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BEIRUT, May 9 -- Gunmen from the Shiite Hezbollah movement seized control of several downtown Beirut neighborhoods Friday as the number of people killed in three days of fighting rose to at least 11.
Mexico's Police Chief Is Killed In Brazen Attack by Gunmen
MEXICO CITY, May 8 -- Gunmen assassinated Mexico's national police chief Thursday, blasting him with nine bullets outside his home in the capital and dealing a significant setback to the government...
Medvedev: Russian Military Gaining in Strength, Power
MOSCOW, May 9 -- The bristling Red Square parade, once a Soviet standard, enjoyed a revival Friday as phalanxes of hardware, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, rumbled noisily over pavi...
U.S.: Man Held is Not Leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 9 -- A U.S. military spokesman said a man detained Thursday in northern Iraq is not wanted terrorist Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.
'We Have Nothing. How Do We Go On?'
BOGALE, Burma, May 8 -- Ma Gan survived Tropical Cyclone Nargis. The storm tore the roof off the tiny brick house where the 22-year-old woman and her extended family live, 60 miles southwest of Ran...
Iran Accuses U.S., Britain In Fatal Blast
TEHRAN, May 8 -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of involvement in an April 12 bomb attack at a religious center in the city of Shiraz that killed at least 12...
Putin Sets Plans for Tenure as Premier
MOSCOW, May 8 -- Russia's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved Vladimir Putin as prime minister Thursday, completing a choreographed two-step in which his political partner and protege...
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader Arrested In Mosul, Iraqi Police Announce
BAGHDAD, May 9 -- Iraqi police announced early Friday the capture of Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, but the U.S. military said it could not confirm ...
Judge Says He May Suspend Detainee's Trial
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, May 8 -- A frustrated military judge vowed on Thursday to suspend the war-crimes trial of a Canadian detainee unless the Guantanamo Bay detention center provides a ...
Violence Paralyzes Beirut for Second Day
BEIRUT, May 8 -- Fierce clashes continued for a second day in Lebanon after the leader of the Shiite Hezbollah movement accused the government of declaring war on his party.
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House and Senate negotiators yesterday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next fi...
'Blue Dog' Democrats Join GOP in Opposing War Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday postponed consideration of a bill that would continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bloc of conservative Democrats balked at the high cost o...
Judge Plans To Review Opinion on CIA Tactics
A federal judge in New York intends next week to review one of the Bush administration's most controversial legal opinions related to detainee interrogations, to decide if it has appropriately been...
U.S., Russia Each Order Expulsion Of Officials
The United States and Russia have expelled five diplomats and military attaches from each other's countries in moves reminiscent of the tit-for-tat exchanges of the Cold War, U.S. officials said ye...
Criminal Probe Into Mine Deaths Sought
Federal prosecutors should open a criminal investigation into the deaths of nine people in a Utah mine collapse last year, a leading House Democrat said yesterday.
Pentagon Is Open to Moving More Marines to Afghanistan
The Marine Corps may begin shifting its major combat forces out of Iraq to focus on Afghanistan in 2009 if greater security in Iraq allows a reduction of Marines there, top Pentagon officials said ...
Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpentlike spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical ...
WVU President Clings to Job After Faculty Vote
When he became president of West Virginia University last year, Michael Garrison seemed poised to use his political experience to help build the institution's national reputation.
FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit
The FBI has withdrawn a secret administrative order seeking the name, address and online activity of a patron of the Internet Archive after the San Francisco-based digital library filed suit to blo...
6 Philadelphia Officers Benched
PHILADELPHIA, May 7 -- Six city police officers, including one sergeant, were placed on administrative duty Wednesday after a preliminary investigation of an incident in which the beatings of three...
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
Effort had been suspended after military junta seized thousands of pounds of food and supplies bound for storm-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta.
Beirut Neighborhoods Seized
Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah tightens grip on city in major blow to U.S.-backed government.
For Obama, the Real Race Begins
The Trail | Obama is on the brink of a remarkable victory against a formidable opponent.
Storm Carves Path of Destruction
Overnight thunderstorms and possible tornado shred residences in a Stafford County subdivision.
washingtonpost.com - Politics
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that...
