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Most Americans say the planned Muslim community center and place of worship should not be built in Lower Manhattan, with the sensitive locale being their overwhelming objection, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
 
Ground Zero - Islam - Religion and Spirituality - United States - Mosque - -
A closely divided federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking damages from a company that worked with the CIA as part of its "extraordinary rendition" program.
United States - United States courts of appeals - Government - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - Judicial Branch - -
Scientists have developed a scan that can measure the maturity of the brain, an advance that some day might be useful for testing whether children are maturing normally and gauging whether teenagers are grown up enough to be treated as adults.
Medicine - Health - Magnetic resonance imaging - Imaging - Computer Tomography Scanning - -
Geoff Tunnicliffe heads one of the world's largest faith organizations - the World Evangelical Alliance - but on Wednesday morning, when he reached the Florida pastor planning to burn the Koran on Sept. 11, "I felt like a deer in the headlights," he said.
Pastor - Religion and Spirituality - Christianity - Florida - Denominations - -
Military bases across the United States have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and "shoot" U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Video game - Game - United States - Electronic Arts - Military - -
The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post's On Leadership site jointly produce the Federal Coach, hosted by Tom Fox, director of the partnership's Center for Government Leadership. The goal is to "engage, inspire and learn from you, the federal worker, whether you are a...
Bureau of Consular Affairs - United States - Government - Coach - State Department - -
The federal government's Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area officially kicked off Wednesday with a leadership conference at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel for more than 600 federal employees.
Fundraising - Organizations - Nonprofit Resources - Federal government of the United States - Republican - -
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BP rolled out the results Wednesday of a four-month internal investigation into the causes of the April 20 blowout of its Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, spreading blame among its contractors and giving a glimpse of the defenses it might deploy in public and in court.
BP - Transocean - Energy - DeepwaterHorizon - Environment - -
Stephen Ayers, 48, became the 11th architect of the Capitol in May with unanimous Senate confirmation. He is the man now charged with the maintenance, construction and preservation of not only the domed center of the action but also the congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress, the...
Architect of the Capitol - United States - Architecture - Washington DC - Arts and Entertainment - -
For a man hoping to lead his party to major congressional victories in November, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele has packed his travel schedule with some unusual destinations in recent weeks: Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Republican National Committee - United States - Michael Steele - Republican - Steele - -
Sarah Palin caused a flap when she put bulls-eye targets over the faces of representatives she's working to defeat. President Obama, however, knows there are no silver bullets - and never hesitates to tell the rest of us.
Politics - Speech Technology - Research - Speech Synthesis - Algorithms - -
Virginia said Tuesday that federal work permit cards can no longer be used to prove someone's legal status when obtaining driver's licenses or identification cards in the state after a fatal crash involving a Benedictine nun and a Bolivian man, accused of drunk driving, who immigrated here...
Virginia - Shopping - Security - Supreme Court of the United States - United States - -
It can't be easy to acknowledge to the public and your employees that morale at your agency has hit the skids. But David S. Ferriero, the U.S. Archivist, did just that after the National Archives tied with the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week as the lowest-ranked large federal...
United States - David Ferriero - Government - World War II - Adolf Hitler - -
The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post's On Leadership site jointly produce the Federal Coach, hosted by Tom Fox, director of the partnership's Center for Government Leadership. The goal is to "engage, inspire and learn from you, the federal worker, whether you are a...
Leadership - Business - Management - Coach - Education and Training
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