Click to watch video Oregon truffles fare well in blind tastings against their European counterparts. Meet Jack Czarnecki, a mushroom forager, oil maker and restaurateur who's making it his mission to raise the profile of his native treasure.

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Hunting the elusive truffle – in Oregon

The first and only time I met Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., he was still undercover and in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s all-powerful operations directorate. The agency had summoned me to its Langley headquarters and his mission was to talk me out of running an article I had just finished reporting about CIA secret prisons — the “black sites” abroad where the agency put al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be interrogated in isolation, beyond the reach and protections of U.S. law. Read full article > >

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Former CIA spy boss made an unhesitating call to destroy interrogation tapes

MPs say spending cuts raise concerns over the UK’s ability to launch another mission on the same scale as the operation in Libya.

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Libya mission ‘could be one-off’

For longer than I care to remember, the following items have occupied the top spots on my New Year’s resolutions list: exercise every day, organize the basement and find the perfect daily planner. While I can almost guarantee the first two items will make a repeat appearance in 2013, I have made it my mission to scratch the last one off my list for good. Read full article > >

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Daily planners: paper or electronic?

Arab League observers begin a second day of trying to monitor the situation in Syria, after a turbulent start to their mission in Homs.

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BERKELEY, Calif. — Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent. At the University of Michigan, it has declined from 48 percent to 17 percent. Read full article > >

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UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril

MOSCOW — The European Space Agency has received the first signal from an unmanned Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars since it got stuck in Earth’s orbit two weeks ago, officials said Wednesday, raising hope the mission might be saved. Russia’s space agency said an ESA tracking facility in Australia got the signal from the Phobos-Ground probe early Wednesday in the western city of Perth. Read full article > >

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Europe Space Agency receives 1st signal from Russia’s Mars moon probe stuck in Earth orbit

As NATO Mission Ends.

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Libya Elects New Prime Minister

The British embassy in Kuwait suspends its services because of an increased threat towards the mission, an online statement says.

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Kuwait ‘threat’ hits UK embassy

JERUSALEM — Nearly all the staff have been cleared out of the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital ahead of an anti-Israel protest in Amman on Thursday, for fear the mission could be attacked like the Israeli embassy in Cairo was last week, Israeli newspapers and radio stations reported. A convoy transporting the Israeli diplomats left Jordan for Israel overnight, the Haaretz newspaper said. Read full article > >

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Feeding the hungry is the mission at Manna Food Center, a food bank in the suburbs of the nation’s capital. This year, officials here are seeing more and more people who need their help.

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Demand climbs at U.S. food banks

Google Paul Revere and you might find on Wikipedia that the mission of his midnight ride was “to warn the British that were already there… That, hey, you’re not going to succeed.” It’s one of dozens of changes that were made to Revere’s Wiki page…

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Paul Revere’s Wiki Page Altered

It’s time for some serious diplomacy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Admiral Mike Mullen made a surprise trip to Pakistan aimed at calming tensions between he two countries following the mission against Osama bin Laden. Their meeting with…

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The UK is to send four Apache attack helicopters to join the mission in Libya, amid intelligence suggesting Col Muammar Gaddafi is “on the run”.

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UK Apaches to join Libya mission

Members of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that attacked Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound were wearing helmet-mounted digital cameras that recorded the mission, a U.S. military official told CNN Friday.

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SEALs in raid had helmet-cams