With a buoyant air and a bouquet of ripe performances, Folger Theatre further expands Washington’s classical borders with “The Gaming Table,” a sendup of 18th-century social probity by the Restoration-comedy playwright Susanna Centlivre. Read full article > >
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Folger Theatre’s ‘The Gaming Table’: Set for 18th-century satire
The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services. Read full article > >
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Why Komen defunded Planned Parenthood
From the investigations of the Clinton White House to the more than 1,000 subpoenas he issued almost single-handedly, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) cut an investigative path along Pennsylvania Avenue unlike that of almost any other committee chairman of the past 50 years. Read full article > >
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Rep. Dan Burton, who transformed House panel into a feared committee, to retire
After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Read full article > >
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Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake
The Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services, according to a secret Nato report seen by the BBC.
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Pakistan security ‘helps Taliban’
Updated at 6:52 p.m. with news that Hasner will run in West’s district Tea party firebrand Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that he will switch districts and run for reelection in Florida’s new 18th district. Read full article > >
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Rep. Allen West to seek reelection in new district
The UN Security Council debates its response to escalating violence in Syria, with Qatar urging members to act to stop the “killing machine”.
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UN debates Syria crisis response
Arab and Western states confronted Russia on Tuesday over its refusal to condemn the Syrian government for its violent suppression of protests.
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Russia Stands in the Way of U.N. Call for Assad to Step Down
A study suggests that some lumpectomy patients undergo second operations that they do not need and others might need surgery that they do not get.
Romney has the organization, money and history to crush opponents in the Silver State.
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Mitt Looks Good In Nevada
No one knew John Legend was coming. At least, the students from Duke Ellington School of the Arts didn’t know. The singer-songwriter came by the Kennedy Center on Tuesday morning to participate in the launch of the center’s “What’s Going On . . . NOW” project , a national arts and digital media initiative to both inspire young people to engage in their communities through the arts and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” Gaye performed the song during the Kennedy Center’s inaugural season in 1972. Read full article > >
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John Legend visits D.C. school to help launch youth project
From Air Force One after assassination.
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Tape Reveals LBJ Call to Rose Kennedy
Folger Theatre’s ‘The Gaming Table’: Set for 18th-century satire
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Rep. Dan Burton, who transformed House panel into a feared committee, to retire
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Russia Stands in the Way of U.N. Call for Assad to Step Down
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
