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Obama signs health-care reform bill

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Scott Wilson

His replies of "Thank you, thank you" were barely audible over the applause, whistles and shouts that filled the East Room on Tuesday, and when the noise finally faded, President Obama nodded to history in summing up the moment and the celebration unfolding before him.

Google's decision signals change in Western businesses' approach to China

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by John Pomfret

BEIJING -- The showdown between Google and the world's most populous country marks a turning point in one of the great alliances of the late 20th century -- the bond between Western capitalists and Beijing's authoritarian system.

After the Fort Hood shootings, a Muslim American soldier battles on friendly ground

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by William Wan

At 2 o'clock on a Monday morning, the sound of angry pounding sent Army Spec. Zachari Klawonn bolting out of bed.

Dispute with Israel underscores limits of U.S. power, a shifting alliance

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Glenn Kessler

The two-week-old dispute between Israel and the United States over housing construction in East Jerusalem has exposed the limits of American power to pressure Israeli leaders to make decisions they consider politically untenable. But the blowup also shows that the relationship between the two all...

Cuccinelli sues federal government to stop health-care reform law

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Rosalind S. Helderman

RICHMOND -- Not five minutes after President Obama signed health-care legislation into law Tuesday, top staff members for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II made their way out of his office, court papers in hand and TV cameras in pursuit, and headed to Richmond's federal courthouse to sue...

Only one breed of shark, the porbeagle, earns protection at CITES conference

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Juliet Eilperin

Delegates at an international conservation conference on Tuesday rejected protections for seven out of eight shark species, approving new trade rules for just one shark coveted for its meat.

Giraffe's dismembered carcass was left in trash bin near N.M. zoo

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by associated press

ALBUQUERQUE, MARCH 23 -- A beloved giraffe at this city's zoo was dismembered and placed in a trash bin after her death, prompting an outraged mayor to order an investigation into the matter.

Students push for aid overhaul; lenders lobby against it

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Nick Anderson

College students swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for more financial aid as private lenders made a last push to preserve their endangered role in making federal student loans.

Corrections

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

-- A March 21 Page One article about the health-care victory's potential costs for Democratic politicians quoted former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) as saying that President Obama and congressional Democrats "will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic...

Catholic Church says reported U.S. cases of child sex abuse lowest since 2004

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Michelle Boorstein

With clergy sex abuse scandals unfolding across Catholic Europe, a 2009 survey of the U.S. Catholic Church released Tuesday showed the lowest numbers of child victims, allegations and financial payouts since the annual survey began in 2004, shortly after the issue exploded in the United States.

Justices to determine authority of 2-member NLRB

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

The Supreme Court questioned Tuesday whether the leading federal agency that referees labor-management disputes can make decisions when it has only two people sitting on its five-member board.

Defense secretary orders review of military information programs

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Craig Whitlock

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered a review of the military's information operations programs in response to allegations that private contractors ran an unauthorized spy ring in Afghanistan.

For many interest groups, health-care bill's passage isn't the end

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dan Eggen

Interest groups that spent the past year fighting over President Obama's health-care overhaul are quickly transforming themselves for battle in a new arena, working to sway the law to their benefit while helping the lawmakers who supported them during the bruising legislative debate.

With Senate 'fixes' bill, GOP sees last chance to change health-care reform

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery

Hours after President Obama signed sweeping health-care legislation into law Tuesday, the Senate began a debate on another piece of the package, giving Republicans one last chance to alter the bill before it begins to transform insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

Ted Kennedy is celebrated for his longtime support of health-care reform

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Eli Saslow and Philip Rucker

While President Obama gathered with lawmakers for a bill-signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday afternoon, dozens of others came to commemorate health-care legislation here, on a quiet hillside in Section 45 of Arlington National Cemetery.

MUSLIM SOLDIERS

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

180 Muslims on active duty at Fort Hood, Tex., out of the 54,000 active-duty soldiers and other service members

Iraq's Kurds could lose some of their influence to anti-American Sadr movement

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Leila Fadel

BAGHDAD -- The Kurds, the strongest U.S. ally in Iraq and a leading political kingmaker, appear likely to lose some of their influence to a stridently anti-American group that did surprisingly well in this month's parliamentary elections.

U.S. and Mexico pledge more nonmilitary aid in battle against drug cartels

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by William Booth

MEXICO CITY -- Faced with soaring drug violence that Mexico's military has failed to stem, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday that they will seek to bolster nonmilitary spending on police and courts and look for ways to help ravaged communities, but they offered few concrete proposals for fi...

World news roundup: Turkish ambassador won't return to U.S. just yet

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

TURKEY Turkey will not send its ambassador back to Washington until the Obama administration and Congress make it clear that they will not judge Turkish history, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Tuesday.

Resistance against N. Korean regime taking root, survey suggests

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Blaine Harden

TOKYO -- There is mounting evidence that Kim Jong Il is losing the propaganda war inside North Korea, with more than half the population now listening to foreign news, grass-roots cynicism undercutting state myths and discontent rising even among elites.

Britain expels Israeli envoy over passports allegedly used in Hamas killing

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karla Adam

LONDON -- The British government, in a rare move on Tuesday, expelled a senior Israeli diplomat over the alleged use of fake British passports in the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai this year.

In U.S., Pakistan meetings, a chance to move past mutual 'trust deficit'

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karen DeYoung and Karin Brulliard

When Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's commercial flight to the United States stopped in Manchester, England, this week, the U.S. ambassador in London drove four hours to be there for the hour-long layover.

Arrest in Venezuela raises free speech concerns

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Andrew Cawthorne

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- Venezuelan authorities have jailed a former state governor and presidential candidate who accused President Hugo ChÃ¡vez's government of links to subversive groups in Latin America.

Obama's export plan won't necessarily create jobs

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Howard Schneider

The Obama administration's effort to boost employment by promoting U.S. exports may be undercut as business owners find ways to increase production without new hiring and as trade disputes threaten to crimp American sales abroad.

Pay czar limits salaries for top executives at 5 firms

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Brady Dennis

The Obama administration's pay czar on Tuesday announced further pay cuts for top executives at five U.S. firms still receiving substantial help from the federal government, saying the vast majority of cash salaries will remain at $500,000 or less.

World Trade Organization tells EU to stop illegal Airbus subsidies

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

TRADE A World Trade Organization panel called on the European Union on Tuesday to end illegal subsidies to Airbus, ratcheting up the stakes in the multi-trillion-dollar large-aircraft market.

Existing-home sales fall for third straight month

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Renae Merle

Existing-home sales fell for the third consecutive month in February, fueling concerns that the tax credit for home buyers that helped revive the market last year won't provide a comparable boost during this spring's buying season.

