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  • Julian Assange, an Australian who launched WikiLeaks four years ago, concedes that even his team hasn't read all the documents about the Afghanistan war released on his website. (Provided by Martina Haris)

    Inside the Beltway

    Why, it's just like health care reform legislation. The massive Wikileaks release of classified information about U.S. activity in Afghanistan is huge and unwieldy.


  • The president "needs to do a better job of explaining why" we need to be in Afghanistan, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Monday. (Associated Press)

    Pawlenty opens up on politics, 2012 GOP bid

    Sounding very much like a presidential candidate-in-waiting, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty spoke Monday in Washington on foreign policy, repealing the Obama health care law, the economy — and some of his potential Republican rivals in 2012.


  • The Social Security retirement system was implemented in the 1930s. (Illustration by M. Ryder)

    SHIPMAN: Raising retirement age won't work

    The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recently warned that our country's current fiscal path - primarily the cost of entitlements - unless reversed, "will destroy the country from within." Given such an ominous prophecy, it is almost certain that Social Security, the country's largest entitlement, will go under the government's budget knife.


  • White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the data leak does not raise any doubts about Pakistan's reliability as a key ally in the war against terrorism, adding that the U.S. has "certainly known about safe havens in Pakistan." (Associated Press)

    Leaks raise U.S. policy doubts

    The disclosure of classified military documents revealing close ties between Pakistan's intelligence service and militants fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan has prompted calls on Capitol Hill to rethink U.S. policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan.


  • In this image provided by the Boy Scouts of America, Alan Mandel, of Troop 920, does a backflip in front of National Capital Area Council troops during the Grand Centennial Parade, Sunday, July 25, 2010 in Washington, (AP Photo/Boy Scouts of America, John Harrington)

    Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary in Va.

    More than 46,000 Boy Scouts, leaders, staff and volunteers from around the world are expected at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree starting Monday in Caroline County. Organizers also anticipate around 250,000 visitors.


  • Illustration: National debt by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    SMITH: Obama's regrettable records

    After a year and a half in office, President Obama has brought historic change to our nation, but the records that have been set under his administration are not those hoped for by the American people.


  • Q&A: Paul McCartney on playing the White House

    Perhaps only Paul McCartney could call a performance at the White House a little club gig.


  • ** FILE ** Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, for his corruption trial. (AP Photo)

    Prosecutor: Blagojevich guilty of shakedown scheme

    Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was so desperate for money that he tried to shake down everyone from a racetrack owner to a children's hospital executive to President-elect Barack Obama, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday during closing arguments at Mr. Blagojevich's corruption trial.


  • White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the data leak does not raise any doubts about Pakistan's reliability as a key ally in the war against terrorism, adding that the U.S. has "certainly known about safe havens in Pakistan." (Associated Press)

    Leaks raise U.S. policy doubts

    The disclosure of classified military documents revealing close ties between Pakistan's intelligence service and militants fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan has prompted calls on Capitol Hill to rethink U.S. policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan.


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