Michelle Obama visits Arizona as part of four-state western swing

First Lady Michelle Obama is in Tucson Monday night for back-to-back events, the latest indication that Democrats hope to put deep-red Arizona in play in the general election.

At 8:40 p.m. Eastern, Obama will meet at Tucson International Airport with a group of students who volunteer at an urban farm. Then, at 9:10 p.m. Eastern, she will deliver remarks at a campaign event in Tucson.

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Anacostia River: A troubled life transformed by a troubled river

On a steamy day along the garbage-strewn banks of the Anacostia River, in a part of the capital that used to be dismissed as crime-ridden and useless, LaVette Spears, 21, perches a majestic four-pound Eurasian Eagle-owl named Mr. Hoots on her tattooed arm.

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Digg rumored to be in buyout talks with The Washington Post

Longtime buyout rumor monger Digg is once again said to be on the market, this time in a deal with The Washington Post.
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For bandleader Doc Scantlin and wife Chou Chou, a life inspired by the 1930s

She wears a red tulle dress with a tight bustier with sequins that frame her impressive decolletage, a plume of tulle flowing down the back of her legs. A red-feathered headdress shivers upon her blond updo, above a pale face with striking red lipstick. She?s Chou Chou Scantlin, a songstress built like a Barbie doll, crooning ?As Time Goes By.? Behind her, Doc Scantlin, her husband, leads his Imperial Palms Orchestra , a 15-piece, 1930s-themed band that has been a fixture in the Washington area for more than 20 years.

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Fox orders fifth and final season of J.J. Abrams? ?Fringe?

Fox has ordered one last season of ?Fringe,? its Friday drama from J.J. Abrams.

The show?s future had been in some doubt, since the ratings aren?t great and Fox doesn?t own the show ? it?s produced by Warner Bros. TV.

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Spring cleaning: What else should be tossed out? Readers respond.

Last week, Outlook published its fourth annual spring cleaning feature, in which 10 writers suggested things the world would be better off without: the all-volunteer military, premium gas, home equity loans, the 3 p.m. school day, chick flicks, the Cabinet, software patents, the social kiss, brainstorming and grades. In an online poll with more than 2,000 votes, readers said that, of those items, the all-volunteer military most deserved to be thrown out. In his essay, Thomas E. Ricks argued that reestablishing the draft would make the country more hesitant to go to war.

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Anacostia River: A photographer sees its veiled beauty

Bruce McNeil first fell in love with nature as a boy, when his parents sent him from New York City to spend summers at an aunt?s farm in Virginia. The seeds planted in him then sprouted when, as a young man, he moved to Canada and traveled the country as a photographer, capturing waterfalls and snow-capped mountains, verdant fields and lush rivers.

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Joel Achenbach: Caps, Nats specialize in 2-1 nailbiters

Dan Steinberg says this has been the best sports week in DC in years. The Caps victory last night was fantastic (goal winner by Joel Ward in overtime ? game 7 ? against the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Bruins). Great photo by John McDonnell on our front page today (and what a shame that the haters emerge from their ratholes when an African American hockey player has such a spectacular moment). [Clarification: Ward is Canadian, and his family is from Barbados.] The Nats, meanwhile, keep winning, the lowly Wizards have had a late-season, feel-good burst of success. Tonight the Redskins will pick RG3 to quarterback the team for years to come, we hope. There?s joy in Mudville ? mixed, as always, with appropriate levels of doubt, anxiety and anticipatory recrimination (it?s always good to cultivate in advance the outrage we?ll feel when things don?t work out as planned).

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