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An intruder carrying a “suspicious package” climbed the White House fence on Sunday night, but was quickly arrested, the U.S. Secret Service said. According to the Washington Post, the incident occurred about 10:25 p.m. on the south side of the White House complex , which faces the Washington Monument. The newspaper quotes Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary as saying that the suspect, whose name and gender has not been released, was immediately apprehended by Secret Service officers. CNN reported that the package he was carrying was “examined and later deemed to be harmless.” There is no word yet on why he jumped the fence. White House security has come under increased scrutiny in recent months after a man managed to jump the perimeter fence before making it all the way through the North Portico doors of the White House . Just last week, it was reported that the White House was considering adding steel spikes to the fence to make it harder to climb. -- This feed and its contents ar...

The Failure to Launch Edition If you've glanced at the recent 2016 presidential election coverage -- a herd of reporters chasing a van ; pundits penning potent, penetrating pieces on the providence of a visit to Chipotle -- the horrifying thought has likely occurred to you that there are many hundreds of days to go until Election Day. "Sweet fancy Moses," you probably thought, "it is way too early for this nonsense." We can, and do, empathize. So you'll surely forgive us if this week we turn our attention away from how early it is in the season, and focus on a few people for whom it might actually be too late . The trickle of declared presidential ambitions has become a flood. First, two anti-establishment tea party-ish freshman senators, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), got into the race. Then, America lived through the anticlimax of the decade when Democrat Hillary Clinton released a brief announcement of her candidacy last week. Following th...

There has been another fence-jumping incident at the White House, ABC7 reports. The Secret Service confirmed the incident to the network.CNN reported the incident occurred 10:25 p.m. Sunday evening at the White House South Fence. The person, carrying a suspicious package, was quickly arrested, and the suspect’s name was not released.Read full article >> from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis http://ift.tt/1FZaHoi via IFTTT

The following story was reported by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting , an independent, nonprofit news center based at Boston University and WGBH News, and published here in collaboration with The Huffington Post. Sign up here for email updates from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. The predawn rumble of pesticide-spraying trucks is a rite of spring in almost 200 Massachusetts communities. Some $11 million is spent in the state each year controlling and counting the pests and educating residents about how to avoid contracting mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus. Yet no state funds are dedicated to tick-borne diseases, one of which, Lyme, infects at least 5,500 residents a year in Massachusetts and likely many more. Residents may notice that gap even more this spring: The winter’s deep snow probably insulated ticks from low temperatures and heavy winter mortality, say some entomologists. Ticks and Lyme have spread across Massachusetts in...

China will ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries, pesticide producers and other industrial plants by the end of 2016, as it moves to tackle severe pollution of the country’s water supply. The long-awaited plan comes as the central government steps up its “war on pollution” after years of industrial development The post China Fights Water Pollution, Bans Paper Mills and Oil Refineries appeared first on The Good News Network . from The Good News Network http://ift.tt/1Q3Y7MS via IFTTT

KABUL — A suicide bomber killed 33 and injured scores more on Saturday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the latest in a string of assaults to target the area in the past two weeks.The assault was one of several blasts that unfolded at about 8.30 a.m. around the city, said police officials, adding that no one died in the other explosions.Read full article >> from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis http://ift.tt/1HD84Nx via IFTTT

At the moment Verizon Center detonated with sound, when the loopy madness reached its boiling point, Jason Chimera spun around and bolted. He high-stepped across the rink, red sweaters in hot pursuit, fists raised toward the rafters. In the stands, the raucous fans climbed over each other to celebrate, and on the home bench, the Washington Capitals did the same. With the decisive goal in a 4-3 win, Chimera ensured they would return to this building for more.Read full article >> from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis http://ift.tt/1HCnbXF via IFTTT

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Republican Party's most ambitious stormed into New Hampshire on Friday for an early state showdown that highlighted the diversity, political challenges and sheer size of the GOP's 2016 presidential class. Nearly 20 Republican White House prospects were on the program for a weekend conference hosted by the state GOP, the year's first gathering of its kind in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Speakers ranged from the party's elite to its longshots: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a standing-room-only speech while lesser-known South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham introduced himself to voters one at a time in the hallway. Each contender offered prescriptions for a party that hasn't won a presidential election in more than a decade. Bush made a passionate plea for bipartisanship on a day when his moderate brand of politics was on display. He broke with many conservatives on the environment by declaring that "the climate is changing...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Republican Party's most ambitious stormed into New Hampshire on Friday for an early state showdown that highlighted the diversity, political challenges and sheer size of the GOP's 2016 presidential class. Nearly 20 Republican White House prospects were on the program for a weekend conference hosted by the state GOP, the year's first gathering of its kind in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Speakers ranged from the party's elite to its longshots: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a standing-room-only speech while lesser-known South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham introduced himself to voters one at a time in the hallway. Each contender offered prescriptions for a party that hasn't won a presidential election in more than a decade. Bush made a passionate plea for bipartisanship on a day when his moderate brand of politics was on display. He broke with many conservatives on the environment by declaring that "the climate is changing...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Republican Party's most ambitious stormed into New Hampshire on Friday for an early state showdown that highlighted the diversity, political challenges and sheer size of the GOP's 2016 presidential class. Nearly 20 Republican White House prospects were on the program for a weekend conference hosted by the state GOP, the year's first gathering of its kind in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Speakers ranged from the party's elite to its longshots: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a standing-room-only speech while lesser-known South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham introduced himself to voters one at a time in the hallway. Each contender offered prescriptions for a party that hasn't won a presidential election in more than a decade. Bush made a passionate plea for bipartisanship on a day when his moderate brand of politics was on display. He broke with many conservatives on the environment by declaring that "the climate is changing...

