* Nearly a third of the $1.6 billion Fukushima cleanup budget has been wasted through expensive and ineffective technology. * Obama pushes back Afghanistan troop withdrawal until after 2015. * Congress looks to add a permanent slush fund to the budget for war. * From yesterday's Tournament of Books decision, where
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* The Senate's treatment of Loretta Lynch confirms its anti-Obama pathology. * Cities clamoring to host sports franchises siphon off millions of public dollars, but an Obama budget provision would make incentives illegal. * Related: Sports world imagined without jingoism, racism, sexism, or owners. * What Ted Cruz would need to
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* Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore, father of the “Singapore model,” dies at 91. * Chinese Communist Party demands the Dalai Lama to reincarnate on its terms. * Man sees an argument with his parents, recorded in 1985, turned into a cartoon. * Profile of an amnesiac illustrator who can't
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* With an eye toward legacy, Obama emerges as a leading architect of an emerging global climate treaty. * Survey of Federal Reserve transcripts shows officials laughed most just before 2008's crash, and Greenspan landed the most jokes. * Chicago police commander resigns following "black site" revelations and civil
* Obama tells seventh grader he wishes he'd ordered Gitmo closed when he still had the chance. * It's time for everyone, including Dick Cheney, to stop playing "the race card" card. * Trend alert: Wealthy women are putting their babies in Hermès Birkin bags, thanks to
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* Netanyahu reelected Prime Minister with 72 percent of Israeli citizens voting. * Haiti's president Martelly now runs the country without any checks and balances from parliament. * Presbyterian Church amends constitution to allow gay weddings. * Druckerman: To succeed at French dinner parties, “you must be a little bit mean but
