Saturday, December 5, 2009

Saturday's Top News: India, Pakistan and the Battle for Afghanistan

Today's Top Stories

India, Pakistan and the Battle for Afghanistan

By ISHAAN THAROOR

Pakistan resists fighting the Afghan Taliban because it fears Indian domination next door. But India is expanding its influence there because it fears a Taliban comeback

Why Congress is Furious at the Fed

By JUSTIN FOX

An angry Congress wants to reshape the central bank. And you can't say it's entirely wrong

College Campus Smoking Bans Have Some Saying 'Lighten Up'

By GILBERT CRUZ

As more schools ban smoking outside, compliance is often left to peer pressure, not punishment

Will Fear of Big Government End Obama's Audacity?

By NINA EASTON

Voters have turned suspicious of federal spending programs. That could upend the President's agenda

Amanda Knox, Convicted of Murder in Italy

By KRISTI OLOFFSON

A verdict is expected for the 22-year-old American student on trial for killing her roommate while studying abroad in Italy

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Swampland

By Michael Scherer

Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tenn., (pop. 2,569 in 2000), was infuriated by President Obama's address on Afghanistan Tuesday night. This is what Wiseman posted on his Facebook page, according to the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and [...]

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whose daughter was wounded in the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, on a new report finding that officials warned their families more than an hour and a half before the rest of the campus and released locked-down students who were later killed
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Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests

By Bryan Coll

Young men are turning away from the priesthood in one of Europe's traditional Catholic strongholds. Some dioceses could soon be without priests if new recruits aren't found -- quickly

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