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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to release U.S. strategy for handling biological weapon threats ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Environmentalists urge Obama to do more about climate change ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Obama administration's opening bid in the climate talks beginning Monday in Copenhagen is not impressing some key constituencies.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Taking his jobs message on the road ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SCHNECKSVILLE, PA. -- With his popularity slowly eroding as the nation's unemployment rate has risen, President Obama spent Friday reassuring people in Pennsylvania's struggling Lehigh Valley that his administration is focused on stemming the nation's jobs crisis.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to let Pentagon deploy even more troops, but numbers remain murky ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama has authorized Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to deploy several thousand additional troops, as needed, beyond the 30,000 that Obama on Tuesday said he would send to Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon official.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.N. censure may start more confrontational phase with Iran ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The resounding censure of Iran on Friday by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, signals the start of a potentially more confrontational phase in the Obama administration's dealings with the Islamic republic, including the prospect of strengthened U.S.-led...
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Australian leader will visit Obama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will visit the White House on Monday as President Obama begins a week during which he will announce his war strategy in Afghanistan and appeal to allies such as Australia for more help.
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			<title><![CDATA[ War crimes envoy has personal touch ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS -- Stephen J. Rapp, the new U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, knows what it feels like to be victimized.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Key official involved in Guantanamo closure plan resigns ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned.
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Singh's visit nears, perceived U.S. missteps worry India ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder's decision on Mohammed trial defended ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Some of the prominent criticisms are exaggerated.
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			<dc:creator>Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. to attend conference held by war crimes court ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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For the first time in nearly eight years, the United States will participate in a conference with members of the International Criminal Court, a decision that signals growing U.S. support for a war crimes tribunal the Bush administration once shunned.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the t...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in Manhattan federal courthouse less than a mile from Ground Zero, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete demonstration yet of the Obama administration'...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama announces White House summit to focus on jobs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:58 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama, grappling with the worst job market in a generation, announced plans Thursday to hold a White House jobs summit in December.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scant details on reaction to U.S. envoys' Burma visit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BANGKOK -- After a rare trip by high-level U.S. diplomats to Burma, there was little indication from either nation Thursday about how the Obama administration's overture of engagment had been received.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama marks election anniversary by talking education at Wisconsin school ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MADISON, WIS. -- President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray in Washington.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Karzai is wild card for U.S. strategy in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As the dust settles from Afghanistan's election, President Hamid Karzai's emergence as the victor by default cements the central dilemma facing President Obama as he decides whether to escalate the U.S. involvement in the war there.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Rajiv Chandrasekaran</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Shared interests define Obama's world ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama is applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side, constructing appeals to shared interests and attempting to bring the government's conduct in line with its ideals.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ First lady shows support for veterans in NYC ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:43:57 EDT</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- At the center of an auditorium in the uppermost reaches of New York City was a throng of people, and at the center of the throng was Michelle Obama -- and on the outskirts of the throng was a ring of cellphones and cameras held high. Kenneth Slade, an Iraq war veteran, inched closer t...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Czar trouble ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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October revolutions just ain't what they used to be.
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			<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Alan Charles Raul: Revive the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Obama and Congress appear to have dropped the ball.
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			<dc:creator>Alan Charles Raul</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House and Cheney in a war of words over Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at former vice president Richard B. Cheney on Thursday, dismissing the Republican's criticism of delays in President Obama's decision-making on Afghanistan strategy.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Shift for Obama, U.S. Settles On Modulated Policy for Sudan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated on the campaign trail -- but steers clear of the conciliatory tone advocated by his special envoy to the country.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Criticized as Too Cautious, Slow on Judicial Posts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama has not made significant progress in his plan to infuse federal courts with a new cadre of judges, and liberal activists are beginning to blame his administration for moving too tentatively on what they consider a key priority.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama May Be Met By Frustration in New Orleans Visit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Even before Air Force One touches down in New Orleans on Thursday afternoon, President Obama is discovering the burdens of rebuilding a city that feels abandoned by the federal government.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Focuses on Civilian Effort in Afghanistan Strategy Review ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers Wednesday on the political situation in Afghanistan and the effort to train the country's security forces, officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, bringing the relatively novice leader a new measure of prestige on the world stage but also potential complications in carrying out a foreign policy that includes managing two wars.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Republicans Scoff at Nobel Prize Announcement ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's Republican adversaries reacted with swift disbelief to news that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with many in the party scoffing that the accolade was hardly justified by a record they described as incomplete at best.
