The way annuities are sold is costing half a million retirees each year as much as £1bn in future pension income, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

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Annuity sales ‘unfair and opaque’

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

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Loans boss ‘to pay tax at source’

There is a good bit of confusion about how Florida will award its delegates following today’s primary. So, to clear things up, here’s where we stand: A new Republican National Committee rule says that no state holding its presidential contest before April is allowed to award its delegates to the national convention on a winner-take-all basis. Read full article > >

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Florida primary’s winner-take-all delegate situation, explained

The National Park Service said Friday that it will begin enforcing its long-standing regulation prohibiting camping on federal parkland at the Occupy sites at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza at noon Monday. Read full article > >

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Occupy D.C. must stop camping overnight on Monday, Park Service says

Two exhibitions, one at the National Museum of American History and the other at Monticello, explore Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with slavery.

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Exhibition Review: Smithsonian and Monticello Exhibitions on Jefferson’s Slaves

The National Audit Office criticises an £80m Home Office programme to equip police forces with Blackberrys and other mobile devices.

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Blackberrys for police criticised

The National Audit Office criticises an £80m Home Office programme to equip police forces with Blackberrys and other mobile devices.

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Blackberrys for police criticised

We’ve got our list of the best events you should check out this weekend . Some of our favorites: the reopening of the French Galleries at the National Gallery of Art, a parade to mark the early days of the Year of the Dragon and Monster Jam at the Verizon Center. Read full article > >

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Plan your weekend: Chinese New Year Parade, French Galleries

The government has overestimated the number of people who will be helped back into employment by its work programme, the National Audit Office says.

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Warning over back-to-work scheme

This post has been updated. Just over a year ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) sat outside a Tucson Safeway meeting with constituents. A hail of bullets ended the meeting, killing six people and greviously injuring Giffords. Read full article > >

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Gabrielle Giffords finishes ‘Congress On Your Corner’ meeting

The Washington Monument will probably remain closed until well into next year as workers repair earthquake damage, officials said Thursday. The repairs on the shuttered monument are unlikely to start until late summer at the earliest, the National Park Service said. Read full article > >

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Washington Monument to remain closed until next year

Paula Deen’s announcement that she has Type 2 diabetes has added impetus to the debate on the national diet.

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Paula Deen Says She Has Type 2 Diabetes

Israel faced an escalating cyber war on Monday as unknown attackers disrupted access to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline.

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HSINCHU, TAIWAN — As candidates raced around Taiwan in a final push for votes in a Saturday election, students visiting from China — who have never had a vote — crammed into classroom at National Tsing Hua University for a lecture on a subject not taught at home: why China, too, needs elections. Read full article > >

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Taiwan elections stir hope for Chinese democrats

The National Symphony Orchestra played a work Thursday night that took a pop-music approach to classical composition. Not because Steven Mackey’s “Beautiful Passing” — a violin concerto written for Leila Josefowicz in 2008 and performed by her with the orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu on Thursday — is explicitly pop in its approach. Indeed, for all its orchestral Sturm und Drang, its compositional material is almost demure. And not because Mackey, 55, is also known as an electric-guitar player. Read full article > >

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Conductor Hannu Lintu, violinist Leila Josefowicz shine in NSO show