Jennifer Rubin: You get what you pay for, even on defense

Jennifer Rubin for The Washington Post Jun 12

It is distressing to see so little attention paid to the intersection of the defense budget and defense strategy (especially from the secretary of ...

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I need dinner and drinks near BWI. At midnight. Where should I go?

Alex Baldinger for The Washington Post Jun 12

We get dozens of questions from readers during our weekly Got Plans? chats -- more than we can answer in our allotted 60 minutes.

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VA says it has reached 'tipping point' in backlog struggle

The Washington Post Jun 12

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reached a "tipping point" in its struggle to get a grip on the massive backlog of disability claims plaguing ...

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Sylvia Day’s ‘Entwined With You,’ Dan Brown’s “Inferno” and Jim Gaffigan’s “Dad is Fat” tops …

The Washington Post Jun 14

PAPERBACK Fiction 1. ENTWINED WITH YOU (Berkley, $15). By Sylvia Day. Eva and Gideon face their own demons in the latest installment of the Crossfire ...

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Afghan president visits Qatar to discuss peace process, no meeting with Taliban

The Washington Post Jun 09

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president landed in Qatar Sunday to discuss his country’s stalled peace process and the possible opening of a ...

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Obama joins thousands on Memorial Day to honor the nation’s fallen troops

Jenna Johnson for The Washington Post May 28

In the hush of quiet prayers, in a bugler’s strains of taps, in a widow’s vigil at her husband’s grave and a president’s caution not to forget a war ...

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Car bomb outside Afghanistan’s Supreme Court kills at least 17

Kevin Sieff for The Washington Post Jun 11

KABUL — A car bomb Tuesday killed at least 17 civilians, most of them employees of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, in one of the deadliest attacks in ...

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