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Washington Post – Politics
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Is Mike Castle the next Lisa Murkowski? Nearly two weeks removed from Murkowski's stunning defeat by little-known attorney Joe Miller in the Republican Senate primary in Alaska, establishment GOPers are nervous of a repeat in Delaware, where Castle faces 2008 Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell in...
 
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Under mounting pressure to intensify his focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, President Obama will call for a $100 billion business tax credit this week, using a speech in Cleveland on Wednesday to launch what administration officials said was a new policy push.
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Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
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One of the puzzling questions about Barack Obama's presidency is how the post-partisan candidate of 2008 became the polarizing chief executive of 2010. The answer may be surprising. He was far more polarizing from the start than many recognized. His choices in office and his opponents' responses ...
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Saying that his policies have "stopped the bleeding" in the job market, President Obama called Saturday on the country to "recommit" to helping the middle class.
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Miller's win in the Republican primary left the rest of the country - including shocked political handicappers and the Senate GOP leadership - asking: "Who is this guy?"
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Aggressively looking to distance themselves from their party's past, three top Republican House members have written a book that repeatedly criticizes former GOP leaders as well as President Obama but lays out few new details of how Republicans would govern if they were in charge.
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RICHMOND - Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), scrambling to make ends meet in his plan to privatize Virginia's 332 state-run liquor stores, is considering adding a fee on alcoholic drinks sold in restaurants or bars to help make up the $250 million in annual taxes and profits that state stores current...
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The candidate was outraged - just outraged - at the country's sorry fiscal state.
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Washington Post – Metro
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The number of children being raised by their grandparents has risen sharply since the onset of the recession in 2007, according to a new Pew Research Center study that said one in 10 U.S. children now lives with a grandparent.
 
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY FUNDRAISER REGISTRATION DEADLINE, register by today for the Sept. 19 reception and fundraising event sponsored by the Prince George's County Historical Society. Event will be at Locust Grove, 3005 Enterprise Rd., Mitchellville. $50, reservations required. 301-952-8539.
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Deaths on America's highways have plunged to their lowest level in 60 years, as smarter designs make streets and vehicles safer and aggressive campaigns are waged against drunk and distracted drivers.
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President Obama urged a Florida pastor Thursday to call off a plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, warning that such a "stunt" would amount to a "recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda" and would endanger Americans.
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Two young women were seriously injured Wednesday night in the District's Adams Morgan neighborhood when a vehicle struck them at a busy intersection and then crashed into a restaurant as bystanders looked on, District authorities said.
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In her bid to win a second term, Maryland Sen. Nancy J. King has traded views with her primary challenger on gay marriage, corporate taxes and other issues one would expect to get a full airing in a county that prides itself on high-minded discourse.
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RICHMOND -- As Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell unveiled his signature proposal to privatize the state's 76-year monopoly on the sale of distilled spirits Wednesday, he presented the plan as a fulfillment of a campaign promise to find money for transportation without raising taxes.
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Greenbelt police are investigating what they called the "suspicious death" of a 3-month-old girl, officers said Wednesday.
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Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 3-5-6 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 6-8-7-4
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