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washingtonpost.com - U.S. intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" in their prewar assessments of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and today know "disturbingly little" about the capabilities and intentions of other potential adversaries such as Iran and North Korea, a presidential...

washingtonpost.com - The Army has deployed a new troop transport vehicle in Iraq with many defects, putting troops there at unexpected risk from rocket-propelled grenades and raising questions about the vehicle's development and $11 billion cost, according to a detailed critique in a classified...

washingtonpost.com - ROME, March 30 -- A decision by Pope John Paul II's doctors to feed him through a nasal tube takes the treatment of the chronically ill pontiff closer to the ethically and religiously wrenching decisions of what medical measures should be taken to prolong life and for how...

washingtonpost.com - BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe -- Two weeks ago, Mike Sibanda strode down the dingy streets of Zimbabwe's second-largest city with a swagger, chest out, shoulders rolling, a broad, wise-guy smile on his face. The image exuded a single message: I'm nobody's fool...

washingtonpost.com - The Supreme Court made it easier to sue for age discrimination on the job yesterday, ruling that older workers may take their employers to federal court even in cases in which the alleged adverse impact on them was not intentional...

washingtonpost.com - PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 30 -- Key allies of Terri Schiavo's parents showed signs of dissension on Wednesday as two courts rejected appeals to keep the brain-damaged woman alive on her 13th day without nourishment...

washingtonpost.com - AUSTIN, March 30 -- A former high-ranking Boy Scouts of America official pleaded guilty today to receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet in a case that authorities said was connected to a German-based trafficking ring...

washingtonpost.com - A presidential commission assigned to look into the intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war will recommend a series of changes intended to encourage more dissent within the nation's spy agencies and better organize the government's multi-tentacled fight against...

washingtonpost.com - In the punch-for-punch debate over Social Security, AARP is working hard to keep the White House on the ropes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050330/ts_washpost/a11076_2005mar29

washingtonpost.com - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., 67, the dogged lawyer whose emotional, sometimes flamboyant courtroom summations played to national audiences during his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, died March 29 at his home in Los Angeles. He had an inoperable brain tumor...

washingtonpost.com - ZHULUBE, Zimbabwe -- Hundreds of bags of cornmeal were stacked in front of a bar near here this month, rising as high as its roof. The only problem for the hungry people of this drought-stricken area was that the food, like the bar, was controlled by officials from the...

washingtonpost.com - ZHULUBE, Zimbabwe -- Hundreds of bags of cornmeal were stacked in front of a bar near here this month, rising as high as its roof. The only problem for the hungry people of this drought-stricken area was that the food, like the bar, was controlled by officials from the...

washingtonpost.com - The Supreme Court toughened a federal law against sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs yesterday, ruling that it prohibits not only unequal treatment of girls and women at school, but also official retaliation against anyone -- male or female --...

washingtonpost.com - MEDAN, Indonesia, March 29 -- A major underwater earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island late Monday, killing hundreds of people and crushing buildings on a nearby resort island, according to Indonesian police...

washingtonpost.com - Federal authorities have arrested a relative of a Red Lake tribal leader in connection with the shooting spree that killed 10 people on the tribe's Minnesota reservation last week, officials said yesterday...

washingtonpost.com - Longtime insurance industry heavyweight Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg said in a letter from his lawyer that he will step aside as chairman of American International Group Inc. as multiple investigations of the company and its accounting practices intensify...

washingtonpost.com - MEDAN, Indonesia, March 29 -- A major underwater earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumatran coast late Monday, killing hundreds of people and crushing buildings on a nearby resort island, according to Indonesian police...

washingtonpost.com - A classified report by nuclear experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences has challenged the decision by federal regulators to allow commercial nuclear facilities to store large quantities of radioactive spent fuel in pools of water...

washingtonpost.com - Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs...

washingtonpost.com - Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century...