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    • Activist gunman killed after tense standoff

      James J. Lee, the gunman who on Wednesday took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, is killed by police.

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    • Pakistan bombing kills 25

      Three bombs are detonated during a Shi'ite Muslim religious procession, killing 25 in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore.

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    • Mideast peace talks commence

      President Obama on Wednesday hosts the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in two years in the Oval Office of the White House.

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    • Obama meets with troops

      President Obama travels to Fort Bliss to speak with the troops, before addressing the nation and formally ending the combat mission in Iraq.

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    • Anti-Kremlin protests

      Russian police broke up unauthorized anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg, detaining dozens of demonstrators.

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    • Oval Office decor

      A behind the scenes look at the renovations to the Oval Office of the White House, including a new carpet, drapes, wallpaper and furniture.

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    • Clemens pleads 'not guilty'

      Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids.

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    • Biden steadfastly optimistic about midterms

      Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. implores Democrats not to fall victim to pessimism about midterm elections at the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee.

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    • S.C. toddlers laid to rest

      Shaquan Duley has confessed to smothering her children and then staging a car accident to cover up the killings. The toddlers were buried Friday.

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    • Pakistan in crisis

      With no end in sight to flooding crisis in Pakistan, the United States government has increased aid to $150 million.

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    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as she hosts the re-launch of direct negotiations, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Clinton opens Mideast peace talks

    By Matthew Lee and Matti Friedman - Associated Press

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally opened the first direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two years on Thursday, imploring the parties to ignore the long history of failed negotiations and make needed compromises to forge an agreement. Published 10:50 a.m. September 2, 2010

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    GRIEF: A religious Israeli man reacts during the funeral Wednesday of Yitzhak and Talia Imes, who were killed Tuesday night in a shooting attack near Hebron, outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Associated Press)

    Israeli moratorium key to talks

    By Eli Lake - The Washington Times

    The chairman of Israel's largest settler organization in the disputed territory of the West Bank on Wednesday predicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government will collapse if he renews a moratorium on construction inside the settlements as part of the first direct Arab-Israeli peace talks since 2008. Published 8:57 p.m. September 1, 2010

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Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, in 2004 obtained an opinion from the Federal Election Commission allowing her to run a mailer operation through her federal political committee.

    Waters family profiting from mailer biz

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    Rep. Maxine Waters has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal picks on a sample ballot, or "slate mailer," she sends to as many as 200,000 South Central Los Angeles voters, records show. Published 8:08 p.m. September 1, 2010

    An armored vehicle stands by at the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring on Wednesday during a hostage situation. Police fatally shot a gunman who, upset with the company's programming, took two employees and a security officer hostage at the channel's headquarters. (AP Photo)

    Gunman killed in Discovery standoff

    By Ben Conery - The Washington Times

    An apparent eco-terrorist stormed Discovery Channel network's headquarters Wednesday afternoon, taking three hostages at gunpoint and sparking a nationally televised standoff that ended when police fatally shot him several hours later. Published 8:06 p.m. September 1, 2010

    ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is seen at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

    Union 'mobilization' plans to blast GOP

    By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

    Union leaders will unleash a concerted attack against Republican candidates and their "right-wing agenda" beginning this Labor Day weekend as they rally to stem expected Democratic losses in November's midterm elections. Published 8:41 p.m. September 1, 2010

    Gulf oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast

    By Associated Press

    updated 9 minutes ago

    An offshore petroleum rig exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay. Published 11:37 a.m. September 2, 2010

    D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (center), D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee (laughing) and Federal Highway Administrator Victor M. Mendez (left) walk to Maury Elementary School with students and parents on Tuesday. The walk emphasized healthy lifestyles. (United Press International)

    Fenty vows to listen; Gray mum on if Rhee will stay

    By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

    D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Wednesday apologized for his aloof management style, vowing to do better by the city's residents as he tried to use the latest one-on-one debate to cut into the considerable polling lead that D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is riding into the Sept. 14 Democratic primary. Published 9:28 p.m. September 1, 2010

    GRIEF: A religious Israeli man reacts during the funeral Wednesday of Yitzhak and Talia Imes, who were killed Tuesday night in a shooting attack near Hebron, outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Associated Press)

    Israeli moratorium key to talks

    By Eli Lake - The Washington Times

    The chairman of Israel's largest settler organization in the disputed territory of the West Bank on Wednesday predicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government will collapse if he renews a moratorium on construction inside the settlements as part of the first direct Arab-Israeli peace talks since 2008. Published 8:57 p.m. September 1, 2010

    ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - With a sign indicating the direction to the United States at top center, deportees stand near the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Thursday, July 29, 2010.

    Survey charts 'sharp decline' in illegals

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    Illegal immigration has been in a "sharp decline" over the past two years, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report released Wednesday, and the Obama administration immediately touted the data as proof that it has made progress on securing the nation's borders. Published 7:42 p.m. September 1, 2010

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