GOP leadership puts ‘fiscal cliff’ proposal on table

Lori Montgomery

Senior officials endorse a debt-reduction plan that would raise tax collections by $800B over the next decade, but they refused to budge on higher tax rates for the wealthy, the central issue dividing Republicans and Democrats.

AARP lobbies against cuts that may hurt its bottom line

Jerry Markon

Changes to supplemental Medigap insurance, from which it gets royalties, would harm its members, group says.

Robert Griffin III is greeted after the win. (Jonathan Newton/Post)

  • Robert Griffin III is greeted after the win.
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  • Martellus Bennett brings down Jordan Pugh.
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  • Robert Griffin III runs with the ball.
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  • Robert Griffin III fumbles in the first quarter.
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Redskins gut out 17-16 win vs. Giants

Mark Maske

Robert Griffin III throws a fourth-quarter touchdown pass and Washington hangs on at home to even its record at 6-6.

Fox News chairman proposed
a Petraeus presidential bid

Fox News chairman proposed<br> a Petraeus presidential bid

Bob Woodward

Ailes sent an emissary last year to then-general in Kabul with political advice, recorded meeting reveals.

Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons as fears rise

Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons as fears rise

Peter Finn and Anne Gearan

New intelligence reports prompt president to tell Assad that use of munitions is “totally unacceptable.”

Barney Frank, set to retire, charted course for other openly gay lawmakers

Barney Frank, set to retire, charted course for other openly gay lawmakers

Ed O’Keefe

A more welcoming Congress will include seven acknowledged LGBT members, a record number.

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No ‘nuclear option’

No ‘nuclear option’

Editorial Board

The Senate needs filibuster reform but not this way.

For FBI, a case of location, location, location on Pennsylvania Avenue

For FBI, a case of location, location, location on Pennsylvania Avenue

Jonathan O'Connell

GSA wants to hand over Hoover building so prime D.C. land can be used for new offices, homes.

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Boehner’s ‘nowhere’ nonsense

Boehner’s ‘nowhere’ nonsense

Eugene Robinson

In “fiscal cliff” fight, the House speaker is stuck with a weak hand.
Gerson: Obama overreaches

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Richard Norris, left, on his prom day; left and center post-surgery, in this combination of photos released by the University of Maryland Medical Center. Surgeons there detailed what they said was the world's most comprehensive face transplant, allowing the 37-year-old Virginia man to emerge from behind a mask 15 years after a gun accident that almost took his life. Norris, of Hillsville, Va., was shot in the face in 1997 and lost his nose, lips and most movement in his mouth. Since that time, he has had multiple life-saving and reconstructive surgeries, but none could repair him to the extent where he felt he could return to society. He wore a prosthetic nose and a mask even when entering the hospital for the transplant.----------------far right---------------richard-norris-7-months.jpg -- Norris seven months post-surgery. Photo courtesy of University of Maryland Medical Center.

After extensive face transplant, Virginia man finds renewed life

Maggie Fazeli Fard

Richard Lee Norris, 37, is “now able to walk past people and no one even gives me a second look.”

Britain raises a glass to the anticipated
arrival of a 21st-century royal heir

Britain raises a glass to the anticipated<br>arrival of a 21st-century royal heir

Anthony Faiola

Royal couple, Catherine and William, are expecting what may turn out to be world’s most famous baby.

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Fiscal Cliff Fix: The White House

Fiscal Cliff Fix: The White House

VIDEO | The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza outlines the position of the White House in the fight over how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the tax increases and spending cuts set to going into effect at the end of the year.
DIA expansion to create largest U.S. spy network

DIA expansion to create largest U.S. spy network

The Defense Intelligence Agency will swell to include 1600 intelligence collectors in the coming years and begin working more closely with the Central Intelligence Agency. Greg Miller sits down with Brook Silva-Braga to explain the differences between the two agencies and how the expansion came about.
D.C. working to deter cellphone thefts

D.C. working to deter cellphone thefts

Washington, D.C. officials say they're taking steps to deter cellphone thefts. On Monday, Mayor Vincent Gray and Police Chief Cathy Lanier say residents whose phones are stolen can now call their carriers and have them remotely cut, or “bricked.”
Obama on Syria: Using chemical weapons would be tragic mistake

