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U.S. Suddenly Goes Quiet on Effort to Bolster Afghan Forces

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 09:01 PM PST

The American-led coalition regularly shared details on how the money was being put to use, but as of this month the information is now considered classified.

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Romney Uses Speech at Mississippi State University to Tailor His Presidential Themes

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 08:43 PM PST

The G.O.P. presidential nominee in 2012 addressed issues like student loan debt, income inequality and poverty in a speech at Mississippi State.

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G.O.P.’s Invitation to Netanyahu Is Aiding Obama’s Cause on Iran

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:35 PM PST

When Israel's prime minister accepted an invitation to address Congress, it had the unintended effect of helping the president rally Democrats on nuclear talks with Iran.

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World Briefing: Iran: Washington Post Reporter’s Trial to Be ‘Soon,’ but Charges Are Unclear

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:12 PM PST

Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran correspondent, who has been incarcerated since July 22, "will be tried soon," Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said Wednesday.

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6 Days That Felled Sheldon Silver, the Speaker Who Ruled Albany for Decades

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:08 PM PST

Mr. Silver's fall from grace as speaker of the New York State Assembly played out over a week of secret deliberations and shifting alliances.

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Finding Out Who Shoveled the Boston Marathon Finish Line

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:07 PM PST

A photograph from the blizzard posted on Twitter brought the city together in an unexpected way.

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Vanderbilt Rape Trial Didn’t Stir Students on Campus

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:01 PM PST

A day after two former football players were convicted of sexual assault, many students find it hard to square what happened with their views of the elite university.

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In Bid to Host Democratic National Convention in 2016, de Blasio Makes a Fiscal Case

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 06:50 PM PST

As New York vies to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce that the group leading the city's push has secured $6.5 million in cash and $20 million in...

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Administration Official Criticizes Israeli Ambassador Over Netanyahu Visit

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 06:24 PM PST

The tension with Israel is over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's acceptance of Republican leaders' invitation to address Congress about Iran without consulting the White House.

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Pounded Again, Coastal Massachusetts Town May Consider a Retreat

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 06:05 PM PST

Scituate, on the Atlantic coast about 30 miles southeast of Boston, is not protected by Cape Cod directly to its east.

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Rev. Richard McBrien, Catholic Firebrand, Dies at 78

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 05:44 PM PST

Father McBrien was a champion of Vatican II reforms and often criticized the Roman Catholic Church for its stances on birth control, celibacy and the infallibility of the pope.

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Federal Reserve Won’t Raise Interest Rates Before June, at Earliest

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 05:31 PM PST

The Federal Reserve gave its most upbeat economic assessment since the recession, though it did say inflation remains sluggish.

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National Briefing | South: Arkansas: State Will Take Over Little Rock Schools

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 05:14 PM PST

The state Board of Education voted, 5 to 4, on Wednesday to assume control of the Little Rock School District after students at some of its schools performed poorly on state benchmark tests.

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National Briefing | Education: Harvard’s Endowment Remains Biggest of All

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 05:12 PM PST

Some things do not change: Harvard's $36 billion endowment is still the largest of any university, according to the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments.

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As New Leadership Takes Over in Washington, Fiscal Battles Resurface

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 05:06 PM PST

While both sides say they are trying to help the squeezed middle class, the divide between the two parties on fiscal policy may be as stark as at any time since Bill Clinton's first term.

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National Briefing | South: Arkansas: Dr. King and Gen. Lee Will Still Share Day

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 04:57 PM PST

A bid to end Arkansas's practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the same day was rejected Wednesday by a state House committee.

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National Briefing | Southwest: New Mexico: Physicist Is Sentenced in a Spy Case

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 04:54 PM PST

A former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for passing secret nuclear weapons data to a person he believed to be a Venezuelan government...

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Criticism of Holder Dominates Hearing on Loretta Lynch, Attorney General’s Possible Successor

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 04:36 PM PST

Loretta E. Lynch's dealings with the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee were mostly cordial as she faced questions on immigration and other hot-button issues.

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Study Finds H.I.V. Drugs Priced Out of Reach

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 04:32 PM PST

The study found evidence of "adverse tiering," or placing all of the drugs used to treat H.I.V. in a specialty tier, where consumers are required to pay at least 30 percent of the cost of the drug.

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54 Years Later, South Carolina Court Clears ‘Friendship Nine’

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 03:08 PM PST

A prosecutor in Rock Hill said the misdemeanor trespassing charges against the nine black students should never have been filed.

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