with Reis Thebault
Good Tuesday morning from El Paso, Texas. Power Up is headed to the detention facility at Lordsburg Border Patrol Station in New Mexico where 7-year-old Jakelin Caal was held before she died — stay tuned. Separately, we still need tohear from you as we close out a raucous 2018. Tell us what you thought the year's biggest stories were — inside and outside of Washington. Personal anecdotes encouraged. Thanks for waking up with us.
The Post's Seung Min Kim explains what President Trump's strategy in the 2018 midterms tells us about his 2020 campaign strategy. Read More...
The Somali pirate who led the 2009 hijacking of the American cargo ship Maersk Alabama was thrown into solitary confinement for allegedly ordering the murder of another hijacked vessel’s captain from jail, according to court papers. Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was tossed into a “small cell with blackened windows” in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on orders from Attorney General Eric Holder on Jan. 15, 2010, defense lawyers wrote. The directive followed an FBI interview with Gilbert Victor, the freed captain of a hijacked yacht named Serenity, who said a Somali pirate told him that Muse “had sent a message from prison ‘instructing the pirate crew to kill the captain of the Win Far 161. Read More...
Let’s be honest. We are all judged, and judge others, on physical appearance. This is certainly true in politics. It’s why Hillary Clinton wears $1,400 pantsuits and why John Edwards once paid $1,250 for a haircut.
But members of the media often hesitate to comment on the way politicians look, for obvious reasons. Remarks about Chris Christie’s weight, for instance, are considered mean. Almost any assessment of a female candidate’s appearance can be deemed sexist. Read More...