Obama on Syria: Using chemical weapons would be tragic mistake

President Barack Obama warned Syria on Monday night that the use of chemical weapons would be "totally unacceptable." U.S. officials said intelligence had detected Syrian movement of chemical weapons components in recent days.
Exit interview: Barney Frank on coming out

Exit interview: Barney Frank on coming out

The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe talks with retiring Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., about how he opened up to his House colleagues about his sexuality before he came out of the closet.
Obama honors Kennedy Center honorees

Obama honors Kennedy Center honorees

VIDEO | Before the Kennedy Center Honors Gala, President Obama paid tribute to the honorees at the White House on Sunday.
Obama readies Cabinet shakeup

Obama readies Cabinet shakeup

President Obama is poised to announce a series of Cabinet and other appointments that will amount to a major makeover for his second term. His choices include some visible faces like Sen. John Kerry and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.

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Royal heirs inherit more than genes

PHOTOS | Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby will join legion of famous royals from various nations.

** FILE **In a photo provided by the Ford Motor Co., a 2006 Ford F-150 Lariat pickup is shown in a Sept. 9, 2005 file photo. Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 655,000 Ford F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks to fix a hose that could affect the vehicles' braking power. The automaker is issuing the recall of 2005-2006 versions of the trucks with 5.4 liter 3-valve engines. That's according to a posting Wednesday May 14, 2008 on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (AP Photo/Ford Motor Co., ho, FILE)

Top 10 most-stolen vehicles in U.S.

PHOTOS | Own a 2006 Ford pickup or 1994 Nissan Sentra? Lock the doors on these thief favorites.

Year in Review

Notable deaths
of 2012

PHOTOS | Actors and singers who inspired, writers and thinkers who reshaped history, activists and leaders who changed the world, athletes and astronauts who reached for the stars — we remember their lives, their achievements and their legacies.

Columns and Blogs

George Zimmerman's bloody nose

George Zimmerman's bloody nose

Jonathan Capehart

The bracing image doesn't solve the mystery of Trayvon's hands.

Carolyn Hax

Different treatment for a live-in girlfriend?

Alexandra Petri

What to expect when royals are expecting

Marc A. Thiessen

Democrats headed for a disaster

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Project Nunway, Santa Dash, Japan tunnel collapse, Kennedy Center Honors and more.

Redskins vs. Giants

The Washington Redskins outlast the New York Giants, 17-16.

Curiosity on Mars

View the NASA rover’s images, including self-portraits, from the Red Planet.

Royal adventures

A look at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine.

Eye on entertainment

Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Ali MacGraw, Paris Hilton, Susan Sarandon, Katy Perry and more.

2012 Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors recognized seven individuals.

Tunnels between Gaza, Egypt back in business

Primary commerce of Rafah, Egypt, focuses on tunnel network that circumvents Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

Mexico’s new president is sworn in

Enrique Peña Nieto takes the oath of office, while protests against him go on outside.

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Contest: Holiday Crafts

Contest: Holiday Crafts

Local Living invites crafty readers to share an original creation with us. Look to the winter holidays — or just the season — for inspiration.

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Federal workers: Give us your take

Federal workers: Give us your take

Is your agency planning for massive, automatic spending cuts? Tell us what you’re seeing with this quick and easy form.

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Analyzing the whys of winning — and losing

Karen Tumulty

Reliving the presidential campaign, the Obama campaign strategists explain how their polls read the electorate right — and the things that they didn’t.

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Stern will return as ‘AGT’ judge

Stern will return as ‘AGT’ judge

Lisa De Moraes

TV COLUMN | Stern said he wasn’t ready to walk, surprising no one, given his reported $20M salary.

‘Killing’ you softly, and smartly

‘Killing’ you softly, and smartly

Peter Marks

REVIEW | Spectators play along as an epidemic overwhelms a city in Dog & Pony DC’s “A Killing Game.”

Lifestyle

Spidernaut returns home from space

Spidernaut returns home from space

Brian Vastag

Nefertiti, the jumping spider sent to the international space station, still managed to eat flies in zero gravity.

Hard to see but vital to the cosmos

Hard to see but vital to the cosmos

Brian Vastag

Scientists want to dangle DNA in renewed quest to spy elusive “dark matter” that congeals galaxies.