Unusual winter storms that produced snow and hail overshadowed most news from Washington.
It's Thursday, and that means it's time to check in with NPR's Juan Williams for the week's news from Washington.
In downtown Los Angeles, about 150 young demonstrators -- many of them undocumented immigrants -- rallied in front of the federal immigration office Friday and exalted over the news from Washington.
Economists also were generally encouraged by news from Washington on a tax-cut compromise that included an unexpected temporary reduction in payroll taxes in addition an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.
So dividends per share have gone up for eight straight years and the company aggressively buys back shares, giving investors strong incentives to remain onboard despite all the bad news from Washington.
The woman said she gets her news from the Washington Post and by watching TV.
On the Web, surfers too often give e-mailed rumors and unverified assertions the same weight as news from, say, The Washington Post website.
Despite the flash flood of news on the auto industry from Washington, several questions remain unresolved: What, exactly, are automakers supposed to include in their plans?
The news reading apps unveiled yesterday from the Washington Post, the Guardian and The Daily all build on the premise that the newest iteration of Facebook will succeed in inducing users to share way more than ever before.
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The hottest economic news, gossip and party invitations come from Washington.
The Interfaith Alliance held a news conference Monday in Washington where representatives from the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish and Christian communities said they neither opposed nor supported the President-elect George W. Bush's selection of the former Missouri senator as attorney general.
Rich media, news and economic data from a lockup site in Washington, D.
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The announcement from Washington did not make headline news on Cuban state television, but the statement by the presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs was shown and reported, including details of the telecommunications plans.
He joined the Times in 1948 and spent most of his career there, except a stint at the now-defunct Washington Daily News, where he worked from 1952 to 1955.
Yahoo hired David Chalian from PBS News Hour and ABC News as Yahoo News Washington D.
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Prime instant video will also offer popular PBS news programs with day-after air availability from shows like Frontline and Washington Week.
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As you all know, people get their news from many different sources -- NPR, AP, Reuters, Washington Post -- but they also get it from blogs and online, increasingly.
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Mr Carson said it was important that Gen Ntaganda's movement from the embassy to the airport was "in no way be inhibited", the Associated Press news agency quotes him as saying in a briefing to journalists in Kigali by video link from Washington.
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It would feed news gathered from bureaus in Chicago (which will cover the Merc and Board of Trade) and Washington, as well as overseas bureaus he plans to open in Sydney and London.
The news agency calls on Washington to open up market access for Chinese companies in return for similar favours from China.
Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, 59, is one such top scholar and works from a Toll Brothers (nyse: TOL - news - people ) mansion in the suburbs of Washington, D.
He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.
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