While some Hillary Clinton haters are already taking shots at her looks and age, the presidential hopeful still has Issa Rae in her corner. Rae, the creative mind behind "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," sat down with "The HuffPost Show" hosts Roy Sekoff and Marc Lamont Hill on Friday and praised Clinton for running despite her age. "I applaud her for just being old as fuck and being out there, because I want to be old as fuck and not have to alter my face or body in any way, shape or form," Rae said. Rae also commented on the beauty expectations that have been hurled Clinton's way since she announced her presidential bid. "I'm just more horrified that there is an expectation that she would need and would get plastic surgery. And the fact that she didn't -- we're celebrating that, and I think that that's just a travesty at the end of the day," she said. Watch more from "The HuffPost Show" here. -- This...

African American and other civil rights leaders infuriated over the stalled confirmation vote on Loretta E. Lynch, the first black woman to be nominated for attorney general, are casting the delay as an issue with racial overtones. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. from Politics News on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1FTXZXQ via IFTTT

It was on a Friday night that Jeff Place finally heard Woody Guthrie’s missing verse.This was no small thing. “This Land Is Your Land” is the most storied folk song in American history. The verse, scribbled on paper but never thought to have been recorded by the legendary songwriter, suddenly popped up on one of the endless stacks of Smithsonian Folkways discs that Place screens as curator and senior archivist of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.Read full article >> from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis http://ift.tt/1yDQmaV via IFTTT

(Updated Thursday night with news of Currington dropping out of the concert.)After several days of critical backlash by gun-rights advocates over a Tim McGraw concert to benefit a Sandy Hook charity, opening act Billy Currington has dropped out of the show.Read full article >> from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis http://ift.tt/1cB9BYJ via IFTTT

This article was originally published by the Yale Daily News , and a portion is being reposted here with permission. The pledges of Yale University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or SAE, are required to wear a uniform of a blazer, button-down and tie — conspicuous garb for teenagers on a college campus, though they wear it proudly. The night of Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, was no exception. Twenty-two men clamored into the fraternity’s off-campus house at 35 High St. The inside was dark. The pledges were greeted by the boisterous shouts of roughly 30 older members sitting on couches lined against the walls, decorated with framed photo composites of past fraternity classes dating back decades. Soon, the new pledge class’s yearbook-worthy smiles would hang beside them. But first, they had to undergo initiation, their inaugural act as SAE brothers. Traditionally, the SAE president recounts fraternity lore. Pledges recite an oath. Two senior “chaplains,” elected by their brothers for their...

The University of Notre Dame, which the documentary "The Hunting Ground " prominently accuses of botching rape cases, is the subject of a U.S. Department of Education civil rights investigation into complaints that sexual harassment victims were tormented by the school's bewildering system for handling sex cases. The Catholic university, which on Friday plans to screen the documentary on its campus in South Bend, Indiana, has been under investigation by the department's Office of Civil Rights for nearly two years, and hasn't publicly disclosed the probes. Two 2013 filings, obtained by The Huffington Post, portray the school's complaint process as a confusing mire of inaccurate information and dodged responsibility, bouncing victims along for months without explanation. Notre Dame has called "The Hunting Ground" inaccurate and says the film fails to acknowledge the school's efforts to combat sexual violence. The film highlights the case of Lizzy S...

This is the first full-color image ever taken of Pluto: The image -- which shows the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon (lower left) -- was snapped on April 9 by NASA’s New Horizons, a space probe which is fast nearing Pluto. Taken from a distance of about 71 million miles, the image reveals " tantalizing glimpses of [the Pluto] system ," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, per Space.com. The first spacecraft in history to visit Pluto, New Horizons was launched in January 2006 . As Reuters notes, it’s currently about three months away from a “close encounter” with the celestial body. The probe, said to be the fastest spacecraft ever launched , will pass about 7,750 miles from Pluto’s surface on July 14. It will not put itself into orbit around the dwarf planet, but will instead make observations as it flies by. "Scientific literature is filled with papers on the characteristics of Pluto and its moons from ground based and Earth orb...

A Tea Party conservative may be about to do what many in his movement consider unthinkable: vote for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. "I asked myself, ‘Which party has helped me out the most in the last, I don’t know, 15 years, 20?’ And it was the Democrats ," James Webb, a 51-year-old charter member of his local Tea Party Patriots said in a video blog posted on YouTube. "If it wasn’t for Obama and that Obamacare, I would still be working.” Webb said the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, has allowed him to stop working without having to worry about paying high premiums for health insurance. "I don’t trust the Republicans anymore because they’re wanting to repeal the Obamacare," Webb said in the clip. "And I don’t want them to do that, man, because then I’ll have to go to work again. My life’s already planned out.” On the other hand, Webb may be "exhibit A" of why some Tea Partiers dislike the Affordable Care Act because in other video...

Hillary Clinton sounded like a woman on a mission after her long drive into the heartland: “There’s something wrong,” she told Iowans on Tuesday, when “hedge fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days.” -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. from Politics News on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1EJB99p via IFTTT