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washingtonpost.com - Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty yesterday to taking part in a broad al Qaeda conspiracy that resulted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying Osama bin Laden personally instructed him to fly an airplane into the White House...

washingtonpost.com - Moving the Senate closer to a historic confrontation, the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee yesterday endorsed two of President Bush's most controversial nominees to federal appellate court, and Democrats vowed once again to use the filibuster to block their...

washingtonpost.com - MADRID, April 21 -- Two weeks before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a Syrian immigrant in Spain received a phone call from London. The caller reported that he had "entered the field of aviation" and that "classes were going well." He added, mysteriously, that "the throat...

washingtonpost.com - Two years ago this coming Thursday, the online music business stopped being a joke. When Apple Computer Inc. opened its iTunes Music Store for business on April 28, 2003, people finally had a song-downloads destination that didn't treat them like crooks but did provide a...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Insurgents with a heat-seeking missile shot down a helicopter north of the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing all six American security contractors and five others on board, according to U.S. officials and insurgents...

washingtonpost.com - No one, it turned out, wanted to relive the horror of that day when Wanda R. Alston, a close adviser to the mayor, was stabbed to death in her Northeast Washington home...

washingtonpost.com - The U.S. government plans to force foreign airlines flying over American soil to turn over the names of passengers on board or check the names against U.S. government watch lists in an effort to prevent terrorists from entering U.S. airspace...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 20 -- Behind the sealed doors of the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church burst into applause Tuesday afternoon when, after four rounds of voting, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger received more than the 77 votes needed to become pope...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 19 -- Joseph Ratzinger, a German-born cardinal and the Vatican's guardian of religious orthodoxy, was swiftly elected Tuesday by the College of Cardinals as the 265th leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI...

washingtonpost.com - MEXICO CITY, April 19 -- The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they...

washingtonpost.com - For the first time since it introduced the Food Guide Pyramid in 1992, the federal government yesterday unveiled a makeover of this well-known icon that emphasizes eating a variety of food, including healthful fat, and underscores the importance of physical activity...

washingtonpost.com - Corey Greenberg, tech editor for NBC's "Today" show, appeared last July to praise Apple's iPod as "a great portable musical player . . . the coolest-looking one" and suggested a compatible device to "share your music with other people." "This is the way to go," he declared...

washingtonpost.com - Zacarias Moussaoui has notified the government that he intends to plead guilty to his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and could enter the plea as early as this week if a judge finds him mentally competent, sources familiar with the case said yesterday...

washingtonpost.com - Brenda Ellis's day begins at 6:30 a.m., when she rousts her 11-year-old son, Imani, from bed, hustles him into the kitchen for breakfast and to the school bus by 7. Tianna, 13, and Dikia, 17, quickly follow. Then she's off, some days to a substitute-teaching job in Prince...

washingtonpost.com - In a recent Random Access, I referenced a study that concluded you can tell a lot about someone's personality by analyzing the playlists on his or her iPod. Not long after that, I found myself standing at a red light in midtown Manhattan noticing that nearly everyone around...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 17 -- The Shiite Muslim bloc leading the new Iraqi government will demand the removal of all top officials left over from the era of former president Saddam Hussein, a top official said. The move would be part of a purge that U.S. officials fear could oust...

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washingtonpost.com - Just three years after the largest and most serious shortage of childhood vaccines in two decades, the federal government's stockpile of childhood vaccines, designed as a buffer against shortages, is nearly empty -- and without immediate prospects of being filled...

washingtonpost.com - PARIS, April 15 -- Terrified people jumped to their deaths from windows early Friday as fire gutted a six-story budget hotel in the French capital's premier shopping district. The blaze killed at least 20 people, half of them children, and injured 59, according to police...

washingtonpost.com - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks, despite misgivings by some of his fellow Republicans and a possible Democratic backlash that could paralyze the chamber...