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Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would not succeed.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Targeting the Talkers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:18:58 EDT</pubDate>
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There are no fatter targets for the left than the talk-show titans of the right.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan Strategy Divides Lawmakers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Congressional leaders left a rare bipartisan meeting with President Obama on Tuesday divided over what strategy the administration should adopt to fight an increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan and how quickly it must do so to protect U.S. forces already on the ground.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iran, Major Powers Reach Agreement On Series of Points ]]></title>
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GENEVA, Oct. 1 -- The United States and Iran tentatively stepped back from looming confrontation on Thursday, as the Islamic republic reached an agreement with major powers that would greatly reduce Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium and reset the diplomatic clock for a solution to Iran's n...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clearer Rules Urged for Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gender-Related Persecution ]]></title>
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Women seeking political asylum in the United States based on gender-related persecution can get mired in a legal labyrinth that can leave their cases unresolved for years, according to a report being released Thursday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit group in Falls Church that works to...
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Diplomat's Visit to Cuba Turned Into Extended Talks ]]></title>
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In an unusual move, Cuban authorities this month invited a State Department official to turn a brief visit to the Communist-ruled island into a six-day stay that included meetings with officials, opposition figures and people from Cuban civil organizations, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP Senators Drop Out of Panel Inquiry Into CIA Program ]]></title>
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Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies, arguing that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s decision to reexamine allegations of detainee abuse by the CIA...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Israeli Leader Blasts Ahmadinejad at U.N. ]]></title>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- Brandishing Nazi orders for the extermination of the Jews, Israel's prime minister blasted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday for continuing to deny that the Holocaust occurred and rebuked U.N. delegates who politely listened to the Iranian leader's spee...
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			<title><![CDATA[ At United Nations, Obama Makes Appeal for World's Cooperation ]]></title>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 -- President Obama challenged other nations to match his efforts to change the United States' relationship with the rest of the world on Wednesday, saying in an address to the United Nations that the task of solving global crises "cannot be solely America's endeavor."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Voices of Power Transcript: Austan Goolsbee, Economic Adviser to President Obama ]]></title>
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LOIS ROMANO: Welcome, Dr. Austan Goolsbee, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and the chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Thanks for joining us.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Urges U.S.-Japanese Cooperation on North Korea ]]></title>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 --  Japan's new prime minister called Tuesday for "close coordination" between his country and the United States on policy toward North Korea, a vexing issue that chilled relations between the two allies in the final months of the Bush administration.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Federal Ban on Flavored Cigarettes Takes Effect ]]></title>
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Federal officials said Tuesday that they hope a new ban against cigarettes flavored to taste like sweet foods will cut down on the number of children and young adults who pick up the smoking habit.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Insurers Criticize Administration 'Gag Order' ]]></title>
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The federal government has ordered health insurers to stop telling Medicare beneficiaries that proposed health reform legislation could hurt seniors and jeopardize their benefits.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Biden Says Tighter Regulation of Insurance Industry Is Critical to Health Reform ]]></title>
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Vice President Biden added his voice Tuesday to the administration's efforts to reform health care, telling a meeting of state insurance commissioners that tighter regulation of the industry is needed to protect consumers and slow the spiraling cost of medical coverage.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- Diplomats from the United States and Iran will cross paths this week at the U.N. General Assembly, but the gulf between the two nations is likely to be evident.
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Call it another revolt of the generals. More than 13 years ago, the nation's military leaders told civilian defense officials they wanted to limit spending on missile defenses and to emphasize the protection of forces deployed overseas over defense of the American homeland against a long-range mi...
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President Obama sought to blanket the airwaves with an impassioned defense of his health-care reform effort Sunday during back-to-back broadcasts of taped interviews on five morning news programs.
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From his headquarters in Kabul, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal sees one clear path to achieve President Obama's core goal of preventing al-Qaeda from reestablishing havens in Afghanistan: "Success," he writes in his assessment, "demands a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign."
