Footage of the moment when three men were hit by a car during riots in Birmingham is shown at the trial of their alleged murderers.

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Riot deaths footage shown to jury

What is a boy’s life worth? The answer may depend on who is asking. It also may matter where the question is being raised. Officials in Sanford, Fla., initially decided not to arrest neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman after he fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. This week, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder . Did Florida special prosecutor Angela B. Corey place a different value on the life of that young black victim than Sanford authorities did? Corey has said that “the search for justice has brought us to this moment” when she announced the charge against Zimmerman. Read full article > >

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Devaluing boys’ lives

GREENSBORO, N.C. — As the final minutes wound down in sixth-ranked Maryland’s 73-58 victory over Wake Forest in Saturday’s ACC women’s basketball tournament semifinals, Lynetta Kizer implored the Terrapins’ supporters at Greensboro Coliseum to rise and join her in celebrating the moment. Read full article > >

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Maryland women swarm Wake Forest, advance to ACC tournament final

We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed the course of history. Read full article > >

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Co­lo­ni­al­ism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago

VIERA, FLA. — Ryan Zimmerman , the kid from Virginia Beach who idolized Cal Ripken, wanted to play only for the Washington Nationals the moment they drafted him. Zimmerman and the team grew up together, a superstar third baseman asserting himself and a franchise finding its way. Through even the grimmest moments, his allegiance did not waver. Read full article > >

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Ryan Zimmerman agrees to six-year, $100 million contract extension with the Washington Nationals

VIERA, FLA. — Ryan Zimmerman , the kid from Virginia Beach who idolized Cal Ripken, wanted to play only for the Washington Nationals the moment they drafted him. Zimmerman and the team grew up together, a superstar third baseman asserting himself and a franchise finding its way. Through even the grimmest moments, his allegiance did not waver. Read full article > >

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Ryan Zimmerman agrees to six-year, $100 million contract extension with the Washington Nationals

DETROIT — Friday was supposed to be the moment for Mitt Romney’s triumphant return to his birthplace, when he would use the cavernous Ford Field to deliver a policy address that established him as the lone Republican capable of both fixing the economy and beating President Obama. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney in Michigan: At Detroit’s Ford Field, empty seats steal thunder

On a bridge outside Berlin one gloomy morning 50 years ago Friday stood Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of a CIA spy plane that was shot down over the Russian Ural mountains. He had waited 21 months for this moment. He had survived a plane crash, weeks of harsh interrogation and the brutal conditions of a Soviet prison. He was on the threshold of freedom, and his heart was thumping heavily. Read full article > >

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A spy swap’s legacy persists, 50 years on

Since Mitt Romney announced his candidacy last June, he has continually made two core claims about Obama’s economic record , each of which contradicts the other. Depending on the moment, Romney has said either: Read full article > >

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Greg Sargent: Faced with good news about economy, Romney dissolves into incoherence

The bad news for Washington Wizards Coach Flip Saunders? At the moment, his job is not in jeopardy . That means while Washington area basketball fans avert their eyes from the winless Wizards, Saunders is stuck with his front-row seat for the foreseeable future. Saunders might very well be the wrong coach for a young team, half of whose players have less than two years of NBA experience. The problem, though, is this team isn’t right for anyone right now. Not Hall of Famers Phil Jackson or Pat Riley. Not even fictional miracle workers like Norman Dale of Hollywood’s “Hoosiers.” Read full article > >

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Washington Wizards: An embarrassment by design

TUCSON — Bells rang across Tucson on Sunday marking the exact time last year that the city was rocked by a deadly shooting rampage that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six people dead. The bells at 10:11 a.m., the moment of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting, opened a day of remembrance events across Tucson for survivors of the shooting, the victims’ families and city residents. Read full article > >

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Bells toll as Tucson marks anniversary of deadly shooting rampage

For the U.S. Navy, it was like hitting the public-relations jackpot: An aircraft carrier strike group that just left the Persian Gulf stumbles across an Iranian fishing vessel in distress, hijacked by pirates. Forces from the U.S.S. John C. Stennis carrier strike group, whose presence in the region had provoked a rhetorical outburst from Tehran that spooked global oil markets , swiftly made the most of the moment. They seized 15 Somali pirates without firing a shot and rescued 13 hungry Iranian fishermen who had been held hostage for several weeks. Read full article > >

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U.S. picks up Iranian hostages, with good timing

The candidate tries to keep his moment from slipping away.

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Newt Gingrich’s Glory Days

Coach John Thompson III’s early roll continues with each surprising Georgetown victory. The Hoyas’ top man is accomplishing the unexpected. If Thompson can keep this up all season, it could rank as his best. At the moment, there’s just no other way to view Georgetown’s results. Thompson’s mostly inexperienced team isn’t supposed to be this effective — definitely not 8-1 good after key players from last season moved on — but it’s apparently ignorant to that fact. Read full article > >

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John Thompson III has Georgetown Hoyas on an early-season roll

M itt Romney ’s offer of a $10,000 bet got us wondering about the state of oddsmaking around the race for the Republican presidential nomination. And while Romney is clearly a betting kind of man, he might not like his own odds at the moment. Political betting has surged in recent years, and online bookies now offer gamblers the chance to bet on everything from the Iowa caucuses to the 2012 general election. Read full article > >

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Betting on Mitt? Newt?