Daimler agrees to settle Justice Department charges of bribing foreign officials

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Hedgpeth

Daimler has agreed to pay $185 million in fines and penalties to the U.S. government to settle charges that it violated federal bribery laws by paying tens of millions of dollars to officials in at least 22 countries to win lucrative contracts, according to a source familiar with the deal.

Telecom companies seek to make Haiti a mobile nation

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Cecilia Kang

The earthquake that devastated Haiti also destroyed the nation's feeble network for phones and Internet service. Except for cellphones, the population was largely cut off from communication.

Treasury report lowers estimate of home borrowers helped by key program

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Renae Merle

The Obama administration's marquee foreclosure-prevention program is on course to help far fewer homeowners than previously expected, according to a government watchdog's new report.

Carlyle to sell Vought to Triumph Group

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Triumph Group agreed to buy Vought Aircraft Industries for about $984 million in cash and stock to broaden its foothold as a supplier to Boeing and Airbus. Triumph shares posted their biggest one-day gain since 2008.

Conversations: NIH Director Francis S. Collins

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Last week, before the health-care bill passed the House, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, met with The Washington Post's editorial board and a group of newsroom reporters and editors. Collins, 59, is a physician and scientist who helped guide the Human Genome...

For lucky congressional types, Switzerland beckons

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Al Kamen

Great news for congressional staffers who just hadn't had time to decide whether to go on an excellent freebie to Switzerland. Remember that March 2 invite you got from Swiss Ambassador Urs Ziswiler for a week-long tour of "this Alpine powerhouse," a land that's "all about thriving cutting-edge...

Treasury secretary backs Fannie, Freddie reshaping

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Zachary A. Goldfarb

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Tuesday told a congressional panel considering the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that the Obama administration would seek to keep in place aspects of the housing-finance system that have worked well during the past few decades as it overhauls the...

Senate panel passes sweeping financial-regulation bill

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by David Cho and Brady Dennis

The Senate banking committee voted along party lines Monday to transform the regulation of financial markets, sending another piece of far-reaching legislation to the full Senate a day after Congress approved an overhaul of the nation's health system.

How Obama revived his health-care bill

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ceci Connolly

It was the Barack Obama the American public rarely sees -- irritated and wondering if he had arrived at the moment of defeat. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Jan. 19, with a political crisis about to explode, the president summoned the two top Democrats in Congress to the Oval Office for a strategy sessi...

Google to stop censoring search results in China

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ellen Nakashima, Cecilia Kang and John Pomfret

Google announced Monday that it would stop censoring search results on its site in China, forcing authorities in Beijing to decide whether they are willing to forsake one of the most important tools of modern technology so that they can maintain their iron grip over the flow of information.

Health-care vote looms as big issue for November elections

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dan Balz

President Obama scheduled a Tuesday White House signing ceremony for landmark health-care legislation that passed the House on Sunday, as Democrats and Republicans began shifting their focus to November elections that seem certain to become a referendum on the most significant social legislation ...

As oyster war heats up, Maryland cracks down on poachers

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by David A. Fahrenthold

CHESTERTOWN, MD. -- The first time there was a war over the Chesapeake Bay's oysters -- in the 1800s -- it started because there were so many of the shellfish. For a share of the fortune on the bay's floor, watermen fought police and one another with rifles and cannons.

U.S. and Mexican officials will meet to discuss drug trafficking, violence

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Carrie Johnson and Mary Beth Sheridan

A high-level delegation of U.S. officials, including three Cabinet secretaries, will meet with Mexican officials in Mexico City on Tuesday to discuss efforts to disrupt drug cartels as violence increasingly strikes Americans on the border.

Settlements strain Israel's relationships with U.S. and Hillary Clinton

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Milbank

As members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee entered the Washington Convention Center on Monday for their annual conference, a man stood outside, handing out copies of what he called "today's statement."

Corrections

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

-- A March 21 Travel article about Wales referred to singing in the Welsh language by the rock bands Catatonia and the Manic Street Preachers. Some Catatonia lyrics are in Welsh, but the Manic Street Preachers' songs are all in English.

Graham proposes framework for handling terrorism suspects

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Anne E. Kornblut

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) has submitted draft legislation to the White House in an effort to create a broad framework for handling terrorism suspects, mapping out proposals that appeal to the administration and others that do not, officials said.

National digest: Citing funding woes, ACORN calls it quits

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

The once-mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday that it is folding amid falling revenue, six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

2 Washington Post staffers win first place in National Headliner Awards

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Two Washington Post staff members have won a first-place prize in the 2010 National Headliner Awards competition for stories about the squandering of millions of dollars in District funds intended for people with AIDS.

First wave of health-care changes will target insurers with new rules

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Alec MacGillis

In affixing his signature Tuesday to comprehensive health-care legislation, President Obama will set in motion a fundamental shift across a sprawling industry, from insurers who will face an expanding list of restrictions to hospitals and doctors confronted with new incentives to practice more-ef...

GOP state leaders vow to fight health-care legislation

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Peter Slevin and Rosalind S. Helderman

As President Obama celebrated his health-care victory, Republican leaders in several states vowed Monday to challenge the landmark legislation in court, arguing that the new federal rules are unconstitutional violations of state sovereignty and individual liberty.

Abortion foe from Texas says he regrets outburst

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Paul Kane

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.) acknowledged Monday that he is the lawmaker who yelled "Baby killer!" as a Democrat and fellow opponent of abortion explained why he would support health-care legislation. Neugebauer stood by his attack on the bill, saying he was representing the people of his...

FDA asks doctors to temporarily halt use of Rotarix vaccine

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by David Brown

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration advised physicians Monday to temporarily stop using Rotarix, a vaccine commonly given to children to protect them against the stomach bug rotavirus, because it is contaminated with traces of a second virus.

Bid to weaken ban on ivory sales fails

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Associated Press

DOHA, QATAR -- Conservationists scored a rare victory at a United Nations wildlife meeting Monday when governments voted to reject weakening the 21-year-old ban on ivory sales over concerns that it would further contribute to poaching.

At AIPAC conference, U.S., Israel try to lower tensions

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Glenn Kessler

The United States and Israel on Monday attempted to get their relationship back on track after nearly two weeks of tension by continuing to disagree on Jewish construction in a disputed area of Jerusalem but pledging to press forward on peace efforts with the Palestinians.

Pakistani Parliament expected to approve curbs on President Zardari's powers

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karin Brulliard

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Pakistan's Parliament is expected to pass constitutional changes in coming weeks that would vastly curtail the powers of President Asif Ali Zardari, effectively sidelining the unpopular leader of the nation's weak civilian government.

