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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" version="2.0"><channel><title>National: Breaking National News &amp; Headlines - Washington Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/ABBw3vC_page.html?wprss=rss_national</link><description>Top Stories from The Washington Post</description><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company</copyright><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:38:56 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:38:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>National: Breaking National News &amp; Headlines - Washington Post</title><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/ABBw3vC_page.html?wprss=rss_national</link></image><item><title>Large percentages of Montgomery students fail final exams in English, history and biology</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c662ae6/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Ceducation0Clarge0Epercentages0Eof0Emontgomery0Estudents0Efail0Efinal0Eexams0Ein0Eenglish0Ehistory0Eand0Ebiology0C20A130C0A50C250Cef22acf40Ec4850E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Final exam scores for some high school biology, English and history courses in Montgomery County show failure rates from 37 to 50 percent, according to new school data that adds to questions about student performance in the well-regarded school district. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/large-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology/2013/05/25/ef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c662ae6/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Flarge-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Large+percentages+of+Montgomery+students+fail+final+exams+in+English%2C+history+and+biology" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Flarge-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Large+percentages+of+Montgomery+students+fail+final+exams+in+English%2C+history+and+biology" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Flarge-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Large+percentages+of+Montgomery+students+fail+final+exams+in+English%2C+history+and+biology" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Flarge-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Large+percentages+of+Montgomery+students+fail+final+exams+in+English%2C+history+and+biology" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Flarge-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Large+percentages+of+Montgomery+students+fail+final+exams+in+English%2C+history+and+biology" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665352010/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662ae6/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665352010/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662ae6/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665352010/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662ae6/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">elected officials</category><category domain="">Brookings Institution</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:37:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/large-percentages-of-montgomery-students-fail-final-exams-in-english-history-and-biology/2013/05/25/ef22acf4-c485-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Donna St. George</dc:creator></item><item><title>Physical education should be a 'core' subject: Institute of Medicine</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c662693/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Canswer0Esheet0Cpost0Cphysical0Eed0Eshould0Ebe0Ea0Ecore0Esubject0Einstitute0Eof0Emedicine0C20A130C0A50C250C4257c0A320Ec5560E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/files/2013/05/educating.gif"&gt; &lt;!--empty--&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;/a&gt;A&lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18314"&gt; new report &lt;/a&gt;by the prestigious Institute of Medicine says that the U.S. Education Department should designate physical education as a core subject, just like math and English, to help confront a "pandemic" of physical inactivity that has contributed to a critical national health challenge.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/physical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine/2013/05/25/4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c662693/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fphysical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Physical+education+should+be+a+%27core%27+subject%3A+Institute+of+Medicine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fphysical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Physical+education+should+be+a+%27core%27+subject%3A+Institute+of+Medicine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fphysical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Physical+education+should+be+a+%27core%27+subject%3A+Institute+of+Medicine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fphysical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Physical+education+should+be+a+%27core%27+subject%3A+Institute+of+Medicine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fphysical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Physical+education+should+be+a+%27core%27+subject%3A+Institute+of+Medicine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665351319/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662693/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665351319/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662693/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665351319/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c662693/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">National Academy of Sciences</category><category domain="">A 'Pandemic' of Physical Inactivity</category><category domain="">breast cancer</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:15:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/physical-ed-should-be-a-core-subject-institute-of-medicine/2013/05/25/4257c032-c556-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Valerie Strauss</dc:creator></item><item><title>Why Minnesota governor vetoed Teach For America funding</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65af26/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Canswer0Esheet0Cpost0Cwhy0Eminnesota0Egovernor0Evetoed0Eteach0Efor0Eamerica0Efunding0C20A130C0A50C250Ce1e8fa6a0Ec5530E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p/&gt; &lt;p&gt;Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton just vetoed a line item inserted into the state's higher education legislation that would have given $1.5 million to Teach For America over two years. This is what he &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.leg.state.mn.us/archive/vetoes/2013veto_ch99.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;said in an explanatory letter&lt;/a&gt; to the legislature:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/why-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding/2013/05/25/e1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65af26/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fwhy-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fe1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Why+Minnesota+governor+vetoed+Teach+For+America+funding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fwhy-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fe1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Why+Minnesota+governor+vetoed+Teach+For+America+funding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fwhy-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fe1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Why+Minnesota+governor+vetoed+Teach+For+America+funding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fwhy-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fe1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Why+Minnesota+governor+vetoed+Teach+For+America+funding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2Fwhy-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2Fe1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Why+Minnesota+governor+vetoed+Teach+For+America+funding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665351052/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65af26/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665351052/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65af26/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665351052/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65af26/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mark Dayton</category><category domain="">He Used To Be A Teacher</category><category domain="">Star Tribune</category><category domain="">Minnesota governor</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:58:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/why-minnesota-governor-vetoed-teach-for-america-funding/2013/05/25/e1e8fa6a-c553-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Valerie Strauss</dc:creator></item><item><title>Maryland already sets hospitals' prices. Now it wants to cap their spending.