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washingtonpost.com - The burglar visited every room of Sara Scalenghe's Northwest Washington apartment, stealing an expensive digital camera and a gold necklace passed down from her grandmother. But Scalenghe did not begin seething until she confirmed her biggest fear: Her new iPod had been...

washingtonpost.com - Thirty-four long years of waiting for baseball in Washington ended last night at twilight, when nine young men in white Nationals uniforms jogged from the home team's dugout to the field at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and took their gloves from nine much older men...

washingtonpost.com - The House gave final passage yesterday to legislation intended to make it harder for consumers to wipe out debt through bankruptcy, clearing the way for President Bush to sign the bill into law as he has promised to do...

washingtonpost.com - Dean Phillips and Ron Gasbarri drove to the last game from Arlington in Dean's yellow '68 Charger with a protest sign made out of a bedsheet and bamboo they cut from Dean's yard...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 13 -- A distraught American hostage appeared on a television videotape with automatic weapons trained on his head Wednesday, a day that recalled the darker periods of Iraq's insurgency as bombs killed at least 14 people and U.S. Marines clashed with...

washingtonpost.com - KABUL, Afghanistan, April 13 -- President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that he was seeking a long-term security arrangement with the United States, but he declined to say whether it would include the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan...

washingtonpost.com - A dangerous strain of the flu virus that caused a worldwide pandemic in 1957 was sent to thousands of laboratories in the United States and around the world, triggering a frantic effort to destroy the samples to prevent an outbreak, health officials revealed yesterday...

washingtonpost.com - President Bush's nominee to be U.N. ambassador told senators yesterday that his caustic criticism of the United Nations in a speech a decade ago was designed to get his audience's attention and that "the United States is committed to the success" of the international body...

washingtonpost.com - CRAWFORD, Tex., April 11 -- President Bush told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday that the United States opposes Israel's plans to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and prodded him to stick to the U.S.-backed vision for peace in the Middle East...

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washingtonpost.com - During a meeting on North Korea in late 2001, John R. Bolton's repeated talk of overthrowing Kim Jong Il frustrated the State Department's specialist on the country. "Regime change" is not President Bush's declared objective in North Korea, Charles L. Pritchard recalled...

washingtonpost.com - The Washington area has not spent the majority of $145 million in anti-terrorism grants awarded by the federal government over the past three years, including funds earmarked for such critical items as hospital beds and protective gear for rescue workers...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 8 -- Before they carried Pope John Paul II through the Door of the Dead to his burial place in St. Peter's Basilica, the 12 Vatican pallbearers slowly turned his cypress coffin so he would face his flock one last time...

washingtonpost.com - Just a dozen years ago, laptop buyers had to think hard about whether it was worth spending all the extra money a color screen would cost. Then, seemingly overnight, that added price dwindled to nearly nothing, as color displays quickly became standard equipment...

washingtonpost.com - Eric Rudolph, the self-proclaimed survivalist who eluded federal capture for more than five years in the North Carolina woods, has agreed to plead guilty to four terrorist bombings, including the deadly explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the Justice Department...

washingtonpost.com - The Transportation Security Administration, once the flagship agency in the nation's $20 billion effort to protect air travelers, is now targeted for sharp cuts in its high-profile mission...

washingtonpost.com - GHARAF, Iraq -- Over the loudspeakers set up in this small town in a backwater of southern Iraq, the commands came in staccato bursts. "Forward!" a man clad in black shouted to the militiamen. "March!"...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 7 -- Iraq's new Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, took office Thursday and immediately offered an amnesty aimed at drawing in Sunni Muslims from an armed insurgency increasingly seen as faltering. He left open the possibility of forgiving insurgents who had...

washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 8 -- With his health already in serious decline, John Paul II appeared to have contemplated stepping down in 2000, according to his will, which the Vatican released Thursday during final preparations for a funeral of grandeur due a virtual monarch...

washingtonpost.com - The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night...