39 Republicans Join Democrats As Mortgage Bill Passes House
The House yesterday approved an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them trade exotic loans with rapidly rising monthly payments for more ...
Obama Seeks To Unify Party For November
Sen. Barack Obama began taking the first steps to unify the fractured Democratic Party for a general-election battle against Sen. John McCain, even as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to insis...
Don't Expect Clinton to Quit Before Superdelegates Decide
How will the Democratic nomination battle end? At a time when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces ever longer odds in her quest to deny Sen. Barack Obama the nomination, that question has become incr...
'Blue Dog' Democrats Join GOP in Opposing War Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday postponed consideration of a bill that would continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bloc of conservative Democrats balked at the high cost o...
Panel Clears La. Senator In Call-Girl Complaint
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) was cleared yesterday of any ethical misconduct for his association with prostitutes from the escort service run by the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called "D.C. Mad...
N.Y. Congressman Acknowledges Affair, Child
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) yesterday admitted to a long-running extramarital affair with a retired Air Force officer and said he has a 3-year-old daughter with her.
Negotiators Agree on Farm Bill, but Bush Vows to Veto It
House and Senate negotiators yesterday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next fi...
State Department Asks Congress To Keep Quiet About Details of Deal
Washington's civil nuclear deal with India is in such desperate straits that the State Department has imposed unusually strict conditions on the answers it provided to questions posed by members of...
Despite Veto Threat, House Passes Mortgage Rescue Bill
The House today approved an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them trade exotic loans with rapidly rising monthly payments for more affo...
washingtonpost.com - Business
The House yesterday approved an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them trade exotic loans with rapidly rising monthly payments for more ...
Oil Lobby Reaches Out to Citizens Peeved at the Pump
Faced with a national outcry over the high price of gasoline and soaring profits for energy companies, the oil and gas industry is waging an unusually pricey campaign to burnish its image.
When You Have a Crooked House
In the nursery rhyme, the crooked man with his crooked cat and mouse didn't mind his crooked house. But outside of children's stories, homes are supposed to have level floors, flat walls and plumb ...
Your Friend, Your Agent?
Of course you know some real estate agents. The National Association of Realtors has 1,235,598 members. Some are bound to live on your street, be in your yoga class or coach your child's soccer tea...
Icahn prepared to buy Circuit City if Blockbuster can't
NEW YORK -- Consumer electronics retailer Circuit City Stores said Friday that it will allow Blockbuster to review its books in connection with the video-rental chain's bid to buy the company.
McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that...
Losses and Static For Radio One
Urban broadcaster Radio One yesterday said it lost $18.3 million in the first three months of the year, as a slump in national advertising sales overshadowed company efforts to revamp operations an...
Senators Urge Government To Streamline Hiring Process
The federal hiring process is broken and needs a quick fix, two senators with a keen interest in government management said yesterday.
Marriott Weighs Risk, Opportunity Of a Hotel in Baghdad Green Zone
A Marriott International official said yesterday that the company was evaluating whether to open a hotel in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, responding to a request from U.S. government officials wh...
General Dynamics In Power Switch
General Dynamics' board chose a retired admiral and chief executive of Dominion Virginia Power to take over the $27 billion-a-year defense business.
washingtonpost.com - Technology
Urban broadcaster Radio One yesterday said it lost $18.3 million in the first three months of the year, as a slump in national advertising sales overshadowed company efforts to revamp operations an...
Security Fix Live
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs was online to answer your questions about the latest computer security threats and offers ways to protect your personal information.
Google Still Unchallenged
The Microsoft-Yahoo soap opera seems to have reached its last episode: After months of squabbling and snippiness, last weekend Microsoft yanked back its purchase offer, ending its bid to buy Yahoo.
FCC to Test Transition to Digital TV in N.C.
The switch to digital broadcasting, the biggest change for the television industry since color TV, will get a trial run in September in Wilmington, N.C.
Clearwire, Sprint Nextel Set Course for WiMax
If the $12 billion venture formed by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire yesterday works out, your cellphone may turn into a far more powerful, versatile and perhaps costlier mobile device.