</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65bafe/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cezra0Eklein0Cpost0Cmaryland0Ealready0Esets0Ehospitals0Eprices0Enow0Eit0Ewants0Eto0Ecap0Etheir0Espending0C20A130C0A50C250C8811870A80Ec550A0E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p/&gt; &lt;p/&gt; &lt;p&gt;In a world of constantly rising health-care costs, Maryland has long stood alone. Through a novel system that gave regulators unusual leverage to set prices, the state delivered care at a price that grew more slowly than elsewhere in the country — even at some of the nation's most renowned hospitals.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/maryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending/2013/05/25/88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65bafe/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fmaryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Maryland+already+sets+hospitals%27+prices.+Now+it+wants+to+cap+their+spending." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fmaryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Maryland+already+sets+hospitals%27+prices.+Now+it+wants+to+cap+their+spending." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fmaryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Maryland+already+sets+hospitals%27+prices.+Now+it+wants+to+cap+their+spending." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fmaryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Maryland+already+sets+hospitals%27+prices.+Now+it+wants+to+cap+their+spending." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fmaryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Maryland+already+sets+hospitals%27+prices.+Now+it+wants+to+cap+their+spending." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263192/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65bafe/kg/355/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263192/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65bafe/kg/355/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665263192/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65bafe/kg/355/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Medicare</category><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">health care</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:34:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/maryland-already-sets-hospitals-prices-now-it-wants-to-cap-their-spending/2013/05/25/88118708-c550-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Lena H. Sun, Sarah Kliff</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama rebalances his course on war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65a760/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0Cblogsandcolumns0Cobama0Erebalances0Ehis0Ecourse0Eon0Ewar0C20A130C0A50C250C0A9fc7b160Ec5460E11e20E9fe20E6ee52d0Aeb7c10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Ever since he declared his opposition to dumb wars, but not all wars, more than a decade ago, President Obama has wrestled with the practicalities of how to keep the country safe from terrorist threats while preserving civil liberties and constitutional values. The conflicts inherent in those questions were on display again last Thursday in his &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/23/read-president-obamas-speech-on-the-future-of-the-war-on-terror/"&gt;speech&lt;/a&gt; at the National Defense University.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/blogsandcolumns/obama-rebalances-his-course-on-war/2013/05/25/09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c65a760/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogsandcolumns%2Fobama-rebalances-his-course-on-war%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+rebalances+his+course+on+war" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogsandcolumns%2Fobama-rebalances-his-course-on-war%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+rebalances+his+course+on+war" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogsandcolumns%2Fobama-rebalances-his-course-on-war%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+rebalances+his+course+on+war" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogsandcolumns%2Fobama-rebalances-his-course-on-war%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+rebalances+his+course+on+war" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogsandcolumns%2Fobama-rebalances-his-course-on-war%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+rebalances+his+course+on+war" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665349919/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65a760/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665349919/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65a760/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665349919/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c65a760/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:14:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/blogsandcolumns/obama-rebalances-his-course-on-war/2013/05/25/09fc7b16-c546-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Dan Balz</dc:creator></item><item><title>'This is a massive effort to attract cheap labor.' Why Sen. Bernie Sanders is skeptical of guest workers.</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c64efd7/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cezra0Eklein0Cpost0Cthis0Eis0Ea0Emassive0Eeffort0Eto0Eattract0Echeap0Elabor0Ewhy0Esen0Ebernie0Esanders0Eis0Eskeptical0Eof0Eguest0Eworkers0C20A130C0A50C250C4c81ffca0Ec53b0E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p/&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sen. Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (I-Vt.) is the junior U.S. senator from Vermont. We spoke on the phone Friday afternoon about his views on the &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/16/the-senate-immigration-bill-heres-what-you-need-to-know/"&gt;comprehensive immigration reform legislation&lt;/a&gt; that is &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/two-ways-immigration-reform-could-succeed-and-three-ways-it-could-fail/"&gt;pending in the Senate&lt;/a&gt;. A lightly edited transcript follows.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/this-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers/2013/05/25/4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c64efd7/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthis-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%27This+is+a+massive+effort+to+attract+cheap+labor.%27+Why+Sen.+Bernie+Sanders+is+skeptical+of+guest+workers." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthis-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%27This+is+a+massive+effort+to+attract+cheap+labor.%27+Why+Sen.+Bernie+Sanders+is+skeptical+of+guest+workers." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthis-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%27This+is+a+massive+effort+to+attract+cheap+labor.%27+Why+Sen.+Bernie+Sanders+is+skeptical+of+guest+workers." