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National Briefing | Washington Senate Committee Approves Bill on Compounding
A Senate committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over compounding pharmacies. The practice of compounding, the specialty mixing of medication for individual patients, drew national attention last fall when tainted products from a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts caused a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed more than 50 ...
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Milbank White House criminalizes basic journalism
When Rosen and I covered the Bush White House together a decade ago, I knew him as a scrappy reporter who had a fascination with Watergate trivia. He later wrote a sympathetic biography of John Mitchell, Nixon's disgraced attorney general. Now he's learning just how abusive a Justice Department can be, from an administration that has launched more leak prosecutions than all previous ...
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White House admits to killing four Americans with drones
legal defense for targeting al-alaki. holder wrote his targeting of americans including the attempted underwear bomber attack and the plot to hide bombs on cargo plans made him a legally justified target because he was an imminent threat, could not be captured and was a legitimate target under war. this comes on the eve of a speech in ...
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Men Robbed in Alexandria Home Overnight
Fairfax County police are investigating a report of three men allegedly robbing two men at a home in the 3700 block of North Rosser Street in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday ...
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Maryland Early College Program to Be Expanded
The proposed partnerships between Maryland public school systems and higher education institutions would be modeled after the Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George's Community College, a middle college high ...
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Appleformer Washington wallflower now at center of tax fight
By Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON | Wed May 22, 2013 6:58pm EDT WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps inadvertently, on a top priority for U.S. business: simplifying America's tax code. Chief ...
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Pentagon New record plan wont help vet backlog
WASHINGTON -; The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part of a "long-term modernization" effort and would not help ease the backlog in VA disability ...
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Vendor Someone Has Tampered With DC Ambulances
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- The top mechanic at a company that repairs DC Fire Department ambulances suspects that somebody has been tampering with emergency vehicles. WUSA9 has obtained a copy of a letter the fleet services manager sent to Deputy fire Chief John Donnelly. In it he says, "I'm writing this to let you know that in my opinion these two ambulances have been tampered with. I ...
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Davey downplays any tension between Harper Soriano
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Bryce Harper was quick to take the blame for Tuesday night's 4-2 loss, in which he misplayed a deep, ninth-inning fly ball that drove in the game-tying run for the Giants. Reliever Rafael Soriano apparently felt that Harper should receive the blame, as well. Soriano, who gave up the game-tying triple to Gregor Blanco and fell short of his 13th save of the year, told ...
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Nats return home from West Coast at perfect time
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Nationals might have entered the finale of a 10-game West Coast road trip at .500 with a 23-23 mark, but a losing streak that reached four games with Tuesday's 10th-inning walk-off loss is wearing on the team, which many pegged as a World Series contender. But manager Davey Johnson believes he has good control of the clubhouse. "I hope so," Johnson said. ...
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Amazon Creating 500 New Jobs in Fairfax County
"Amazon Web Services is a global, universally known company that has a significant Virginia presence as a strong corporate partner and employer," McDonnell said in a press release. "Adding a new office in Fairfax County allows the company close proximity to its IT and government customers in Virginia, and creates 500 highly technical ...
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Interim Superintendent Asked to Stay
Officials have asked Prince George's County Interim Superintendent Alvin Crawley to extend his contract, even though his resignation is effective in ...
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D.C. Council votes to end municipal bond tax spend Internet sales tax
The D.C. Council has voted in favor of a $10 billion plan that would increase Circulator bus fares, end the city's tax on certain bonds and earmark a potential spigot of Internet sales tax dollars to ease traffic fines. (Photo: Graeme ...
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Most tasteless question Apples CEO was asked in Washington
Perhaps it was odd enough that Sen. John McCain asked Tim Cook why he kept having to update the apps on his iPhone, but one question was even more ...
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Most funding restored for D.C. Water relocation at Capitol Riverfront
I'm closing the loop on the D.C. Council's budget skirmish over funding to move D.C. Water facilities out of the Capitol Riverfront. A couple of weeks after a council committee stripped the project of most of its funding, the full council on Wednesday restored enough that the work can move forward. Instead of $9 million in fiscal 2014, as Mayor Vincent Gray proposed, or $1 million, as ...
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White House says criticism of its handling of IRS story is legitimate
Even though the Obama administration is intent on getting to the bottom of the misconduct at the IRS, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday, there have been "legitimate criticisms of how we're handling this." After a week of heated questions regarding the IRS scandal, Carney finally told reporters on Monday ...
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Washington farms solution for marijuana waste Pot-fed pork
One Washington state farm is raising a stock of potbellied pigs -- literally. Since the state legalized recreational marijuana in November, new cannabis growers venturing into the legal market find themselves facing unique problems in unprecedented territory. For one: What to do with all the stems, roots and other waste from their ...
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Venezuelas Maduro still waiting on Washingtons recognition
More than a month since Maduro was elected Venezuelan president by less than 2 percent of the vote, the US has not recognized his victory. A partial recount of the ballot is currently ...
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Syrian Opposition Ponders Peace Meeting
ISTANBUL -- Syria's opposition coalition is to convene in Istanbul Thursday to decide whether to participate in talks next month on resolving the Syrian conflict that are being organized by Washington and Moscow. But the opposition has reservations about the role of the Syrian government in the planned talks. The Syrian National Coalition is due to meet over three days in Istanbul. The ...
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Veterans on motorcycles stop in E. TN on way to Washington DC
Hundreds of motorcyclists roared through Tennessee Wednesday on their way to Washington DC for the annual Ride for the Wall trip. Each year since 1989, hundreds of bikers from across the country converge at the Vietnam Memorial. They start the ride in California and ride all the way to our nation's capitol. The goal of the trip is to promote healing among veterans and their ...
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Did the Pentagon cry wolf over sequestration
WASHINGTON - A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security if they took effect. The change from near-hysteria to sober assessment starts at the top with new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a former maverick Republican senator from Nebraska who’s long pushed ...
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Pentagon wants more than $450 mn for Gitmo amidst swelling hunger strike
USA The Pentagon is requesting more than $450 from lawmakers for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay camp. The request comes as an intensifying hunger strike is ratcheting up pressure on President Barack Obama to push for the prison's closure. The budget request for the fiscal year beginning October 1 has called for $79 million for detention operations, the same as the current ...
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Washington police recover stolen gun arrest four for drugs
Authorities in Washington County on Wednesday recovered a stolen firearm and 184 stamp bags of heroin while serving several search warrants, the district attorney's office ...
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Where to advertise for your next CFO
D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi is leaving, and the District's hired-gun search firm is placing ads in all manner of publications to find a replacement. Let's say you're in charge of a $10 billion organization that needs a new chief financial officer. As a reader of the Washington Business Journal, you just might be. Where do you advertise? Krauthamer & Associates Inc., ...
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Road closures could go into Thursday from downtown D.C. sinkhole
The sinkhole started developing Tuesday afternoon because a water line broke. F Street NW is closed between 13th and 15th streets, and 14th Street NW is closed between Pennsylvania and New York avenues NW, District Department of Transportation officials ...
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