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  • Final Volcker Rule limits on bank trading released by regulators

    10 December 2013, 2:25 pm by: Danielle Douglas

    Government regulators adopted a sweeping rule Tuesday to prevent big banks from trading for their benefit rather than on behalf of customers, three years after the Obama administration called for the measure. Read full article >>    
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  • Senate confirms Millett using new majority rules

    10 December 2013, 12:24 pm by: Ed O'Keefe, Paul Kane

    This item has been updated. Democrats successfully utilized new Senate rules Tuesday to confirm one of President Obama's picks to serve on a key federal court and to proceed with final debate on another nominee to lead a federal housing agency. Read full…
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  • Wonkblog: This is a big deal: GM appoints the U.S. auto industry’s first female CEO

    10 December 2013, 11:50 am by: Lydia DePillis

    Industry by industry, women have broken into C-suites previously occupied only by men. Tech may be male-dominated, but at least it's got Virginia Rometty and Marissa Mayer. Aerospace equally so, but at least Lockheed Martin installed Marillyn Hewson in the top…
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  • Weather Gang: D.C. area forecast: Quick snow this morning, cold into unsettled weekend

    10 December 2013, 11:50 am by: Matt Rogers, Jason Samenow

    A period of moderate to heavy snow this morning could quickly accumulate on roadways faster than road crews can keep up. After that it gets very cold with mixed precipitation possible this weekend.    
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  • The Fix: Why President Obama brought John Podesta into the White House

    10 December 2013, 11:14 am by: Chris Cillizza

    The news that longtime D.C. Democratic hand John Podesta will be joining the White House senior staff early next year swept through political Washington on Monday night, waking up what had been a somewhat sleepy start to December so far. Read full article…
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  • Washington-area closings because of the winter storm

    10 December 2013, 10:46 am by: Washington Post staff

    Related: Second round of wintry weather arrives in D.C. area Following is a list of weather-related closings: Read full article >>    
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  • GovBeat: States spend far less than CDC recommends on anti-smoking campaigns

    10 December 2013, 9:33 am by: Reid Wilson

    Fifteen years after a groundbreaking settlement between 46 states reached an historic settlement with the country’s largest tobacco companies, states are spending just a fraction of the amount recommended by the Centers for Disease Control on anti-tobacco…
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  • Sargent: The Morning Plum: GOP set to stiff-arm conservatives once again?

    10 December 2013, 9:03 am by: Greg Sargent

    If we are going to get a deal to replace the sequester, which looks likely, perhaps one key reason may be as follows: This time, the incentives favor Republicans showing they can enter into the basic give and take of governing. Read full article >>    
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  • Early Lead: Super Bowl XLVIII: No tailgating allowed

    10 December 2013, 8:54 am by: Cindy Boren

    What’s a football game in America without tailgating? In early February, we will find out. When Super Bowl XLVIII comes to MetLife Stadium in northern New Jersey, there will be no brats abraising, no kegs aspewing, no fun ahaving. There will be only sad…
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  • South Africans, world leaders gather to mourn former president Nelson Mandela

    10 December 2013, 8:35 am by: Sudarsan Raghavan, Debbi Wilgoren

    SOWETO, South Africa — Nelson Mandela was memorialized in a boisterous stadium ceremony here Tuesday as a teacher and a racial healer, a transcendent figure who changed history and touched hearts in his native country and around the world. Read full article…
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  • Eulogizing Mandela, Obama celebrates and scolds

    10 December 2013, 8:28 am by: Scott Wilson

    President Obama remembered a personal hero Tuesday -- a man whose example "woke me up to my responsibilities" -- before an adoring and soaked stadium audience on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In his words memorializing late South African president Nelson…
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  • Kennedy Center Honors gala had rapport, repartee and an unusual mix of collaborators

    10 December 2013, 12:33 am by: Katherine Boyle

    This spectacle had to have the white-hot spotlight, front page, bold type (whoa-oh!) — to quote one of the evening’s celebrated songwriters — because this Kennedy Center Honors gala was a talker. The night might have begun as the latest parade of…
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  • Major tech companies unite to call for new limits on surveillance

