National
6-part U.S. Economy Series
COLLEGEPOOR — FORT WORTH — Chasing her dream, with a little help: Texas woman bucks the odds facing low-income people seeking an education. Third in the series. 1,750 by Jim Tankersley (Post). Upcoming, with photos.
MIDDLECLASS — DOWNEY, Calif. — A shuttered factory that helped launch America to the mood illustrates the country's loss of middle class in recent decades. First in a 6-part series on the reshaping of the U.S. economy. 1,850 words, by Jim Tankersley (Post). Five photos, one graphic, one video. Moved Saturday.
MOONLIGHTING — WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Ed Green once held a middle-class job. Now, to make enough money to send his children to college, he works the equivalent of two full-time jobs. It's a situation more Americans are facing. Second in the series. 1,800 by Jim Tankersley (Post). Moved Sunday. Five photos and one video and interactive graphic.
Other National
IMMIG — WASHINGTON — President Obama is bracing for a political and legal battle with Republicans next year over his executive actions on immigration. Developing, by David Nakamura (Post).
SCOTUS — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a lower court decision blocking an Arizona law that abortion-rights supporters said would have virtually eliminated medical abortions in the state. Developing, by Robert Barnes (Post).
NEWTOWN — Families of nine Newtown school shooting victims and one survivor have sued the companies that made, distributed and sold the rifle used to kill 20 children and six adults two years ago. Developing, by Elahe Izadi (Post).
HEALTH-TENNESSEE — Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee on Monday morning became the latest Republican governor to announce support of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion — and the third in the nation since Republicans gained more power in the midterm elections. Developing, by Jason Millman (Post).
SENATE-2016 — WASHINGTON — Two late-night votes in the Senate last weekend provide fodder for party activists already drawing up plans to reward loyalists and punish adversaries as the 2016 U.S. election cycle starts. 1000 words, by Kathleen Hunter and Jonathan Allen (Bloomberg).
TRUCKING-LOBBY — WASHINGTON — For the second time in three years, the trucking industry finds a friend in Maine Sen. Collins, R, whose rider means truckers will no longer have to get two nights sleep in a row before starting a work week. 1320 words, by Jeff Plungis (Bloomberg).
HAMP — WASHINGTON — Lew's decision to give more help to homeowners who have already gotten mortgage assistance has sparked opposition from Republicans aiming to end Obama's foreclosure prevention program. 1020 words, by Kathleen M. Howley (Bloomberg).
NEWYORK-ISLAND — NEW YORK — Lush and unspoiled, within commuting distance of Manhattan, Hart Island would be a draw if admission rules weren't so strict: You must be dead to stay and an inmate to visit. 1,160 words, by Flavia Krause-Jackson (Bloomberg). Two photos.
MENTORS — Columbia, S.C. — How mentors helped one former a girl gang leader become a Benedict College graduate. 1,420 words, by Clarence Williams (Post). One photo
FEDERAL-DIARY _What makes patriots perpetrators of torture? 920 words, by Joe Davidson (Post).
JAPAN-ANALYSIS — Three reasons why the Japanese elections matter to the United States. 1,030 words, by Anna Fifield (Post).
T-SHIRTS — Some NBA "I Can't Breathe" shirts were manufactured by a company that pays workers $6 per day, 1,250 words, by Justin Moyer (Post).
DEMOCRATS — WASHINGTON — Democrats have seen the opening of fissures within their ranks, marking the start of an internal struggle between now and the 2016 election over the ideological identity. 1,085 words, by Karen Tumulty and Sean Sullivan (Post).
REID — WASHINGTON — Just weeks away from having to relinquish his power as Senate majority leader after a humiliating midterm election, Harry Reid, D-Nev., has positioned himself to end a historically unproductive Congress on unexpectedly high note. 970 words, by Sean Sullivan and Ed O'Keefe (Post). Moved Sunday.
JEBBUSH — Jeb Bush's decision to release a policy-laden e-book and thousands of his emails from his time as governor of Florida early next year underscores the building expectations among his close allies that he will launch a bid for president. 1,135 words, by Robert Costa and Matea Gold (Post). Moved Sunday.
ART-DIGITAL — WASHINGTON — Two galleries at the Smithsonian have completed digitizing their art collections. 755 words, by Peggy McGlone (Post). Moved Sunday. One photo.
