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 Army Lists the 13 Victims 

They range in age from 19 to 62

33 minutes ago

How Nicolas Cage Really Went Broke

Actor 'spent money
like it was water,'
friends say

1 hour, 52 minutes ago

Mosque Leader: 'There's Something Wrong With You'

Hasan struggled with how to counsel soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan

2 hours, 22 minutes ago
fort hood shoooting

 It's Not 
 Her First 
 Time as 
 'Hero' 

Munley saved a fellow officer while a cop in NC

3 hours, 0 minutes ago

Palin Warns Again of 'Rationed' Care

Abortion mindset could be applied to elderly and disabled, she says

3 hours, 27 minutes ago

 Orlando 
 Shooter's 
 Mom: 'I Am 
 So Sorry' 

Suspect's lawyer calls him 'very, very mentally ill'

4 hours, 13 minutes ago
heatlh care push

 Obama:  
 'Let's Finish the Job' 

President rallies Democrats as House debates bill

5 hours, 4 minutes ago

 Boyle to Sing on 
 Dancing With the Stars 

Scottish sensation flying to LA next week

5 hours, 30 minutes ago
analysis

Fast-Food Star of
Recession: $5 Footlong

Subway is rewarded for listening to franchisee

6 hours, 4 minutes ago
opinion

 High School Seniors: 
 Skip College 

Taking a year off makes sense for most

6 hours, 41 minutes ago
opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

7 hours, 24 minutes ago

 Cantor: 
 Limbaugh's 
 Hitler Rhetoric 
 Not 'Helpful' 

House Republican whip makes rare criticism of mighty Rush

7 hours, 53 minutes ago

Military Needs Muslims
—and Worries About Them

Fort Hood shooter reflects conflicted loyalties, pressures 

7 hours, 58 minutes ago

House Opens Debate
on Health Care Bill

Final vote is expected sometime tonight

8 hours, 27 minutes ago

 NATO Airstrike Kills 
 7 Afghan Soldiers 

Mistaken assault on joint NATO, Afghan base

9 hours, 9 minutes ago

 Joe Jackson Asks 
 Estate for Allowance 

Michael left dad out of the will, but supported him for years

9 hours, 34 minutes ago

 Afghans Cool to 
 US Troop Increase 

Doubting Taliban can be defeated, they want foreigners out

10 hours, 4 minutes ago
SIT, STAY, KNEEL

 LA Church Adds Dogs to Flock 

First service attracts quite a pack

10 hours, 43 minutes ago

 Fla. Shooter Was Broke, 
 Angry at Company 

Engineer, now working at Subway, says firm 'left me to rot'

10 hours, 55 minutes ago

Health Care Reform Hinges on House Abortion Vote

Stupak amendment blocks private insurers offering procedure

11 hours, 33 minutes ago
YES, THOSE ARE UDDERS

 The World's 10 Weirdest Eats 

From chicken knees to grub guts, someone considers them a delicacy

11 hours, 48 minutes ago

Babies Cry in Their Parents' Language

Within 3 days, French, German infants wail differently

12 hours, 35 minutes ago
FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 At Vigil, A Reminder 
 'to Keep Breathing' 

Hundreds attend Fort Hood's first gathering since shooting

Nov 6, 09 8:58 PM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

9
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

13
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

24
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

15
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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