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1 hr ago | Patch.com

State of Maryland to Cancel 3 ICC Bus Routes?

The Intercounty Connector could lose three of its existing five commuter bus routes by Aug.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Lughnasadh, Gaithersburg, MD, Fort Meade, MD, Columbia, MD, College Park, MD

4 hrs ago | Government Executive

Analysis: You Know What Really Risks National Security? Leak Investigations

A year ago, The Associated Press discovered a foiled al-Qaida plot. Worried about the safety of an informant in the case, the CIA asked the AP to delay publishing the story until their spy could be secured.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Washington Post, Publishing, Journalism

8 hrs ago | Media Matters for America

Mainstream Media Dismiss Fox's Benghazi Scandal Mongering

Mainstream media have dismissed recent scandal mongering by sources like Fox News over the initial de-classified talking points used to describe the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, as baseless and a distraction.

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Related Topix: US News, Entertainment, Television, Comedy, Liberal Political News

12 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Week In Politics: IRS, Benghazi Emails, AP Phone Logs

Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times .

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Fri May 17, 2013

The Washington Post

Carolyn Hax: Thinking of playing matchmaker; how to be monogamous

Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997 as a weekly feature for The Washington Post, accompanied by the work of "relationship cartoonist" Nick Galifianakis.

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Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Entertainment, Television

LA Weekly

3 Kentucky Products to Smuggle Instead of KFC

As recently reported in The Washington Post , al-Yamama, a Palestinian delivery company, has been sneaking Kentucky Fried Chicken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt: a three-hour journey and an extra $20-30 for cold chicken, which admittedly can be good.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, Kentucky Government, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Marketing, Recipes

Patch.com

Local Museums to Participate in 4th Annual Art Museum Day on Saturday

A number of local art museums will offer free admission in honor of Art Museum Day , according to The Washington Post .

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Related Topix: Maryland

The Orlando Sentinel

Mitch McConnell on 'Meet the Press'; Paul Ryan on 'Fox News Sunday'

The Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS , the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, US Senate, Mitch McConnell, Dave Camp, Washington Post, Publishing, Xavier Becerra, Democrat, Entertainment

Talking Points Memo

Report: FBI Looking For Source Of Menendez Prostitution Rumors

The Washington Post reported on Friday that federal investigators are looking at whether someone set out to smear the Democratic senator last year, while he was running for reelection in New Jersey.

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Related Topix: Travel, Dominican Republic Travel, Caribbean Travel, US News, Liberal Political News

Business Journal

Prince George's County delays budget vote

The Prince George's County Council has delayed a final vote on the county's budget until May 30, The Washington Post reported.

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Related Topix: Springdale, MD

Business Journal

Contractor fired as D.C. flood-levee project stalls

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not sure when its controversial 17th Street levee project - designed to prevent floodwaters from surging across the Mall into downtown Washington - will resume, The Washington Post reports.

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Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Jericho, NY

Examiner.com

Of scandals and folderol

It's normal for Republicans, many of whom believe the president is evil incarnate, and the press, which loves a good story, to go bonkers over the three "scandals" currently rocking the nation's capital.

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Related Topix: US News

Patch.com

Kemp Mill Elementary School Dispute Settled Out of Court

Montgomery County has settled out of court with a group of teachers who brought a lawsuit against the county's board of education and Floyd Starnes, the principal at Kemp Mill Elementary School since 2007, The Washington Post reported.

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Related Topix: Montgomery County, MD, Kemp Mill, MD, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Thu May 16, 2013

The Washington Post

Franklin Graham vs. the IRS

Republican nominee Mitt Romney meets with the Rev. Billy Graham, and his son Franklin Graham in Montreat, N.C. in 2012.

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Related Topix: Tax, Billy Graham, US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Washington Post, Publishing, Tea Party

The Campbell Reporter

Apple CEO Tim Cook to seek 'dramatic' corporate tax overhaul in congressional testimony

Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to propose a "dramatic simplification" of corporate tax laws when he testifies for the first time before Congress next week, just as lawmakers are eyeing an overhaul of the tax code.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, Washington Post, Publishing

Examiner.com

'Hangover Star' Ken Jeong talks 'Pain and Gain'

Ken Jeong. You've seen him in The Hangover movies. You've seen him in a Transformer movie.

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Related Topix: Pain & Gain, The Hangover, Ken Jeong, Celebrities, Mark Wahlberg

Michigan Radio

Mid-year public school closings rare nationwide

The Washington Post picked up on the troubles of the Buena Vista school district in a piece by Lyndsey Layton today.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Business Journal

D.C. task force recommends $1B to bury power lines

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray 's power line burial task force on Wednesday finally came out with its recommendations, more than three months after it was originally scheduled to finish its work.

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Related Topix: Energy, Pepco Holdings

Weekday Magazine

The Rundown -- May 16

RFE/RL In The Media # "The Washington Post" cites RFE/RL reporting on the spy scandal in Russia # "Reason" links to RFE/RL reporting on Afghanistan # "UPI" cites RFE/RL reporting on taxing development projects in Afghanistan International Press Review Russia # Pictures from the exit from Afghanistan # The Soviet Union *almost* had a laser-toting ... (more)

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Wed May 15, 2013

JD Supra

IRS Scandal UPDATE: DOJ And FBI Launch Criminal Probe

The Washington Post is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed during a press conference today that he has ordered the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the IRS's targeting of conservative groups .

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News

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