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Commentary: The 'Beijing Consensus' Bursts One of Africa's Last Remaining Bubbles 08/30/2018 08:00pm • The African states that have failed to fulfill expectations are many and dispiriting. Zimbabwe -- where last month's contested elections have produced renewed political repression after 30 years of rule by Robert Mugabe -- is but the most recent example. The bloom came off the South African rose a Baltimore pastor pleads guilty to setting apartment on fire in insurance scheme 08/29/2018 02:22pm • WASHINGTON — The pastor of a Baltimore church pleaded guilty Monday to setting fire to an apartment he rented in Southeast D.C in a scheme to collect insurance money. The Department of Justice; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the D.C. police said in a statement that Jamel Carelock, DC Jewish preschool faces sexual abuse allegations 08/28/2018 12:15pm • WASHINGTON — An employee at the Washington Hebrew Congregation in Northwest D.C. has been placed on administrative leave following allegations of sexual abuse involving one or more children at the Macomb Street Edlavitch-Tyser Early Childhood Center. The abuse is believed to have happened betwe Leader of DC-area drug ring nabbed in Operation Tin Panda sentenced to 16 years 08/24/2018 05:05pm • WASHINGTON — The leader of what federal prosecutors have described as a "sprawling" drug ring that operated out of the D.C. area and had connections around the U.S. has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Nasiru Carew, 36, of Dale City, Virginia, who was Md. man sentenced for luring 12-year-old girl into sex 08/24/2018 02:34pm • WASHINGTON — A Rockville, Maryland, man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor over the internet. Jose Adalberto Sandoval Quinonez, 26, had admitted to the charge of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. Federal prosecutors US deports former Nazi camp guard, 95, to Germany 08/21/2018 09:46am • BERLIN (AP) — The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his New York City home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, following years of efforts to remove him from the United States. The deportation of the 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard, Jaki Incoming Irish Police Commissioner Faces Many Challenges as He Crosses Old Divides 08/19/2018 08:00pm • DUBLIN -- Hollywood loves cops who are wrenched out of context -- stripped of their badges, abandoned by comrades, forced to make a stand on someone else's turf. Think of Gary Cooper's shunned marshal in "High Noon," or Eddie Murphy's Detroit policeman transplanted in "Beverly Hills Cop," or more re Tracking Hackers: How to Work in Cyber Security 08/19/2018 08:00pm • Job: Cyber security expert and futurist Salary Range: The median salary for information security analysts is $95,510. Worker: Ina Wanca Age: 35 Education: Master's degrees in law, global affairs and cyber security Company: AI Governance Ina Wanca has always thought one step ahead. Growing up i How Cardinal Wuerl sees a path forward from clergy abuse scandal 08/19/2018 04:36am • WASHINGTON — It was a turbulent week for the Catholic Church after a Pennsylvania grand jury report alleged a decadeslong, systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by more than 300 priests. The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, is named in the report for his management of so-called In Leesburg, African-American elders hold mixed views on Confederate statue 08/17/2018 12:47pm • LEESBURG, Va. — Gertrude Evans, 70, was born into the Jim Crow South and lived through the rocky integration of Leesburg when firemen filled a swimming pool with cement and garbage rather than permit its integration. More than a half-century later, she turned to art as therapy to work through t Legacy of slavery, segregation influences debate over removing Md. Confederate statue 08/17/2018 12:10pm • EASTON, Md. — When residents here describe their town, they describe a paradise. There’s no crime and everyone — black and white — gets along in neighborhoods just a few miles from the banks of the Eastern Shore’s Tred Avon River in Talbot County. Those waters, however, once led to one 2 DC men behind 2016 crime spree convicted, face decades in prison 08/15/2018 04:08pm • WASHINGTON — The jury trial is over with multiple convictions for two armed robbers whose crime spree around D.C. two years ago touched at least a half dozen lives and even left one woman seriously injured. Dacquan Gregory, 20, and David Sutton, 22, both of D.C., were found guilty Tuesday of mu Pa. report on clergy sexual abuse is critical of Cardinal Wuerl 08/14/2018 06:35pm • WASHINGTON — A report released Tuesday from a Pennsylvania grand jury finds that more than a thousand children were allegedly abused by Catholic priests, and it's critical of how Washington's archbishop handled abusers. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro detailed the alleged abuse Protest demands justice, changes after police-involved fatal shooting in Silver Spring 08/06/2018 12:52am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '93bbc47e-c087-490a-81a3-c7e55f3f260c' }).render("177615366723b204");}); SILVER SPRING, Md. — Community activist 'Driving while black' suit fights Va. deputy's demand for ID 07/31/2018 12:45pm • WASHINGTON — An African-American man from Alexandria, Virginia, has filed a federal lawsuit over a white sheriff deputy's insistence that he show identification after the driver's car broke down. George Wingate, 28, filed a suit in Alexandria federal court claiming his protections against unrea