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National
FERGUSON — Despite federal and state attempts to intervene during the two months since Michael Brown was killed, Ferguson Police continued, and accelerated, efforts to suppress peaceful protests using arbitrary and inconsistently applied arrest policies, according to Justice Department and county police officials. Developing, by Kimberly Kindy and Wesley Lowery (Post). With FERGUSON-PROSECUTOR.
ELECTIONS-SENATE — WASHINGTON — As the campaign season heads into its final weeks, some wild cards are now on the table in states where Republicans had been expecting easy victories to help the GOP gain control of the Senate. 1,090 words, by Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa (Post).
KANSAS — On the campaign trail with Sen. Pat Roberts (R) in Kansas, with tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz and rival Sen. Tom Coburn as they kick off a two day bus tour. Developing, by David A. Fahrenthold (Post).
MCCONNELL — WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell once said his goal was to make Barack Obama a one-term president; nowadays, he boasts about how often he negotiates with Obama's vice president as evidence of his influence in Washington. 1.000 words, by Kathleen Hunter (Bloomberg).
DONATE — WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission quietly allows wealthy donors more to help fund political conventions, effectively doubling the maximum someone can give to a political party to $65,200 per election cycle. Developing, by Matea Gold (Post).
OBAMA — President Obama campaigns in California for his frist congressional candidate of the season; a look at how Democrats have deployed him to fund-raise even when he can't be helpful on the campaign trail. Developing, by Juliet Eilperin (Post).
OBAMA-ECON — WASHINGTON — President Obama is pleading with the American people to give him some more credit for the economy's recovery. If history is any guide, he won't get it, and his party will pay the price this fall. Call it his Bush problem. 635 words, by Steven Mufson (Post).
MONUMENT — President Obama names the San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument; the designation will protect 346,000 acres of U.S. forestland just northeast of Los Angeles. Developing, by Juliet Eilperin (Post).
NEWJERSEY — TRENTON, N.J._ Gov. Christie heads into contract talks with unions still smarting over wage freezes and higher health-care payments imposed during his first term. 960 words, by Terrence Dopp (Bloomberg).
SECRETSERVICE — WASHINGTON — The White House stands by an internal investigation that did not find evidence that a volunteer engaged in inappropriate conduct during a 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, despite a Washington Post report that administration officials had information suggesting a prostitute stayed in the staffer's room. Developing, by Katie Zezima (Post). (Note: Two photos, moved Wednesday).
EBOLA — WASHINGTON — After the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. dies, and the government step up screening of travelers at five of the nation's busiest airports. 1,360 words, by Mark Berman, Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun (Post). Moved Wednesday. One graphic and video embed code.
EBOLA-AIRPORTS — WASHINGTON — There is no foolproof way to screen airline passengers for a disease like Ebola that lays dormant and undetectable for days. 1,060 words, by Mark Drajem and Alan Levin (Bloomberg).
EBOLA-STRIKE — WASHINGTON — Airplane-cabin cleaners for a Delta Air Lines contractor at New York's LaGuardia Airport go on strike partly due to concerns about the risk of Ebola and other hazards. 650 words, by Jim Snyder and Michael Sasso (Bloomberg).
EBOLA-FAMILY _DALLAS — Hours after Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Duncan died, his family called for an investigation into his care as top infectious disease doctors said he may have survived if his treatment had begun earlier. 1,410 words, by Kelly Gilblom, Harry R. Weber, Robert Langreth and Tom Korosec (Bloomberg).
EBOLA-DALLAS — DALLAS — Thomas Eric Duncan's extended American family expected his arrival from Liberia to be a time of reunion and celebration, but now relatives are mourning in the wake of his death from Ebola. 1,610 words, by DeNeen L. Brown and Abby Phillip (Post). One graphic. Moved Wednesday.
IMMIG-CITIES — Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Diego, Newark, Milwaukee, Miami-Dade, Denver and soon New York City are subverting what they view as a broken federal immigration system. 380 words, by Emily Badger (Post).
NSA — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, Facebook and other tech companies seeking to disclose more about user information they're being forced to share with U.S. spy agencies get some supporting comments from judges on an appeals panel in San Francisco. 965 words, by Karen Gullo (Bloomberg). Moved Wednesday.
ORLANDO — ORLANDO — Disneyworld's home town has the lowest median pay among the 50 most- populous American metropolitan areas, according to U.S. Labor Department data. 1,085 words, by Toluse Olorunnipa (Bloomberg). Moved Wednesday.
