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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 -- Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there has been recalled over concerns about E. coli contamination. ]]></description><author>Rachel Konrad</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ In N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800817.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800817.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- Two major American Jewish organizations helped block a prominent New York University historian from speaking at the Polish consulate here last week, saying the academic was too critical of Israel and American Jewry. ]]></description><author>Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Community Will Destroy Amish Schoolhouse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800763.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800763.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NICKEL MINES, Pa., Oct. 8 -- The one-room Amish schoolhouse where five young girls were shot to death and five more were wounded last week will be torn or burned down and rebuilt elsewhere, according to a member of the close-knit community. ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ NATION IN BRIEF ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700802.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700802.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GEORGETOWN, Pa. -- Dozens of Amish neighbors came out Saturday to mourn the milkman who killed five young girls and wounded five more last Monday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192258503" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192258503" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Attempting to Reshape Fishing Rules ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700818.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700818.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Working fishing boats cram this city's docks, brightly painted vessels with names like "Let It Ride" and "Fearless." But tied up alongside them are plenty of rusting vessels that have not shipped out in years, stark reminders of the sea's fickle bounty. ]]></description><author>Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ New Aircraft Carrier Christened In Honor of George H.W. Bush ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700962.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700962.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 7 -- Despite a steady downpour that chilled thousands gathered Saturday in the shipyard here, President Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, basked in the warm embrace of extended family and friends as they celebrated the christening of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named... ]]></description><author>Michael Abramowitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Casualties in Iraq Rise Sharply ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700907.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700907.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war. ]]></description><author>Ann Scott Tyson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Picking Up the Pieces of Slain Troops' Lives ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601887.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601887.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192259614" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192259614" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Justices to Review Reimposed Death Sentence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601358.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601358.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence the justices had previously overturned. ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Cunningham's Wife to Pay U.S. $1.6 Million ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601434.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601434.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SAN DIEGO, Oct. 6 -- The estranged wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham will pay $1.6 million in back taxes and penalties for her role in the bribery scandal that landed him in prison, according to a settlement filed Friday. ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ New Orleans Judge Frees 4 Amid Backlog ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601782.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601782.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6 -- A judge upset by a backlog of cases decided to release four New Orleans inmates from jail Friday and postpone their trials until they can get adequate representation from the spread-thin public defender's office. ]]></description><author>Mary Foster</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Opportunity's Panoramas of Martian Crater Thrill Scientists ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600659.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600659.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Mars rover Opportunity yesterday sent back its first color panorama of the large Martian crater it reached last week after a 21-month trek, and NASA scientists could barely contain their excitement about what they saw.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192300126" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192300126" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Sailor Details Killing of Iraqi Civilian ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600132.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600132.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., Oct. 6 -- Eight members of a Marine squad planned to kill a suspected Iraqi insurgent and developed a cover story before their April raid, but when they could not find their target, they pulled a neighbor from his bed and shot him to death instead, a Navy medic who was part... ]]></description><author>Sonya Geis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ 4,000 Iraqi Police Killed  In 2 Years, U.S. Official Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600470.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600470.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Iraqi police have suffered 4,000 killed and 8,000 wounded over the past two years as the fledgling force grapples with wartime problems including corruption and infiltration by sectarian militia, a U.S. commander said yesterday. ]]></description><author>Ann Scott Tyson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ U.N. Council Urges N. Korea Not to Conduct Nuclear Test ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601158.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601158.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 6 -- The U.N. Security Council issued a statement Friday expressing "deep concern" about North Korea's threat to conduct its first test of a nuclear explosive, saying it would "jeopardize peace, stability and security in the region and beyond." ]]></description><author>Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ NATION IN BRIEF ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601431.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601431.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TAMPA -- Investigators believe botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice paralyzed a woman, the fourth person thought to have been poisoned by bacteria in the drink.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192301242" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192301242" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Balks at Criteria for FEMA Director ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601527.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601527.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush reserved the right to ignore key changes in Congress's overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- including a requirement to appoint someone with experience handling disasters as the agency's head -- in setting aside dozens of provisions contained in a major homeland... ]]></description><author>Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Probe of Anthrax Attacks Casts Shadow on Brothers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601554.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601554.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHESTER, Pa. -- On Nov. 15, 2001, Irshad and Masood Shaikh found themselves standing under the darkest cloud imaginable: The brothers had become suspects in the worst bioterrorism attack in American history. ]]></description><author>Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Victim Advocates, Fla. Diocese Urge Foley to Name Alleged Abuser ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600937.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600937.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Roman Catholic diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., and national advocacy groups for victims of sexual abuse called yesterday for former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to give police the name of the clergyman who allegedly abused him as a teenager. ]]></description><author>Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601499.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601499.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in the Valerie Plame leak case.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192302322" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4192302322" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ N.C. Plant Fire Forces Thousands to Evacuate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600213.html?nav=rss_nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600213.html?nav=rss_nation</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ APEX, N.C., Oct. 6 -- A chemical fire and plume of toxic chlorine gas forced thousands of residents of this Raleigh suburb from their homes Thursday night, closed schools and downtown businesses on Friday, and defied firefighters' attempts to put the blaze under control. ]]></description><author>Sylvia Adcock</author></item></channel></rss>