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Education Secretary Arne Duncan has historic amounts of money to work with thanks to the Obama Administration’s budget and stimulus package — but his first major decision, to order a full stop to the District of Columbia’s promising voucher program, receives a D- from even the Washington Post editorial board. So much for innovative solutions.

In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea’s missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed: “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somali pirates have captured their first American hostage, a cargo ship’s captain. They and their prisoner are drifting on a lifeboat without fuel, and are being tracked by a U.S. warship and other naval vessels in the area.

The new Israeli government led by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has raised many conflicting feelings among those concerned about the fate of the Arab-Israeli peace process. Will Netanyahu scuttle the little progress that was made under his predecessor Olmert, or will he engage the Palestinians anew? Questions about whether he will resume negotiations with Syria, […]