Many Americans vexed by spelling

Jennifer Harper

The nation is not letter perfect. Americans may be embarassed, even. Make that "embarrassed" - it's among the common words that vex the spell-challenged in ...

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• Obama defends record on economy

  2 PM Jon Ward

  

  President Obama said during an appearance in North Carolina on Wednesday that the United States may be seeing the “beginning of the end of the recession” as he gave an impassioned defense of his administration's ... Continue reading »

• Report: Pelosi briefed on waterboarding

  4 AM S.A. Miller and Ben Connery THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  A Director of National Intelligence report on congressional briefings about enhanced interrogation techniques conflicts with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that she was never told that waterboarding would be used on terror suspects. Continue reading »

• Virginia to vote on smoking ban

  11 AM Gary Emerling

  

  Virginia lawmakers are set for a final vote Tuesday on legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, in a state that was the first to harvest tobacco. Continue reading »

• Clinton urges Va. party to stay united

  5 AM Gary Emerling

  

  Former President Bill Clinton may have been the biggest name at Virginia Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday, but gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe grabbed a share of the spotlight for himself. Continue reading »

• Octuplets' mother has 6 other children

  8 AM Thomas Watkins ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said. Angela Suleman said her daughter expects a ... Continue reading »