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthis-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%27This+is+a+massive+effort+to+attract+cheap+labor.%27+Why+Sen.+Bernie+Sanders+is+skeptical+of+guest+workers." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthis-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%27This+is+a+massive+effort+to+attract+cheap+labor.%27+Why+Sen.+Bernie+Sanders+is+skeptical+of+guest+workers." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665345357/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c64efd7/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665345357/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c64efd7/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665345357/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c64efd7/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">unemployment rate</category><category domain="">US Senate</category><category domain="">Bernie Sanders</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:02:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/this-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers/2013/05/25/4c81ffca-c53b-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Dylan Matthews</dc:creator></item><item><title>National Digest: New fears raised overcompounded steroids</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6101c9/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0C20A130C0A50C240Cd874b75e0Ec4ad0E11e20E8c3b0E0Ab5e9247e8ca0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has received seven reports of illnesses in patients who took steroid injections compounded by a pharmacy in Tennessee.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The FDA said full clinical information about the patients is still being gathered, but it suggested that some of the problems were caused by infections and “at least one of these infections appears to be fungal in nature.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2013/05/24/d874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6101c9/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fd874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=National+Digest%3A+New+fears+raised+overcompounded+steroids" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fd874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=National+Digest%3A+New+fears+raised+overcompounded+steroids" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fd874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=National+Digest%3A+New+fears+raised+overcompounded+steroids" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fd874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=National+Digest%3A+New+fears+raised+overcompounded+steroids" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fd874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=National+Digest%3A+New+fears+raised+overcompounded+steroids" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6101c9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6101c9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665236567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6101c9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 03:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2013/05/24/d874b75e-c4ad-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator /></item><item><title>N.Y. attorney general lays out complaints against Wells Fargo, Bank of America</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6137ad/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cbusiness0Ceconomy0Cny0Eattorney0Egeneral0Elays0Eout0Ecomplaints0Eagainst0Ewells0Efargo0Ebank0Eof0Eamerica0C20A130C0A50C240C82196ff20Ec4a90E11e20E9fe20E6ee52d0Aeb7c10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other large banks are dragging their feet in processing homeowners’ requests for lower monthly payments under the &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/settlement-launches-foreclosure-reckoning/2012/02/09/gIQAxGoE3Q_story.html"&gt;$25 billion national mortgage settlement&lt;/a&gt;, said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a letter obtained Friday by The Washington Post.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america/2013/05/24/82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6137ad/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=N.Y.+attorney+general+lays+out+complaints+against+Wells+Fargo%2C+Bank+of+America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=N.Y.+attorney+general+lays+out+complaints+against+Wells+Fargo%2C+Bank+of+America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=N.Y.+attorney+general+lays+out+complaints+against+Wells+Fargo%2C+Bank+of+America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=N.Y.+attorney+general+lays+out+complaints+against+Wells+Fargo%2C+Bank+of+America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=N.Y.+attorney+general+lays+out+complaints+against+Wells+Fargo%2C+Bank+of+America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665322552/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6137ad/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665322552/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6137ad/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665322552/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6137ad/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 02:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ny-attorney-general-lays-out-complaints-against-wells-fargo-bank-of-america/2013/05/24/82196ff2-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Danielle Douglas</dc:creator></item><item><title>‘Four little girls’ killed in 1963 church bombing honored with Congressional Gold Medal</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c613610/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0Cfour0Elittle0Egirls0Ehonored0Ewith0Econgressional0Egold0Emedal0C20A130C0A50C240C91e8d8960Ec4810E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;“Four little girls” received in death Friday one of the country’s highest civilian awards, as the nation’s first African American president honored some of the youngest victims in the historic fight for equal rights.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/four-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal/2013/05/24/91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c613610/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffour-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%E2%80%98Four+little+girls%E2%80%99+killed+in+1963+church+bombing+honored+with+Congressional+Gold+Medal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffour-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%E2%80%98Four+little+girls%E2%80%99+killed+in+1963+church+bombing+honored+with+Congressional+Gold+Medal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffour-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%E2%80%98Four+little+girls%E2%80%99+killed+in+1963+church+bombing+honored+with+Congressional+Gold+Medal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffour-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%E2%80%98Four+little+girls%E2%80%99+killed+in+1963+church+bombing+honored+with+Congressional+Gold+Medal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffour-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=%E2%80%98Four+little+girls%E2%80%99+killed+in+1963+church+bombing+honored+with+Congressional+Gold+Medal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665322436/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c613610/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665322436/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c613610/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665322436/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c613610/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">Ku Klux Klan</category><category domain="">civil rights</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 01:27:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/four-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal/2013/05/24/91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator></item><item><title>Procter &amp;#38; Gamble bringing back former chief; other business news</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60fce2/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cbusiness0Ceconomy0Cprocter0Eand0Egamble0Ebringing0Eback0Eformer0Echief0Eother0Ebusiness0Enews0C20A130C0A50C240C380A2af280Ec4ae0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Procter &amp;#38; Gamble is replacing chief executive Bob McDonald with his predecessor, A.G. Lafley, as the world’s largest consumer-products maker struggles to rekindle growth at home and abroad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;McDonald embarked on a turnaround plan last year to cut $10 billion in costs through 2016 and renew focus on the company’s leading businesses after losing market share to such rivals as Unilever. Activist investor Bill Ackman bought a stake valued at $1.8 billion last year and pushed to replace McDonald.