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  • Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, 2nd right, is accompanied by his son Bilawal, striped shirt, and daughter, Asifa, left, when they arrived at London's Heathrow Airport , Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo)

    Pakistan's leader says world losing Afghan war

    The U.S.-led coalition's battle against the Taliban has already been lost because of its failure to win over the Afghan people, Pakistan's president warned Tuesday before tough talks this week with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has accused the country of exporting terrorism.


  • **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.


  • HARPERCOLLINS
Sarah Palin gets a bad rap because "she is everything that her critics are not, and as a result, they attack."

    Inside the Beltway

    She's got breast implants. Her eye color was altered. She's airbrushed. Look at that tacky flag pin. Her political endorsement is the kiss of death, she's illiterate - and so on, and so forth.


  • American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is believed to be hiding in Yemen. (Associated Press)

    Yemeni gains civil liberties backing

    The father of a U.S.-Yemeni citizen known as al Qaeda's top English-language Internet recruiter is fighting to have his son removed from a list of potential targets for kill or capture by the CIA or the U.S. military, and two prominent civil liberties groups want to do his bidding in court.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


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