A-listers, fundraisers attend White House state dinner

Joseph Curl

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President Obama's first state dinner attracted a bevy of Hollywood A-listers, big-money fundraisers and Washington power brokers.

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• Ruling hanging was a suicide leaves bloggers at loss for words

  5 AM Ben Conery

  

  When news broke in September that a census worker had been found hanged in rural Kentucky with the word "fed" scrawled across his bare chest, a number of liberal commentators suggested that anti-government sentiment whipped ... Continue reading »

• Panel considers Sanford's impeachment

  5 AM Jim Davenport ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the once-passionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford that began after his tearful summertime admission that he disappeared from the state to pursue an extramarital affair in Argentina. Continue reading »

• Atlantis crew bids farewell

  5 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  After a week together, the crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them. Continue reading »

• HICKS: Don't diversify Thanksgiving

  5 AM Marybeth Hicks

  

  My community is a state capital and a college town, which means I live in a geographic bastion of political correctness. To wit: A recent headline in my hometown newspaper actually read: "Celebrating diversity." Continue reading »

• CDC issues H1N1 tips to travelers

  5 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Continue reading »

• 'Boutique' patients pay for better access to doctors

  5 AM Karen Goldberg Goff

  

  Proponents of "concierge medicine" say it has enabled doctor and patient to return to the more personal and less rushed relationship Americans used to know. Continue reading »

• Wary shoppers temper economic recovery

  5 AM Jeannine Aversa ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  The economy is growing modestly, with consumers too wary about spending to invigorate the recovery. Continue reading »

• Patient records seized in federal drug probe

  5 AM Sarah Karush ASSOCIATED PRESS

  Federal agents looking for evidence of illegal drug distribution have seized patient records from the home office of a Bethesda physician, according to court records. Continue reading »

• Kaine, O'Malley criticize church response

  5 AM Larry O'Dell ASSOCIATED PRESS

  The governors of Virginia and Maryland, both Catholics, said Tuesday that it would be wrong for the church to suspend or reduce social services in the nation's capital if the District approves gay marriage. Continue reading »

• Va. student charged with sexual assault

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  A 19-year-old man from Ashburn, Va., is among three lacrosse players for a Catholic university in New England who has been charged with conspiring to sexually assault a female student in a dorm room. Continue reading »

• Pollin's arena revitalized D.C. sector

  5 AM David C. Lipscomb and Sarah Abruzzese THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  By investing $200 million in building a sports arena at Gallery Place, Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin revitalized a once-blighted and crime-infested section of the nation's capital. Continue reading »

• Soccer fans' ire stoked

  5 AM Jason Keyser ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Egyptians were infuriated by media reports that their fans were brutalized by their Algerian rivals after Algeria won a playoff match Wednesday in Khartoum, Sudan, to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Continue reading »

• Inquiry into Iraq war begins

  5 AM Paisley Dodds ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration officials were calling for Saddam Hussein's ouster as early as 2001 -- long before ... Continue reading »

• China executes 2 men in milk tainting

  5 AM Christopher Bodeen ASSOCIATED PRESS

  China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula -- severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger and put to rest one ... Continue reading »

• Dispute threatens January vote in Iraq

  5 AM Christopher Torchia ASSOCIATED PRESS

  A senior election official said Tuesday that Iraq must delay a national vote scheduled for January because of a political dispute, and the vice president who triggered the crisis indicated he would veto a key ... Continue reading »