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Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., the outspoken opponent of marriage equality in Washington, D.C., denies that hate motivates his work. ...

The Catholic archdiocese of Washington, D.C., has issued an ultimatum: It will end its social service programs if the district doesn't change a propos...

Lewis M. Simons on Southeast Asia: The Next Front With his co-author, Senator Christopher Bond, Lewis M. Simons, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,...

National leaders stall grocery strike BY WYATT HAUPT JR. FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Differences between local and national union officials a...

Berlin Wall: The Impact of the Fall 20 Years Later On November, 2, almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Marshall Fund of...

Are Healthcare Purchase Mandates Constitutional? The Constitutionality of Mandates to Purchase Health Insurance: A debate of opposing viewpoints as t...

The first national conference of J Street, the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby, convened October 25 in Washington, D.C., with all ...

Kojo Nnamdi One-on-One with Macon Phillips Radio host Kojo Nnamdi joins Director of New Media at the White House Macon Phillips in a conversation abo...

Next Decade Technologies: Charles Vest and Rita Colwell At a symposium with the winners of the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize, Dr. Charles Vest, Pr...

Next Decade Technologies: Pekka Lintu and Stig Gustavson The event was hosted by His Excellency, Ambassador Pekka Lintu, and Stig Gustavson, Chairman...

Microsoft's Craig Mundie on the Killer App of Gov2.0 Tim O'Reilly interviews Microsoft's Craig Mundie.All good platforms have "killer apps" that driv...

Sheila B. White, 70, wife of Ward H. White of Washington, D.C. and a summer resident of Estes Park died Oct....

Delancey Gustin is a program associate in the Immigration and Integration Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, based in Washingto...

Fed CTO Aneesh Chopra: Building a Digital Commonwealth Sounding a Web 2.0 theme 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin spoke of the power of doing good by ...

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Next Decade Technologies: Tim Berners-Lee Steve Lohr speaks with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in honor of his receiving the M...

NEW ORLEANS — Subrina McCrary believes President Barack Obama can support New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina by creating more jobs and helping build better schools. What she doesn't want is Obama using her Lower 9th Ward neighborhood as just another photo op.

On Thursday, Obama makes his first visit to the city since becoming president, and McCrary's community will be one of the stops.

She lives on Flood Street, in a neighborhood at the epicenter of Katrina's devastation. The area was inundated by the torrent of water that poured through levees when the hurricane struck in August 2005.

"We need a lot of stuff around here," McCrary, 43, said from her largely desolate street near the Dr. King Charter School the president will visit.

Obama also plans a town hall at the University of New Orleans. He's likely to find McCrary's views are widely held in a city where patchwork recovery has wearied residents and left many disillusioned with their local leaders.

MOSCOW — Russia's leading gay activist said Wednesday that he was disappointed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with an outspoken foe of gay rights during her two-day trip to Russia and did not decry homophobia in the country.

Clinton attended a ceremony unveiling a statue of Walt Whitman at Moscow State University with Russian officials including Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Luzhkov has blocked all attempts to hold gay pride marches in Moscow, once saying they "can be described in no other way than as satanic."

Clinton did not mention of the issue during the ceremony. Some biographers have described Whitman as homosexual and U.S. gay activists have claimed him as symbol of their movement.

"Just as Pushkin and Whitman reset poetry we are resetting our relations for the 21st century," Clinton said. A statue of the revered Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was erected at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., in 2000.

Luzhkov also compared Whitman to "our Alexander Pushkin" – but said he was quintessentially American.

ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies is in surgery after a single-car accident in the Washington, D.C., area.

U.S. Soccer Federation Neil Buethe says Davies was in stable condition and that his injuries are not life-threatening. Davies, who plays for the French club Sochaux, was expected to required more than 5 hours of surgery.

One person died in the accident, which took place at about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in the southbound lanes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia. The U.S. Park Police identified the fatality as Ashley J. Roberta, 22, of Phoenix, Md.

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Larry Summers: The Future of Global Finance A year after the economic crisis shifted into high gear, financial scholars and policymakers gathered at ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A new report shows Nevada's Reno-Sparks region is the nation's hardest hit area when it comes to construction jobs lost in the recession.

The report released Wednesday by the Associated General Contractors of America ranks the metropolitan area 337th based on the percentage of construction jobs gained or lost in the past year.

From August 2008 to August 2009, Reno lost 35 percent of its construction work force.

The area of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., did only slightly better, followed by Tucson, Ariz., Wenatchee, Wash., and Redding, Calif.

On the other end of the spectrum, construction employment in Columbus, Ind., grew 14 percent. Other spots that improved include Anderson, Ind., Tulsa, Okla., Longview, Wash., and Baton Rouge, La.

Two conservation groups have sued the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to register pesticides that curtail prairie dogs, the ma...

Washington, D.C. - Refugees International welcomes resolution S/2009/465 on Women, Peace and Security, which will be voted on this morning in a Secur...