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How Sessions Could Give Obama a Tough Supreme Court Nomination Fight

By JAY NEWTON-SMALL / WASHINGTON

The naming of Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee promises to bring at least a few sparks to a Supreme Court confirmation process that was bound to be relatively easy

A War No Longer on Auto-Pilot: What If Iraq Unravels?

By TONY KARON

Analysis: A downturn in Iraq's security situation — and in Sunni-Shi'ite relations — could cloud President Obama's withdrawal plans

Is Google Any Help in Tracking an Epidemic?

By ALICE PARK

Private data-tracking services like Google Flu Trends and Veratect say they can offer faster information for predicting potential disease epidemics

Judging American Idol: The Final 4

By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

This was rock night on American Idol, which meant a visit from Slash, and, in the great tradition of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge, a pre-show stage accident that kept the Final Four from singing a run-through

Georgia's Saakashvili Blames Moscow, but His Biggest Threat Is Domestic

By JOHN WENDLE / MOSCOW

A soldiers' mutiny has Tbilisi accusing Russia of plotting a coup, but the President's growing domestic opposition wants him out

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"There were women and there were children who were killed. It seemed they were trying to shelter in houses when they were hit."
JESSICA BARRY,
a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, claiming that US-led air strikes killed dozens of Afghans earlier this week
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An Anxious London Flocks to Psychics

By Catherine Mayer

The U.K. capital's anxious professionals are flocking to psychics and astrologers. As recession bites, a boom in the occult is on the cards

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