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News from Washington Wash Post A Section Racked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif.... TIJUANA, MEXICO - To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north. More... A federal judge in California declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday and said she plans to issue an injunction barring the government from enforcing the policy. A3 More... Pastor cancels Koran burning The pastor of a small Florida church who had planned to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 said Thursday he would cancel the event - at least for now - hours after President Obama condemned it as a "recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda" and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gate More... Mexico wary as Calif. votes on legalizing... TIJUANA, MEXICO - To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north. More... Though the total accounts for just a small fraction of the $1 billion owed by all federal workers, the debt owed among Capitol Hill employees has risen at a faster rate than the overall tax debt on the government's books, according to IRS data. A3 More... U.S. anti-graft effort appears to miscarry The American effort to increase Afghanistan's capacity to combat corruption has had the unintended consequence of complicating the relationship between the U.S. and Afghan governments. And building popular trust in the Afghan government - a key goal of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy - may be mu More... Nickles thrives in role as protector and... When a young Adrian M. Fenty and his brothers were forbidden by their parents to consume meat, salt and sugar, they could count on family friend Peter Nickles to loosen that nutritional regime. More... More... In Calif., voters split on marijuana... California, which has often been a trendsetter, will vote Nov. 2 on whether to legalize the growing, selling and recreational use of marijuana. More... Official's views on Muslim immigration divide... IN BERLIN The most talked-about man in Germany is a 65-year-old economist whose hot new book and sudden groundswell of popular support have the media dubbing him a folk hero. But that is not the only thing they are calling Thilo Sarrazin these days. More... Release of Chinese activist brings security... SHANGHAI - Controversy has returned to the village of Dongshigu, and with it, a security crackdown. The source of both: the release of Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-taught lawyer who drew worldwide attention to his rural neighbors' stories of forced sterilizations and late-term abortions by local... More... Digest A central market in southern Russia was hit Thursday by a suicide car bomber, who killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 130 in one of the North Caucasus region's worst attacks in years, officials said. More... Iran says it will free one of three U.S.... One of the three American hikers jailed in Iran for more than a year on spying allegations will be released Saturday, at the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Iranian culture ministry authorities said Thursday. More... Obama, Clinton split on drug war parallels Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sees similarities between the drug violence now afflicting Mexico and Colombia's narco-war of the 1980s. President Obama, not so much. More... Sex allegations against founder derail... Criminal inquiries in Sweden into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after allegations of sexual misconduct have derailed the group's momentum and delayed the release of more classified U.S. documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. More... Four Iraqi prisoners flee U.S. custody BAGHDAD - In an embarrassing and potentially dangerous foul-up, four Iraqi detainees with alleged links to the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq escaped from U.S. custody at a Baghdad detention facility late Wednesday. More... Marines seize ship from pirates U.S. Marines rescued the crew of a hijacked German ship without firing a shot. More... U.S. steelworkers target China A complaint by the United Steelworkers union could pose a tricky problem for the Obama administration before this year's midterm elections. More... The one App Store rule that matters: It's up... In two unexpected moves Thursday, Apple repealed a prohibition on developers converting software written for other smartphones to run on its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, and it it finally documented the rules governing whether a new program will make it into its App Store. More... The Keynesian experiment It has become common to hear Republicans saying that Democrats' "Keynesian experiment," or in Paul Ryan's case, their "Neo-Keynesian economic experiment," has failed. You'd think that Keynesian economics was a big divide between the parties. But it wasn't and it's not. More... Obama to stump at big Democratic rallies Obama is back on the campaign trail. Is that a good thing? For former president Bill Clinton, the answer was no. More... Obama says aide is focused on job President Obama declared Thursday that his chief of staff would be an "excellent mayor" of Chicago - adding, in the same breath, that he did not expect Rahm Emanuel to decide about launching a mayoral bid until after the midterm elections in seven weeks. More... Corrections The Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appear in the newspaper. Those interested in contacting the paper for that purpose can: More... More... Digest The Food and Drug Administration is urging the electronic-cigarette industry to work with the agency to legally market the devices and is cautioning some companies that their sales and manufacturing practices violate federal law. More... Va. to fight Defense moves Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and members of Virginia's congressional delegation vowed Thursday to fight Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's decisions to shutter the Joint Forces Command, a military installation in Hampton Roads, and to slash the Pentagon's military contracting budget by 10 percent a... More... Voinovich breaks with GOP to push for... Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) said he plans to help push a package of small-business incentives through the Senate next week, a move that would give President Obama and congressional Democrats a key victory on the economy in the final weeks before the November midterm elections. More... Steele's recent trips concern some in GOP Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele's spate of recent trips to the U.S. territories - Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands - is fueling speculation that Steele is positioning himself to run for a second term as chairman, as well as concern More... Pentagon aims to buy up book The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources. More... Good news and bad news on the Castro front Fidel Castro says the Cuban economic model doesn't work More... FAA to set rules on pilot hours It's taken 15 months and a half-dozen missed deadlines, but the FAA is set to propose new regulations on how many hours airlines can schedule pilots to be on duty or in the cockpit. Pilot unions and relatives of crash victims who have been campaigning for the changes said they're troubled by the len More... Obama should call a truce with Wall Street We need to call a truce between Main Street and Wall Street. More... A way past the terrorist detention gridlock Now is the right time to resolve our terrorist detention quandry. More... It's time for the Senate to vote on New START The Senate should promptly vote to approve the new START treaty. More... Bring solar power back to the White House It is time to bring solar power back to the White House. More... Judge rules on military gay ban A federal judge in California said Thursday that the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members violates the Constitution, the most recent in a string of court rulings overturning restrictions on the rights of the country's gay men and lesbians. More... Digest Tattoos and the art of tattooing are "forms of pure expression fully protected by the First Amendment," a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. More... Immigration law unconstitutional, court rules A law approved four years ago by Hazleton, Pa., clamping down on illegal immigrants and prompting similar moves in towns across the country, has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. More... $9.3 million in overdue taxes owed Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress. More... Islamic group co-founder found guilty EUGENE, ORE. - A federal jury on Thursday convicted the co-founder of the U.S. chapter of an Islamic charity who was accused of helping smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya. More... Deaths on U.S. highways are at their lowest... Deaths on America's highways have plunged to their lowest level in 60 years, as smarter designs make streets and vehicles safer and aggressive campaigns are waged against drunk and distracted drivers. More... Afghan war intelligence chief to be promoted The top U.S. military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, who has led an aggressive and controversial push to change what kinds of intelligence the military collects, will be returning to Washington, a defense official said. More... Federal stem cell funding wins temporary... Appeals court allows human embryonic stem cell research funding to resume. More... 2 killed, 1 injured in shooting at Kraft plant PHILADELPHIA - Two people were fatally shot Thursday night by a suspended employee inside a Kraft Foods facility in northeast Philadelphia, police said. A third person was critically injured in the attack. More... 00000FDF Brain-age scans seen as potential... Scientists have developed a scan that can measure the maturity of the brain, an advance that someday might be useful for testing whether children are maturing normally and for gauging whether teenagers are grown-up enough to be treated as adults. More... A new generation of caregivers takes control... The number of children being raised by their grandparents has risen sharply since the start of the recession in 2007, according to a new Pew Research Center study that found one in 10 children in the U.S. now lives with a grandparent. More... Most in U.S. not eating enough vegetables Most Americans still don't eat vegetables often enough, and their fruit consumption has actually dropped a little, according to a new government report released Thursday. More... More... Articles last updated at Sep 10, 2010 14:30:59pm. Next update in 60 minutes.

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