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A Venezuelan court on Wednesday granted house arrest to a judge who has been jailed for more than a year in a case criticized by human rights groups. The judge, Maria Afiuni, has been imprisoned since December 2009 on charges stemming from her decision to release a banker, Eligio Cedeno, who...

The U.S. House of Representatives began debating a new bill aimed at repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that forbids gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Brought to the floor by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the measure has a fairly good chance of passing in an...

http://bcove.me/uk46tiv8 The wife of a White house official was found dead in a burnt garage attached to the couple's Capitol Hill home Monday morning. The victim was identified as Ashley Turton, a lobbyist for utility giant Progress Energy and the wife of White House Congressional liaison...

Could a floating dome that can house up to 10,000 people be a model for future living? Russian architect Alexander Remizov thinks so -- and his design, called "The Ark," bears a close resemblance to the classic Slinky toy. -- Could a floating dome that can house up to 10,000 people be a model...

Friendship among Women: A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it. Friendship among Men: A man didn't come home one night.. The next...

Hi, I want silky nice hair and clean beautiful skin. i know there are some natural ingredients that can be bought/found around the house but I don't know which ones adn what to do with them. PLEASE HELP ME!

Never my wife, only your mother, and even this only once. Rarely the phrase only child, shameful in most cultures, when he described me, but often my youngest or daughter. He carried me at a party once when I was tired and soon I said we need to leave. A boy whose father leaves is called the man...

Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane Washington Post March 21, 2010 House leaders decided Saturday to stage a vote on the Senate’s health-care bill, dropping a much-criticized strategy of allowing lawmakers to “deem” the landmark legislation into law. But the outcome of that vote remained in doubt as...

Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen Bloomberg News Friday, March 19, 2010 March 19 (Bloomberg) — U.S. House Democrats, who cleared a big hurdle in their effort to overhaul the health-care system by producing compromise legislation, picked up fresh support for a likely showdown vote this weekend...

Greg Stohr Bloomberg News Thursday, March 18, 2010 March 18 (Bloomberg) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be creating new grounds for a court challenge to the proposed U.S. health-care overhaul as she considers using a mechanism that would avoid a vote on the full legislation. Pelosi said this...

Amy Goldstein Washington Post March 17, 2010 An obscure parliamentary maneuver favored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suddenly ignited Tuesday as the latest tinder in the year-long partisan strife over reshaping the nation’s health-care system, triggering debate over the strategy’s...

Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane Washington Post March 16, 2010 After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. Instead, Pelosi...

Peter Roff U.S. News & World Report January 5, 2010 Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed, the...

Jonathan D. Salant Bloomberg Monday, Dec 28th, 2009 Any health-care legislation that reaches President Barack Obama’s desk will be close to the version the Senate passed last week, top Democrats said yesterday. The Senate garnered the minimum 60 votes needed to overcome Republican objections...

A disturbing fact: Most house fires happen between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. Which means you're likely to be asleep, making it that much more important that you know how to save yourself and your family since you won't have much time to plan your escape. If you notice smoke, drop to the floor and begin...

JONATHAN ALLEN Politico October 30, 2009 It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words...

Howling madly a big September storm took off three layers of our thatched roof spreading them on the river and all along the banks even high up and hanging among the branches of the trees along the ground as well in all the pools and hollows and then the boys from South Village taking...

To Be Alone Again in the Thick Skin of this low-slung bungalow house, August overcast and waning, windows open to the breathings of the distant interstate passing, you and the kids on some errand, no note on the kitchen counter, the workday done, my computer on and waiting, I feel so helpless...

Time To Leave the Safe House Time to leave the lemon trees, gardens flaked with roses. Time to slam the bolts back, break the paint seal on sash frames. Time to smash the searchlights, cut the wires on auto-gates. Time to let the dogs loose, to form packs in the forests. Time to roam the...

To rent a room in Damyang or Changpyung to visit like a chipmunk, I looked in every village I came across. Walking past a place in Jasil, I saw common flowers in the yard between a traditional Korean house and a modern annex. When I entered through the open gate, a man was sharpening his scythe...