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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By V. Dion Haynes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment

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Eugene Robinson - Eugene Robinson on our tolerance for health reform

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health-care reform that actually controls costs -- rather than just pretending to do so -- would be virtually impossible to achieve.

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Study raises more doubts about cholesterol drugs Zetia, Vytorin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lyndsey Layton - Nov. 21 (News Report) - A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug does not unclog arteries as effectively as a modified version of Vitamin B3, a cheap alternative used to treat heart disease for decades, according to a new study.

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U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Nov. 20 (News Report) - When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...

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Data breach at climate research center in U.K

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Juliet Eilperin - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.

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Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:15 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 20 - CBC.caHasan had intensified contact with clericWashington PostIn the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial ...Texas: Hearing in Fort Hood CaseNew York TimesQuestions swirl in Fort HoodBoston GlobeHospital hearing requested for suspect in Fort Hood shootingsCNNBloomberg?-U.S. News & World Report?-The Associated Pressall 1,563 news articles??

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Foreign policy specialists assess Obama’s trip to Asia

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:02 -0800

Washington Post - By Topic A - Nov. 20 - Was the president’s trip to Asia a success or an embarrassment?

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Reid announces a Saturday vote on beginning debate on health bill

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery, Shailagh Murray - Nov. 19 (News Report) - That procedural vote will decide whether to bring that bill to the Senate floor and begin debate, and its approval relies on the votes of three wavering moderate Democrats. Republicans are expected to rally all 40 of their senators to block the

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Danger lies in threat to Fed independence

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Alan Blinder - Nov. 19 (Special Report) - H.R. 1207 seems innocuous enough. The overall question it raises sounds fair: After all, why should the Fed be immune from audit?

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In Obama's China trip, stark contrast with past

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Andrew Higgins, Anne E. Kornblut - Nov. 18 (News Analysis) - The changes reflect not so much a policy shift by a new administration in Washington as a dramatic and much bigger change in the power dynamic, particularly in economics, over the past decade -- a change that has been the central undercurrent of Obama's swing through China this week.

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Lawmakers seek more help from administration for Fort Hood investigations

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:58:07 -0800

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Judge: Corps’ negligence caused Katrina flooding

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Cain Burdeau - Nov. 18 (News Report) - NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims.

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Temple Mount, also known as Noble Sanctuary, is a Jerusalem flash point

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Schneider - Nov. 17 (Special Report) - It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer or a whiff of a rumor can rouse warnings of war.

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U.S., Japan remain at odds over Marine air station on Okinawa

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - Many Okinawans, after decades of living with noisy American aircraft and rambunctious American troops, have come to associate the U.S. military presence with noise, pollution and periodic crime.

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Foes seek funds for critical study

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear - Nov. 16 (News Report) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an assortment of national business groups opposed to President Obama's health-care reform effort are collecting money to finance an economic study that could be used to portray the legislation as a job killer and threat

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Health bill reduces senior benefits, according to report

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lori Montgomery - Nov. 15 (News Report) - A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

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Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Nov. 14 (Special Report) - Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation.

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Wartime role weighs heavily on president

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Joel Achenbach - Nov. 14 (News Report) - War and tragedy are putting President Obama through the most wrenching period of his young administration. Visibly thinner, admittedly skipping meals, he is learning every day the challenges of being a wartime president. It's the hardest part of a very hard job.

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Iraq’s lessons, on the home front

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:01:16 -0800

Washington Post - By Karl Vick - Nov. 14 - Volunteer veterans help California city use counterinsurgency strategy to stem gang violence

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Official: Accused 9/11 mastermind, others to be tried in N.Y.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:13:39 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 13 - Washington PostOfficial: Accused 9/11 mastermind, others to be tried in New YorkWashington PostKhalid Sheik Mohammed -- the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks -- and four co-defendants will be tried in federal court in New York instead of a military commission, a federal official said ...'NY trial' for key 9/11 suspectsBBC News9/11 suspects to be tried in New York-US officialReutersAP Source: Gitmo 9/11 suspects to NY for trialThe Associated Pressguardian.co.uk?-AFP?-New York Timesall 482 news articles??

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Lawyer: Accused Fort Hood gunman may be paralyzed

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:14 -0800

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Palin agonistes

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.

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For Holder, much wrestling over decision

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Carrie Johnson - Nov. 13 (News Analysis) - what the nation's chief law enforcement officer did not lay bare for public consumption was the four months of deliberation, lobbying and tug of war inside his own Justice Department that preceded an announcement that will follow him into history.

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Yemen denounces Iranian 'interference' in its internal affairs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Nov. 12 (News Report) - The Yemeni government on Wednesday lashed out against what it described as Iranian "interference" in its affairs, escalating tensions in a civil conflict pitting Yemen's army against Shiite rebels that has drawn in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, and raised fears of a regional proxy war.

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Lobbyists for God

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Niv Elis - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - Businesses looking to have an impact on policy issues like health care and energy are teaming up with groups claiming to represent a powerful, well-known, but surprising figure: God. Faith-based lobbying groups, the likes of which played an important role in the civil rights movements, are resurgent in Washington, and savvy businesses are taking notice.

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