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  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • Illustration: Shirley Sherrod

    BLANKLEY: Racial McCarthyism comes a cropper

    Last week was a surprisingly good moment for American politics. It was the week that, through a confluence of bizarre and unlikely events, the vicious act of falsely accusing people of racism became a laughingstock. It went from being a career killer to a punch line; from villainy to vaudeville; from knife in the back to pie in the face.


  • BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward leaves the oil company's offices in London on Monday in the back of a car. He became the face of BP's failure to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and will step down in October. (Associated Press)

    BP replaces CEO Hayward, makes record loss

    BP's embattled Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward will be replaced by American Robert Dudley on Oct. 1, the company said Tuesday, as it reported a record quarterly loss and set aside $32.2 billion to cover the costs of the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill.


  • Dean goes on Fox to rip its Sherrod coverage

    Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Sunday accused Fox News of racism for airing without verification a videotape of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod apparently making racist remarks, which led to her dismissal.


  • **FILE** An Iraqi soldier is seen near an Iraqi Army tank, which was destroyed in the U.S.-led invasion, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9. (Associated Press)

    Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war

    The Obama administration has not settled on a plan to protect and supply thousands of State Department diplomats and employees left behind in Iraq once all but a relatively few U.S. troops leave the county in a little more than a year.


  • ** FILE ** Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner

    Geithner: Renewal of tax cuts for wealthy unlikely

    Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sunday that the Obama administration's upcoming stimulus plan likely will not renew Bush-era tax cuts and that the changes will not slow the already struggling economy.


  • World Scene

    The United States told Scotland it was “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than have him transferred to a Libyan jail, leaked documents showed Sunday amid renewed U.S. criticism of the release.


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