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Worlds Collide Over a Washington Weekend
“You found each other,” said a publicist to a circle of party reporters at the residence of the French Ambassador Saturday night. It hadn’t been too difficult. At the annual Vanity Fair/Bloomberg post-White House Correspondents...
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?
President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama. Either way, taxpayers are on the hook for a hefty amount.
Wash. State University raising infant horned owls
Veterinarians at Washington State University are raising nine tiny great horned owls after the birds’ nests were destroyed. Baby horned owls are rarely seen by the public because adult owls aggressively protect them, making it difficult...
Washington delicate about Secret Service scandal
The widening Secret Service prostitution scandal has touched off a delicate dance in Washington. From President Barack Obama on down, people are loath to criticize an agency whose employees are trained to take a bullet for others.
IMF gets $430 billion to combat global economic woes
The International Monetary Fund says it has raised more than $430 billion in an effort to assure finance markets that it has sufficient firepower to handle any new problems from Europe’s prolonged debt crisis.
Washington Times mum about columnist Nugent
Erik Wemple noticed that Ted Nugent is prominently billed as a columnist at The Washington Times and, yet, in light of Nugent’s controversial remarks, the paper is not commenting on the topic.
If this is Wednesday, it must be Washington
GREETINGS from an overcast Washington, where the latest get-together of the Group of 20 leading economies and the International Monetary Fund is cranking (‘swinging’ would be an overstatement) into action.
Washington state liquor workers are already leaving jobs
As Washington’s liquor sales transfer from public to private hands, some state employees are making the same transition or moving to other public agencies before the June 1 deadline.
Washington state lawmakers pass budget proposals
Lawmakers in Washington state passed supplemental operating and capital budgets on Wednesday that they say will preserve funding for education and launch about $1 billion in construction projects.
Bomb threat at Indian Embassy in Washington
A bomb threat was reported at the Indian embassy in Washington on Tuesday after which the premises had to be temporarily evacuated. A thorough search of the embassy premises was immediately conducted after the threat was reported. “Nothing...
