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Pentagon plan calls for increased defense spending

15 hours ago

washingtonpost.com - Pentagon Procurement: WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's chief weapons buyer said Thursday the Bush administration's long-term military budget plan calls for increased defense spending in future years. . (Read More)

Topics: pentagon, Washington

Rhee Seeks New Way To Avert Violence

7 hours ago

Washington Post: Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told the D.C. Council yesterday that the District needs to completely rethink its approach to preventing school violence, with a better trained security force but also by teaching students to manage conflicts before they spiral out of control. . (Read More)

Topics: Washington, District of Columbia

3 Indicted In Alleged Coverup of D.C. Killing

7 hours ago

washingtonpost.com - Metro: Three men at the center of an enduring murder mystery in an elegant Dupont Circle townhouse have been indicted on obstruction of justice charges as police continue to investigate the slaying of Robert Wone, a rising star in Washington's legal community who was fatally stabbed two years ago while... . (Read More)

Topics: Washington, District of Columbia

Congress extends jobless benefits; stocks fall 400

6 hours ago

washingtonpost.com -: WASHINGTON -- Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. (Read More)

Topics: Congress, Washington

Pentagon arms buyer says defense budget should rise

18 hours ago

washingtonpost.com - Pentagon Procurement: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are recommending that President-elect Barack Obama boost overall defense spending for at least the next five years, the top U.S. arms buyer said on Thursday. . (Read More)

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Update: The White House Butler on the Big Screen

5 hours ago

washingtonpost.com - Style: Eugene Allen (Kevin Clark/The Washington Post) Sony Pictures plans to turn our colleague Wil Haygood's front-page Washington Post story about Eugene Allen, an African American butler at the White House for 34 years, into a major motion picture. Allen, 89, worked through eight administrations,... . (Read More)

Topics: White House, White House, Washington

Fenty Isn't Czar Of the Rent Czar

1 day ago

washingtonpost.com - The District: The D.C. Council giveth and the council taketh away. . (Read More)

Topics: Washington, Adrian Fenty, District of Columbia

Editorial -- D.C.'s Mayor Gets His Attorney General

1 day ago

washingtonpost.com - Editorials: THE D.C. Council's debate on Peter J. Nickles's confirmation as the city's attorney general revealed more about council members than about Mr. Nickles. The latter is, as we already knew and as even his fiercest critics had to concede, an eminently gifted attorney. But it's troubling that he squeaked by in such a close vote. (Read More)

Topics: Washington, District of Columbia

Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate

1 day ago

washingtonpost.com -: WASHINGTON -- A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance. (Read More)

Topics: Senate, Washington