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washingtonpost.com - Millions of Americans will be required to show passports when they reenter the United States from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean by 2008 under new rules announced yesterday by the State and Homeland Security departments...

washingtonpost.com - KLAGENFURT, Austria, April 5 -- Thirteen hours into the ride, the bus's engine gave out, strained by the long nighttime haul up a winding Alpine road. The lights went out. Spirits dimmed among the 45 Polish pilgrims aboard, but they knew what to do. As the driver tinkered...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 4 -- Insurgent groups led by foreigners and Iraqis asserted Monday that guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization was responsible for a major assault on Abu Ghraib prison Saturday that U.S. officers called one of the most sophisticated attacks of the...

washingtonpost.com - ST. LOUIS, April 4 -- North Carolina Coach Roy Williams finally answered the skeptics. His junior forward Sean May, celebrating his 21st birthday, became a man. And a gutsy Illinois team closed the books on a near-perfect season with a historic three-point-shooting barrage...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 4 -- Tens of thousands of mourners, some weeping, some praying, streamed through St. Peter's Basilica on Monday to view the body of Pope John Paul II, lying in state by the altar of the huge Renaissance house of worship. Out of sight, Roman Catholic...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 3 -- Pope John Paul II, who in life attracted millions of worshipers and admirers to gatherings around the world, in death received an immense homage Sunday from close to 150,000 pilgrims who gathered for an open-air Requiem in St. Peter's Square...

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washingtonpost.com - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said yesterday that it picked up 540,000 new subscribers during the first three months of 2005, a 68 percent increase over the comparable period a year ago...

washingtonpost.com - So much was expected of Karol Wojtyla when he became pope in 1978. Here, for the first time, was a pontiff plucked not from the Vatican's perfumed inner chambers, but a man of the world. He was not Italian; he skied, he kayaked, he acted in dramas. His fellow clerics...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 2 -- John Paul II, the voyager pope who helped conquer communism and transformed the papacy with charisma and vigor, died Saturday night after a long battle with Parkinson's disease that became a lesson to the world in humble suffering...

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washingtonpost.com - Pope John Paul II, who died this evening at the age of 84, was an obscure Polish prelate who became the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a statesman who helped bring down Eastern European communism, and a defender of the faith who insisted that the church...

washingtonpost.com - RED LAKE, Minn., April 1 -- As many as 20 teenagers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on the Indian reservation here March 21, tribal and federal officials said Friday...

washingtonpost.com - James F. Battey, chief of the National Institutes of Health's high-profile human-stem-cell program and director of that agency's deafness institute, will retire in September after more than 20 years at the agency, citing his inability to comply with strict new...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 1 -- Pope John Paul II struggled on the edge of death Friday, his breathing shallow and his kidneys and circulation failing as millions of Roman Catholics around the world left their homes and workplaces to light candles and pray for him...

washingtonpost.com - As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing grave doubts about a key charge he was going to...

washingtonpost.com - Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, a former White House national security adviser, plans to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and will acknowledge intentionally removing and destroying copies of a classified document about the Clinton administration's record on terrorism...

washingtonpost.com - Terri Schiavo is dead, but the passions stirred by the fight over her life will shape the political debate for a long time to come. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050401/ts_washpost/a15454_2005mar31

washingtonpost.com - PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 31 -- Terri Schiavo slipped away Thursday, dying with a stuffed animal tucked under her arm as a national debate raged about the ethics, politics and spiritual significance of her life and death...

washingtonpost.com - ROME, April 1 -- The precarious health of Pope John Paul II took a sudden turn for the worse Thursday when he developed a high fever caused by a urinary tract infection, Vatican officials said. The pontiff was being treated with antibiotics...