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White House Agrees DOMA Should Be Repealed But Dianne Feinstein Not A Traitor
WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) listens during a news conference on gay marriage on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. Feinstein and sixteen other Democrats introduced a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Given how excited people get about taxes, it is surprising ...
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Curl Admitted Sex With Minor to U. of Maryland in 88
A spokesman for the University of Maryland disclosed Friday that former swimming and diving coach Rick Curl admitted to having sex with an underage girl in 1988, 25 years before he was sentenced to prison for the ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Haynes Johnson has died in Bethesda, Md., of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 81. The former Washington Post journalist, who won acclaim for his coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, died Friday at Suburban Hospital, his wife, District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Kathryn Oberly, said. Johnson began his career as a ...
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Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Hezbollah to Keep Fighting in al-Qusayr
Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Hezbollah to Keep Fighting in al-Qusayr Franklin Lamb Homs Province, Syria During a tour of some of the neighborhoods in Homs, Syria's third largest city after Aleppo and Damascus, with a pre-conflict population of approximately 800,000 (nearly half Homs residents have fled over the past two years) located maybe about 22 miles NE of the current ...
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Alberta truck driver caused Washington State bridge collapse 3 people rescued from Skagit River
Surveillance video shows a truck hauling an oversized load hit an overhead girder in Washington last night, sending a section of the highway into the river below. Major disruptions will last for weeks, if not ...
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Close Call Reported at Reagan National Airport
Authorities say a Republic Airlines aircraft came too close to a helicopter on Friday night. There was no word if any passengers were on board or if anyone was hurt in the ...
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2nd Suspect Sought in District Heights Carjacking
20-year-old Christopher Wayne Barnes, of Southeast, has been identified as the second suspect. Earlier this week, 17-year-old Malik Hasaam Wilkins, of Northeast, was arrested and charged as an adult with armed carjacking, fleeing and eluding, and a weapons ...
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Fatal Accident on Interstate 95 in Lorton
VSP spokesperson Corinne Geller said that the accident happened shortly before 6 a.m. at the 164-mile marker. A Honda sedan was traveling south when it ran off the right side of the highway and ...
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Naked Laurel Man Arrested for PCP Use
51-year-old Joseph Silberstein was arrested Wednesday evening after police received a report of a car driving the wrong way around a local park. Officers responded to the 700 block of Montgomery Street and saw a naked Silberstein screaming from the ...
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President Obama’s White House Update
Oval Office . The meeting was an important opportunity for them to hear directly from people whose families are impacted by our nation's broken immigration system. Also this week, President Obama ...
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Why Ted Cruz May One Day Wish He Had More Friends in Washington
Sen. Ted Cruz doesn’t have as many friends as he says he does. In the latest round of Cruz’s simmering debate with Sen. John McCain (who labeled Cruz a "wacko bird"), Cruz spoke of "my friend, the senior senator from Arizona" while painting him as out of touch with his party and country. It usually takes a while for senators to learn how to weaponize compliments ...
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Motorcyclist Dies After Friday Night Collision
Investigators say that the motorcycle collided with a car at around 11 p.m. at the intersection of 23rd and Constitution Avenue NW. Authorities say the man on the motorcycle died while the driver of the car was not injured. According to News4's Derrick Ward, the motorcyclist was in town for this weekend's Rolling Thunder run. His name has not been ...
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Pentagons Historical Displays Honor Americans Sacrifices
Nearly 18 million tourists descend on our nation's capitol every year, and most of them are keen to spend time at the many free museums in Washington, D.C. But only about 100,000 people take the trip across the river to a museum of a different sort: the Pentagon. The Pentagon's exhaustive historical displays offer fresh insight into the range of the Defense Department's ...
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Downtown Street Closures for Rolling Thunder Events This Memorial Day Weekend
For the Annual Thunder Rally, 22nd Street N.W. between C St. and Constitution Ave. will shut down for the Annual Thunder Alley from 9 a.m.- 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, as well as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ...
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Metro sends 25 people to sniff out sewage plants in Washington
Metro Vancouver will send a 25-member contingent to Washington state to conduct "sniff tests" on U.S. sewage plants as it pursues a new $400-million Lions Gate sewage treatment ...
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Website of the Week
Not all deleted tweets are as self-maligning as Weiner's and not all politicians who make Twitter slip-ups are as high-profile, but a website launched last May aims to collect them all going ...
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Wine of the Week
Cordial Fine Wine and Beer opened in Union Market last month. The store features wines from Europe, South Africa, Chile, New Zealand and the United States. (Alex ...
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Weekend Wake Up Call
WASHINGTON - Weekend travelers will want to be aware of various holiday-themed events around town, including the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. The annual gathering will make its run around the National Mall and participate in the Memorial Day Parade, which will close Constitution Avenue on Monday afternoon. While most long-term road projects will be put on hold to accommodate holiday ...
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Who Is Richard Berman
Who Is Richard Berman? WASHINGTON - August 4 - In light of Center for Science in the Public Interest newest investigation "Kids' Meals: Obesity on the Menu," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released a short backgrounder on Richard Berman, who founded and serves as the executive director of numerous tax-exempt front groups while also running his ...
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As Washington struggles US downgrade is likely
Could the US lose its top credit rating even if a deal is reached to raise the debt limit?Market analysts and investors increasingly say yes. The outcome won't be quite as scary as a default, but financial markets would still take a blow. Mortgage rates could rise. States and cities, already strapped, could find it more difficult to borrow. Stocks could lose their gains for the ...
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U.S. not concerned about Chinas influence in L.America White House official
CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not concerned about China's growing influence in Latin America, a senior White House official said here Saturday."We're not concerned at all," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the sixth Summit of the Americas."In fact, if ...
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White House says debt limit compromise possible
With less than one week towards a possible calamitous U.S. debt default deadline, the White House said on Wednesday that a debt limit compromise is essential and possible, adding fresh pressure to the stalemated debt ceiling negotiation process. In response to some analysts' studies that the nation could postpone for about a week after its borrowing authority expires on Tuesday due to new ...
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Woman Claims She Was Kept as Slave in Northern Va.
A 25-year-old Kenyan woman told News4's Jackie Bensen that she was kept as a domestic slave for three months by Saudi Arabian diplomats living in Northern ...
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WTOP Saves You Money
While those who want to save money usually avoid eating out altogether, there are some ways to save cash while still having someone else do the ...
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Road Partially Closed Through Holiday Weekend for Sinkhole Repairs
WASHINGTON (AP) - District of Columbia officials say a busy road in downtown Washington may remain partially closed through Monday as repairs continue on a ...
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