Unemployment Rises to 10.2%, Stoking the Economic Debate

After Wall Street stabilized last spring, it didn’t take long for the economy to become a political afterthought to the major battle of the year in Washington: health-care reform. But last Tuesday’s off-year election broke D.C.’s political trance like a brick through plate glass

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A Family Gathers to Say Farewell to Ted Kennedy

Simon Sousa, shell shocked and bleary eyed, stood on a grassy corner near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. He clutched a 8″x10″ framed and signed photo of himself with Senator Ted Kennedy, a memento from when Kennedy had helped his Brazilian house cleaner get a green card two years ago.

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Voter gripes abound as Afghans count presidential ballots

More than 200 allegations of irregularities in last week’s presidential elections in Afghanistan have been registered, according to the independent commission set up to handle such complaints. Despite domestic accusations from one of the presidential candidates that the vote was rigged, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan called the election “a very well-organized campaign.” “The Afghan-led independent electoral commission looks like it managed a pretty good process,” Ambassador Karl Eikenberry said Sunday

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