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Secretary, in Her Own Words ]]></title>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her first eight months on the job:
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Team Player Who Stands Apart ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With the exception of former senator Edmund S. Muskie's brief turn as secretary of state at the end of the Carter administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first politician in the job in six decades -- the rest have hailed from the fields of foreign policy or the military.
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gates to Boost 'Enablers' to Meet Security Needs in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he has ordered the deployment of as many as 3,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to meet what the top commander there has described as pressing security needs.
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			<title><![CDATA[ SEC Proposes Ban on Flash Orders ]]></title>
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Federal regulators turned their attention on Thursday to the fast-paced and sometimes opaque electronic trading systems that dominate financial markets, proposing to ban a type of trading that critics contend gives hedge funds and other financial firms an unfair advantage over individual investors.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ACORN to Review Employees' Conduct After Hidden Camera Videos ]]></title>
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Amid a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the political divide, the community organizing group known as ACORN announced Wednesday that it would launch an independent review into "the indefensible action of a handful of our employees" who were secretly videotaped while giving advice to acto...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Says He Won't Be Rushed on Troop Levels in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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President Obama pushed back Wednesday against pressure to make a decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan, saying he will resist any attempt to rush him until he has "absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers' Intense Debate on Hot-Button Issues Shows No Signs of Easing ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The raw emotions of American politics found full-throated voice Tuesday in and around the Capitol. At any given moment, someone was expressing outrage -- or counter-outrage.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Many Employers to Raise Cost of Health Benefits, Survey Finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Though Americans who already have medical coverage may be wary of change, a new survey indicates that they may be hard-pressed to escape it -- even in the absence of health-care reform.
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			<dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Proposes First National Limits on Greenhouse Gases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration on Tuesday formally proposed new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, a move that signals the first federal limits on greenhouse-gas pollution.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 -- The anxiety that has afflicted organized labor so far this year as it saw President Obama and congressional Democrats making concessions on some of its top priorities evaporated on Tuesday as Obama rallied a big crowd at the AFL-CIO's convention.
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Rebukes Rep. Joe Wilson for Interrupting Obama Speech ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In a rare action, the House rebuked one of its members Tuesday for shouting "You lie!" at President Obama last Wednesday, ending a week-long standoff during which Democrats demanded a public apology that the lawmaker refused to give.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Critics Say Policy 'Czars' Skirt Proper Oversight, Vetting ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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On paper, they are special advisers, chairmen of White House boards, special envoys and Cabinet agency deputies, asked by the president to guide high-priority initiatives. But critics call them "czars" whose powers are not subject to congressional oversight, and their increasing numbers have beco...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Recovery Underway, Bernanke Suggests ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Tuesday that the recession is "very likely over," offering his most explicit endorsement so far of the view, increasingly widespread among economists, that a recovery is underway.
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			<dc:creator>Ylan Q. Mui and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Seeks Renewal of Surveillance Laws, Perhaps With Tweaks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration has for the first time set out its views on the controversial USA Patriot Act, telling lawmakers this week that legal approval of government surveillance methods scheduled to expire in December should be renewed, but leaving room to tweak the law to protect Americans'...
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Cautious on Faith-Based Initiatives ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Candidate Barack Obama drew little attention during last year's presidential campaign when he ventured into the thorny territory of church and state.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sept. 11 Attacks Helped Shape Obama's Worldview ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In marking his first Sept. 11 anniversary as commander in chief, President Obama told a solemn audience at the Pentagon on Friday, including relatives of those who died there eight years ago, that "no passage of time and no dark skies can ever dull the meaning of this moment."
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prosecutors Won't Reopen Perjury Probe of Bush Justice Dept. Official Schlozman ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Justice Department prosecutors will not reopen a perjury investigation of a Bush administration civil rights lawyer whose testimony had been challenged by Senate Democrats, officials said Friday.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Live Blogging Obama's Health-Care Address ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:42:54 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama takes the podium on Capitol Hill tonight for his much-anticipated address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress. Washington Post reporters who have been covering the debate will be your guides to the action, offering live analysis and fact-checking.