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/procter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news/2013/05/24/3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60fce2/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fprocter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Procter+%26%2338%3B+Gamble+bringing+back+former+chief%3B+other+business+news" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fprocter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Procter+%26%2338%3B+Gamble+bringing+back+former+chief%3B+other+business+news" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fprocter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Procter+%26%2338%3B+Gamble+bringing+back+former+chief%3B+other+business+news" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fprocter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Procter+%26%2338%3B+Gamble+bringing+back+former+chief%3B+other+business+news" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fprocter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Procter+%26%2338%3B+Gamble+bringing+back+former+chief%3B+other+business+news" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236222/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fce2/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236222/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fce2/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665236222/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fce2/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 01:22:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/procter-and-gamble-bringing-back-former-chief-other-business-news/2013/05/24/3802af28-c4ae-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator /></item><item><title>Md: ‘No deficiencies’ found in care of woman who died after abortion</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606c94/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cnational0Chealth0Escience0Cmd0Eno0Edeficiencies0Efound0Ein0Ecare0Eof0Ewoman0Ewho0Edied0Eafter0Eabortion0C20A130C0A50C240C82eacbd60Ec4880E11e20E9fe20E6ee52d0Aeb7c10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Maryland health officials investigating the case of a woman who &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-abortion-woman-died-of-natural-causes-from-rare-complication-examiners-initial-finding-says/2013/02/20/3900dec4-7b73-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html"&gt;died in February &lt;/a&gt;after an abortion late in pregnancy at a Germantown clinic found “no deficiencies” in her care at the clinic, according to results released Friday.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/md-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion/2013/05/24/82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606c94/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fmd-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Md%3A+%E2%80%98No+deficiencies%E2%80%99+found+in+care+of+woman+who+died+after+abortion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fmd-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Md%3A+%E2%80%98No+deficiencies%E2%80%99+found+in+care+of+woman+who+died+after+abortion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fmd-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Md%3A+%E2%80%98No+deficiencies%E2%80%99+found+in+care+of+woman+who+died+after+abortion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fmd-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Md%3A+%E2%80%98No+deficiencies%E2%80%99+found+in+care+of+woman+who+died+after+abortion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fmd-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Md%3A+%E2%80%98No+deficiencies%E2%80%99+found+in+care+of+woman+who+died+after+abortion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235577/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c94/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235577/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c94/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665235577/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c94/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/md-no-deficiencies-found-in-care-of-woman-who-died-after-abortion/2013/05/24/82eacbd6-c488-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Lena H. Sun</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama nominates John H. Thompson to head Census Bureau</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60fa47/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0Cfederal0Igovernment0Cobama0Enominates0Ejohn0Eh0Ethompson0Eto0Ehead0Ecensus0Ebureau0C20A130C0A50C240C140Ac4d0A20Ec4b0A0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;President Obama has tapped &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.norc.org/Experts/Pages/john-thompson.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;John H. Thompson&lt;/a&gt;, the head of a private-sector research group with ties to the University of Chicago, to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, which has operated without a permanent director for about nine months.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/obama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau/2013/05/24/140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60fa47/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal_government%2Fobama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+nominates+John+H.+Thompson+to+head+Census+Bureau" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal_government%2Fobama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+nominates+John+H.+Thompson+to+head+Census+Bureau" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal_government%2Fobama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+nominates+John+H.+Thompson+to+head+Census+Bureau" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal_government%2Fobama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+nominates+John+H.+Thompson+to+head+Census+Bureau" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal_government%2Fobama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Obama+nominates+John+H.+Thompson+to+head+Census+Bureau" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236006/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fa47/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665236006/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fa47/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665236006/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60fa47/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">best restaurants</category><category domain="">U.S. Census Bureau</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/obama-nominates-john-h-thompson-to-head-census-bureau/2013/05/24/140c4d02-c4b0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Josh Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title>In 2009 redux, Obama faces thorny issue of detainees at prison in Cuba</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60f92a/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cworld0Cnational0Esecurity0Cin0E20A0A90Eredux0Eobama0Efaces0Ethorny0Eissue0Eof0Edetainees0Eat0Eprison0Ein0Ecuba0C20A130C0A50C240C434966860Ec4a60E11e20E8c3b0E0Ab5e9247e8ca0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of his first term, President Obama, surrounded by former generals and admirals, announced his intention to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay with all the fanfare and sense of possibility accorded a new, determined occupant of the Oval Office.