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During Saturday's proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks -- including Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive by Indian authorities during the strikes -- as "absconders," sources said.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Islamabad saw India's offer of talks "positively," saying solutions to problems between the two countries cannot be found through wars.

Justifying his decision on Iraq, former US President George W Bush said on Friday said dislodging of the "brutal dictator" Saddam Hussain was a necessity after 9/11 attacks but regretted that military had to be used to do so as

The recent attacks are a sign that Pakistan's Taliban see civilian targets as fair game. Brace for more terror to come.

The death of a millionaire opposition leader in Ingushetia is just more evidence that the region is at war.

Unable to move beyond his ultra-liberal image and far behind his rival in fundraising, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropped his bid to become governor, leaving former governor Jerry Brown as the only Democrat in the race to succeed Gov.

The Obama White House on Friday said the $787-billion economic stimulus plan approved early this year had saved or created 640,329 jobs so far.

Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull out of next week's presidential runoff, a person with knowledge of the talks said Friday.

President Barack Obama on Friday discussed a commander's request for more troops for Afghanistan with the Pentagon top brass in a sign his lengthy strategy review was getting closer to the end.

Tugged in different political directions, the White House is seeking credit for good economic news and trying to escape blame for the bad stuff.

Surprising, if not shocking, news from the this morning: Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence parties candidate, announced Saturday that she is suspending her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District and releasing all her supporters. The state Assemblywoman has not

Many times in science we've thought we had a complete understanding of some nook and cranny in nature. Only to discover we were actually seeing a subset of a much wider and deeper context. It is this uncertainty that some

Finally, says President Obama in his weekly address, I get to deliver some "better news" for a change: Thursday's GDP report, Recovery Act successes and clean energy investments. And he's not shy about taking credit for "blunting the worst of

Here's a result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is "more responsible for the current state of the economy," only 18 percent say President Obama. Fifty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush. Nine percent blame both

Rangers du jour: grog, Got a Grip, mtperson, noddem, and jennyjem, with jlms qkw waving the editor's wand. LiberalKentuckian looks at Canada's better-late-than-never effort to protect natural habitat while cutting carbon emissions in (grog) rhetoricus gives the right a nice

As some of you might have noticed last night, the bulk of the attention of the wrap will be dedicated to Tuesday night's contests. Everything else (i.e. the 2010 stuff) will be located "In Other News...." for the time being.

From the folks at Think Progress, a conservative , after the White House released visitor logs from the first six months of the Obama presidency: Except for one tiny detail -- White House ethics counselor Norm Eisen: Given this large

Why has it historically been so tough to keep House progressives standing strong and using the leverage of their voting bloc to extract concessions on important legislation the way Blue Dogs have been able to? Part of the reason is

Coming up on Sunday Kos .... Recently, Plutonium Page has been blogging about specific issues related to nuclear non-proliferation. On Sunday, she will step back and get a good look at the bigger picture, in an exclusive interview with the