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  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on Tuesday to mark the 69th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. President Obama is scheduled for talks with Mr. Medvedev, who arrives in Washington on Thursday. (Associated Press)

    ECONOMIDES: Russian spies don't have to spy to be useful

    I may be one of the few who were not surprised at the unearthing of the Russian "agents" in deep cover in the United States. I also know why they were here.


  • U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, second left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, third left, applaud as documents are exchanged after the signing of a protocol adjusting a 2008 missile defense agreement to meet its new shape decided by the Obama administration, in Krakow, Poland, on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Clinton: 'Steel vise' crushing global activists

    Intolerant governments across the globe are "slowly crushing" activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.


  • Illustration: New and old GOP by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    DEACE: No turning back from change in the GOP

    What's going on in the Republican Party across the country isn't a civil war as much as it's a tale of two paradigms.


  • A bust of Josef Stalin sits at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. The statue has faced harsh criticism, and opponents have created a petition with signatures of people from 45 states and 20 countries. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Just say no to Uncle Joe Stalin

    Josef Stalin had nothing to do with the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion, yet a bust of the Soviet dictator is being given a place at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. This is an unearned and indecent honor for a man who is remembered as one of history's greatest mass murderers. The memorial to this communist should be removed.


  • This undated image taken from a Facebook page shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)

    ROBBINS: My spy story

    I was targeted by the infamous Russian spy ring. Maybe that's too dramatic. How about - accused Russian spy Mikhail Semenko handed me his business card. Not exactly the basis for a novel.


  • In this April 30, 2008 file photo, Senate President Pro Tem Sen. Robert Byrd., West Virginia Democrat, bangs the gavel on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to outgoing Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's address to a joint meeting of Congress. Mr. Byrd a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday, June 28, 2010 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Sen. Robert Byrd, longest-serving member of Congress, dies at 92

    Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in history, known for his rhetorical flourish, his devotion to his home state of West Virginia and his fierce defense of the legislative branch's constitutional primacy in American government, died Monday morning at the age of 92.


  • Illustration: Cuba by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    CLAVER-CARONE: 'Sunshine policy' toward Cuba?

    North and South Korea are facing their gravest crisis since the end of the Korean War as South Korea threatens to retaliate against North Korea for sinking one of its warships. Forty-six sailors died in the torpedo attack by a North Korean submarine.


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FAREWELL: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who died early Monday, secured more than $3 billion in earmarked spending for West Virginia.

    Byrd left legacy in Senate - and all across his home state

    A master of Senate procedure and federal spending, Sen. Robert C. Byrd died Monday at 92 after the longest congressional career in American history - and it's easy to see the mark he left on his beloved home state of West Virginia.


  • **FILE** President Obama (Associated Press)

    Embassy Row

    Nine months after caving in to Russian demands to scrap a U.S. missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, President Obama is proposing to cooperate with Moscow on a global missile defense, according to the U.S. ambassador to Russia.


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