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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 40 months ago
The White House has launched an urgent review of Afghanistan policy, fast-tracked for completion in the next several weeks, amid growing concern that the administration lacks a comprehensive strategy for the foundering war there and as intelligence officials warn of a rapidly worsening situation on... More
20
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 40 months ago
Justice Department officials released new guidelines yesterday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups and Democratic lawmakers who worry that they invite privacy violations and other abuses.... More
11
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 41 months ago
A ballot initiative on abortion in South Dakota this November could lead to a series of court challenges and ultimately to the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, antiabortion activists say. More
13
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 42 months ago
Mark R. Warner held up Virginia as a model for good government and warned during his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that Sen. John McCain of Arizona cannot be trusted to lead the country to a prosperous future. More
18
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 42 months ago
Sen. Barack Obama has detailed a comprehensive space plan that includes $2 billion in new funding to reinvigorate NASA and a promise to make space exploration and science a significantly higher priority if he is elected president. More
14
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 42 months ago
With the resignation today of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, the country's fledgling democratic government now must assume the full burden of fixing the economy and waging a more effective counterterrorism campaign or risk instability in a key U.S. ally, according to U.S. officials and Sou...... More
17
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 42 months ago
In the five-year struggle to finish the war in Iraq, military leaders and their troops have said a particular weapon is among the most effective in their arsenal: American cash. Soldiers walk the streets carrying thousands of dollars to pay Iraqis for doorways battered in American raids and limbs... More
18
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 43 months ago
Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday -- issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just days after the agency declined to regulate the pollutants blamed for warming. More
22
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the nation's housing crisis. Leaders in both parties have vowed to tackle those problems. Yet the Senate has... More
14
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
In the two weeks since Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee, John McCain has demonstrated a knack for driving the daily political debate, forcing his opponent to respond to a challenge to meet in town hall debates, accusing him of being "delusional" about terrorism and saying he... More
15
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. More
11
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents... More
11
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
Calling himself "an imperfect father," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) spoke of the need for more African American men to live up to their responsibilities in a Father's Day sermon yesterday. More
11
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
When Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks seek to represent themselves in military commissions trials in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, they may be barred from reviewing highly classified evidence and might not have access to the intelligence agents... More
11
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 44 months ago
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled yesterday that the Federal Election Commission has failed to adequately enforce key aspects of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance restructuring that Congress passed six years ago, and urged the FEC to write new rules that help... More