Best Buy Announces Joint Venture in Britain
Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, has moved into Europe with a $2.1 billion investment in the continent's largest cellphone retailer, the companies announced yesterday.
The Technologist
Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy, whose column now appears bi-weekly in The Washington Post, was online to discuss the latest buzz in the tech industry.
A Scholarship Hunt With Strings Attached
Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is "I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by." The second: "I can't believe how much it costs....
FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit
The FBI has withdrawn a secret administrative order seeking the name, address and online activity of a patron of the Internet Archive after the San Francisco-based digital library filed suit to blo...
Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpentlike spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical ...
washingtonpost.com - Health
Hurricane Katrina provoked increased complaints to doctors of pneumonia, bronchitis and other lower respiratory illnesses among 144 children studied in Mississippi, according to a report released y...
Teen Marijuana Use Linked to Later Illness
Teenagers who smoke marijuana put themselves at risk for future mental illness and higher rates of depression, according to a report to be released today by the White House Office of National Drug ...
Study: Restaurant Tobacco Bans Influence Teen Smoking
BOSTON -- A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less ...
Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study
ATLANTA -- People who sleep fewer than six hours a night _ or more than nine _ are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irr...
Officials Testify on Disaster Plans
Two Bush administration Cabinet members yesterday acknowledged gaps in the capability of U.S. hospitals to deal with a mass-casualty terrorist attack or other disaster, but they said a congressiona...
Pandemic Flu Threat Remains Substantial, Health Experts Say
GENEVA -- The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday.
A Breath of Hope
Derrick Farley, a 29-year-old Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., has seen many people die. He served in Iraq for three year-long tours of duty with only six-month breaks between them. He ...
Five Doctors, Stumped
A. Bruce Munro wonders how things might have turned out if he hadn't lost it and dialed 911.
He's a Man, as Charged
The battle that sent high school junior Gary Durant to jail was over in minutes. Two rival groups in the Carver Terrace complex of Northeast Washington traded gunfire. One young man was killed. Dur...
Should You Trust That Body Fat Test?
Depending on which Japanese conglomerate you believe, either I have the body of a 25-year-old or I'm pushing 70. Which is disconcerting either way, because I was a mess when I was 25, and I'd prefe...
washingtonpost.com - Sports
Olie Kolzig, the Capitals goaltender through some of the best and worst moments in the team's history, confirms that he has played his final game for the franchise that drafted him in 1989.
For Fisher, Cheers, Tears And Boos
It is hard to understand how the compassion extended so lovingly to Derek Fisher by the Utah Jazz fans could turn to such animosity because he used all of his resources to care for his daughter.
Avalanche, Quenneville Go Separate Ways
DENVER -- The Colorado Avalanche say Joel Quenneville is out as coach after three seasons.
NASCAR Claims Electrical Fire Caused Fatal Plane Crash
ORLANDO, Fla. -- NASCAR officials claim an electrical fire caused a fatal plane crash near Orlando last year that killed two aboard the aircraft and three on the ground, but federal investigators d...
Federer Upset in Rome Masters
ROME -- Roger Federer lost again, falling to 27th-ranked Radek Stepanek 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) Friday in the Rome Masters quarterfinals.
Blake, Chelios, Pisani Finalists for Masterton Trophy
NEW YORK -- Left wing Jason Blake of the Toronto Maple Leafs, defenseman Chris Chelios of the Detroit Red Wings and right wing Fernando Pisani of the Edmonton Oilers were selected Friday as finalis...
Rookie Alex Lloyd Crashes During Practice for Indy 500
INDIANAPOLIS -- Rookie driver Alex Lloyd was hospitalized Friday, complaining of neck pain, after hitting the wall hard during practice for the Indianapolis 500.
Senator: NFL Needs to Keep Open Mind About New Tapes
As NFL officials began reviewing the eight videotapes submitted to the league by former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh , Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said yesterday that the league's...
Hamstring Injury Leaves Billups Uncertain for Game 4
Chauncey Billups said yesterday that he was still sore, a night after he was forced to leave the Detroit Pistons' loss to the Orlando Magic in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals because of...
Guillén Says Managing Is a Crazy Business
Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillén knows what sells in the media and it's people who tend to act a little crazy from time to time.
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