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The White House Correspondents Association meets this weekend to determine who'll fill the the front row vacancy that opened after Helen Thomas resigned. Recently, Fox News, Bloomberg News, and NPR have argued in letters to the board why they deserve …

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Taking part in meeting in White House Situation Room, either in person or by video link, were some 22 civilian and military officials

The White House sought to contain new doubts about the Afghanistan war sparked by the release of classified documents. Read more...

2:30 P.M. EDT MR. GIBBS:  Good afternoon.  Before we do our regularly scheduled programming, we have with us today to give a little report and to take some questions from you, given the President’s upcoming trips to both Detroit and Chicago to visit Chrysler, GM and Ford plants, today we have with us Ron Bloom, Senior Advisor to the Treasury Secretary for Automobiles; and celebrating his second ...

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Program is linking thousands to primary care but officials say more work is to be done An initiative designed to transform health care on Chicago's South Side that was once led by first lady Michelle Obama has linked 5,600 people to a "medical home" since 2005, University of Chicago executives said Thursday.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.----At a recent special briefing of congressional staffers and other interested parties in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, The TriZetto Group’s Jeff Rideout, M.D. and Gail Knopf led a discussion of the potential impact of value-based insurance design on healthcare quality, and the necessary I.T. systems and legislative steps needed to make it a reality ...

Corporate Office Properties Trust of Columbia, a real estate investment trust, reported second-quarter funds from operations fell to $38.9 million, or 53 cents per diluted share, from $46.9 million, or 67 cents per diluted share, in the 2009 period. FFO, a key measure of a REIT’s performance, adds depreciation and amortization back into earnings. Officials said [...]

by Fulton Armstrong, reply by Thomas Powers The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers’s review of Robert Jervis’s Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War in the May 27 issue.