In nominating Gina McCarthy to head the E.P.A. and Ernest J. Moniz for the Energy Department, President Obama showed his intent to use all the tools at his disposal to tackle climate change. Syria’s civil war entangled the peacekeeping operation in the disputed Golan Heights area on Wednesday, when 30 armed fighters for the insurgency…
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BAGHDAD — The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Tuesday that Iraqi security forces will continue to rely heavily on American funding as the U.S. troop drawdown accelerates, forcing them to take on more responsibility. Last summer Google chief executive Eric Schmidt declared that in the future people would need to change their…
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The 2013 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the Observer is now open for entries. This year, our blog to accompany the prize asks some top science writers about their craft. First up, former Guardian science editor Tim RadfordWhat makes a good science story? Good science stories are hard to…
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The woman President Obama has chosen to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court has never been a judge — not that it was of her own choosing. Kirk Cousins threw two touchdown passes to Blair White in the third quarter Saturday to spark Michigan State to a 24-14 victory over visiting Northwestern. The…
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Jon Stewart has, at least for one night, signed on to transform himself from Hollywood outsider to A-list insider. “Welcome back” are two words you’d really rather not hear at a hospital, especially if you’ve just been discharged. Yet one in five Medicare patients found themselves back in the hospital within 30 days of leaving…
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One is a scruffy rabble-rouser, the other is a clean-shaven Islamist, but they are united in their fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. President Obama on Friday offered only tempered support for Libya’s rebels and played down the feasibility of Western military intervention to aid their cause, raising questions about how far he is willing…
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