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In a first step toward holding banks accountable for their role in the housing bubble that burst, five big banks have agreed to pay $26 billion for their involvement in hasty and incomplete foreclosures.

Santorum's trifecta

Former Sen. Rick Santorum's surprising victories in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday badly dented the aura of inevitability Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, has sought to project.

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Paul Greenberg: A moment of clarity -- thanks to the Race for the Cure

Those who run the Komen foundation, and make a mighty good thing of it, too, sound confused in the worst way: morally confused.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Love, peace ... and soul'

This was for us. And that was a new thing, so we gathered faithfully to the television as that hard-working cartoon engine chugged across the screen, rainbow smoke pouring from its stack, the announcer calling us to order once upon a Saturday. This was "Sooooooul Train," he said, darn near yodeling the name, "the hippest trip in America, 60 nonstop minutes across the tracks of your mind, with guest stars ..."

Jules Witcover: Running against recovery

WASHINGTON -- One of Mitt Romney's favorite pitches on the campaign trail is recalling Barack Obama's comment early in his presidency that if the county, mired in recession, didn't recover by the next election, he would be a one-term president. The Republican frontrunner is still using the line, but without as much resonance as it has had until recently.

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Feb. 10, 2012

Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: Every two seconds someone in our country needs a blood transfusion. Like the emergency room of a hospital, the American Red Cross needs to be prepared to respond to patient emergencies 24 hours a day,...

Feb. 3, 2012

Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: As I have been watching the Republican debates, I am struck with the Republican theme that President Obama exhibits a total lack of leadership. As I am a retired Army officer, I think I know...

Feb. 1, 2012

Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: President Obama, putting his own perceived needs ahead of that of our country and trying to keep the votes of environmentalists, killed the proposed Keystone pipeline. This pipeline would have created tens of thousands of...

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Save lives: Make texting a primary offense in all 50 states

Five seconds. It does not seem like much time, but it is all the time needed to change a life forever. "The average time they [drivers] take their eyes off the road [to text] is five seconds. And you know how much damage you can do with two tons of metal in 5 seconds. You can travel the length of a football field in that time," said Jim O'Donnell, President and CEO of BMW North America, in Driving Home Texting Perils.

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Americans targeted in Egypt

Seeking to quell continuing unrest, Egypt's military government has targeted 19 American pro-democracy advocates for prosecution, a move that has shaken the alliance between Washington and Cairo.

Emboldened Syrian crackdown

Emboldened by Russia's and China's veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution, the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad escalated its crackdown on its restive populace. His forces shelled the city of Homs, killing about 40 people, while the U.S. Embassy evacuated its staff in Damascus.

Romney rebounds

Rebounding from his defeat in South Carolina, Mitt Romney won a resounding victory in the Florida GOP primary.

STOCK Act stampede

In a welcome break from partisan gridlock, congressmen have rushed to embrace a bill that would ban them from trading stocks based on insider information.

Better GDP figures

The gross domestic product figures released Friday confirmed the Federal Reserve Board's assessment that the economy is recovering, albeit more slowly than everyone would like.

South Carolina upset

The aura of inevitability the Mitt Romney campaign has cultivated lies in smithereens after Newt Gingrich trounced him in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday.

Exit Gov. Huntsman

Although former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman claimed his third-place finish in New Hampshire was a "ticket to ride" in South Carolina's primary Saturday, he abruptly cashed in his fare Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney.

General Assembly convenes

Their numbers bolstered by November's elections, Republicans in the General Assembly are ready to flex their muscle.