REAUTHORIZING THE Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a critical task that merits thoughtful attention. It’s distressing — even sickening — that debate about this landmark law has devolved into one more election-year grudge match between Democrats and Republicans shamelessly using gender to try to score political points. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Gender politics in Congress

Forty thousand people are expected to descend on the London Olympic Stadium on Saturday, as the landmark venue is officially opened to the public.

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Official opening for 2012 stadium

Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Charmaine Yoest is the president of Americans United for Life , the country’s oldest antiabortion organization, formed shortly before the Roe decision. The group frequently works with state legislators, writing model abortion restrictions that get adapted and passed across the country, and saw a particularly successful year in 2011. Americans United for Life was involved with 28 laws that passed last year, including ones that bar insurers from covering abortion and others that defund abortion providers. Yoest and I spoke earlier this week about today’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade, how abortion rights changed in the past year, and what she sees happening in 2012. What follows is a transcript, lightly edited for content and length. Read full article > >

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Roe v. Wade at 39: A ‘breathtaking’ year for abortion restrictions

NEW YORK — One of the world’s largest Apple stores is opening at the landmark Grand Central Terminal. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business will start selling to the public on Friday. The owner of the space, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s bus and subway system, says Apple Inc. is paying $180 per square foot for its lease — slightly less than the $200-per-square-foot top rate at the century-old Manhattan train hub. Read full article > >

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Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central, likely to draw business to transit hub

Today, Bethesda Row kicks off “ The Front Row ,” an annual three-day fashion festival of trunk shows, sales and film screenings. The festival kicks off with a free screening of acclaimed fashion documentary “ Bill Cunningham New York ” at 8 p.m. at Bethesda’s Landmark Theater. The acclaimed documentary follows New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham as he shoots his renowned “On the Street” and “Evening Hours” columns. Read full article > >

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Bethesda Row’s “The Front Row” Kicks Off With “Bill Cunningham New York” Screening

The words “Ganbaro Nippon” — “Be strong, Japan” — shine down on the nation’s capital nightly from the soaring steel of the landmark Tokyo Tower.

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Japanese grapple with disaster trauma

A federal judge in Virginia threw out a lawsuit on Tuesday that had charged that Obama’s healthcare law is illegal, a major victory for the landmark legislation that has faced several challenges. Liberty University, a conservative Christian college,…

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Judge Rejects Health Care Challenge

The jury is expected begin deliberations Wednesday in the landmark trial of a man accused of conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

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Gitmo detainee case goes to jury