World Digest: Afghanistan's Karzai talks to representatives of insurgent faction

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held talks in Kabul on Monday with representatives of one of the key insurgent groups battling his government, as the president continues his high-stakes push for an eventual reconciliation among all of Afghanistan's warring factions.

Rio Tinto bribery case highlights tensions with foreign businesses in China

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by John Pomfret

BEIJING -- Four businessmen -- one Australian and three Chinese -- pleaded guilty Monday to accepting bribes in a case that has highlighted the perils of doing business in China.

Pakistan asks court to let it reopen probe of nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by R. Jeffrey Smith

The Pakistani government on Monday sought a court's permission in Lahore to reopen its probe into scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and his role in nuclear weapons-related discussions and transactions with Iran and Iraq.

Pay czar widens review of executive pay at banks

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Zachary A. Goldfarb and David Cho

The government's point man on executive compensation is broadening his review of how Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and hundreds of other banks compensated top executives during the height of the financial crisis in 2008, and he may seek to have bonuses and other compensation repaid, according to ...

SEC inspector general raises red flags in new report

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Zachary A. Goldfarb

About two miles separate the Securities and Exchange Commission's headquarters in Washington from the offices of Allied Capital, a District-based private-equity company.

White House to open a public debate on housing finance reform

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Zachary A. Goldfarb

The Obama administration plans to begin a public debate next month on how best to overhaul Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the nation's housing finance system.

Financial aid to Greece from Germany only as 'last resort,' Merkel says

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that Germany would consider financial aid only as a "last resort" if Greece faced insolvency.

Russia's United Aircraft denies it will bid to build U.S. tanker

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Hedgpeth

A Russian company said Monday that it does not plan to submit a bid to build an aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force, denying reports in The Washington Post and other media that circulated last week saying that the firm would seek a joint venture with an American defense contractor.

FHA mortgage delinquencies dropped in February

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dina ElBoghdady and Dan Keating

The share of recent loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration that are seriously delinquent fell in February to the lowest point since last summer, reversing an alarming increase in the agency's default rate.

Study: World Bank aid for water-deprived countries misses most afflicted

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Howard Schneider

The world's most water-deprived countries are also receiving some of the least help from the World Bank to improve conditions, according to a study that the bank's independent evaluators released on Monday. The study said water shortages, being felt in more than 40 countries, are at risk of getting...

EPA's green buildings list ranks D.C. area No. 2 in nation

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Mike Musgrove

Perhaps Washington is an efficient place after all.

General Dynamics win U.K. armored-vehicle contract

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

CONTRACTING Britain's Defense Ministry announced Monday that General Dynamics has been chosen as preferred bidder for a new generation of armored fighting vehicles.

Chief lawyers named for Guantanamo Bay defense, prosecution teams

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Peter Finn

As the Office of Military Commissions, the Defense Department entity that administers military tribunals, gears up for the first trials under the Obama administration, the prosecution and defense teams have gotten new chiefs.

Predator gains put focus on data overload

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by WALTER PINCUS

By 2015, U.S. Central Command could have 65 modern versions of the Predator unmanned aircraft simultaneously flying combat patrols over Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. They would be able to provide coverage of about 650 ground targets through imagery, electronic-message interception or infrared...

Senate's deliberate pace frustrates the House

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Perry Bacon Jr.

After passing historic health-care legislation Sunday and sending it to President Obama, House Democrats return to a familiar situation that has annoyed them for much of the past year: waiting for the Senate.

Pope apologizes for Irish sex abuse but offers no change in Vatican policy

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Anthony Faiola, Karla Adam and Michelle Boorstein

LONDON -- With the Catholic Church facing a sexual abuse scandal that has spread across Europe, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday issued a rare apology to victims and their family members in Ireland but outlined no disciplinary action or changes in Vatican policies to prevent future incidents.

Arlington affordable housing dispute morphs into test of church-state separation

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lisa Rein

The First Baptist Church of Clarendon, its pews emptying, needed cash. Arlington County, its red-hot Metrorail corridor pushing up real estate prices, needed affordable housing.

Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick

The plan was a standard one in the CIA's war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; a Taliban leader was expected to arrive shortly; a CIA missile would kill him.

The Take: Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dan Balz

As the final round of the battle over health-care reform begins Sunday, President Obama and the Democrats are in reach of a historic legislative achievement that has eluded presidents dating back a century. The question is at what cost.

House health-care vote Sunday may hinge on abortion issues

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane

House leaders decided Saturday to stage a vote on the Senate's health-care bill , dropping a much-criticized strategy of allowing lawmakers to "deem" the landmark legislation into law. But the outcome of that vote remained in doubt as a pivotal bloc of Democrats continued to withhold its support...

In light of health-care debate, what America needs is a civility committee

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Milbank

On its way to Sunday's big vote, health-care reform made a final stop on Saturday before the House Rules Committee -- or, in this case, the House Unruly Committee.

Sunday talk-show guests: March 21, 2010

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:

Latino religious leader Rodriguez courts the left, right for immigration reform

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Krissah Thompson

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez wants immigration reform, and believes building bridges across political divides is how to win it.

D.C. antiwar march draws thousands on seventh-anniversary of Iraq invasion

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Katherine Shaver

Thousands of demonstrators protested the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Saturday in a march through downtown Washington. Many expressed concern that health care and the dismal economy have begun to overshadow the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bernanke presses case for Federal Reserve oversight of small banks

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Neil Irwin

The Fed to Congress: Don't take away our small banks.

ACORN reportedly on verge of bankruptcy

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lena H. Sun

The liberal political organizing group ACORN is on the verge of bankruptcy following a string of disclosures about mismanagement that caused funding to dry up, according to a source familiar with the organization.

Stewart L. Udall, 90, interior secretary was guardian of America's wild places

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Matt Schudel

Stewart L. Udall, who as secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations launched a series of far-reaching conservation reforms that made him one of the most significant figures in protecting America's natural environment, died March 20 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 90...

Obama switches strategies on health care; selling law to public after it passes

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Michael D. Shear

For more than a year, President Obama has tailored his rhetoric on health care to focus on the passage of sweeping legislation . In each of his 54 speeches on the subject, the goal has always been the same: getting a bill to his desk.

Greek debt crisis merely adds to the list of issues dividing the European Union

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Anthony Faiola

LONDON -- After Greece recklessly spent its way into a debt crisis, potentially leaving German taxpayers to help fund a bailout, lawmakers in Berlin offered a suggestion to their profligate neighbors to the south: If you want to raise cash, why not sell off a few of your islands?

