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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Big Iraq Gamble]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the president prepares for his own version of "mission accomplished" Tuesday, the Iraqi government remains deadlocked, the country experiences a surge in violence, less-than-friendly countries are rushing to fill the power vacuum, and al Qaeda is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 McChrystal Successors]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ABC News says Gen. McChrystal told the Obama administration that he's "compromised the mission." The two met for 30 minutes Wednesday morning, with no indication yet if the general had the president's backing. The White House has also reportedly...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biggest Oil Spill Demagogues]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The BP disaster has produced plenty of outrage-and outrageous statements. The Daily Beast looks at the politicians stirred to new heights-or depths-of rhetorical excess during the crisis. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Can This Man Govern Iraq?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Secularist challenger Ayad Allawi won a narrow victory, but with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attempting to form his own governing majority, the outcome remains up in the air. The Daily Beast looks at what's next.

Photo: Khalid Mohammed / AP Photo]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Stop Health Care]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the final vote on health care looms, the right is plotting ways to overturn a Democratic win. From a funding freeze to the courts to state legislatures, The Daily Beast examines the options. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The House Is the Problem Now]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With Thursday's summit between President Obama and Republicans expected to produce no real breakthroughs, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is warning that he may lack the votes to pass health-care reform. "We may not be able to do all. I hope we can...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Backstage at the State of the Union]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The five people-besides the president-who are key to Wednesday's big-time address.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:53:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Nail-Biter in Massachusetts]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tuesday's election for Ted Kennedy's seat could alter the fate of the health-care bill. Can Obama save Martha Coakley? And what can Dems do if she loses? A guide to the Senate nail-biter.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:43:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind Wall Street's Bonus Boom]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As 2009's bonus season arrives, The Daily Beast examines how this year's payouts got so big, the political fallout-and why huge bonuses may not be a bad thing after all.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will the Bubble Pop Again in 2010?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The stock market made a historic recovery in the past six months, but can it keep it up for the new year? Some analysts say it's unsustainable, as low interest rates can only do so much, and there are signs that another bubble may be right around the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:51:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will We Rebound in 2010?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[2009 brought a slow, painful recovery from the economic collapse of 2008. Will things pick up in 2010, or is today the calm before a second storm? Six takes on what the future holds.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:57:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Attack on Christmas]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Nigerian man with possible al Qaeda ties is accused of igniting an explosive device on a jetliner to Detroit on Christmas Day. The Daily Beast on the man accused of the crime, the heroic passengers who stopped him, and the spate of terror attacks on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:08:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Health-Care End Game]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Senate approaches a tentative Christmas Eve vote on health-care legislation, The Daily Beast looks at the remaining pitfalls and the new battles, as the bill enters its final stages.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:39:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Goes to the Hill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the president meets with senators on Sunday, and lead negotiator Max Baucus faces a scandal, here's what has to happen for health care to pass before the new Christmas deadline.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:45:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Could Still Fail]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Senate on Wednesday put forward its health-care bill. The Daily Beast looks at the six major obstacles to reform.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:05:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Asian Mission]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president departs for the Far East today. From China's economic might to Japan's atomic legacy to Myanmar's human rights record, the toughest issues he will confront along the way. Plus, Alex Massie on why Obama skipped the Berlin Wall anniversary.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:31:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Election Day 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast checks out the hot campaigns around the country: the GOP's likely romp in Virginia, a crucial gay-marriage vote in Maine, and an historic moment in Atlanta.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:01:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Agony of the Olympics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obamas are in Denmark to the nab the Games for Chicago in 2016. The Daily Beast looks at the violent crime, red ink, and-yes-orgies that will inevitably follow.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:35:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Climate Wars]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama will put the U.S. on a new course toward climate change with a speech to the U.N. today. But with China and Europe already skeptical, is it too little too late?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:53:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Politics and Candor Collide]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama said it off the record,  but his branding of Kanye West as a "jackass" went public. It wasn't the first time a Washington power player's whisper became an unwelcome soundbyte. 
PLUS: Listen to Obama calling Kanye a "jackass."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:03:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who Will Replace Stevens?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the Court, has announced that he will retire at the end of this summer. Stevens, who is 11 days shy of his 90th birthday, said he hopes his successor is confirmed "well in advance of the commencement of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Dick Cheney's White House Assault]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's an oft-cited tradition that presidents and vice presidents lay off their successors once they've left office. But Dick Cheney is merely the latest in a parade of former White House occupants who have played armchair quarterback on a national scale.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:46:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unraveling the CIA Scandal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department will investigate alleged abuses by CIA officers under the Bush administration after newly released reports suggested interrogators threatened prisoners with power drills and mock executions. But will the independent prosecutor...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liberal Freakout]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[First the centrist wing of Obama's party didn't like his health-care plan-but now, with new concessions to the Blue Dogs, insurers, and other interest groups, liberals claim they're the disenfranchised ones. Is Obama losing his liberal stronghold? The...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oprah's Risky Business]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With two dead at a frequent Oprah guest's spiritual retreat and another ex-employee filing a lawsuit, The Daily Beast revisits some of the talk show host's questionable moments, from broadcasting shaky medical advice to her KFC coupon debacle.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:25:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP Protesters Invade Town Halls]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How quickly things change: After years of deriding anti-Bush protesters as kooks, enthusiastic conservatives are organizing to block health-care reform. Can they scuttle the White House agenda-or are their raucous gatherings sabotaging their own cause? ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:57:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Conspiracy Boom]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nearly 58% of the GOP doubts Obama was born in the U.S., but how does that compare to FEMA concentration camps and national bans on eating meat? The Daily Beast presents the kookiest claims in politics.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:47:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Real Is Domestic Terror?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The arrest of North Carolina men who allegedly trained with Islamic jihadists raises new questions about home-grown terror. The Daily Beast on how scared you should really be. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:58:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The White House's Greatest Drinkers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In sharing a beer with Skip Gates and James Crowley, Obama is joining a long tradition of presidents who indulged in the occasional drink. From FDR mixing martinis with Stalin to Nixon hitting the bottle during a nuclear alert, we offer you the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:06:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Health-Care Debate Gets Nasty]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[So much for bipartisanship: Obama's getting aggressive, Steele is talking smack, and a GOP senator is planning the president's "Waterloo." The latest left and right hooks out of Washington.]]></description>
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