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Machine-gun-toting fighters from the Free Syrian Army walk in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain along the Turkish border.

Have Syria's fractious rebels finally united?

November 12, 2012, at 10:55 AM

As the bloody civil war drags on, opposition groups form an umbrella organization to lead the fight against the Syrian regime

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Cartoon View: Syrian roundabout

The Bullpen: Why Obama will keep ignoring Syria in his second term

Lakhdar Brahimi, international peace envoy for Syria, announces on Oct. 24 that Bashar al-Assad's regime agreed to a holiday ceasefire with the rebels it has been fighting for 19 months.

The List: 3 ways the Syria ceasefire could go wrong

President Obama may be overshadowing George W. Bush as the president who finally nailed bin Laden, but some say the two statesmen should rightfully share the credit.

Bin Laden fallout: Is Obama slighting Bush?

May 6, 2011, at 10:40 AM

As the president who finally killed bin Laden, Obama is facing accusations that he's not sharing adequate credit with his predecessor, George W. Bush

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Cartoon View: Bush is in the right

Groups protesting former President Bush's visit were threatening to throw shoes at him, a reference to a notorious 2008 incident.

Instant Guide: Could George W. Bush face arrest in Switzerland?

In his memoir, Bush admits he gave orders to shoot down hijacked airliners on September 11.

Fact Sheet: Bush's memoir: 6 key revelations

President Obama makes his first remarks about the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack in the White House Rose Garden on Sept. 12. He vowed that the U.S. would not tolerate "acts of terror."

The Benghazi attack: Does it matter whether Obama calls it terrorism?

October 18, 2012, at 10:45 AM

In the eyes of many critics, the most baffling part of Mitt Romney's flubbed Libya offensive against President Obama is the Republican's focus on labels

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Cartoon View: Knowledge is power

America has some 8,000 drones in its arsenal today.

By the numbers: The rise of drone warfare: By the numbers

Fighters from the terror group Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb travel with a convoy in northern Mali on Aug. 7.

In-depth briefing: North Africa: The next Afghanistan?

A student takes a nap while studying: The price of a college education has nearly doubled since 1995, far outpacing inflation.

Is college a bad investment?

September 12, 2012, at 11:55 AM

With tuition rising and jobs disappearing, says Megan McArdle at The Daily Beast, many students are leaving campus worse off than when they arrived

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Cartoon View: Losing the college draw

The company Coursera has teamed up with 16 universities (including Stanford, Duke, and Princeton) to offer more than 100 free online courses to anyone with internet access.

In-depth briefing: Virtual Princeton: A guide to free online Ivy League classes

Syracuse University graduates during their commencement: Professor Luigi Zingales says we could extinguish student debt by having venture capitalists "fincance students' education with equity."

Best Column: Why investors should be allowed to buy 'stock' in college kids

Marissa Mayer at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012 on May 22 in New York City: Mayer just gave birth to her first child, and is taking a maternity leave of just a week or so before returning to Yahoo.

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer: The debate over her brief maternity leave

October 2, 2012, at 7:50 AM

Yahoo's recently minted boss just gave birth to her first child, but boiling under the huzzahs is a heated fight over her decision to take a shortened after-birth break

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Cartoon View: Teenage 'roid rage

: 'Mexican Barbie' and 10 other controversial Barbies [Updated]

Lexxa Ridley leans suggestively into the hood of her father's Datsun in a photo used to sell the aging car on eBay.

Photos: The Oregon dad who used his scantily clad daughter to sell his Datsun

"What if the dearth of good men, and ongoing battle of the sexes, is — hold on to your seats — women's fault?" wonders Suzanne Venker at Fox News.

4 hilariously sarcastic reactions to Fox's 'War on Men' column

November 26, 2012, at 2:35 PM

Fox's Suzanne Venker blames falling marriage rates on the rise of women, and the internet scoffs in disbelief

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Cartoon View: Jump to conclusions

Thomas Ricks, author of the new book The Generals, appears on Fox News for a mere 90 seconds before his interview was abruptly cut short.

Best Video: Fox News pulls the plug on guest Thomas Ricks: Was he being rude or honest?

Rupert Murdoch resignation from several News Corp. boards raises fresh speculation that he may be planning an eventual sale of his major newspapers.

Burning Question: Is Rupert Murdoch abandoning his newspaper empire?

A portrait of Beast will adorn the walls of the Magic Kingdom's new Be Our Guest restaurant, which will be the first at Disney World to offer beer and wine with dinner.

Disney World starts serving booze: About time?

September 18, 2012, at 7:47 AM

The Magic Kingdom has been totally dry for four decades. A new restaurant — in Fantasyland, appropriately enough — is about to change that

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Cartoon View: No avoiding it

Slideshow: 12 celebrities who got into the booze business [Updated]

Garrison Keillor during an interview in New York on Nov. 17, 1989 — seven years after he gave up smoking.

Essay: Garrison Keillor's triumph over addiction

Immigrant students rally against deportation Friday: President Obama will at least partially comply with their wishes, halting the deportation of law-abiding undocumented immigrants younger than 30.

Obama's immigration overhaul: Did he go too far?

June 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM

The president will no longer deport young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. when they were kids. Critics decry the move as election-year overreach

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Cartoon View: The first immigration reform

The Bullpen: It's time for the GOP to cut a deal on immigration

A man stares at an empty application for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Aug. 15, the first day President Obama's policy goes into effect.