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			<title><![CDATA[ N.Va. Schools Open With Living History Lesson as Obama Speech Adds to Drama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The first day of school is often met with excitement, jitters, even dread. It's rarely a day for jumping up and down and shrieking. But that's what happened yesterday at Wakefield High School when President Obama walked on stage at noon.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler and Emma Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Environmental Groups Wait to See Definitive Action From Obama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The abrupt resignation Saturday of White House "green jobs" adviser Van Jones has focused new attention on one of the Obama administration's top priorities: the environment.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ After National Fury, Obama's Speech Is Given a Calm Reception at Annandale High ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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If the past week's furor over whether President Obama should address the nation's students reached Mary Ann Richardson's 12th-grade U.S. government class at Annandale High School, it did not leave a lasting impression Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Defense Secretary Gates Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in an interview broadcast this week that the United States would not repeat the mistake of abandoning Afghanistan, vowing that "both Afghanistan and Pakistan can count on us for the long term."
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Cheaper Chinese Tires Roll In, Obama Faces an Early Trade Test ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ALBANY, Ga. -- At the vast Cooper Tire plant here, workers heard for years about their rivals in Chinese factories.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bush White House Sought to Soften Treaty on 'Enforced Disappearances' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so that those overseeing the CIA's secret prison system would not be criminally prosecuted under its provisions, according to former officials and hun...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Seeks to Avoid Politics in Speech to Schools ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When President Obama talks to America's students at lunchtime Tuesday, he will tell them to persevere in their studies, stay in school, discover their passions and wash their hands.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Rallies Union Support for Health-Care Reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CINCINNATI, Sept. 7  -- President Obama attempted to reinvigorate support for his struggling health-care agenda on Monday by giving a stirring, campaign-style speech to thousands of union members celebrating Labor Day.
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			<dc:creator>Alexi Mostrous</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Will Make Public Visitors List for the First Time ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama said Friday he will make public an ongoing list of visitors to the White House, reversing a policy embraced and defended by previous presidents of both parties.
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Says Little About Embattled Jones ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration's embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to ha...
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			<dc:creator>Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Vice President Joe Biden Addresses the Recovery Act at the Brookings Institution ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:52:12 EDT</pubDate>
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Biden: Thank you very much, Strobe. (APPLAUSE) It's a pleasure to be back. And I told Strobe in the anteroom that, "Mr. Secretary, the many, many times that I've been here, almost always the subject has been foreign policy, and I hope I have an opportunity to come back and discuss some of those ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cheney Criticizes Probe of CIA Interrogations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney on Sunday condemned the Justice Department's decision to investigate suspected CIA prisoner abuses, reiterated his assertion that enhanced interrogation techniques worked in revealing terror plots, and indicated that he may not cooperate with the prosecutor...
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			<dc:creator>Alexi Mostrous</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder's Decision To Probe CIA Hints At a New Dynamic ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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About five weeks ago, faced with a crucial decision on how to react to brutal CIA interrogation practices, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. concluded that it would be all but impossible to follow President Obama's mandate to move forward, rather than investigate divisive episodes from the Bush...
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Torture, Back in Play ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:45:57 EDT</pubDate>
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And you thought the health-care debate was divisive.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cheney Criticizes Widening Investigation of CIA Counterterrorism Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department's decision Monday to expand an existing investigation of potentially illegal actions related to the CIA's counterterrorism program provoked fresh criticism from former vice president Richard B. Cheney, a strong supporter of the harsh interrogation techniques central to the...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Subprime Lenders Getting U.S. Subsidies, Report Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Many of the lenders eligible to receive billions of dollars from the government's massive foreclosure prevention program helped fuel the housing crisis by issuing risky subprime loans, according to a report to be issued Wednesday by the Center for Public Integrity.