FUGITIVE — Authorities in Alabama exhume the body of a man believed to be a notorious fugitive who has been missing since being accused of killing his family in Bethesda, Md., nearly 40 years ago; the subject of a 1981 coroner's photograph resembles one-time diplomat Bradford Bishop. Developing, by Dana Hedgpeth and Dan Morse (Post).
BRADEN-OBIT — Vic Braden, an innovative tennis coach who used computers, psychology, TV and laughter to popularize his sport and made key contributions to using biomechanics in sports, dies at 85. 950 words, by Matt Schudel (Post). Moved Wednesday.
Special Report: Cybersecurity Summit
CYBERSECURITY — WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars are being spent on cybersecurity yet costly cyber intrusions are only growing. At Washington Post Live's recent Cybersecurity Summit, policy leaders, agency experts and industry leaders discuss the latest in cybersecurity and defense. 600 words, by Mary Jordan (Post). With CYBERSECURITY-ATTACKS, CYBERSECURITY-DEFENSE, CYBERSECURITY-FINANCIAL and CYBERSECURITY-CONSUMER. Four photos and three videos, with embed codes.
CYBERSECURITY-HACKING — WASHINGTON — Universities teaching hacking: Courses that instruct on how to break into computer networks are raising ethical questions. 1,900 words, by Ellen Nakashima and Ashkan Soltani (Post). One photo.
CYBERSECURITY-LAW — WASHINGTON — Lassoing the Web's Wild West: Taming lawlessness is tough amid worry that rules will harm a "free, open" Internet. 1,100 words, by James Andrew Lewis (Post special). One photo.
CYBERSECURITY-BREACHES — WASHINGTON — Human error, not malicious intent, can expose valuable data and personal information. 900 words, by Amrita Jayakumar (Post).
Foreign
ISLAMICSTATE — ANTAKYA, Turkey — Islamic State fighters wage street-by-street battles against militiamen in embattled Kobane after pushing into the heart of the Syrian border town despite intense U.S. airstrikes. Developing, by Liz Sly and Brian Murphy (Post). One graphic and video link (moved Wednesday).
ISLAMICSTATE-KURDS — ANKARA, Turkey — Kurds defending Kobane risk running out of ammunition as Islamic State surrounds the town and Turkey controls their only outlet, according to a Kurdish lawmaker in Turkey and observers of the fighting in Syria. 875 words, by Selcan Hacaoglu (Bloomberg).
ISLAMICSTATE-IRAQ — BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants are threatening to overrun a key province in western Iraq, in what would be a major victory for the jihadists and an embarrassing setback for the U.S.-led coalition targeting the group. Developing, by Erin Cunningham (Post).
KASHMIR — NEW DELHI — Leaders in India and Pakistan trade blame for cross-border attacks that have killed at least 18 civilians in recent days and forced thousands from their homes; villagers in the disputed Kashmir region flee an unusually intense spate of mortar shelling. Developing, by Annie Gowen (Post). Moved: KASHMIR-BG (from New Delhi).
HONGKONG — HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government backs out of talks with students leading pro-democracy protests, saying it was not prepared to discuss their democracy demands and calling for an end of "illegal" occupation of the streets. Developing, by Simon Denyer (Post). Moved; HONGKONG-BG .
HONGKONG-PROTESTS — HONG KONG — Eighteen months before the first tear gas shell hissed through central Hong Kong, the city's police began training on how to keep control of one of the world's largest financial centers, but they were still unprepared when student-led democracy protests erupted in late September. 3,130 words, by Mehul Srivastava, Jonathan Browning, Natasha Khan and Fion Li (Bloomberg). Two photos.
CHINA-TAIWAN-ASSESS — WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution," Beijing is farther from recovering Taiwan, which it considers part of the mainland, than it was a decade ago. 1,580 words, by David J. Lynch (Bloomberg). Moved Wednesday.
VIETNAM — HANOI_ Southeast Asia's waters are becoming more dangerous, according to the captain of a Vietnamese oil tanker released by pirates after a six-day regional hunt. 590 words, by John Boudreau and Mai Ngoc Chau (Bloomberg).
JAPAN-REPORTER — SEOUL, South Korea — The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office indicts without arrest the former chief of The Sankei Shimbun's Seoul Bureau on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun-hye. 625 words, by Toshiyuki Yoshida (Yomiuri Shimbun). With JAPAN-REPORTER-SKOREA.
