your Side

Milbank: Capital has ally in quest for rep ... just not a popular one

Feb 26, 09 11:18 AM CST
(Newser) - DC residents have a new Senate ally in their quest for congressional representation. Unfortunately, Dana Milbank points out in the Washington Post, it’s the monumentally unpopular Roland Burris, “the Democrat from Blagojevich.” As Milbank points out, “Burris is not one to be set back by shunning,... More »

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Washington DC • Senate • House of Representatives • District of Columbia • Dana Milbank • Roland Burris

 Jazz Great 
 Ellington 
 Will Grace 
 DC Quarter 

Capital honors native son with commemorative coin

Feb 24, 09 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Late jazz legend Duke Ellington has been chosen to appear on the District of Columbia's commemorative quarter, CNN reports. The composer and performer, a DC native who died in 1975, beat out abolitionist Frederick Douglass and surveyor and astronomer Benjamin Banneker in a vote of the capital's residents. Ellington becomes... More »

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African Americans • Washington DC • quarters • jazz • coins • US Mint • commemorative coin

(Newser) - Residents of the nation’s capital are poised to finally have a vote in Congress, the AP reports. Debate opened today on a bill that would give Washington’s 600,000 residents a House seat, and with a Democratic Congress and president in place, it might pass this time. Democrats... More »

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Congress • Washington DC • House of Representatives • Utah • District of Columbia

PROFILE

 Gibbs Has the 
 Ear of Obama 


Feb 22, 09 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may be best known these days for deflecting harsh questions in the briefing room, but his advisory role in the administration goes much deeper than that, writes Michael Scherer in Time. “There isn't a single decision that the president has formed in the course... More »

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Washington DC • White House • American media • Valerie Jarrett • David Axelrod • press secretary • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • President Obama

(Newser) - Marion Barry—the controversial former DC mayor and current council member—had a successful kidney transplant last night, the Washington Post reports. Barry, 73, who had been on dialysis for 3 months, announced a week ago that he was experiencing kidney failure likely brought on by a 20-year battle with... More »

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hypertension • diabetes • Washington DC • mayor • kidney transplant • city council • kidney failure • Marion Barry

 Whistling 
 Orangutan 
 Surprises 
 Scientists  

Her talent may help explain how human speech evolved

Feb 21, 09 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - An orangutan at Washington's National Zoo has pleased her caretakers with a unique skill—she's taken up whistling. Researchers have previously taught apes to do so, but Bonnie is different in that she started on her own, apparently by mimicking zookeepers, NPR reports. (She also imitates workers sweeping floors and... More »

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evolution • Washington DC • apes • orangutans • speech • National Zoo • whistling

(Newser) - A venerable New York law firm is scrambling to do damage control after passengers on an Acela train heard about planned layoffs before the associates targeted for downsizing, Above the Law reports. A Pillsbury Winthrop honcho "was talking so loudly that I think most people in the car were... More »

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New York City • layoffs • Washington DC • gaffe • corporate law firms • public spaces • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman • mobile phones • Robert Robbins • Acela • commuter train • conversation

 Rahm Lives in Illegal Apartment 

Chief of staff rents basement of DC house zoned as single-family dwelling

Feb 4, 09 6:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The White House isn’t the only new house Rahm Emanuel will have to get used to, Gawker reports. Barack Obama’s chief of staff rents a basement apartment on Capitol Hill from Rep. Rosa DeLauro, but a private investigator has discovered that the house is zoned as a single-family... More »

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Washington DC • Rahm Emanuel • apartment • chief of staff

OPINION

No Golden Toilets; Liberals Are On the Case

The rules have changed for the über-rich: Brooks

Feb 3, 09 12:04 PM CST
(Newser) - David Brooks is worried about the rich people. Consider poor John Thain. One minute, it was OK to spend $35,000 on a commode, the next it was an embarrassment, Brooks opines in the New York Times. The same shame could befall countless billionaires who don’t realize the rules... More »

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Democrats • Washington DC • John Thain • David Brooks • TARP

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