RICHMOND — Virginia will likely become the second state in the nation — after North Dakota — to allow private adoption agencies to turn away parents based on sexual orientation or religious and moral beliefs. Read full article > >

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Virginia adding ‘conscience clause’ to adoption laws

The charges against DocX, which provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the nation, are one of the few criminal actions to follow reports of widespread improprieties against homeowners.

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DocX Faces Foreclosure Fraud Charges in Missouri

The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services. Read full article > >

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Why Komen defunded Planned Parenthood

From a courtroom in Manhattan, not far from the epicenter of the nation’s financial crisis, a longtime federal judge is becoming a hero to many and a nightmare to some for demanding greater accountability in cases of alleged Wall Street fraud. Read full article > >

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Judge Jed Rakoff on free love, the death penalty, defending crooks and Wall Street justice

Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An open conflict between Pakistan’s civilian government and armed forces simmered Thursday as the nation’s top generals convened an emergency meeting and besieged President Asif Ali Zardari made a sudden trip abroad. Read full article > >

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Pakistani president travels abroad amid civil-military rift

As Greece’s economy plunges and unemployment rises, many Greeks are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich agricultural past as a guide to the future.

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Amid Economic Strife, Greeks Look to Farming Past

Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Continuing his push to identify more historic sites important to the nation’s Hispanics, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to tout a new report Wednesday identifying several sites tied to Latino heritage in Colorado and New Mexico that could one day become national parks or historic landmarks. Read full article > >

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Latino sites identified as potential national parks

Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Continuing his push to identify more historic sites important to the nation’s Hispanics, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to tout a new report Wednesday identifying several sites tied to Latino heritage in Colorado and New Mexico that could one day become national parks or historic landmarks. Read full article > >

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Latino sites identified as potential national parks

Nevermind that it’s a federal holiday. And nevermind that the vast majority of Washington area schoolchildren will be snoozing late, savoring their last day of winter break. On Monday morning, a few students are headed to class. Schools opened their doors Jan. 2 in Alexandria and Howard, St. Mary’s and Charles counties, while elsewhere in the region — and in eight of the nation’s 10 largest school systems — students are free to enjoy the nation’s official celebration of New Year’s Day. Read full article > >

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Some students, parents left asking: What holiday?

Tea Obreht still dreams in Serbian, but it’s the waking memories of her lost homeland that have captured the nation’s literary imagination. The author of “ The Tiger’s Wife ,” a tale of dark realism and darker myths in the war-ravaged Balkans, has seen her debut novel rack up sales, awards and critical acclaim . Now, according to an industry newsletter’s tabulation of “best of” lists, it has the unofficial title of “the runaway book of the year.” Read full article > >

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Tea Obreht, author of ‘Tiger’s Wife,’ is on many year-end best-of lists

After a year-long effort to account for every grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Army officials said Thursday that there might be problems, some as minor as typographical errors in paper records, with nearly 65,000 sites — or one-quarter of the graves at the nation’s most prominent military burial ground. Read full article > >

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Problems possible with nearly 65,000 Arlington graves, report says

SAN FRANCISCO — Salvation Army volunteers around the nation have beaten the charitable organization’s 36-hour record for continuous hand bell ringing without food or sleep. And at least six of them, including a volunteer in San Francisco, were still ringing away next to their red kettles on Saturday morning — more than 12 hours after the record was broken. Read full article > >

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Salvation Army volunteers pass organization’s 36-hour bell-ringing record

Occupy Wall Street went down last month. Then came Philadelphia and Baltimore. As officials shut down Occupy encampments around the country, protesters streamed into the District, eager to join the movement in the nation’s capital, where protesters have so far enjoyed protection from supportive local and national police. Read full article > >

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As Occupy D.C. movement grows, so does tension

TWO YEARS AGO, on Dec. 14, 2009, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou pledged that his debt-ridden country would “address and resolve, once and for all, deep-rooted problems that are holding the nation back.” As if to mark the anniversary, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brought out a report this week whose main conclusion is that Greece is not only not reforming fast enough but “falling behind across a range of policies.” Read full article > >

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Two years later, Greece is no closer to a fiscal solution