If Wendy Braitman were writing a screenplay about her life, this scene would play at the top, to set the tone. It is 1993, and she is the 39-year-old only daughter of her parents’ long and loving marriage. Her mother has suffered a stroke, so Braitman has flown from California to New York to be with her. She finds her mom awake, but groggy, and hopped up on meds. After an embrace, her mother asks, “So, how’s your boyfriend?” Read full article > >

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The single life: Some people never find the love of their lives. And live to tell about it.

After a police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man in the Bronx on Thursday, the man’s grandmother was held against her will for hours, a friend of the family said.

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The mother of stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls tells the Leveson Inquiry that press intrusion was almost more traumatic than the attack itself.

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Adults with kids have “Modern Family”; the early-30s crowd gets “How I Met Your Mother” and the like. But unless drunken nights on the Jersey Shore are the norm for more people than anyone realizes, series with characters in their 20s don’t really come close to resembling reality. Read full article > >

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TV review: MTV’s ‘I Just Want My Pants Back’ captures the 20-something life

Yes, comedian Ali Wentworth is turning into her mother. “She’s not as out there as I am,” Wentworth told us about her mom, Muffie Brandon Cabot , Washington hostess, former White House social secretary and font of pithy one-liners. “But I definitely have her values and morals, even though I talk a funny game.” Read full article > >

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Ali Wentworth on growing up in D.C., her social secretary mom, and the wrong way to deliver a thank you gift to Donald Rumsfeld

The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran , al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates , among other threats. In response to requests from the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, the Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for the commandos. Unofficially dubbed a “mothership,” the floating base could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by Navy SEALs, procurement documents show. Read full article > >

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The former Penn State football coach was in the hospital because of complications from chemotherapy.

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Joe Paterno in Serious Condition

Overpraising children is under attack, which is interesting because almost exactly a year ago, one mother’s philosophy of withholding praise was receiving the same treatment. Yesterday, The Post’s Michael Alison Chandler wrote about a trend in which teachers refrain from showering kids with “Good try!” at every turn. Read full article > >

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With excess praise losing favor, vindication for Tiger Mom?

A housekeeper was tied up and sexually assaulted and a mother and teenage son were tied up during a home invasion in Bethesda early Wednesday morning that Montgomery County police say involves the same suspect as in a home invasion Tuesday in Wheaton. Read full article > >

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A British man has been interviewed by police investigating the death of a toddler in Norway while the child’s mother was talking to him on Skype.

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Norway probes Skype child death

ADEN, Yemen — Nazha Mohammed was pale and silent in her mother’s arms, on the edge of listlessness. At 2 months old, she was one of the youngest children inside a high school where several hundred Yemenis have sought refuge from conflict. “There’s no milk for her,” explained her father, Mohammed Yahya. raghavans@washpost.com Read full article > >

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In a high-seas operation mixing diplomacy, drama and Middle Eastern politics, American sailors boarded the mother ship of Somali pirates and freed 13 Iranian hostages who had been captive since November.

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The blood-covered girl, with puncture wounds to her neck and face, was found cradled in her babbling mother’s arms in an apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant before dawn on Friday. The girl’s mother is in custody.

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ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase. In 2009, 1 in every 30 babies born in the U.S. was a twin, an astounding increase over the 1 in 53 rate in 1980, according to a government report issued Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Had two sons hiding with their mother.

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Priest Resigns Over Secret Family