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Thousands in Russia protest government in ÃÂDay of Wrath'

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Philip P. Pan

KALININGRAD, RUSSIA -- Thousands of people participated in anti-government rallies across Russia on Saturday, including nearly 3,000 residents of this Baltic exclave who defied police and staged a boisterous, rain-soaked protest calling on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to step down.

Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclaimed computer game

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Thomas Erdbrink

It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office.

Thousands of British Airways flights canceled, travelers delayed as crew strikes

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Associated Press

LONDON -- Retiree Richard Moore arrived at Heathrow Airport with a suitcase of summer clothes for a Miami cruise, only to be sent to Denver. Susan Danby wondered if plans for a joint 50th birthday celebration in Las Vegas would be a losing bet.

House leaders announce $940 billion health-care compromise bill

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane

Pushing toward a Sunday vote that could transform the nation's health-insurance system, House leaders announced a $940 billion compromise Thursday that would extend coverage to the vast majority of Americans, cut billions of dollars from Medicare, and impose new taxes on the wealthy and the well-...

Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ellen Nakashima

By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.

Toyota used its 'game plan' to escape a major early recall

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Peter Whoriskey

As congressional investigators learned last month, Toyota Motor lobbyists claimed last year to have saved the company $100 million by fending off a 2007 federal investigation into unintended acceleration.

As Taliban makes comeback in Kunduz province, war spreads to northern Afghanistan

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Keith B. Richburg

KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN -- For most of the past eight years, this northern province has been relatively peaceful, far removed from the insurgency in the Taliban heartlands of Kandahar and Helmand in the south.

Virginia executes man in 1999 murder of woman, rape of her sister

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Josh White

Kristie Reed was on the basement floor, her throat and wrists slashed. Her older sister, Stacie, was upstairs, dead from a stab wound to the heart. When police reached Kristie, who was then 14 years old, an officer leaned in and asked who had done this to her. Kristie mouthed two words: "Paul...

Congressional Budget Office's sunny forecast carries big uncertainties

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Neil Irwin

The latest estimate of what health-care reform would mean for the government's finances was such a hot document Thursday that at times the Congressional Budget Office's Web site couldn't handle the traffic.

Corrections

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

-- In today's Weekend section, which was printed in advance, a photo caption with an article about the National Museum of Natural History's new Hall of Human Origins incorrectly describes a bronze sculpture as depicting a Neanderthal man. The figure is of an earlier human ancestor, Paranthropus...

Global conference rejects bans on trade in bluefin tuna, polar bear

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Juliet Eilperin

In the contest between commerce and conservation, a global conference this week aimed at protecting imperiled wildlife seems to be giving commerce the upper hand.

DIGEST

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

IMMIGRATION Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) outlined a new push in Congress to overhaul immigration laws Thursday, describing a plan to require U.S. citizens and legal immigrants to obtain a Social Security card linked to their fingerprints or other biometric...

Five questions about the health-care legislation

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

New FDA rules will greatly restrict tobacco advertising and sales

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lyndsey Layton

The Food and Drug Administration announced rules Thursday that will severely restrict the way the tobacco industry can advertise and sell cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products, especially marketing efforts designed to appeal to children and teenagers.

EPA to study natural-gas drilling's effect on water

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Juliet Eilperin

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will launch a $1.9 million study into how drinking-water supplies are affected by hydraulic fracturing , a method used to turn shale rock into natural gas wells.

U.S. to send envoy back to Mideast as Israel moves to smooth relations

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Glenn Kessler

In an effort to defuse a bitter spat with the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night to propose confidence-building measures to get Middle East peace talks back on track, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

Citing health-care vote, Obama delays trip to Indonesia

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Michael D. Shear and Andrew Higgins

The T-shirts showing President Obama's likeness had been printed. The state dinner was being prepared. And millions of Indonesians were ready -- finally -- to see a U.S. president they claim as their own arrive to a hero's greeting.

World news roundup: In Turkey, at least 20 are arrested in coup plot

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

TURKEY Turkish police on Thursday rounded up at least 20 people suspected of being part of an underground network that allegedly conspired to topple the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Defense official says Afghan program was authorized

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karen DeYoung

Michael D. Furlong, the senior Defense Department employee under investigation for allegedly running an unauthorized intelligence-gathering operation in Afghanistan, says his now-suspended program was fully authorized by top U.S. military commanders.

U.S., Russian negotiators 'at the finish line' on new START nuclear pact

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Mary Beth Sheridan

MOSCOW -- U.S. and Russian negotiators are "at the finish line" in negotiating a major agreement to cut the number of nuclear warheads each side has deployed against the other, with just one or two issues left to resolve, officials said Thursday.

U.S. agents target El Paso gang in effort to solve 3 killings in Juarez

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Christopher Sherman

MCALLEN, TEXAS -- More than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso on Thursday, picking up suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang in a bid to learn who killed three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last weekend.

U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley admits role in Mumbai attacks

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Carrie Johnson

An American man who scouted targets for the deadly 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike pleaded guilty Thursday to a dozen criminal charges and agreed to help prosecutors and intelligence analysts probing other likely targets overseas.

Ex-Marine general blames part of Dutch army's failure in Bosnia on gay soldiers

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Ed O'Keefe

A retired Marine general told senators Thursday that the Dutch army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay soldiers in its armed forces.

Nawar Shora takes battle for Arab and Muslim rights inside the TSA

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Spencer S. Hsu

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Nawar Shora, the legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, has sparred with the federal government over what he saw as security abuses against minorities. Now, he is joining the Transportation Security Administration as a seni...

Bush officials reluctant to talk to British panel investigating Iraq war

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Al Kamen

Senior Bush administration officials involved in the Iraq war have been asked by a British panel investigating that country's role in the conflict to chat about administration activities and policies from before the March 2003 invasion until 2009.

Bio in brief: Nawar Shora

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Born: Jan. 8, 1977. Home town: Damascus, Syria. Raised: Huntington, W.Va. Education: Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va., BA, journalism and history, 1997; West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, W.Va., JD, 2001. Family: Married. Experience: Legal director and director of diversit...

Obama's student loan plan moving forward with health bill

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:15pm EDT by Nick Anderson and Alec MacGillis

President Obama moved closer to achieving one of his top policy goals Thursday as congressional Democrats joined forces behind legislation that would cut funding to private student lenders and redirect billions of dollars in expected savings into grants to needy students.

Montgomery, Prince George's slash budgets

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Michael Laris and Jonathan Mummolo

Maryland's two largest counties outlined spending cuts Monday that would reach from children's health clinics to nursing homes, slice tens of millions of dollars in education spending and furlough thousands of public employees.