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba/2013/05/24/43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60f92a/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fin-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=In+2009+redux%2C+Obama+faces+thorny+issue+of+detainees+at+prison+in+Cuba" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fin-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=In+2009+redux%2C+Obama+faces+thorny+issue+of+detainees+at+prison+in+Cuba" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fin-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=In+2009+redux%2C+Obama+faces+thorny+issue+of+detainees+at+prison+in+Cuba" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fin-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=In+2009+redux%2C+Obama+faces+thorny+issue+of+detainees+at+prison+in+Cuba" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fin-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=In+2009+redux%2C+Obama+faces+thorny+issue+of+detainees+at+prison+in+Cuba" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235932/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f92a/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235932/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f92a/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665235932/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f92a/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:21:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-2009-redux-obama-faces-thorny-issue-of-detainees-at-prison-in-cuba/2013/05/24/43496686-c4a6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Peter Finn, Scott Wilson</dc:creator></item><item><title>After vote to allow gay Boy Scouts, critics and supporters mobilize</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60f7e2/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Cafter0Evote0Eto0Eallow0Egay0Eboy0Escouts0Ecritics0Eand0Esupporters0Emobilize0C20A130C0A50C240C0A30A230Aa20Ec4b10E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/boy-scouts-vote-to-allow-openly-gay-scouts-maintain-ban-on-gay-adult-leaders/2013/05/23/dcb7ee08-c359-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html"&gt;The Boy Scouts’ vote to allow openly gay boys &lt;/a&gt;prompted some supporters and critics of the new policy to swing into action Friday. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A network of Scouting families who wanted the ban to remain said it will host a meeting next month to start the process of creating “a new character development organization for boys.” At the same time, gay equality advocates vowed to help the Scouts grow their membership and assist troops in crafting guidelines for handling Scouts who come out as gay. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize/2013/05/24/030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60f7e2/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fafter-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=After+vote+to+allow+gay+Boy+Scouts%2C+critics+and+supporters+mobilize" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fafter-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=After+vote+to+allow+gay+Boy+Scouts%2C+critics+and+supporters+mobilize" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fafter-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=After+vote+to+allow+gay+Boy+Scouts%2C+critics+and+supporters+mobilize" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fafter-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=After+vote+to+allow+gay+Boy+Scouts%2C+critics+and+supporters+mobilize" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fafter-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=After+vote+to+allow+gay+Boy+Scouts%2C+critics+and+supporters+mobilize" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235814/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f7e2/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235814/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f7e2/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665235814/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60f7e2/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">onfaith</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-vote-to-allow-gay-boy-scouts-critics-and-supporters-mobilize/2013/05/24/030230a2-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Michelle Boorstein</dc:creator></item><item><title>U.S. meat labels to detail animal’s origin; Canada, Mexico raise concern</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c5d6b81/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cbusiness0Ceconomy0Cus0Emeat0Elabels0Eto0Edetail0Eanimals0Eorigin0Ecanada0Emexico0Eraise0Econcern0C20A130C0A50C240Cca10A91c0A0Ec47f0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;New rules for U.S. meatpackers will require labeling that tells consumers where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sounds simple.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But the regulations, posted Friday by the Department of Agriculture, are the latest move in a &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/tuna-meat-labeling-disputes-highlight-wto-control/2012/01/05/gIQAIkT5nP_story.html"&gt;trade dispute&lt;/a&gt; that has pitted U.S. consumer groups, which favor the labels, against free-trade advocates, who say the regulations are biased against cattle and pork from Canada and Mexico.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern/2013/05/24/ca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c5d6b81/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+meat+labels+to+detail+animal%E2%80%99s+origin%3B+Canada%2C+Mexico+raise+concern" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+meat+labels+to+detail+animal%E2%80%99s+origin%3B+Canada%2C+Mexico+raise+concern" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+meat+labels+to+detail+animal%E2%80%99s+origin%3B+Canada%2C+Mexico+raise+concern" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+meat+labels+to+detail+animal%E2%80%99s+origin%3B+Canada%2C+Mexico+raise+concern" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+meat+labels+to+detail+animal%E2%80%99s+origin%3B+Canada%2C+Mexico+raise+concern" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665220589/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5d6b81/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665220589/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5d6b81/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665220589/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5d6b81/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">world trade</category><category domain="">Tom Vilsack</category><category domain="">Department of Agriculture</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-meat-labels-to-detail-animals-origin-canada-mexico-raise-concern/2013/05/24/ca1091c0-c47f-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator></item><item><title>Fairfax school board approves budget</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a58d/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Ceducation0Cfairfax0Eschool0Eboard0Eapproves0Ebudget0C20A130C0A50C240C56b0A8d760Ec47e0E11e20E9fe20E6ee52d0Aeb7c10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The Fairfax County School Board on Thursday approved next year’s $2.5 billion budget, which includes money to increase teacher salaries, expand foreign language instruction for elementary students and hire more mental health professionals.