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Pentagon to send floating base to Mideast

(AP)

Craig Whitlock

The Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for commandos as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats.

1,300+ comments: 'The U.S. military is thinking outside the box'

Republican establishment pulls together against Newt Gingrich

Dan Balz

THE TAKE | Message that he is a threat to GOP is not new; intensity with which it is being delivered is.

Does Mormonism make Romney nice?

Lisa Miller

COLUMN | His taxes, donations to the church prompt this question: Can religion turn people good?

Lululemon killer is sentenced to life in prison without chance for parole

Paul Duggan

Brittany Norwood, who murdered her co-worker and pretended she, too, had been attacked, asked for mercy.

Don’t blame Fannie and Freddie

Mark Zandi

COLUMN | There’s plenty blame to dish out for the housing bubble. But most of it lies with the private sector.

330+ comments: ‘They were there at the beginning’

Google logo sports some snowy magic

Michael Cavna

COMIC RIFFS | Largest recorded snowflake is remembered, 125 years later, with stylish animation.

Falling for Google’s winter-themed ‘easter egg’

Back home, will Rick Perry ride again?

Melinda Henneberger

The Texas governor faces a lower approval rating than even Obama. But don’t count him out — yet.

Gov. Perry’s campaign heads into the sunset

In Germany, attitudes toward Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ are slowly changing

Michael Birnbaum

The question of whether to publish his autobiography, manifesto has lost some edge in the Google era.

Sonja Sohn chats with Doreen Dates. (Hector Emanuel / For The Washington Post)

The will and ‘The Wire’

Phil Zabriskie

MAGAZINE | After the HBO series, Sonja Sohn could have gone for bigger parts, paychecks. Instead, she returned to Baltimore’s streets for the role of a lifetime.

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Newspaper with a pitchfork

Kathleen Parker

The furor around Patrick Witt echoes the Duke lacrosse case.

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Plays kickball, doesn’t drink

Ellen McCarthy

DATE LAB | He thinks the kickball team captain is cute, but will her aversion to booze kill his buzz?

For sale: Extravagant D.C. homes

PHOTOS | Here are The Washington Post’s picks of local distinguished homes on the market.

WASHINGTON,DC- JAN.26, 2012: Lexus LF LC rotating at Washington Car Show in Washington, on Jan.26, 2012 . ( Photo by Jeffrey MacMillan )

The future of cars

PHOTOS | More than 700 vehicles from 42 makers are on display at the Washington Auto Show.

Politics

Romney to revise financial disclosure forms

Dan Eggen

Although the campaign described the problems as “trivial,” Democrats immediately cited the omitted funds as a call for the candidate to “come clean” with more years of tax returns.