FCC plan would greatly expand broadband Internet connections

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Cecilia Kang

The Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday its long-awaited plan to bring broadband Internet connections to every home and business in the United States, part of an ambitious, multibillion-dollar attempt to create a new digital infrastructure for the nation's economy.

After 13 years, police still hunting for the East Coast Rapist

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Josh White and Maria Glod

He lurks at gas stations and pay phones and bus stops, blending in so well that people don't notice him at first. He has a smooth, deep voice. He is black, he smokes and he is right-handed. He is in his early to mid-30s, is fit, stands about 6 feet tall, likes wearing camouflage clothes and black...

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane

After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.

Afghan women fear loss of hard-won progress

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karin Brulliard

LAGHMAN, AFGHANISTAN -- The head-to-toe burqas that made women a faceless symbol of the Taliban's violently repressive rule are no longer required here. But many Afghan women say they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they point to government plans to forge peace with...

Dick Armey's 'tea party' history is a strange brew

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Milbank

Dick Armey is intellectually versatile: The former leader of House Republicans went from being a rainmaker for a Washington lobbying firm to being the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington "tea party" movement .

Updated 'No Child' law would focus on failing schools

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Nick Anderson

For most public schools, the perceived heavy hand of the federal government would become a lighter touch under President Obama's plan to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. But for some, the consequences of academic failure would stiffen considerably.

Corrections

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

-- A March 14 Outlook article about how colleges deal with campus sexual assault cases mischaracterized the policy at Bucknell University. The school does not use mediation to adjudicate such cases; rather, mediation is an option made available by Bucknell to victims of sexual assault in addition to...

Wife of Justice Thomas starts group for 'citizen activists'

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Robert Barnes and Dan Eggen

Into the heightened political atmosphere between the Supreme Court and the Obama administration comes now Virginia Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, who is founder of a new nonprofit lobbying and political-organizing group catering to the "citizen activists" o...

National Digest: Stevens weighs summer retirement from Supreme Court

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, told the New Yorker in an interview that he will decide early next month whether he will retire when the court's current term ends in June.

Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Karen DeYoung

The Pentagon said Monday that it was looking into allegations that a Defense Department official had set up an intelligence unit staffed by contractors to hunt insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the guise of social and cultural information-gathering.

White House threatens veto on intelligence activities bill

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Walter Pincus

The White House has renewed its threat to veto the fiscal 2010 intelligence authorization bill over a provision that would force the administration to widen the circle of lawmakers who are informed about covert operations and other sensitive activities.

GAO blocks contract to firm formerly known as Blackwater to train Afghan police

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Joby Warrick

Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.

China's scramble for water; one section of huge project halted

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Steven Mufson

BEIJING -- A decade ago, China's leaders gave the go-ahead to a colossal plan to bring more than 8 trillion gallons of water a year from the rivers of central China to the country's arid north. The project would have erected towering dams, built hundreds of miles of pipelines and tunnels, and cre...

World Digest: Former defense minister front-runner in Colombia election

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

COLOMBIA With results from congressional elections trickling in Monday, Juan Manuel Santos, a former defense minister who marshaled U.S. aid to thrash Marxist guerrillas, has consolidated his position as the front-runner to succeed Ãlvaro Uribe as president of Colombia.

FBI, DEA join probe of slayings near Mexican border

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Mary Beth Sheridan

Dozens of officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. agencies joined an investigation Monday into the killings of three people tied to the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican city of Juarez, scrambling to determine whether the slayings marked an escalation in the region's...

U.S. pushing Netanyahu to accept demands for peace talks

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Glenn Kessler

In an effort to get peace talks back on track, the Obama administration is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reverse last week's approval of 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, make a substantial gesture toward the Palestinians, and publicly declare that all of...

Thailand's prime minister rejects protesters' call to dissolve Parliament

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Associated Press

BANGKOK -- Thailand's prime minister, backed by a formidable military force, rejected an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament on Monday as tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters vowed to splatter the seat of government with their blood if their demands are not met.

Concessions on financial reform bill yield few gains in Senate

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Brady Dennis

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate banking committee, introduced a revised bill on Monday to overhaul financial regulation that included compromises forged with Republicans in recent months but fell short of winning endorsement from conservatives, including members in his ...

Equipment fuels a modest rise in industrial production

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Hedgpeth

Industrial production rose in February because of increased demand for computers and semiconductors, a sign some economists say that gains in U.S. business investment are continuing.

6 key points of the financial regulation legislation

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Dodd's second draft of financial reform legislation tracks closer to the bill that passed the House in December, eliminating several of the bold reforms he proposed last fall. But Republicans remain opposed, despite Dodd's decision to incorporate their ideas on some issues.

Post to debut Capital Business, publication on Washington business community

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

The Washington Post announced Monday that it is launching a weekly subscription publication focused on the greater Washington business community. Capital Business, which will be delivered Mondays with The Post newspaper, will feature coverage of government contracting, technology, the legal...

British regulator to probe audits of Lehman; China trims U.S. debt holdings

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

A British regulator said it is investigating how Ernst & Young accounted in its auditing for Lehman Brothers' transactions in Britain.

DEALSAllan Sloan

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by DEALS

Allan Sloan is away. His column will return.

Former chief of Park Avenue Bank charged with TARP fraud

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Tomoeh Murakami Tse

NEW YORK -- The former chief executive of a New York bank shut down by regulators last week was arrested Monday for attempting to steal from the taxpayer-funded bailout program, marking the first time criminal charges have been filed in connection with alleged abuse of the government's...

Ex-employees of AIG's Financial Products unit might sue over lower payouts

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Paritosh Bansal

NEW YORK -- Several former American International Group employees might sue the insurer after it gave them less retention bonus money than they should have received, their attorneys said Monday.

Moody's warns nations to cut spending or risk AAA ratings

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Howard Schneider

The United States and other top world economies need to make potentially painful government spending cuts or risk losing the high-grade credit ratings that have kept borrowing affordable, the Moody's rating agency said Monday.

European officials hold off on bailout package for Greece

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Anthony Faiola

LONDON -- European finance chiefs failed to produce a detailed bailout plan for Greece on Monday but laid the groundwork for a potential rescue if the financial situation in the troubled Mediterranean nation deteriorates sharply.

Two Washington area drivers sue Toyota, alleging acceleration problems in cars

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Dana Hedgpeth

Two Washington area drivers have filed personal injury lawsuits against the Toyota Motor Corp., joining about 280 personal injury and class-action suits filed across the country against the company.

