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President Obama left the chill of Washington on Thursday to stump for a pair of ailing Democratic Senators in Western battleground states. In Denver, Obama flexed his fundraising muscles at a pair of events for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado before heading to Nevada, where Senate majority leader Harry Reid is locked in a bitter contest. Democrats are hoping the sojourn, which comes on the heels of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh's surprise announcement that he will not stand for re-election this fall, will bolster the campaigns of two vulnerable candidates whose races could be key in preserving...
...Trent Lott has set up a lobbying shop with former Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat. Florida Democrat Bob Graham left Congress in 2005 and joined with retired Republican Senator Jim Talent of Missouri to work on a national commission on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. On Thursday, Feb. 18, President Obama announced that former Republican Senator Alan Simpson would join with former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, to lead a commission on tackling the deficit...
...recent months, Kutu Palong has become a refuge from a brutal crackdown on the Rohingya, according to a report issued Thursday by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). More than 6000 people have arrived in the camp since October as police and border authorities have launched an unprecedented crackdown in Bangladesh, pushing over 2,000 Rohingya back across the border into Burma. More than 500 were arrested around the country in January alone. MSF doctors working in Kutu Palong say they have been treating Rohingya who have been beaten and raped. "[Border guards] broke my fingers and then...
...recent weeks, China's government made it clear that any meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama threatened to further damage already tense Sino-U.S. relations. But after the President held an hour-long talk on Thursday at the White House with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the reaction from Beijing was relatively muted. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...
...Where was that sense of daring and anxiety-triggering anticipation in the men's figure-skating final on Thursday? It certainly wasn't much in evidence on the ice in the Pacific Coliseum. There was great skating, certainly - American Evan Lysacek skated a solid, clean program that earned him enough points to skate past heavy favorite Evgeni Plushenko of Russia and cinch the gold. The right man won, no doubt. But the entire night, I felt something was missing. We didn't see anything akin to the inspired performance Sarah Hughes gave in 2002 in Salt Lake City to best...