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  • Chicago to shutter 50 schools, largest mass closing in major U.S. city

    22 May 2013, 5:27 pm by: Lyndsey Layton

    Chicago’s board of education voted Wednesday to shutter 50 schools, the largest number of schools closed at one time by any major U.S. city. The board, appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), opted to close 49 elementary schools and one high school after the…
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  • London machete attack could be act of terror, Prime Minister Cameron says

    22 May 2013, 4:55 pm by: Anthony Faiola

    LONDON – Two assailants hacked to death a man reported to be a British soldier on a busy East London street Wednesday afternoon before delivering an apparent Islamic rant to bystanders, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short a diplomatic trip in…
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  • Greg Sargent: Harry Reid escalates `nuclear' threat

    22 May 2013, 4:03 pm by: Greg Sargent

    Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have been slugging it out on the Senate floor today over Reid's threat to revisit filibuster reform, and the escalating tone suggests this is now very real. Pay close attention to the statement Reid released today about their…
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  • Group wants special court to release ruling on unlawful U.S. surveillance

    22 May 2013, 4:02 pm by: Ellen Nakashima

    A civil liberties group is set to file a motion Thursday asking a special federal court to allow the release of a classified opinion that found the government engaged in unlawful surveillance on Americans. Read full article >>    
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  • Lois Lerner invokes Fifth Amendment in House hearing on IRS targeting

    22 May 2013, 3:36 pm by: William Branigin, Ed O’Keefe

    The head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt organizations office, faced with allegations of improper targeting of conservative groups, told a House committee Wednesday that she has done nothing wrong but declined to answer questions, invoking her…
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  • Lois Lerner didn't say anything today. Why that's a bad thing for the Obama Administration.

    22 May 2013, 3:00 pm by: Chris Cillizza

    Oh Lois Lerner, you say it best when you say nothing at all. As expected, Lerner, the head of the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt office, pled the Fifth Amendment rather than testify today in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee…
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  • Chilling video of London attacker explaining machete attack on reported soldier

    22 May 2013, 2:47 pm by: Max Fisher

    It's not clear how or why two men attacked a man believed to be a British soldier in the London neighborhood of Woolwich, but U.K. officials are already investigating it as a possible act of terrorism. Read full article >>    
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  • Iran paves over suspected nuclear testing site despite U.N. protests

    22 May 2013, 2:10 pm by: Joby Warrick

    Iran has begun paving over a former military site where its scientists are suspected to have conducted nuclear-weapons related experiments, according to a new U.N. report, a move that could doom efforts to reconstruct a critical part of Iran’s nuclear…
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  • Prosecutors investigating Va. Gov. McDonnell’s gift forms

    22 May 2013, 1:08 pm by: Rosalind S. Helderman

    A Richmond prosecutor is investigating whether Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell violated state gift and disclosure laws — a probe that was initiated by state Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli II. Cuccinelli (R) confirmed Wednesday that he requested Richmond…
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  • Anthony Weiner Mark Sanford

    22 May 2013, 12:57 pm by: Karen Tumulty

    The comparisons were inevitable: two guys who became a national punchline after being caught in sex scandals make a bid for a political comeback from disgrace. But once you get past the astonishment and the snickers, the differences are more significant than…
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  • Man tied to Boston bombing suspect killed in confrontation with FBI, others

    22 May 2013, 12:50 pm by: Sari Horwitz, Jenna Johnson

    A Chechen man who was friends with one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed in Orlando by an FBI agent early Wednesday when an interview with law enforcement officers erupted into a violent confrontation, the FBI said. Read full article…
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  • Oklahoma tornado fatalities included two infants, 10 children in all

    22 May 2013, 12:37 pm by: Debbi Wilgoren

    Two of the 24 people known to have been killed in the tornado that pulverized a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday were infants, the local medical examiner’s office announced Wednesday. Case Futrell, 4 months old, and mother Megan Futrell, 29, died of…
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  • Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of New York City. But, can he win? And does it even matter?

    22 May 2013, 11:36 am by: Chris Cillizza

    While you were sleeping, Anthony Weiner was announcing his decision to run for mayor of New York City this year. Now that the debate over whether or not he will run is over, the one question that remains is this: Can Weiner maybe, possibly,…
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  • Jennifer Rubin: Benghazi turns out to be a big deal, and not for just Republicans

    22 May 2013, 10:31 am by: Jennifer Rubin

    The spin that the American people aren't interested in Benghazi or that it's only Republicans who think something is fishy isn't faring too well in a plethora of other polls. The GOP figures on all these are off the charts (vs. the administration). But…
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  • Gay groups denounce lack of protection in Senate immigration bill

    22 May 2013, 8:41 am by: David Nakamura

    Gay rights advocates are reacting angrily to a decision by Senate Democrats on Tuesday to drop protections for same-sex couples from a landmark immigration reform bill in order to preserve Republican support for the legislation. Read full article >>    
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  • Weiner formally launches N.Y. mayoral bid

    22 May 2013, 7:57 am by: Aaron Blake

    It's official: Anthony Weiner will attempt a political comeback of huge proportions and run for mayor of New York City this year. Just two years after resigning his congressional seat after posting lewd pictures of himself to Twitter and then lying about it,…
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  • Kim Jong Un’s special envoy visits China

    22 May 2013, 7:46 am by: Chico Harlan

    TOKYO — A key North Korean military official arrived in Beijing on Wednesday as a “special envoy” of leader Kim Jong Un, state-run media reported. The trip comes amid new signs of strain between the traditional allies. Read full article >>    
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  • Border violence prevents Syrian refugees from reaching Jordan

    22 May 2013, 6:52 am by: Taylor Luck

    AMMAN, Jordan — An upswing in violence across southern Syria has prevented thousands of refugees from crossing into Jordan, according to U.N. officials, who are warning of an impending humanitarian crisis along the Jordanian-Syrian border. Read full article…
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  • Chelsea Clinton's new gig: A multicultural center at NYU

    22 May 2013, 6:03 am by: The Reliable Source

    Chelsea Clinton has a new job — make that another new job. At the tender age of 33, the former first daughter has racked up an extensive resume: Management consultant, hedge-funder, broadcast journalist, education activist, doctoral student — now…
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  • Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions

    21 May 2013, 9:24 pm by: Scott Wilson, Karen DeYoung

    The controversy over the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attack last year began at a meeting over coffee on Capitol Hill three days after the assault. It was at this informal session with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence…
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  • With more clarity, White House adds to confusion on IRS

    21 May 2013, 9:14 pm by: Dan Balz

    It is never good for an administration when a front-page newspaper article about an ongoing controversy begins as follows: “The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned . . . ” That’s what readers of The Post awoke to on…
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  • Old friends were at center of a network of public contracts

    21 May 2013, 9:07 pm by: Cheryl W. Thompson

    Arl Williams and Clarence Brown became fast friends more than 25 years ago when they lived and worked in Durham, N.C. They attended intimate neighborhood cookouts with their spouses, took weekend trips together and tolerated the occasional stuffy formal…
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  • NASA asks: Could 3-D-printed food fuel a mission to Mars?

    21 May 2013, 8:55 pm by: Amrita Jayakumar

    NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it’s ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission. So the space agency has funded research for what could be the ultimate nerd…
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  • Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill

    21 May 2013, 8:55 pm by: David Nakamura

    A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month. Read full article…
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  • In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters

    21 May 2013, 8:35 pm by: Dana Milbank

    There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama administration’s spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a “co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor” in an espionage case. Liberals may not be particularly bothered because the…
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