From the Washington Post:Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding
I think he is talking about the Army Corps of Engineers.' [...]
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From the Washington Post:The Obama administration has been pressing Pakistan to move more aggressively against Taliban forces, a message that national security adviser James L. Jones was reported to have carried to Pakistani officials during a visit last week. In particular, U.S. officials have urged [...]
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 [...]
Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city.
"This is our surge," said Donohue, who solicited the assistance from [...]
It is a war largely hidden from the rest of the world [...]
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police and customs agencies to mirror the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [...]
In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The' [...]
By Clifford F. ThiesOne day in late summer 2008, FBI and Secret Service agents flew to Chicago to inform Barack Obama's campaign team that its computer system had been hacked. "You've got a problem. Somebody's trying to get inside your systems," an FBI agent told the team, according' [...]
U.S. Muslim service members say they stand out in both their worlds.
Among fellow troops, that can mean facing ethnic taunts, awkward questions about spiritual practices and a structure that is not set up to accommodate their worship. Among Muslims, the questions can [...]
U.S. intelligence [...]
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, shouted "Allahu Akhbar!" -- "God is great" in Arabic -- and emptied as many as [...]
"Supreme Court is asked to spare sniper," is the report in today's Washington Post. It's written by Maria Glod and Josh White.
Attorneys for sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying 2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt their client's execution, saying he was [...]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 70, said' [...]
This is taken from the Washington Post's mapping of shifts in county.city voting percentages from one election to the next.
Perhaps not surprising that Deeds performed better than the curve in his State Senate area. But the shift in Fairfax (61% Kaine/49% Deeds) and Loudon (53% Kaine/39% Deeds) has to [...]
The silly season resumes. Disinfo included.
Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It’s not 2008 anymore (Washington Post) Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President [...]
The state's former attorney general defeated Democratic state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds with a promise to create jobs in the down economy [...]
Oral arguments in the two cases, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida, are scheduled for Monday, November 9. Robert Barnes has a preview in the Washington Post, and today's Philadelphia Inquirer carries an editorial. There is also a great deal of commentary.
The Washington Post's Supreme Court reporter [...]
In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.
At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than [...]
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