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  • **FILE** Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (Getty Images)

    Zardari: Taliban winning war, Afghan support

    The U.S.-led international coalition is losing the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan because it has failed to win over the Afghan people, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in a grim assessment of the war this week.


  • Fox gets front-row seat in White House press room

    Fox News Channel has been granted a much-coveted front-row seat in the White House briefing room.


  • In this photograph made on Thursday, July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

    Obama: U.S. commitment in Iraq is shifting

    President Obama will set a course Monday for the nation's changing mission in Iraq as the military prepares to end its combat operations there.


  • Challenge OK'd on health care law

    A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a challenge by the state of Virginia to President Obama's landmark health care reform law, a setback that will force his administration to mount a lengthy legal defense.


  • NASA's muscular R2 astronaut "helper" robot has announced by Twitter that it has no gender. (NASA photo)

    Inside the Beltway

    First, "Star Wars"; now, gender wars. Consider that NASA has unveiled the amazing R2 -- short for Robonaut 2 -- a new astronaut "helper" robot that has been under development by the federal space agency and General Motors since 1997.


  • Politics Scene

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney is out of intensive care but still in the hospital more than five weeks after being admitted for his latest heart problems, his daughter said Sunday.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama, left, and Washington Mystics part owner Sheila Johnson, center right, applaud as the WNBA game between the Washington Mystics and Tulsa Shock begins Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, in Washington.

    Obama attends Mystics game

    President Barack Obama checked out the WNBA's Washington Mystics on Sunday after spending the morning shooting some hoops himself.


  • Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican

    GOP sees winning call in tax break for all

    Republicans and Democrats are in agreement on the fate of 97 percent of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire in January - it's the remaining sliver that has spurred a bloody campaign battle that could feature prominently in the midterm elections.


  • Fox gets front-row seat in White House press room

    Fox News Channel has been granted a much-coveted front-row seat in the White House briefing room.


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