AIRPORTS — WASHINGTON — Residents of an area struck by a deadly crash ask if regional airports should be allowed close to neighborhoods. 1,050 words, by Ashley Halsey III (Post). Moved Sunday. One photo and one graphic.
CHAMBLISS — WASHINGTON — After a career of bipartisanship, Saxby Chambliss is stepping down, as he promised voters he would, after a few terms in the House and no more than two terms in the Senate. 1,085 words, by Ed O'Keefe (Post). Moved Sunday. One video.
POLITICAL-NOTEBOOK — WASHINGTON — Amid buzz around Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Rodham Clinton might do well not to wait too long to announce her 2016 presidential bid. 1,085 words, by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake (Post). Moved Sunday.
WARREN — WASHINGTON — And if the past few weeks are any indication, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has shown she can operate as an insider without giving her up outsider credentials. 825 words, by Zachary A. Goldfarb (Post). Moved Sunday.
Foreign
KERRY — ROME — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State John Kerry met Monday in hastily-arranged talks after the Palestinians announced they will put a resolution before the U.N. Security Council outlining a specific timetable for a final peace deal with Israel. Developing, by Daniela Deans (Post). Also moving KERRY-BG (from Rome).
AUSTRALIA (1STLD) — SYDNEY — A gunman and two hostages are killed as police storm a cafe in central Sydney , ending a more than 16- hour siege in a pre-dawn shootout. 775 words, by Nichola Saminather and Benjamin Purvis (Bloomberg). With AUSTRALIA-UBER (Bloomberg). Also moving AUSTRALIA-POST.
HAITI — SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Haitian President Michel Martelly is seeking his fourth prime minister since taking office in 2011 after Laurent Lamothe quit to diffuse growing protests over a delayed electoral law that could lead to parliament's dissolution. 800 words, by Ezra Fieser (Bloomberg).
INDONESIA — JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's current and previous presidents have joined forces to save the country's local direct elections, fighting to safeguard the process that helped bring Joko Widodo to national prominence. 715 words, by Neil Chatterjee and Untung Sumarwan (Bloomberg).
HONGKONG — HONG KONG — Hong Kong's leader declares the end of pro- democracy protests that blocked the city's roads for more than 11 weeks, as police cleared the last demonstration site. 600 words, by Fion Li and Dominic Lau (Bloomberg).
RUSSIA-AIRCRAFT — COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Tensions between Russia and Scandinavia are escalating following a series of near-misses between civilian aircraft and Russian military planes. 425 words, by Christian Wienberg and Peter Levring (Bloomberg).
PHILIPPINES — MANILA, Philippines — Philippine prosecutors charge a U.S. Marine for the murder of a transgender Filipino found strangled inside a motel room in Olongapo City, north of Manila, in October, after finding sufficient evidence. 395 words, by Norman P. Aquino (Bloomberg).
JAPAN — TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims a mandate for his economic program after his gamble on early elections paid off. 1,020 words, by Isabel Reynolds and Maiko Takahashi (Bloomberg).
JAPAN-WOMEN — TOKYO — The good news for women is that the number of female lawmakers in Japan rose after Sunday's election. The bad news: the lower house is still 91 percent male. 400 words, by Isabel Reynolds (Bloomberg).
JAPAN-ABE — TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe starts work on launching his third Cabinet following the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito's resounding victory in Sunday's House of Representatives election. 500 words (Yomiuri Shimbun).
CLIMATE-ASSESS — LIMA, Peru — The path to a climate deal in Paris a year from now is littered with obstacles; foremost is differentiating between how industrialized nations will cut fossil-fuel pollution and what commitments developing ones will take on. 1,370 words, by Alex Morales, Alex Nussbaum and Ewa Krukowska (Bloomberg).
SSUDAN — NAIROBI — A year after shots rang out in South Sudan's capital, Juba, sparking the start of a civil war, violence has ravaged the world's newest state and left almost half of the population needing aid to survive. 620 words, by Ilya Gridneff (Bloomberg).
CHINA-TOURISTS _BEIJING — After "nut rage," Chinese tourists face punishment for "noodle rage"; tourists went berserk on a flight to Thailand, apparently in anger over their seating arrangements. 510 words, by Simon Denyer (Post). Moved Sunday.