Toyota says tests cast doubts on story of runaway Prius in California

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Frank Ahrens

Toyota on Monday said that extensive testing of the 2008 Prius that allegedly took a Southern California driver on a 30-mile runaway ride last week casts serious doubts on his story.

Local Digest: Allied Capital cutting D.C. jobs in Ares acquisition

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Allied Capital Corp., a publicly traded private-equity firm based in the District, is eliminating most of its local workforce as it prepares to be acquired by New York-based Ares Capital. Although the combined company will maintain "an ongoing presence" in Washington, Allied...

Reports shine light on nuclear weapons vigilance

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by WALTER PINCUS

While public attention is focused on a new arms-control treaty between Russia and the United States, the slow, dull work of keeping nuclear warheads and weapons-grade uranium and plutonium protected from terrorists goes on almost unnoticed.

Will this be the week congressional Democrats reverse their fortunes?

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Perry Bacon Jr.

Will this week be the start of a political comeback for congressional Democrats?

Schedule of features on the Fed Page

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Post

Here's the schedule. Keep watching for other new features.

Obama: Revise No Child Left Behind law

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Nick Anderson

President Obama proposed overhauling the No Child Left Behind law that was his predecessor's hallmark education initiative, aiming to eliminate several of the measure's controversial mandates on public schools but adding new ones.

At Afghan outpost, Marines gone rogue or leading the fight against counterinsurgency?

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

DELARAM, AFGHANISTAN -- Home to a dozen truck stops and a few hundred family farms bounded by miles of foreboding desert, this hamlet in southwestern Afghanistan is far from a strategic priority for senior officers at the international military headquarters in Kabul. One calls Delaram, a day's dr...

Montgomery College cricket team to defend national title

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Annys Shin

Last March, the Montgomery College men's team handily beat four other schools to win the first American College Cricket championship.

Despite probe, prescription drug abuse worsening, authorities say

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Jerry Markon

Donna M. George was a grandmother living in a gated community in Fredericksburg when she sold prescription drugs out of her kitchen -- while babysitting for her three grandchildren.

Critics: Military trial of terror suspects could open cases to legal uncertainty

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Carrie Johnson

Using a military commission to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants for their alleged role in the Sept. 11 attacks could open the case to significant legal uncertainty and expose fresh details of detainee abuse in a proceeding that might not get underway for two years or longer, national...

Colorado woman linked to Swedish murder plot, 'JihadJane'

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Carrie Johnson

Federal officials confirmed Saturday that a second suburban American woman was apprehended in connection with a plot to kill a Swedish artist who angered the Muslim world with a derogatory drawing of the prophet Muhammad.

Talk-show guests for Sunday, March 14

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:

FDA targets processing of spices in bid to make supply safer

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Lyndsey Layton

The Food and Drug Administration is reexamining the safety of a culinary staple found in every restaurant, food manufacturing plant and home kitchen pantry: spices.

GOP wants Dodd to slow down on financial reform legislation

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Brady Dennis

Republicans on the Senate banking committee said they remain open to finding a bipartisan agreement on legislation to overhaul financial regulation, but they warned the chairman, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), against trying to push a bill through too quickly.

Spice Recalls

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Insurers report on use of abortion riders

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Peter Slevin

CHICAGO -- In North Dakota, where insurers can cover abortions if customers pay a separate premium, the state's largest provider says it sells no abortion policies because no one has asked to buy one.

Utah lawmaker quits over hot-tub revelation

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.

Study finds link between school lunches, obesity

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Students who regularly eat school-furnished lunches are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of cholesterol than those who eat meals brought from home, a study found.

France looks to put ghosts of Rwandan genocide to rest

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Edward Cody

CESTAS, FRANCE -- For years, the ghosts of Rwanda's 1994 genocide have haunted France, finally intruding even into this tidy suburb of Bordeaux and the comfortable home of Sosthene Munyemana.

Vatican defends pope over sex-abuse scandals

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by associated press

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland.

World Digest: Suicide attack kills 13 in Pakistan

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

PAKISTAN A renewed wave of violence struck Saturday in small-town Pakistan when a suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw killed 13 people at a security checkpoint, deepening fears that the country is sliding back into a period of bloodletting.

Afghanistan war deaths

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:

Pakistani scientist Khan describes Iranian efforts to buy nuclear bombs

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick

The father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s.

Kandahar slides into lawlessness as Taliban attacks force government to retreat

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Keith B. Richburg

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Even in this dusty, dangerous city long accustomed to violence, the killing last month of Abdul Majid Babai managed to shock.

Clinton rebukes Israel over East Jerusalem plans, cites damage to bilateral ties

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Glenn Kessler

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday about the state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, demanding that Israel take immediate steps to show it is interested in renewing efforts to achieve a Middle East peace agreement.

U.S., Europe at odds over global financial reform

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Howard Schneider and David Cho

A feud between the United States and Europe has cast doubt on the likelihood of a comprehensive global response to the financial crisis that nearly sparked a worldwide depression, according to regulators and analysts.

Democrats more hopeful on health-care vote

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery

Democratic leaders on Friday stoked expectations that the year-long debate in Congress over health care may be coming to an end, after President Obama delayed his upcoming trip to the South Pacific and House leaders indicated they could deliver a final bill for his signature by the end of next week.

Campaign stunt launches a corporate 'candidate' for Congress

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by John Wagner

Murray Hill might be the perfect candidate for this political moment: young, bold, media-savvy, a Washington outsider eager to reshape the way things are done in the nation's capital. And if these are cynical times, well, then, it's safe to say Murray Hill is by far the most cynical.

FEMA's sale of Katrina trailers sparks criticism

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Spencer S. Hsu

In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the government's bungled response to...

U.S. citizen accused in Yemen killing had been under FBI watch

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Karen DeYoung

Sharif Mobley, a U.S. citizen accused of killing a hospital guard in Yemen, is believed to be a homegrown radical who left this country to make direct contact with al-Qaeda, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials, making him the latest in a string of such suspects.

Republicans name six to Obama's deficit-reduction commission

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Lori Montgomery

Congressional Republicans named six members to President Obama's deficit-reduction commission Friday, choosing the party's most respected leaders on budget issues and hard-line conservatives who said they are determined to steer the panel toward cutting spending and away from raising taxes.

Corrections

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

-- A profile of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) in the March 12 Style section misidentified the location where his father, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), drove off a bridge in 1969 in an accident in which his female passenger drowned. Chappaquiddick is in Massachusetts, not New York.

Senate bill would reduce sentencing disparities in crack, powder cocaine cases

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Carrie Johnson

A long-standing dispute over huge disparities in sentencing between crack vs. powdered cocaine appears to be headed for a resolution in Congress.