BRAZIL — BRASILIA — Aecio Neves, who came from far behind to make the second round of Brazil's presidential election, emerged largely unscathed as the campaign cannon fire landed elsewhere. Now he won't have that luxury. 1,375 words, by Raymond Colitt (Bloomberg).
KENYA — WASHINGTON — Why Kenya's president came to the International Criminal Court - and why that's a problem for the ICC. 1,700 words, by Adam Taylor (Post).
EBOLA-ECONOMY — WASHINGTON — Ebola's economic impact on West Africa could exceed $32 billion by the end of 2015 if the virus spreads beyond Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the World Bank says. 440 words, by Max Ehrenfreund (Post). Moved Wednesday.
EBOLA-SPAIN — MADRID — The health of the Spanish nursing assistant being treated for Ebola in Madrid has worsened. 760 words, by Charles Penty (Bloomberg).
EBOLA-AUSTRALIA — MELBOURNE — An Australian nurse who treated Ebola patients with the Red Cross in Sierra Leone is hospitalized after developing a low-grade fever. 295 words, by Jason Gale (Bloomberg).
NOBEL-PREDICT — LONDON — Oddsmakers have released the betting odds on the next Nobel Peace Prize winner, who will be announced Friday. 1,150 words by Karla Adam (Post).
Science and Medicine
SNAKE — Creepy robots help researchers understand the mysterious sidewinder snake. 450 words, by Rachel Feltman (Post).
CELLS — BOSTON — Harvard researchers pioneer a technique to grow by the billions the insulin-producing cells diabetics lack, a breakthrough that may create new ways to treat the disease. 920 words, by John Lauerman (Bloomberg). Also moving: CELLS-POST.
BIONIC — MINNEAPOLIS — New advances in prosthetic devices are allowing people with artificial hands to tell when they're holding something without even looking, and pluck a stem from a cherry without bursting it, two studies show. 725 words, by Michelle Fay Cortez (Bloomberg). Moved Wednesday.
ANTHRAX — Deadly anthrax grass grows greener, tempting its zebra victims. 360 words, by Rachel Feltman (Post).
NOBEL — WASHINGTON — Winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry marks something of a comeback for Eric Betzig, who was estranged from academia and the sciences for years and owes his success to a microscope he built on a friend's living room floor. 1,120 words, by Rachel Feltman (Post). Moved Wednesday.
Financial
JOBS — WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly falls last week, pushing the average over the past month to the lowest level in eight years and signaling that employers are hanging on to workers as the economy improves. 595 words, by Jeanna Smialek (Bloomberg).
COMFORT — WASHINGTON — Consumer sentiment increases last week by the most since mid-November as households grew more optimistic about the economy and buying climate. 630 words, by Danielle Trubow (Bloomberg).
FED-POST — WASHINGTON — The Fed shouldn't raise rates until wage inflation picks up and turns into price inflation — which isn't a given. 740 words, by Matt O'Brien (Post). Moved Wednesday.
PENSIONS — NEW YORK — State pension plans are strengthening for the first time in six years as rising contributions and rallying stocks ease a fiscal strain that's vexed municipal leaders since the recession. 1,140 words, by Brian Chapatta (Bloomberg).
AUTOS — Tesla joins a growing pack of niche and luxury auto icons from Audi to BMW now squeezing their entry-level car costs in hopes of winning over a new market of middle-class buyers. Developing, by Drew Harwell (Post).
ENTREPRENEURS — WASHINGTON — An incubator for entrepreneurs holds an international competition for start-ups and finds itself inundated with buzzword-laden applications that don't explain their concepts well. 860 words, by Jessica Contrera (Post). Moved Wednesday.
EARNINGS-STOCKS — NEW YORK — Buying stocks before U.S. companies report quarterly earnings has usually been a good way to make money. Not this time.930 words, by Lu Wang (Bloomberg).
HOME-EQUITY — WASHINGTON — Home equity lines of credit are at the highest level since 2009 — for some: Lenders are providing more "Helocs," often to their existing customers at reduced rates, but are shutting out many younger Americans, who often have lower credit scores. 1280 words, by Alexis Leondis and Kathleen Howley (Bloomberg).
GLOBAL MONEY
Europe
GERMANY-DRAGHI — FRANKFURT — Mario Draghi's policy tools are being blunted in Berlin. 1,100 words, by Jana Randow (Bloomberg).