Science and Medicine
SLEEP — Americans are trading sleep for work, and it's literally killing us. 500 words, by Christopher Ingraham (Post). One photo illustration.
CLIMATE-BIRD — Climate change is threatening the existence of a shorebird species that scientists believe has flown as many as 400,000 miles. 1,270 words, by Chris Mooney (Post). One photo, one graphic.
CLIMATE-WORK — People don't work as hard on hot day. 700 words, by Chris Mooney (Post). One photo illustration.
OYSTERS — MELBOURNE, Australia — Researches suspect climate change in outbreaks of herpes in oysters that devastated 26 percent of France's oyster production since the summer of 2008 and killed 10 million oysters in three days in Australia. 1,120 words, by Phoebe Sedgman (Bloomberg). One photo.
BIRDFLU-CANADA — WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Poultry processors in British Columbia are striving to find enough turkeys for Christmas tables after avian influenza wiped out thousands of birds destined for the holiday feast. 635 words, by Jan Skerritt (Bloomberg).
LUNG-CANCER — Long-awaited scientific successes are attracting new researchers and funding to the fight against lung cancer. 1,895 words, by Oliver Staley (Bloomberg). Moved Sunday. One photo.
Financial
US
MARKET-CALLS — Doubting Apple tops long list of wrong market calls in 2014. 1300 words, by Lu Wang and Oliver Renick (Bloomberg).
NEWYORK-CASINOS — ALBANY — New York state plans to award its first full-scale casino licenses this week as companies vie for permits to service the Big Apple's 8.4 million residents. 800 words, by Freeman Klopott and Christopher Palmeri (Bloomberg).
OIL — HOUSTON_ Veteran wildcatters in Texas' Permian basin recognizes the signs of another downturn on the horizon; one says, "We're going to hunker down and go into survival mode." But 1,300 miles north, the rookie oil barons in North Dakota see no need to take shelter, and it shows in their swagger. 1600 words, by Bradley Olson and Tim Loh (Bloomberg). Four photos.
GOOGLE — LOS ANGELES — An actress who says she got death threats over a performance used in an anti-Islam YouTube clip has made enemies of Google and Hollywood, which say her bid to erase it from the Internet makes "Swiss cheese" of U.S. copyright law. 750 words, by Edvard Pettersson (Bloomberg).
ECON — WASHINGTON — Unbowed by a global slowdown or rising dollar, U.S. manufacturing roars ahead in November. 875 words, by Shobhana Chandra (Bloomberg).
HOUSING — WASHINGTON — Confidence among U.S. homebuilders is hovering close to a nine-year high. 530 words, by Victoria Stilwell (Bloomberg).
TRUCKERS — DALLAS — As shippers of everything from toys to tools enjoy as much as $24 billion in savings from lower diesel surcharges next year, trucking companies see an opening to raise freight rates at a pace not seen in about a decade. 720 words, by Thomas Black (Bloomberg). Moved Sunday. One photo.
GLOBAL MONEY
Asia
JAPAN-ECON-ASSESS — TOKYO — The challenge for Abenomics 2.0 will be to boost Japan's growth potential. 1,160 words, by Keiko Ujikane (Bloomberg). Three photos.
JAPAN-ECON — The government plans to raise the scale of economic stimulus measures, a pillar of its fiscal 2014 supplementary budget, to 3 trillion yen ($25.2 billion) from the initially planned 2 trillion yen, sources say. Developing (Yomiuri Shimbun).
Europe
BRITAIN-ECON — LONDON — Lenders that spent six years recovering from soured commercial property loans have decided it's time to sweeten their offers to the industry. 800 words, by Neil Callanan (Bloomberg).
LUXEMBOURG — BRUSSELS — Luxembourg charges a Frenchman in the theft of confidential documents revealing sweetheart tax deals arranged for multinational companies by PricewaterhouseCoopers. 620 words, by Stephanie Bodoni (Bloomberg).
ORBAN-QANDA — BUDAPEST — Prime Minister Orban says Hungary is on track to regain its investment grade by reaching an agreement with the banking industry on taxes and lending, phasing out foreign-currency mortgages and trimming the share of debt. 1600 words, by Zoltan Simon (Bloomberg).
EUROPE-ECB — FRANKFURT, Germany — The battle over whether to start quantitative easing in the euro region is all but won, economists say. 870 words, by Paul Gordon and Andre Tartar (Bloomberg).