Unemployment rate for young veterans hits 21.1 percent

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

The unemployment rate last year for young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle that combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.

Senators critical of salary expenses at Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Susan Kinzie

Several Republican senators are questioning expenses at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a national nonprofit organization that receives millions of dollars in federal funding.

Old and poor in Haiti suffer mightily after the quake

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by William Booth

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- It was always hard to be old in Haiti, but after the earthquake, to be old and poor feels like a curse, say those who are both.

On eve of U.S. visit, Irish prime minister Cowen says more cuts are possible

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Anthony Faiola

LONDON -- At a time of deep concern over growing government debt in Europe and the United States, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is heading to Washington as a global spokesman for fiscal restraint.

World Digest: Blasts in Pakistan show pattern of insurgent resilience

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

PAKISTAN A pattern seems to be developing in Pakistan's war against Islamist extremists: State security forces beat militants into submission, only to see them roar back to life a few months later.

Fatal collision has Moscow residents in uproar over driving habits of the elite

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Philip P. Pan

MOSCOW -- A traffic jam in this booming city of 11 million can be a miserable affair, a hope-crushing mess that materializes without warning and can trap drivers for hours.

Obama's likely choices for Federal Reserve indicate a more activist role

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Neil Irwin

President Obama's likely selections for three top positions at the Federal Reserve signal that he wants the central bank to focus on driving down unemployment and taking a more active role in protecting consumers.

Report faults executives with manipulating Lehman Brothers' balance sheet

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Tomoeh Murakami Tse

A high-profile report on Lehman Brothers raises fresh questions about whether senior executives at the failed Wall Street investment bank presented a misleading picture of its financial health and whether government regulators did enough to prevent the firm's sudden collapse.

Calif. county sues Toyota, accuses automaker of hiding evidence of defects

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

In the latest blow to Toyota Motor, a Southern California prosecutor filed the first consumer protection lawsuit against the automaker, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.

Democrats try to find the right compromises for financial reform

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Binyamin Appelbaum

Democratic staffers at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue scrambled Friday to write the financial reform legislation that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has promised to unveil Monday , trying to find language that would please Democrats while preserving progress toward a compromise with...

Borrowers in foreclosure prevention plan losing mortgage aid

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Renae Merle

About 90,000 distressed borrowers have lost their mortgage aid under the government's foreclosure prevention plan, and many more are at risk of losing the help, according to Treasury Department data released Friday.

Retail sales up slightly in February, despite nationwide snowstorms

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Ylan Q. Mui

February's cross-country snowstorms couldn't freeze out consumers as retail sales rose 0.3 percent for the month, according to government data released Friday.

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Black & Decker shareholders back Stanley Works merger

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

MERGERS & AQUISITIONS Shareholders voted in favor of a nearly $3.5 billion stock buyout, clearing the final hurdle for Stanley Works to acquire Black & Decker.

China holds firm against Google, says firm must obey its laws

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:00am EST by John Pomfret

BEIJING -- China's top Internet regulator warned Google on Friday that it must obey Chinese laws or "pay the consequences," in the bluntest official reaction yet to Google's threat to pull out of China unless the government stops censoring the Internet.

New funding projection could squeeze Obama's education agenda

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 10:36pm EST by Nick Anderson

In the final push to pass a major student aid bill pending in Congress, funding for key elements in President Obama's education agenda is dwindling.

Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Nick Anderson

The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.

JihadJane, an American woman, faces terrorism charges

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Carrie Johnson

A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.

Massa investigated for allegedly groping staffers

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Carol D. Leonnig

Not long after Eric Massa joined Congress in January 2009, several male staff members began to feel uncomfortable with the sexually loaded language their boss routinely used, according to accounts relayed to the House ethics committee.

Gay marriages expected to create wedding-related jobs in D.C.

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Ylan Q. Mui

Georgetown residents Christopher Cahill and Richard Marshall consider the $75,000 wedding that they're planning for June to be their own "personal stimulus package" for the District economy. And local businesses are already seeing the dollar signs.

Dispute over candidate disqualifications could mar Iraqi vote's legitimacy

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Ernesto LondoÃ±o and Leila Fadel

BAGHDAD -- A controversy over the disqualification of candidates threatened Tuesday to undermine the legitimacy of Iraq's recent elections and inflame supporters of a coalition seeking to topple the alliance led by the prime minister.

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700 jobs Legalization of same-sex marriages expected ...

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

700 jobs Legalization of same-sex marriages expected to create in District.

House Democrats seek to limit earmarks to show commitment to ethics

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Paul Kane

Seeking to reclaim the reform mantle amid a series of scandals, House Democratic leaders are advocating a move that would shake up the multibillion-dollar practice of awarding no-bid contracts known as congressional earmarks.

Massa flirts with the right, but Beck isn't tickled

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Dana Milbank

Just seven minutes into Glenn Beck's hour-long interview of Eric Massa on Tuesday evening, things had already gone very wrong.

On health-care reform, Republicans target Democrats' division over reconciliation

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Shailagh Murray

As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and the Senate.

Thousands rally to support health-care reform in downtown Washington

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Nicole Norfleet

Amid a sea of brightly colored T-shirts and wave after wave of protest signs, Regina Holliday's homemade banner still stuck out as she marched Tuesday in support of health-care reform.

FDA says Basic Food Flavors knew plant was contaminated with salmonella

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Lyndsey Layton

The company at the heart of a growing recall of processed foods knew that its plant was contaminated with salmonella but continued to make a flavoring and sell it to foodmakers around the country, according to inspectors at the Food and Drug Administration.

Senate jobs bill moves toward final vote

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

The Senate's latest jobs bill cleared a key procedural hurdle Tuesday, with the chamber voting to limit debate on a $150 billion package of tax-break extensions and aid for the unemployed.

House Ways and Means Chairman Levin says job creation will be top priority

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Lori Montgomery

As he takes the reins of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Sander M. Levin is vowing to raise the profile of a once-powerful panel that, in recent years, has been overshadowed by the ethics troubles of its previous chairman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel.

Napolitano says suicide plane crash wasn't related to domestic terrorism

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Spencer S. Hsu

A suicide plane crash that killed the pilot and an Internal Revenue Service worker at an office building in Austin on Feb. 18 was not a case of domestic terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday in a radio interview.

Excerpts from National Governors and states proposal on education standards

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Excerpts from the proposal by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers:

Lawmakers insist shower run-ins like the one Massa alleges are far from norm

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Philip Rucker

It's no secret that members of Congress broker deals on the treadmill or in the weight room of the House and Senate gyms. But former congressman Eric Massa's accusation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once berated him in the gym's shower over his vote against President Obama's budget...