GERMANY-ECON — BERLIN — Germany's economy is on the edge of recession as exports to China and Russia sag and Chancellor Angela Merkel's domestic policies hold back growth, four economic institutes say in a report. 425 words, by Rainer Buergin and Brian Parkin (Bloomberg).
PORTUGAL-BANK — LISBON — Espirito Santo Financial Group, which is part of a Portuguese family empire that unraveled in the wake of soured loans, files for bankruptcy after a court rejected a request for creditor protection. 430 words, by Joao Lima (Bloomberg).
SAMARAS — MILAN — Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras plans to sever the international lifeline that has kept Greece afloat since 2010 by forgoing disbursements of emergency loans scheduled over the next two years. 500 words, by Jonathan Stearns (Bloomberg).
RUSSIA-RUBLE — NEW YORK — As Russia starts burning through foreign reserves in a bid to defend the ruble, flashbacks to the country's 1998 devaluation and default are inevitable. 890 words, by Ye Xie and Elena Popina (Bloomberg).
EUROPE-GAS — LONDON — Europe is set to boost natural gas storage capacity in the coming years as markets liberalize and nations seek to reduce reliance on Russian fuel, according to the International Center for Natural Gas Information. 490 words, by Isis Almeida (Bloomberg).
BRITAIN-BOE — LONDON — The Bank of England kept its key interest rate at a record low as the euro-area economy stumbled and domestic growth showed signs of losing momentum. 720 words, by Jennifer Ryan (Bloomberg).
Asia
INDIA-FACEBOOK — NEW DELHI — Pushing to bring hundreds of millions of Indians into the online world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is calling for expanding his pet project to provide free mobile Internet for developing countries into India. 790 words, by Rama Lakshmi (Post).
JAPAN-SOLAR — TOKYO — After spending almost $30 billion on solar energy in a single year and installing as many panels as exist in the whole of Spain, Japan is preparing to ratchet back its boom in photovoltaic power. 890 words, by Chisaki Watanabe (Bloomberg). One photo.
AUSTRALIA — SYDNEY — Australia's key data agency is at a loss to explain a sudden bout of volatility in jobs figures that forced it to abandon the numbers, as labor unions warn budget cuts are damaging the organization. 655 words, by Michael Heath (Bloomberg).
HONGKONG-GANGSTERS — As thousands of pro-democracy protesters thronged Hong Kong's major retail and business districts, it wasn't just legal establishments feeling the pain: A man claiming to be head of one of the three largest local organized crime outfits says business fell 40 percent after the occupation started. 1180 words, by David Tweed and Dominic Lau (Bloomberg).
HONGKONG-CLASS — Anger reflects in part an underlying resentment fueling the city's two-week-old protest: that the flow of people and wealth from across the border has strained the city's services and driven the cost of a home out of reach of most. 1130 words, by Shai Oster (Bloomberg).
ASIA-RETURNEES — SINGAPORE — Governments from the Philippines to Indonesia are trying to bring back their experienced expats in an effort to counter a brain drain that deprives the region of talent needed to build more advanced economies. 1200 words, by Rina Chandran (Bloomberg).
Africa
MOROCCO — RABAT, Morocco — The Victoria City housing development in Casablanco is the latest bet on Morocco, where foreign investments into real estate, tourism and manufacturing seek to profit from a stable Arab state at a time of unprecedented regional turmoil. 830 words, by Souhail Karam and Caroline Alexander (Bloomberg).
Tech
STARTUP — NEW YORK — The six worst things about working at a tech startup. 1,070 words, by Lily Hay Newman (Slate).
APPLE-ICAHN — SAN FRANCISCO — Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn renews pressure on Apple CEO Tim Cook to accelerate buying back the company's stock, saying the shares are trading at half their value. 715 words, by Tim Higgins and Beth Jinks (Bloomberg). With APPLE-ICAHN-REASONS.
Companies and Commodities
SHALE — NEW YORK — Oil drillers frequently use bigger forecasts to sell the hydraulic fracturing boom to investors and lawmakers and put a more conservative estimate in SEC filings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. 1,795 words, by Asjylyn Loder and Isaac Arnsdorf (Bloomberg).
SAMSUNG — Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of the sprawling Samsung empire, has been preparing his son, Lee Jae-yong, to become the third-generation ruler of the secretive capitalist behemoth upon his death. 1,215 words, by Anna Fifield (Post). Two photos.