RUSSIA-RUBLE — MOSCOW — The ruble tumbled past 60 for the first time Monday as traders tested Russia's willingness to defend the currency amid an oil slump that's pushing the economy toward recession. 655 words, by Vladimir Kuznetsov and Ksenia Galouchko (Bloomberg).
BRITAIN-OSBORNE — LONDON — In a speech in New York, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne commits the British government to balancing the books in three years. 520 words, by Svenja O'Donnell (Bloomberg).
BRITAIN-BANKER — A banker who dodged $66,000 in train fares is banned from London's finance industry. 660 words, by Adam Taylor (Post).
Americas
BRAZIL-JBS — SAO PAULO — Brazilian beef producer JBS SA, controlled by the Batista family, has overcome a tide of opposition to buy Smithfield Beef and become a global food empire -- all with the help of state bank support. 1460 words, by Blake Schmidt (Bloomberg).
Mideast
OPEC — DUBAI — OPEC will stand by its decision not to cut output even if oil prices fall as low as $40 a barrel, the UAE's energy minister says. 680 words, by Anthony DiPaola and Mahmoud Habboush (Bloomberg).
Companies and Commodities
ARCP — CHICAGO — Three top executives resign from American Realty Capital Properties, the real estate investment trust that has lost more than a quarter of its value since disclosing accounting errors. 720 words, by Brian Louis and Prashant Gopal (Bloomberg).
VOLVO — PARIS — Volvo Car Group shifts its focus from auto shows, where carmakers vie for attention amid glamour and glitz, to market more directly to buyers instead. 650 words, by Mathieu Rosemain and Elisabeth Behrmann (Bloomberg).
Opinion
DECLASSIFIED — The State Department concludes that up to 10 European citizens have been tortured and killed while in the custody of the Syrian regime. 1,715 words, by Josh Rogin (Bloomberg).
HUNT — WASHINGTON — Two wise veterans of America's national security wars were of mixed mind after the release last week of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture. 695 words, by Albert R. Hunt (Bloomberg).
TORTURE-COMMENT — The reaction to the Senate report on the CIA's torture program is almost as depressing as the report itself — which is saying something. 995 words, by Clive Crook (Bloomberg).
WALLSTREET-WISHLIST-COMMENT — A holiday Wall Street wish list.1,435 words, by Michael Lewis (Bloomberg).
INFRASTRUCTURE-COMMENT — If we don't figure out how to bring costs down, we're going to continue suffering from subpar infrastructure and all the economic problems that ensue. 700 words, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg).
CIVILRIGHTS-COMMENT — How civil rights enforcement has declined since the days of John Doar, who ran the Justice Department's civil rights division in the 1960s. 840 words, by Terry Lenzner (Post special).
HUNGERGAMES-COMMENT — Why the message of the Hunger Games films is dangerous. 990 words, by Peter Bloom (Post special).
DEMS-COMMENT — Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., may come up with ways to bridge the divide in the Democratic party. 850 words, by Fred Hiatt (Post).
SCOTUS-COMMENT — WASHINGTON — he ciphering is underway as we await word on whether the Supreme Court will determine this term that there is a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry. 930 words, by Robert Barnes (Post). Moved Sunday.
TORTURE-COMMENT — The Senate report provides conclusive proof that allegations of illegal detention and torture by the CIA are true. Unfortunately, it will not lead to justice for some torture victims. 940 words, by Tina M. Foster (Post special). Moved Sunday.
HOSTAGES-COMMENT — After a recent White House review of U.S. hostage policy, many issues need to be addressed; former captives and families of hostages, along with the government entities responsible for bringing captive Americans safely home, must be involved in this discussion. 845 words, by Debra Tice and Marc Tice (Post special). Moved Sunday.
POT-COMMENT — Congress must defend the federal government and the U.S. Constitution by preventing marijuana legalization from moving forward in the District of Columbia. 760 words, by Andy Harris and Joe Pitts (Post special). Moved Sunday.
BROWN-GARNER-COMMENT — The quest for justice for Michael Brown and Eric Garner did not end with the decisions of grand juries not to indict the police officers whose actions led to those men's deaths. Those frustrated by the grand juries' dispositions can take comfort in knowing that victims of police violence can get their day in court. 880 words, by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew Grossman (Post special). Moved Sunday.
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