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<h2 class="no-left"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-outlines-new-rules-for-drones/2013/05/23/1b5918e6-c3cb-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html">Obama pledges new limits on drone strikes</a></h2>
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Scott Wilson and Greg Miller <span class="timestamp pre" id="ts_74588961420789355_1371718804064" epochtime="1369339380000" channel="wp.com/utils/elections2012" contenttype="promo"></span></p>
<p>In major speech, the president says the country “went off course” after Sept. 11.</p><div class="clear"></div>
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<h2 class="no-left"><a href="/local/area-catholics-embrace-symbolism-of-the-election-of-first-latin-american-pope/2013/03/13/b8ed6dd8-8c1b-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html">D.C. Catholics embrace symbolism of first Latin American pope</a></h2>
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Michelle Boorstein <span class="timestamp pre" id="ts_7617024295294796_1371718804139" epochtime="1363228268000" channel="wp.com/utils/elections2012" contenttype="article"></span></p>
<p>Election of an unprecedented pope pumps immediate energy into the American Catholic Church. </p><div class="clear"></div>
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<div class="topper"><div class="topper-title headline-style x-large no-subtitle"><p class="heading heading2"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/intelligence-leaders-push-back-on-leakers-media/2013/06/09/fff80160-d122-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html">Source of NSA leak reveals himself</a></p></div></div><h2 class="no-left"><a href="/politics/intelligence-leaders-push-back-on-leakers-media/2013/06/09/fff80160-d122-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html">Man who leaked NSA secrets reveals himself</a></h2>
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Barton Gellman, Aaron Blake and Greg Miller <span class="timestamp pre" id="ts_39792152115586363_1371718804234" epochtime="1370816400000" channel="wp.com/utils/elections2012" contenttype="article"></span></p>
<p>Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton employee, says he’s done nothing wrong in revealing government surveillance programs.</p><div class="clear"></div>
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<a href="/politics/us-officials-conclude-assad-used-chemical-weapons-on-syrian-opposition/2013/06/13/1affe9da-d46d-11e2-b3a2-3bf5eb37b9d0_story.html"><img src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/05/06/Foreign/Graphics/syriathumb-v2.jpg" alt="A look at the Syrian uprising nearly two years later. Thousands of Syrians have died and President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, despite numerous calls by the international community for him to step down." /></a>
<div class="clear"></div><p class="photo-caption">Thousands of Syrians have died since the uprising began in March 2011. Several efforts by the United Nations to end the violence have failed.</p></div>
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<p>WASHINGTON — US officials say the Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against the opposition seeking to overthrow him, crossing what President Barack Obama called a ‘red line’.</p></div>
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