- William Branigin
- Staff Writer
William Branigin writes and edits breaking news. He previously was a reporter on the Post’s national and local staffs and spent 19 years overseas, reporting in Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East and Europe. Before joining the Post in 1979, he was a wire service reporter in Paris and a freelancer in Tehran and Beirut. He later served as the Post’s bureau chief in Bangkok, Mexico City and Manila.
Romney,Obama campaigns spar over GOP candidate’s tax returns
Mitt Romney’s campaign rejected an offer from the Obama camp to drop the issue if Romney would release five years of tax returns.
Romney, Obama duel over Medicare
Recriminations over Medicare come amid an increasingly testy back-and-forth over the tone of the 2012 election campaign.
FBI: Wade Michael Page killed himself
Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, shot himself in the head, the FBI said.
Sikh temple shooter identified
Police say Wade Michael Page killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Watchdog group says he was the leader of a skinhead band.
- Obama, Romney set aside campaign rhetoric to mourn shooting victims
- Navy jet crashes in Virginia Beach neighborhood
- Pressure mounts on House GOP over payroll tax measure
- Senate Democrats unveil scaled-back extension of payroll tax holiday
- Tehran embassy seizure, as in 1979, highlights rift with West
- Lawmakers urge supercommittee to ‘go big’ on deficit reduction
- Libyan government orders probe into Gaddafi’s death
- Obama sends troops to Africa to help fight Lord’s Resistance Army guerrilla group
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