    10 December 2013, 12:01 am by: Craig Timberg

    Eight of the nation’s largest technology companies called on President Obama and Congress on Monday to impose strict new curbs on surveillance that, if enacted, would dramatically reshape intelligence operations that U.S. officials have portrayed as integral…
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  • Agencies collected data on Americans’ cellphone use in thousands of ‘tower dumps’

    10 December 2013, 12:01 am by: Ellen Nakashima

    Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans…
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  • John Podesta to formally join Obama inner circle

    9 December 2013, 11:34 pm by: Philip Rucker

    John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and is one of the Democratic Party’s most experienced strategists, is joining the White House to help President Obama salvage what has become a difficult second term. Read full article…
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  • Weather Gang: Winter storm warning on Tuesday; moderate to heavy snow a good bet

    9 December 2013, 10:40 pm by: Ian Livingston

    NWS is now calling for 3-6 inches of snow across most of the area. We’re sticking with our forecast of 2-5 inches. The worst of the storm is likely to impact the morning commute.    
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  • What Wall Street is looking for in the Volcker rule

    9 December 2013, 9:33 pm by: Danielle Douglas

    Wall Street is anxiously awaiting federal regulators’ expected approval Tuesday of a sweeping rule that would restrict banks’ ability to make risky investments with their own money. The centerpiece of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, known as…
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  • In Afghanistan, a wedding engagement, a bomb, and an army veteran’s quest to move on

    9 December 2013, 8:52 pm by: Kevin Sieff

    One week before his wedding, on a day when his fiancee picked out a gold-plated necklace, when his father borrowed silverware for hundreds of guests, when his mother waited for her son to return from the front lines, Sgt. Masiullah Hamdard stepped on the bomb…
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  • Study: U.S. poverty rate decreased over past half-century thanks to safety-net programs

    9 December 2013, 8:49 pm by: Zachary A. Goldfarb

    Government programs such as food stamps and unemployment insurance have made significant progress in easing the plight of the poor in the half-century since the launch of the war on poverty, according to a major new study. Read full article >>    
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  • Redskins’ Mike Shanahan, Daniel Snyder speak; Robert Griffin III might be benched

    9 December 2013, 8:15 pm by: Mark Maske, Mike Jones

    Washington Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan spoke Monday with team owner Daniel Snyder, but there was no apparent resolution to Shanahan’s status with the franchise on anything more than a temporary basis. Shanahan added to the intrigue later in the day by…
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  • Pincus: Techies, Uncle Sam wants you for the U.S. Army

    9 December 2013, 8:10 pm by: Walter Pincus

    Can you provide a computerized system that automatically performs name comparisons and also can detect relationships with other names? Can you design a platform that accesses the news media from anywhere in the world, mines it for files of interest and then…
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  • Congress, with the clock ticking, nears deals on defense and budget bills

    9 December 2013, 8:04 pm by: Ed O’Keefe, Lori Montgomery

    After compiling a reed-thin record of achievement for 2013, the House and Senate began their final week of the year together in Washington on the verge of breakthroughs on a new defense policy bill and budget agreement, deals that could permit lawmakers to…
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  • Gerson: Pope Francis and the argument for compassionate capitalism

    9 December 2013, 7:39 pm by: Michael Gerson

    One of the unpleasant side effects of modern medicine — experienced during a recent convalescence — is the omnipresence of television. Its controls are built into your hospital bed, just beside the nurse’s call button. The screen hovers over your head…
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  • AIDS advocates say drug coverage in some marketplace plans is inadequate

    9 December 2013, 7:10 pm by: Ariana Eunjung Cha

    The nation’s new health-care law says insurers can’t turn anyone away, even people who are sick. But some companies, patient advocates say, have found a way to discourage the chronically ill from enrolling in their plans: offer drug coverage too skimpy for…
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  • Editorial: Ukraine’s protests should end with a negotiated settlement

    9 December 2013, 6:40 pm by: Editorial Board

    UKRAINE ON Monday appeared to be teetering between a violent government crackdown and the political negotiations that are the only solution to its ongoing crisis. While President Viktor Yanukovych said he would take up an offer by three former Ukrainian…
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