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-school-board-approves-budget/2013/05/24/56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a58d/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Ffairfax-school-board-approves-budget%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Fairfax+school+board+approves+budget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Ffairfax-school-board-approves-budget%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Fairfax+school+board+approves+budget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Ffairfax-school-board-approves-budget%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Fairfax+school+board+approves+budget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Ffairfax-school-board-approves-budget%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Fairfax+school+board+approves+budget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Ffairfax-school-board-approves-budget%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Fairfax+school+board+approves+budget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321733/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58d/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321733/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58d/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665321733/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58d/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Fairfax County Board of Supervisors</category><category domain="">Robert F. McDonnell</category><category domain="">social workers</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:41:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-school-board-approves-budget/2013/05/24/56b08d76-c47e-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>T. Rees Shapiro</dc:creator></item><item><title>Roundup of news from around the Washington region</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a58c/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Croundup0Eof0Enews0Efrom0Earound0Ethe0Ewashington0Eregion0C20A130C0A50C240C59612d820Ec47e0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;A Metro maintenance worker has been arrested on charges of stealing 13 defibrillators from the transit agency and selling them through online auction sites.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Derrick Davis, 40, of Laurel was charged Thursday with theft in Prince George’s County District Court.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/roundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region/2013/05/24/59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a58c/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Froundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Roundup+of+news+from+around+the+Washington+region" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Froundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Roundup+of+news+from+around+the+Washington+region" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Froundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Roundup+of+news+from+around+the+Washington+region" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Froundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Roundup+of+news+from+around+the+Washington+region" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Froundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Roundup+of+news+from+around+the+Washington+region" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321732/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58c/kg/342-363/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321732/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58c/kg/342-363/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665321732/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a58c/kg/342-363/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/roundup-of-news-from-around-the-washington-region/2013/05/24/59612d82-c47e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>— Dana Hedgpeth, — Matt Zapotosky</dc:creator></item><item><title>Washington area religion events</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606c91/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Cwashington0Earea0Ereligion0Eevents0C20A130C0A50C240Cc59f65560Ec4950E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Historic Christ Church, the parish home of George Washington, recently celebrated its first same-gender blessing, with the Rev. Ann Gillespie, senior associate rector, officiating. Melissa Capers and Brunilda Hernandez, who do volunteer work at the Episcopal church, have been together as a couple since 1999, and there have been several events to celebrate that commitment, including a ceremony in October 2002, authorized by then-Virginia Bishop Peter James Lee, at St. Clement’s in Alexandria. Bishop Shannon Johnston granted permission for this specific blessing and offered his “thanksgiving for Christ Church’s leadership in our diocese as we continue to move forward in this new aspect of our liturgical life.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-area-religion-events/2013/05/24/c59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606c91/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fwashington-area-religion-events%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fc59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Washington+area+religion+events" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fwashington-area-religion-events%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fc59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Washington+area+religion+events" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fwashington-area-religion-events%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fc59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Washington+area+religion+events" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fwashington-area-religion-events%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fc59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Washington+area+religion+events" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fwashington-area-religion-events%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Fc59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Washington+area+religion+events" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235576/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c91/kg/356/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665235576/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c91/kg/356/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665235576/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606c91/kg/356/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">George Washington</category><category domain="">civil union</category><category domain="">Episcopal Church</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:32:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-area-religion-events/2013/05/24/c59f6556-c495-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Gerri Marmer</dc:creator></item><item><title>Keystone pipeline issue continues to smolder</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a416/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cnational0Chealth0Escience0Ckeystone0Epipeline0Eissue0Econtinues0Eto0Esmolder0C20A130C0A50C240C231f40A160Ec49b0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The most interesting aspect of this week’s House vote in favor of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline was not that it passed, which was widely expected, but that it got 20 fewer votes than a similar proposal one year ago.