Chief Justice John Roberts found State of the Union scene 'troubling'

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech has "degenerated to a political pep rally."

U.S. condemns Israel's plans to build housing in east Jerusalem

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Janine Zacharia

JERUSALEM -- After spending most of Tuesday celebrating what he called the "unshakable" bond between the United States and Israel, Vice President Biden ended the day strongly condemning the longtime U.S. ally for approving 1,600 new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem -- an awkwardly timed ...

Defense Secretary Gates greets troops, tours Afghan 'city that had been dead'

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Greg Jaffe

NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN -- This southern Afghan city has been touted as a symbol of the progress U.S. troops have made in recent weeks. But when Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates swung through the main market Tuesday, it seemed mostly to be a symbol of the work that remains to be done.

Israel seeks a stronger stance on Iran from U.N. Security Council and U.S.

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon will meet with senior U.S. officials this week to emphasize Israel's growing displeasure with the slow pace of diplomacy on Iran at the U.N. Security Council, according to a senior Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of...

New Burmese election law bars pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi from running

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

A new election law issued by Burma's ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political party and thus running in upcoming elections, state-run newspapers said Wednesday.

Iran blocking foreign, domestic Web sites to curb anti-government activists

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Thomas Erdbrink and Kay Armin Serjoie

TEHRAN -- The bearded blogger stood before an effigy of an Islamic warrior towering over the letters "WWW."

Ex-British spy chief: U.S. misled Britain about treatment of terrorism suspects

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by associated press

LONDON -- U.S. intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of terrorism suspects, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.

Haitian president moves to shore up aid, new future

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Mary Beth Sheridan and William Booth

With his country's economy stalled, crops unplanted and a million people without homes, Haitian President RenÃ© PrÃ©val began a visit to Washington Tuesday to focus on how U.S. and international donors can help the beleaguered nation recover from a devastating earthquake.

Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear 'package' deal in 1990, documents show

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Joby Warrick

As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear "package" deal that included not only weapons designs but also production plants and foreign experts to supervise the building of a nuclear bomb, ac...

China, India give nod to Copenhagen climate change accord

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Associated Press

AMSTERDAM -- China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

India's upper house passes bill reserving a third of legislative seats for women

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Rama Lakshmi

NEW DELHI -- Indian lawmakers approved a historic bill Tuesday that would set aside one-third of all legislative seats for women, a move aimed at overturning six decades of male-dominated decision-making in this country.

Obama's plans for NASA changes met with harsh criticism

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Joel Achenbach

Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program.

Clinton-era Filegate appears to have closed, 14 years on

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Al Kamen

Filegate, one of the many "-gates" of the Clinton administration, looks to be over -- after a 14-year run. It began after congressional Republicans found out in 1996 that the Clinton White House had sought the FBI file of Billy Ray Dale, who was fired as head of the White House travel office in the...

Corrections

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

-- The headline on a March 9 Economy & Business item misidentified the agency conducting reviews of some campuses of Kaplan, the education company owned by The Washington Post Co. It is the Education Department, not the Securities and Exchange Commission. The item also incorrectly included the...

Haiti faces colossal and costly cleanup before it can rebuild

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by William Booth

Before Haiti and international donors can rebuild this devastated city, they must first destroy it.

Friends share in D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's good fortune

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Nikita Stewart and Paul Schwartzman

Before Adrian M. Fenty was elected D.C. mayor in 2006, Sinclair Skinner lived in a worn, two-story brick home on Georgia Avenue NW above his dry cleaning business, a venture that collapsed in financial ruin.

Washington lawyer Bob Barnett is the force behind many political book deals

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by David Montgomery

In "I, Alex Cross," the new bestseller set in Washington by James Patterson, fictional detective Alex Cross scans the ego wall in the office of a senator he's investigating:

As Iraq votes, U.S. content to keep its distance

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Karen DeYoung

As Obama administration officials tried in recent weeks to anticipate what could go wrong in Sunday's elections in Iraq, they realized with some relief that they are largely powerless to control what happens.

Pentagon shooter's spiral from early promise to madness

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Ian Shapira

John Patrick Bedell was an independent-minded and skeptical teenager -- bright and questioning, with strongly held opinions, like countless other young people, his brother remembered Saturday.

Sunday Take: For fed-up voters, a buffet of gaffes

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Dan Balz

Mark down this past week as a case study in why so many people are so angry with politicians and the practice of politics.

Sunday Washington talk-show guests: March 7, 2010

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:

Blind violinist injured in Haiti quake fighting the odds, once again

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Darryl Fears

MIAMI -- As darkness fell on what was left of his music school in Haiti, Romel Joseph found a distraction for his pain and fear. He imagined himself performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. His right hand gracefully slid the bow and his left hand caressed the violin's neck as his fingers glided...

Democratic activists channel anger into Arkansas Senate race

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Perry Bacon Jr.

Democratic activists flooding money into a primary challenge against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) say the race isn't simply about defeating the incumbent. It is also about rebuking a Democratic-controlled Congress that they say isn't pursuing an aggressive, populist agenda.

Thin wall separates lobbyist contributions and earmarks

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by R. Jeffrey Smith

House Appropriations defense subcommittee member James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) works hard at fundraising: Two to three times a week, he telephones contributors to ask for more. Yet, according to the account he supplied to the Office of Congressional Ethics last year, he is unaware of "who made...

Brown's election may ending up being a positive for health-care reform

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Shailagh Murray

Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform?

Big in Japan? Fat chance for nation's young women, obsessed with being skinny

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Blaine Harden

TOKYO -- As women in the United States and across the industrialized world get fatter, most Japanese women are getting skinnier.

Key Taliban leader likely killed in airstrike, Pakistani officials say

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Haq Nawaz Khan and Karin Brulliard

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN -- Pakistani officials said Saturday that a top Taliban leader was probably killed in an airstrike in the northwest, dealing another blow to a militant group that fighters say has been leaderless since January.

Foreign news roundup: Captured Islamists blamed for bombing in Russia

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

RUSSIA Russian authorities said Saturday that Islamist militants who were killed and captured in an offensive last week were responsible for the November bombing of a luxury train to St. Petersburg, the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil outside the volatile North Caucasus in years.

In Iraqi elections, female candidate is talk of the town

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Ernesto LondoÃ±o

BAGHDAD -- At first glance, Fairuz Hatem might seem like the antithesis of the coalition she joined to compete in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Car bombing in Shiite holy city of Najaf kills 3 on election eve

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post

BAGHDAD -- A car bomb exploded near tour buses carrying pilgrims in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding 54 on the eve of Iraq's elections .

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