Monday, March 25, 2024

Reading archive 2024-03-25

Is Kevin Hart funny?: He’s getting the Mark Twain Prize for humor. That, and $4 billion at the box office, must mean something … right?

D.C. AG to Leonsis: Caps, Wizards can’t leave arena for 23 years: Monumental Sports says it ‘fundamentally’ disagrees with the attorney general’s opinion

A woman lost $789K in a gold bar scam, police say. Then she turned the tables.: Police say an undercover detective posed as a fraud victim in her 60s to catch the alleged scammer

‘Hail Mary’ paired arena with Tysons casino. Youngkin and Leonsis say no.: Idea was pitched by the casino’s developer, a top Democrat and their consultant — who also works for the arena’s chief “roadblock”

3 Maryland middle-schoolers charged with antisemitic hate crime: The teens, all students at Plum Point Middle School in Calvert, allegedly displayed swastikas and made Nazi salutes.

Death toll from Moscow concert attack rises to 133 as more bodies found

Cupid the peacock was shot with an arrow. Neighbors united to help him.: ‘When I saw the extent of the injury, it’s a miracle he’s alive,’ said Donny Block, who worked with neighbors in Exeter, Calif., to get Cupid into surgery

Is it true that drinking alcohol makes you warm?

Why is my gas so smelly? Gender, diet and plane rides can play a role.: Female flatulence tends to have a greater concentration of foul-smelling sulfur, and high altitudes — such as on flights — lead to increased gas volume

Ronna McDaniel quickly demonstrates that her view isn’t worth the cost

Terrorist attack in Russia exposes vulnerabilities of Putin’s regime

Opinion  Democrats meddling in GOP primaries isn’t hypocritical. It’s necessary.

Metro cracks down on fare evasion in D.C., leading to jump in fines

Ronna McDaniel faces sharp criticism after NBC hiring — including on NBC: On 'Meet the Press,’ where McDaniel was interviewed, Chuck Todd and other journalists said hiring the former RNC chair raised credibility issues. More criticism followed Monday from the hosts of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’

Opinion  Trump’s new stock deal is just another pig in a poke

STUDY FINDS PLANT NURSERIES ARE EXACERBATING THE CLIMATE-DRIVEN SPREAD OF 80% OF INVASIVE SPECIES: New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to precisely map role of horticulture in spreading invasives, projecting ranges under 2 degrees Celsius of warming

INVASIVE PLANTS ARE STILL FOR SALE AS GARDEN ORNAMENTALS, RESEARCH SHOWS: UMass Amherst study finds that invasive species are widely available due to inconsistent regulation

state of the native-plant movement, with rebecca mcmackin

amsonias: dependable, beautiful bluestars, with mt. cuba’s sam hoadley

D.C. Residents And Businesses Pitch The City On A Real Chinatown

Candace Owens departs Ben Shapiro’s website after antisemitic commentary: Owens became a star right-wing pundit. Then she started promoting ideas about Jewish people drinking Christians’ blood.

Putting chaplains in public school is the latest battle in culture wars - "Lawmakers in mostly conservative states are pushing a coordinated effort to bring chaplains into public schools, aided by a new, legislation-crafting network that aims to address policy issues 'from a biblical world view' and by a consortium whose promotional materials say chaplains are a way to convert millions to Christianity."

Mother who left baby at home for 10-day vacation gets life for murder

Opinion  The bloodbath Trump promised has already begun

Suspect, 18, charged in D.C. robbery of Chanel handbags worth $116,000: Thieves swarmed the designer store in December, drawing gunfire from a security guard

Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists

In Jerusalem and the West Bank, Ramadan is marred by violence and loss

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