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/keystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder/2013/05/24/231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a416/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fkeystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Keystone+pipeline+issue+continues+to+smolder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fkeystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Keystone+pipeline+issue+continues+to+smolder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fkeystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Keystone+pipeline+issue+continues+to+smolder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fkeystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Keystone+pipeline+issue+continues+to+smolder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fkeystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Keystone+pipeline+issue+continues+to+smolder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321664/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a416/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321664/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a416/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665321664/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a416/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:17:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/keystone-pipeline-issue-continues-to-smolder/2013/05/24/231f4016-c49b-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator></item><item><title>The best sentences we read today</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a415/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cezra0Eklein0Cpost0Cthe0Ebest0Esentences0Ewe0Eread0Etoday0C20A130C0A50C240Cf47d7af40Ec4c50E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;-- "A multimillionaire president nominated a billionaire who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaigns, and &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-where-money-talks/2013/05/24/d6d64afe-c47e-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?hpid=z2"&gt;he sent her to be confirmed&lt;/a&gt; by the millionaires' club that is the U.S. Senate."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-best-sentences-we-read-today/2013/05/24/f47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a415/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthe-best-sentences-we-read-today%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Ff47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=The+best+sentences+we+read+today" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthe-best-sentences-we-read-today%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Ff47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=The+best+sentences+we+read+today" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthe-best-sentences-we-read-today%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Ff47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=The+best+sentences+we+read+today" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthe-best-sentences-we-read-today%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Ff47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=The+best+sentences+we+read+today" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fezra-klein%2Fpost%2Fthe-best-sentences-we-read-today%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2Ff47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=The+best+sentences+we+read+today" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321663/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a415/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321663/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a415/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665321663/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a415/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">Links links links</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:02:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-best-sentences-we-read-today/2013/05/24/f47d7af4-c4c5-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Brad Plumer</dc:creator></item><item><title>U.S. Park Police furloughs to end June 1</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a414/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0Cus0Epark0Epolice0Efurloughs0Eto0Eend0Ejune0E10C20A130C0A50C240C6df5b150A0Ec4b50E11e20E8c3b0E0Ab5e9247e8ca0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Furloughs for the U.S. Park Police forced by the budget cuts known as sequestration will end June 1, the National Park Service announced Friday, because the agency was able to find other savings.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“We’re ending the furloughs,” Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in an interview, a month after the force of 747 sworn officers and support staff members in three cities began staying home one day per pay period in order to take 12 to 14 unpaid days off by Sept. 30. “We have resolved this within the Park Police budget.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1/2013/05/24/6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c60a414/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+Park+Police+furloughs+to+end+June+1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+Park+Police+furloughs+to+end+June+1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+Park+Police+furloughs+to+end+June+1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+Park+Police+furloughs+to+end+June+1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=U.S.+Park+Police+furloughs+to+end+June+1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321662/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a414/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665321662/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a414/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665321662/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c60a414/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">U S Park Police</category><category domain="">Jonathan Jarvis</category><category domain="">federal employees</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:01:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-park-police-furloughs-to-end-june-1/2013/05/24/6df5b150-c4b5-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Lisa Rein</dc:creator></item><item><title>Christie says he will 'be here to welcome' Obama to New Jersey</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606573/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cthe0Efix0Cpost0Cchristie0Esays0Ehe0Ewill0Ebe0Ehere0Eto0Ewelcome0Eobama0Eto0Enew0Ejersey0C20A130C0A50C240C3fae5fb80Ec4bf0E11e20E96420Ea56177f1cdf70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;EARLIER ON THE FIX:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/24/anthony-weiners-rocky-restart/"&gt;Anthony Weiner's rocky restart&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/24/in-defense-of-lois-lerner/"&gt;In defense of Lois Lerner&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/24/the-fixs-top-15-gubernatorial-races-3/"&gt;The Fix's top 15 gubernatorial races&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/christie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey/2013/05/24/3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c606573/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe-fix%2Fpost%2Fchristie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Christie+says+he+will+%27be+here+to+welcome%27+Obama+to+New+Jersey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe-fix%2Fpost%2Fchristie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Christie+says+he+will+%27be+here+to+welcome%27+Obama+to+New+Jersey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe-fix%2Fpost%2Fchristie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Christie+says+he+will+%27be+here+to+welcome%27+Obama+to+New+Jersey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe-fix%2Fpost%2Fchristie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Christie+says+he+will+%27be+here+to+welcome%27+Obama+to+New+Jersey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe-fix%2Fpost%2Fchristie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Christie+says+he+will+%27be+here+to+welcome%27+Obama+to+New+Jersey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665234887/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606573/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665234887/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606573/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665234887/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c606573/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">Afternoon Fix</category><category domain="">presidential election</category><category domain="">Republican Party</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:14:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/christie-says-he-will-be-here-to-welcome-obama-to-new-jersey/2013/05/24/3fae5fb8-c4bf-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Sean Sullivan</dc:creator></item><item><title>Gay and Mormon characters no longer a novelty in theater, literature</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c609c62/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cnational0Con0Efaith0Cgay0Eand0Emormon0Echaracters0Eno0Elonger0Ea0Enovelty0Ein0Etheater0Eliterature0C20A130C0A50C240C63fcdcb60Ec3c80E11e20E8c3b0E0Ab5e9247e8ca0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pitt lived in New York. He had a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dealt with the devastation and uncertainty of AIDS — it was the 1980s — he grappled with openly acknowledging his sexuality. He was Mormon and gay, and the two didn’t mix.