Friday, December 13, 2024

Reading archive 2024-12-12

D.C. Mayor Bowser says Maryland is holding up RFK stadium deal: Funding to replace the collapsed Key Bridge has now entered the complex, multi-party negotiations over federal bill that could pave the way for the Commanders’ next stadium to be in D.C.

With Bill Belichick, UNC signs on for an awkward, miserable experience: The Bill Belichick experience — dour, irritable and ruthless — is coming to Chapel Hill, and it promises to be a coarse yet gripping experiment.

North Carolina GOP changes election rules before losing supermajority: Republicans in the state legislature gave an ally control over the state’s elections board, rewrote ballot-counting rules and chipped away at the power of the incoming Democratic governor.

He thought he had escaped Beijing’s clutches only to vanish back into China - "Cambodian police documents obtained by The Post and business registration filings list the owner of the Thma Da compound as MDS Heng He Investment Co. Ltd. The filings show the company was formed through a joint venture between a Cambodian company controlled by Try Pheap — a Cambodian tycoon under U.S. sanctions and an adviser to the country’s former prime minister and strongman Hun Sen — and a Chinese company established in Cambodia in 2018. This arrangement, researchers and officials say, is typical of online scam operations, which are closely tied to Cambodia’s political elite and are estimated to exceed $12.5 billion annually in returns for Cambodia, according to the United States Institute of Peace."

Assad’s fall humiliated Putin and could dent his global ambitions: Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power to compete with the United States.

The Postal Service’s electric mail trucks are way behind schedule: Defense contractor Oshkosh had only delivered 93 trucks by November — compared to 3,000 originally expected by now. The delays put Biden’s climate goals at risk.

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