What does Supreme Court decision on Social Security mean for health-care act? - The Washington Post

The Supreme Court was ideologically split but trending decidedly conservative: It routinely struck down expansive government programs passed by state legislatures and an emboldened Democratic Congress. The game-changing Democratic president was determined to reimagine the federa …

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Breakthrough: Israel Develops Cancer Vaccine | United with Israel

Vaxil’s groundbreaking therapeutic vaccine, developed in Israel, could keep about 90 percent of cancers from coming back.

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Son's Muslim faith divides one black family

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A year from Election Day 2012, a dark mood awaits Obama and his GOP rival - The Washington Post

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In Israel, speculation grows about Iran strike

JERUSALEM — Days of feverish media reports about possible Israeli plans to strike Iran, coupled with a long-range missile test, publicized air force drills abroad and a civil defense exercise Thursday, have heightened speculation here about the likelihood of military action …

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FBI Says Gangs Infiltrating the US Military

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Fairfax neighbors head to court over unscooped dog poop

Did Baxter leave his business on Greenwood Court? A dispute between neighbors in Fairfax County over that perennial suburban pet peeve — unscooped dog poop — has grown so big that the case is set to go to a jury Tuesday. A dog walker invested $1,200 in her defense,  …

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Obama's efforts to aid homeowners, boost housing market fall far short of goals

It was a critical plan to jump-start the economy. President Obama pledged at the beginning of his term to boost the nation’s crippled housing market and help as many as 9 million homeowners avoid losing their homes to foreclosure. Nearly three years later, it hasn’t …

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Republicans mock Obama’s teleprompter use - The Washington Post

It’s one of the very symbols of the presidency — the ultimate accessory to the ultimate bully pulpit, seemingly trumpeting to all that the words being uttered actually matter. So why, on the campaign trail, has the teleprompter instead become a symbol of ineptitude,  …

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Anwar al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his, son’s deaths - The Washington Post

In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S.

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Home blocks Jewish residents from celebrating New Year

For a group of Jewish residents at a Christian independent living facility in Reston, this year's Rosh Hashana was anything but festive. It began with a simple request from residents to host a party celebrating the Jewish New Year in Hunters Woods Fellowship House's common room  …

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How the Battle of Little Bighorn Was Won | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

The sun was just cracking over the horizon that Sunday, June 25, 1876, as men and boys began taking the horses out to graze. First light was also the time for the women to poke up last night’s cooking fire.

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Why isn't Mr. Obama exercising his pardon power?

Areport from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General rightly takes the Obama administration to task for moving at a snail’s pace to answer the pleas of thousands of inmates seeking clemency or pardon. The report notes that significant delays occur at vir …

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Recognition Sought for Soldier's Heroic Acts

WASHINGTON -- When the roadside bomb detonated, it ripped through the fuel tank of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and ignited like napalm. The seven men seated inside were knocked unconscious and had no chance to escape the fire. But the gunner, Sgt.

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Mass. man accused of plotting to hit Pentagon and Capitol with drone aircraft - The Washington Post

A 26 year-old physics graduate and model hobbyist from Massachusetts was arrested Wednesday in an FBI undercover operation and accused of planning to build small, explosive-laden drones to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol, according to an FBI affidavit and law enforcement offi …

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Troy Davis execution likely to influence debate

The execution of Troy Davis in Georgia this week and the questions it raised among proponents as well as opponents of the death penalty are likely to have lasting repercussions in the nation’s debate over capital punishment. Davis, who was put to death by lethal injection  …

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Obama's photo faux pas | FP Passport

Anyone recognize the gentleman whose face has been unceremoniously blocked out of this photo by the leader of the free world's hand?

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Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House - The Washington Post

Obama administration officials scrambled Friday to hunt down copies of a new book scheduled to be released next week that paints an unflattering portrait of a dysfunctional and acrimonious White House that sometimes stymied President Obama’s effort to rescue the country&rsq …

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Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Virginia's Health Law Challenge

RICHMOND — In a major setback to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, a federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out one of the most prominent challenges to the new federal health-care law. Cuccinelli (R), the nation’s first attorney general to file a lawsuit …

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Afghan Army Fights To Prove Its Religious Credentials

KABUL — As Afghan army forces constructed a patrol base in a volatile stretch of Helmand province this spring, insurgents turned to one of their most effective weapons against the troops: They told area residents that their new, uniformed neighbors were godless "fake Muslims. …

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