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Education

Dems fight to attach student loan reform to budget

But will the president's proposed overhaul make it past the GOP (and six holdouts from his own party)?
Jenn Kepka
History

Austrian gov't finds mass graves of Nazi victims

Wartime photos used to locate burial sites
Crime

N.Y. cashier, 91, punched trying to fend off thief

If she saw the thief again she would "smack him"
Democratic Party

The Democrats' scam

After feigning support all year for a public option, Democrats are now whipping against it to prevent passage
Glenn Greenwald
Israel

Israel moves to change law after Biden "mishap"

New regulations aim to keep Prime Minister informed of important decisions
MATTI FRIEDMAN
Barack Obama

Obama wants Yellen as Fed vice chair

Source says president of San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank will be nominated for vacant seat
JIM KUHNHENN
Scenes from Afghanistan

Slide show: Life during wartime

Portraits of Afghans as the war grinds on
James Lee
Republican Party

GOP finance chief's dubious "charity" background

Rob Bickhart, the finance chief whose weird anti-Obama PowerPoint embarrassed the GOP, has a strange resume
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