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			<dc:creator>Renae Merle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Analysis: Bush, Obama Administrations Drew Different Lessons From CIA Report ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When an internal CIA report concluded in May 2004 that "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented" interrogation methods had been used on suspected al-Qaeda members, the predominant reaction within the Bush administration was not revulsion but frustration that the agency's efforts insi...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Approves New Team to Question Key Terror Suspects ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIA Officer Disciplined for Alleged Gun Use in Interrogation: Bush Officials Filed No Charges Over Tactics in Terror Case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A CIA officer who allegedly used a gun to intimidate a captured al-Qaeda suspect was formally disciplined for violating the agency's rules for conducting interrogations, but Bush administration Justice Department officials ultimately declined to file charges against him, according to two former...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ridge Says He Was Pressured to Elevate Threat Warning on Eve of 2004 Election ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:40:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, the first director of the Department of Homeland Security, says that he was pressured by other Bush administration department heads to raise the national security-threat level on the eve of the 2004 presidential election -- a move he rejected as having such...
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			<dc:creator>Garance Franke-Ruta</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Code Red Confession ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:29:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The cynics, it turns out, were right. The Bush administration was trying to use terror alerts to boost the president's political fortunes, just as some skeptical journalists suggested.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tom Ridge's Code Red Confession ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:56 EDT</pubDate>
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The cynics, it turns out, were right. The Bush administration was trying to use terror alerts to boost the president's political fortunes, just as some skeptical journalists suggested. Tom Ridge is now admitting it. Which prompts two reactions on my part: a) I'm not shocked. b) Now he tells us? F...
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:56 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Disclosure of 'Targeted Killing' Program Comes at Bad Time for CIA ]]></title>
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The disclosure Wednesday of the CIA's decision five years ago to let a private security contractor help manage its sensitive effort to kill senior al-Qaeda members drew congressional criticism Thursday on the eve of key decisions by the Obama administration that current and former intelligence of...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Defends Afghanistan Policy Before Veterans ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PHOENIX, Aug. 17 -- President Obama on Monday defended his administration's new approach to the fierce fighting that rages in Afghanistan, calling it "not only a war worth fighting" but also one that "is fundamental to the defense of our people."
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:51:18 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to Take On Health-Care Critics ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama is embarking on a final public relations push on health care Friday before heading off on vacation, wading into the same kind of often hostile town hall meetings that members of Congress have endured for much of August.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Raucous Crowd Greets Cardin at Health-Care Town Hall in Hagerstown ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:38:02 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's call for civility in the health-care debate fell flat Wednesday in Maryland's first congressional town hall meeting after his plea.
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			<dc:creator>Aaron C. Davis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Ambassador Seeks More Money for Afghanistan Reconstruction ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The United States will not meet its goals in Afghanistan without a major increase in planned spending on development and civilian reconstruction next year, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul has told the State Department.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bill Proposed to Regulate Derivatives Trade ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration formally proposed legislation on Tuesday to regulate exotic financial instruments known as derivatives, the final piece of the broad rework of financial regulations to be delivered to Congress.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iranian Exiles Accuse U.S. of Ignoring Pact to Protect Members in Iraq ]]></title>
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PARIS, Aug. 11 -- An Iranian exile group accused the Obama administration Tuesday of betraying written U.S. promises to protect several thousand of its members confined in a camp north of Baghdad that was recently stormed by Iraqi forces.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Faces 'Scare Tactics' Head-On ]]></title>
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 11 -- President Obama began a personal effort Tuesday to reclaim momentum for his health-care initiative with a direct rebuttal of what he called "scare tactics," rumors and misrepresentations.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sen. Cardin Trades Points With Protesters at Town Hall on Health-Care Reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Congressional town hall meetings on health-care reform have transcended their original purpose and become a kind of professional wrestling for the civically engaged. Monday night it was Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin 's turn in the ring.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Condemns Attacks on Civilians in E. Congo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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GOMA, Congo, Aug. 11 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called for the prosecution of Congolese soldiers and militiamen involved in a staggering epidemic of rape in eastern Congo and said the world must take stronger action to end the suffering brought on by a military operation...
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Judiciary Chairman Says U.S. Attorney Firings Were ÂPetty Patronage' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The dismissal of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias of New Mexico in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Gets Some Good News on Economy, Terror Fight ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:47:56 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama has encountered strong headwinds in his seven months in office, with the nation's unemployment rate undermining support for his economic vision, Republicans questioning his resolve to battle terrorists, and his plans for health-care reform facing skepticism in Congress and across ...
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