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<language>en-us</language><item><title>Budget dilemma pits raising revenues vs. spending cuts</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON TIMES: President Obama says the federal government needs more revenue, while House Minority Leader John A...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=15</link></item>
<item><title>U.S. eyes secession to keep peace in Sudan</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON TIMES: It was Africa's longest war, a horrific conflict between north and south Sudan that spanned some five decades and claimed millions of lives until a 2005 agreement brokered by the United States brought a semblance of peace...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=16</link></item>
<item><title>Audit of Priority Mail's ads: Doesn't 'fit'</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON TIMES: Made popular by the "If it fits, it ships" slogan in television ads, the Priority Mail initiative is seen as a bright spot during otherwise tough economic times for the U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=17</link></item>
<item><title>Political controversy over Islam surrounds 9/11 anniversary</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: For almost a decade, the annual commemoration of the terrorist attacks of Sept...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=18</link></item>
<item><title>Most Americans object to planned Islamic center near Ground Zero, poll finds</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: Most Americans say the planned Muslim community center and place of worship should not be built in Lower Manhattan, with the sensitive locale being their overwhelming objection, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=19</link></item>
<item><title>Evangelical leaders try to reach out to the pastor who plans to burn the Koran</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: Geoff Tunnicliffe heads one of the world's largest faith organizations - the World Evangelical Alliance - but on Wednesday morning, when he reached the Florida pastor planning to burn the Koran on Sept...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=20</link></item>
<item><title>World Economic Forum survey: Debt, financial crisis hurt U.S. competitiveness</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: Large deficits and a weakened financial system have made the United States less competitive in the global economy, the World Economic Forum said in its annual review of the competitiveness of countries...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=21</link></item>
<item><title>Emanuel's expected departure from Obama White House likely to be just the first</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: The expected departure of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to run for mayor of Chicago is likely to mark the beginning of a wider White House shake-up, officials said Wednesday, one aimed at helping the administration regain its footing in the aftermath of anticipated Democratic losses in the midterm elections and positioning President Obama for a tough 2012 reelection fight...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=22</link></item>
<item><title>Tibetans hopeful for Dalai Lama's return and help preserving their culture</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: In China, the Dalai Lama is officially a dangerous separatist and a "criminal," and his supporters are prohibited from discussing him or even displaying his picture...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=23</link></item>
<item><title>In its report on the gulf oil spill, BP spreads the blame</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: BP rolled out the results Wednesday of a four-month internal investigation into the causes of the April 20 blowout of its Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, spreading blame among its contractors and giving a glimpse of the defenses it might deploy in public and in court...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=24</link></item>
<item><title>Division over taxes leaves Obama and Dems with options
</title><description><![CDATA[THE HILL: President Obama on Wednesday doubled down on his position, personally calling for the phasing out of tax cuts for the rich in a high-profile speech in Cleveland...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=25</link></item>
<item><title>Wall Street fills coffers of top GOP candidates
</title><description><![CDATA[THE HILL: Wall Street and financial interests are putting their money behind a handful of top-tier Senate Republican candidates as the GOP looks to win back power in the midterm elections...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=26</link></item>
<item><title>Purple Hearts Elusive For Traumatic Brain Injuries</title><description><![CDATA[NPR: The U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=27</link></item>
<item><title>Facts Can't Trump Politics In Immigration Debate</title><description><![CDATA[NPR: A major national survey has found that the flow of unauthorized immigrants into the U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=28</link></item>
<item><title>Falling Rates Aid Debtors, but Hamper Savers</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: Households and corporations alike are refinancing their loans in droves to take advantage of interest rates that seem impossibly cheap...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=1</link></item>
<item><title>Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A.</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=2</link></item>
<item><title>NATO Drive on Kandahar Begins, With Mixed Results</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: The white flags of the Taliban no longer fly from neighborhoods in Kandahar City, as they did in some areas only two weeks ago, replaced instead by the red, black and green Afghan colors...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=3</link></item>
<item><title>Blair Memoir a Hit, Despite a Few Hard Knocks</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: “You are my 10th prime minister,” Queen Elizabeth observes to Tony Blair  when she meets him at Buckingham Palace on his first day in office in 1997, according to “A Journey: My Political Life,” Mr...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=4</link></item>
<item><title>For Emanuel, Temptation in the Form of a Dream Job</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: When Rahm Emanuel  was running for Congress on the North Side of Chicago, he would often make calls while he was out shaking hands near the city’s elevated trains, with their distinctive rumbling sending an unmistakable signal that he was standing in his district...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=5</link></item>
<item><title>Obama, in Rally Mode, Steps Up Jabs at G.O.P.</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: Seeking to rally his struggling party for the final weeks of the midterm election, President Obama delivered his most partisan speech of the campaign so far on Wednesday, casting Democrats as fighters for the middle class and Republicans as protectors of “millionaires and billionaires” and special interests...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=6</link></item>
<item><title>Health Plan Won’t Fuel Big Spending, Report Says</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing nor fueling the explosive growth of medical costs...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=7</link></item>
<item><title>BP Spill Report Hints at Legal Defense</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: BP spent months this summer trying to contain the gusher of oil  on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=8</link></item>
<item><title>Anger Flares in L.A. After Fatal Police Shooting</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: City officials and Guatemalan leaders have moved to calm feelings and quell anger after the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan construction worker by a Los Angeles police officer set off two nights of violent protests in a neighborhood populated largely by Central American immigrants...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=9</link></item>
<item><title>U.S. Says Killings Won’t Affect Iraq Mission</title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES: The killing of two American soldiers by an Iraqi soldier at a military base north of Baghdad was a “deliberate act” but would not undermine the new American mission to advise Iraq’s security forces, the American military said in a statement on Wednesday...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=10</link></item>
<item><title>U.S. healthcare costs projected to continue to climb</title><description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES TIMES: Pushed by a dramatic increase in the number of Americans who will get insurance under the new healthcare law, total U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=11</link></item>
<item><title>BP report on well disaster faults mechanical, human failures</title><description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES TIMES: An internal investigation released Wednesday by BP  concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 men and set in motion one of the world's worst oil spills...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=12</link></item>
<item><title>Chicagoan says he's identified America's first female cop</title><description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES TIMES: Her story had been lost amid dusty records that were long ago stashed in deep storage and forgotten...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=13</link></item>
<item><title>Obama takes aim at Republican policies</title><description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES TIMES: President Obama laid out a sweeping argument for retaining Democrats  and punishing Republicans  in the upcoming midterm elections, calling on voters Wednesday to reject economic policies advanced by the GOP that he said favor millionaires at the expense of struggling families...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=14</link></item>
<item><title>Secretary of State Clinton compares Mexico's drug violence to Colombia's</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON POST: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like "insurgencies" battling for control of territory...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=29</link></item>
<item><title>Clinton says Mexico drug crime like an insurgency
</title><description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS: Drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/nationalx.asp?story_no=30</link></item>

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