Fact Sheet: Obama's immigration power play: 4 takeaways

Microsoft's Surface tablet boasts a (sold-separately) keyboard flap that turns the slab into a laptop of sorts.

Microsoft's Surface tablet: Finally, a worthy alternative to the iPad?

October 24, 2012, at 10:55 AM

The venerable tech company goes all in with its new keyboard-equipped, Windows-powered slab

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Cartoon View: Microsoft's dump

Windows President Steven Sinofsky (left) laughs with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a 2009 presentation. Sinofsky has abruptly resigned after 23 years at the company.

The List: The shocking departure of Microsoft's CEO-in-waiting: 4 talking points

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils the new Windows Phone 8 on Oct. 29.

Analysis: Microsoft's Windows Phone 8: An iPhone killer?

Whoever wins Tuesday will have little time to settle into the White House before he's confronted with "a host of terribly difficult economic issues," says Michael Sivy at TIME.

Will the economy rebound no matter who wins the presidency?

November 5, 2012, at 2:28 PM

The central question of the campaign has been which candidate would return the nation to prosperity. But is our immediate economic future out of their hands?

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Cartoon View: Federal foreclosures

A shopper pays for her purchases during a Black Friday sale at a Target in Braintree, Mass.

Analysis: What Black Friday says about the economic recovery

The Bullpen: The incredible shrinking manufacturing sector

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up a Kindle Paperwhite during an event on Sept. 6: The new e-reader is winning (mostly) rave reviews from tech critics.

Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite: The new must-have e-reader?

October 1, 2012, at 11:05 AM

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the Seattle-based e-tailer rolls out an impressively beautiful new reading device

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Cartoon View: Tablets: Ancient business

An Amazon employee sorts packages in Arizona: The online retailing giant's deep discounts may be problematic to its bottom line.

Burning Question: How long can Amazon go without making money?

Jeff Bezos' rocket makes a successful launch on Oct. 19.

Analysis: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' next conquest: Outer space?

The New York Jets' underperforming quarterback Tim Tebow has become one of the most polarizing athletes in professional sports.

Tim Tebow: The most overrated player in the NFL?

October 25, 2012, at 4:40 PM

Even many NFL players concede that Tebow is massively overhyped

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Cartoon View: Banking on a good call

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are widely expected to steamroll the middling New York Jets in the third of three Thanksgiving Classic football games on Thursday.

Instant Guide: The NFL's Thanksgiving Classic: A guide to the 90-year-old football tradition

The Bullpen: The incredible rise of Robert Griffin III

Wall Street and the 1 percent were banking on a Romney win. When he lost, the market dropped 300 points the next day.

Wall Street's bad election bet

November 16, 2012, at 6:11 AM

The Masters of the Universe overwhelmingly backed Mitt Romney. And after his landslide loss, they're stung by their startling lack of influence

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Cartoon View: Capitalism vs. the Left

A customer uses a Bank of America ATM in North Carolina: Bank of America allegedly had a hand in pushing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the brink of bankruptcy.

Instant Guide: 'The hustle': A guide to Bank of America's alleged mortgage fraud

In his first interview since publicly resigning from Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith tells Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that he hoped the op-ed would be a wake-up call.

Burning Question: Why I Left Goldman Sachs: Is the bank's most famous quitter a con man?

Mitt Romney: On the offensive in the intentionally muddied battle over who's doing the most damage to Medicare.

Who cuts Medicare more — Romney or Obama?

August 16, 2012, at 11:45 AM

After picking a running mate with an unpopular plan to overhaul Medicare, Mitt Romney turns the tables — declaring that Obama is the one who's gutting the program

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Cartoon View: A real commitment

House Speaker John Boehner has suggested that Republicans will require changes to ObamaCare as part of a debt deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

The List: 3 ways Republicans can still dismantle ObamaCare

The Bullpen: Everything you need to know about palliative care

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24: On the eve of his speech, the Iranian leader said Israel's threats were just noise.

Attacking Iran: Is Israel bluffing?

September 25, 2012, at 11:15 AM

Iran's president claims that Israel wouldn't dare launch air strikes to halt Tehran's nuclear program. Plenty of foreign policy analysts beg to differ

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Cartoon View: Bibi's animated offense

Iranians look on as a garbage can is set on fire in central Tehran on Wednesday, after the regime cracks down on black market currency trading.

Analysis: Iran's currency meltdown: How badly will it weaken the regime?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) speaks to his advisors after a media conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 26: In a speech at the U.N., he claimed that Iran was under threat from "hegemonic powers" seeking to undermine him.

Forecast: 3 reasons Tehran's mullahs may want Iran to get attacked

Nokia's "Here" map app allows users to download portions of maps for offline viewing.

The Apple Maps disaster: Can Nokia's 'Here' app save the day?

November 20, 2012, at 10:50 AM

The Finnish phonemaker's free mapping software makes its debut in the App Store today

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Cartoon View: A jump on the upgrade

A customer inspects the new iPhone 5 at an Apple Store in San Francisco on Sept. 21: Rival Android phones now represent 75 percent of the market.

Fact Sheet: 4 signs the iPhone is no longer the smartphone king

Customers line up outside an Apple store in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 21: Weekend sales figures of the iPhone 5, while technically record-breaking, don't reflect the fact that the phone was being sold in more countries than its predecessors were.

Analysis: Why investors still aren't sold on the iPhone 5: 4 theories

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