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/gay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature/2013/05/24/63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c609c62/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Fgay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Gay+and+Mormon+characters+no+longer+a+novelty+in+theater%2C+literature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Fgay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Gay+and+Mormon+characters+no+longer+a+novelty+in+theater%2C+literature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Fgay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Gay+and+Mormon+characters+no+longer+a+novelty+in+theater%2C+literature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Fgay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Gay+and+Mormon+characters+no+longer+a+novelty+in+theater%2C+literature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Fgay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Gay+and+Mormon+characters+no+longer+a+novelty+in+theater%2C+literature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665320965/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c609c62/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665320965/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c609c62/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665320965/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c609c62/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">LGBT</category><category domain="">Matthew Shepard</category><category domain="">Boy Scouts of America</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:09:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/gay-and-mormon-characters-no-longer-a-novelty-in-theater-literature/2013/05/24/63fcdcb6-c3c8-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Kellie Kotraba</dc:creator></item><item><title>Female lawmakers leading push to crack down on military sex crimes</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6097cd/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cworld0Cnational0Esecurity0Cfemale0Elawmakers0Eleading0Epush0Eto0Ecrack0Edown0Eon0Emilitary0Esex0Ecrimes0C20A130C0A50C240C555848a20Ec4730E11e20E97fa0E0Af57decebbbf0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;About two dozen lawmakers and Obama administration officials crowded into the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 9 for an urgent meeting about sexual assaults in the military. The most striking thing about the group, given the male-dominated world of national security, was that &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/09/obama-advisers-host-white-house-meeting-on-sexual-assault-in-the-military/"&gt;85 percent of those around the table were women&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/female-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes/2013/05/24/555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c6097cd/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ffemale-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Female+lawmakers+leading+push+to+crack+down+on+military+sex+crimes" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ffemale-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Female+lawmakers+leading+push+to+crack+down+on+military+sex+crimes" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ffemale-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Female+lawmakers+leading+push+to+crack+down+on+military+sex+crimes" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ffemale-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Female+lawmakers+leading+push+to+crack+down+on+military+sex+crimes" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ffemale-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Female+lawmakers+leading+push+to+crack+down+on+military+sex+crimes" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665320567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6097cd/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665320567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6097cd/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665320567/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c6097cd/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/female-lawmakers-leading-push-to-crack-down-on-military-sex-crimes/2013/05/24/555848a2-c473-11e2-97fa-0f57decebbbf_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Craig Whitlock, Ed O’Keefe</dc:creator></item><item><title>Paul Tudor Jones: Remarks on female traders ‘offended, and I am sorry’</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c5fdb57/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Clocal0Ceducation0Cpaul0Etudor0Ejones0Emy0Eremarks0Eoffended0Eand0Ei0Eam0Esorry0C20A130C0A50C240C6bb3f0Ac0A0Ec4a90E11e20E9fe20E6ee52d0Aeb7c10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist, apologized Friday for &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/paul-tudor-jones-comments-on-the-lack-of-female-traders/2013/05/23/af9a81b2-c3c0-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_video.html"&gt;comments he made&lt;/a&gt; at the University of Virginia last month about the lack of female traders. He had attributed the problem to women becoming mothers and no longer having the intense focus required for successful trading.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/paul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry/2013/05/24/6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636635/s/2c5fdb57/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Fpaul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Paul+Tudor+Jones%3A+Remarks+on+female+traders+%E2%80%98offended%2C+and+I+am+sorry%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Fpaul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Paul+Tudor+Jones%3A+Remarks+on+female+traders+%E2%80%98offended%2C+and+I+am+sorry%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Fpaul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Paul+Tudor+Jones%3A+Remarks+on+female+traders+%E2%80%98offended%2C+and+I+am+sorry%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Fpaul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Paul+Tudor+Jones%3A+Remarks+on+female+traders+%E2%80%98offended%2C+and+I+am+sorry%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Feducation%2Fpaul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry%2F2013%2F05%2F24%2F6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_national&amp;t=Paul+Tudor+Jones%3A+Remarks+on+female+traders+%E2%80%98offended%2C+and+I+am+sorry%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665232777/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5fdb57/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665232777/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5fdb57/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665232777/u/0/f/636635/c/34656/s/2c5fdb57/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Paul Tudor Jones II</category><category domain="">University of Virginia</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/paul-tudor-jones-my-remarks-offended-and-i-am-sorry/2013/05/24/6bb3f0c0-c4a9-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?wprss=rss_national</guid><dc:creator>Jenna Johnson</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>