GT-ADVANCED — TAIPEI, Taiwan — Apple stuck with Corning's glass in the newest iPhones after GT Advanced Technologies failed to deliver sapphire screens hard enough to work in the smartphones, a stumble that proved disastrous. GT's bankruptcy proceedings illustrates the pitfalls of a supplier changing its business model to make a new product for a single customer. 1300 words, by Tim Culpan, Tim Higgins and Dawn McCarty (Bloomberg).
SIGFOX — PARIS — The same technology used in submarine communications during World War I may soon be revived in U.S. households, part of a French startup's plan to build a global network for the "Internet of things." 650 words, by Marie Mawad (Bloomberg).
AMERICAN — First-class meals will soon return to some domestic American Airlines flights that lost the premium privilege just last month. 550 words, by Mary Schlangenstein (Bloomberg).
Features
NOBEL — Patrick Modiano, a 69-year-old French writer, is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the world's highest literary honor. Developing, by Ron Charles (Post). Moved: NOBEL-BG (from Berlin)
BUFFETT _WASHINGTON — Peter Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett, is encouraged to forge his own path; he shares his "Life Is What You Make It" philosophy, and a little music, at the 2014 FFI Global Conference. Developing, by Roxanne Roberts (Post). With photos.
BOOKS-TRUTH — In "All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid," Matt Bai argues that the collapse of Gary Hart's 1987 presidential campaign was the moment that the presidential-campaign train went off the rails. 2,250 words, by John Dickerson (Slate). Moved on Entertainment wire. One photo.
FUTURE-ESSAY — Storytelling has the potential to rekindle an ideal of progress, but the trick is not to confuse pessimism with sophistication or, conversely, to demand that optimism be naive. 1,780 words, by Virginia Postrel (Bloomberg).
MUSIC-ATLANTA — ATLANTA — In a classical music industry where labor battles have become increasingly common, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra stands out with its second lockout in two years. 1,480 words, by Geoff Edgers (Post). Five photos. Moved Wednesday on Entertainment wire.
Opinion
EBOLA-COMMENT — A few rich nations are now providing most of the money and doing most of the work. That has to change immediately. 580 words, by John Kerry (Post special). Two photo illustrations. Moved Wednesday.
EBOLA-DOG-COMMENT — The fate of Excalibur and our lack of perspective about Ebola. 595 words, by Marc Champion (Bloomberg).
PESEK — TOKYO — Is China about to devalue? The question seems to pop up everywhere. 800 words, by William Pesek (Bloomberg).
EUROPE-COMMENT — Why the European Court of Human Rights needs reform. 850 words, by Clive Crook (Bloomberg).
CARLSON — Florida used to be known for oranges. Now it's known for political theater, mostly of the tragic sort. 1,015 words, by Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg).
COMCAST-COMMENT — The FCC is right to be concerned about the Comcast-Time Warner merger. 745 words, by Susan Crawford (Bloomberg).
HEALTH-COMMENT — The Affordable Care Act can't get past its "Obamacare" label. 715 words, by Jonathan Bernstein (Bloomberg).
MARYLAND-COMMENT — BALTIMORE — Maryland's first gubernatorial debate Tuesday yielded no clear-cut winner but did serve up one obvious loser: Gov. Martin O'Malley, D. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown pointedly avoided mentioning the incumbent. 740 words, by Robert McCartney (Post).
MARRIAGE-COMMENT — A quiet triumph for gay marriage. 800 words, by Charles Lane (Post).
EMPLOYEES-COMMENT — Shrunken paychecks. 800 words, by Harold Meyerson (Post special).
COLLEGE-COMMENT — A Pell Grant injustice. 580 words, by David Domenici (Post special).
DICKERSON — WASHINGTON — Hey! Do you want to save America? Give me $5. Why political fundraising emails represent everything that's wrong with our politics. 1,115 words, by John Dickerson (Slate). Moved Wednesday.
RACE-COMMENT — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For black men in particular, masculinity too often gets in the way of discussions about sexual health. 810 words, by Andre M. Perry (Post special). Moved Wednesday.
PENTAGON-COMMENT — WASHINGTON — Destroying a $30,000 Islamic State pickup truck can cost half a million dollars. 1,070 words, by Justine Drennan (FP).
KAPLAN — WASHINGTON — If he's not careful, President Obama is about to be sucked into a wider war in the Middle East. 1,880 words, by Fred Kaplan (Slate).
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