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Teacher pension costs likely to be at heart of Maryland budget battle - Washington Post
The lawmakers, lobbyists and staffers spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss private conversations with the governor and his staff. The governor's top aides declined to comment publicly on O'Malley's budget release. ...
Palestinian leader says Israel has stripped him of VIP status, Israel cites ... - Washington Post
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity Sunday because they were not allowed to brief reporters. Maj. Guy Inbar, a spokesman for the Israeli agency that issues travel documents to Palestinians, said there has been no change in policy. ...
15-year-old girl killed in collapse of old building in Lebanese capital Beirut - Washington Post
They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. Building collapses in Lebanon are rare. The officials said it was not clear what led to Sunday's collapse. Possible causes were cracks in the building made worse by heavy rain or the ...
UN chief tells Syrian president to stop killing his own people - Washington Post
“The authorities pulled out tanks and stopped firing just before the observers arrived,” said one activist in Zabadani, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals. “But they saw with their own eyes the destruction and fear,” he said, adding people ...
Fort Worth man's life changed dramatically 10 months after first full face ... - Washington Post
(The third donor family chose to remain anonymous and did not participate in the study.) Wiens, through physical therapy, can once again do things such as control his lips to drink from a glass. And he regained his sense of smell. ...
As deadline nears, friends and foes of Keystone XL pipeline step up campaigns - Washington Post
... pipeline proposed by the Canadian firm TransCanada without foreclosing the possibility of it altogether, according to individuals familiar with the process who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. ...
Egypt reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei ends presidential bid in a slap to ... - Washington Post
25 anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled Mubarak, the military council asked ElBaradei not to announce his decision until later, a person close to ElBaradei said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a private interaction. ...
Bombing kills 53 Shiite pilgrims near Basra - Washington Post
An Iraqi military intelligence officer speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Associated Press that the blast was a roadside bomb. In recent weeks, and in the wake of the US troop departure, explosions also have rocked parts of Baghdad and ...
Emir of Qatar says he favors sending Arab troops to Syria to stop violence - Washington Post
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the press. Several Lebanese and Syrian citizens have been killed in border areas in Lebanon since the uprising against Assad began. More than 5000 Syrians have fled to ...
iPad 3 to have high-definition screen and will go on sale in March, report says - Washington Post
The company is hosting an education event focused on electronic textbooks next week that won't include any hardware introductions, said a person familiar with the matter. Apple, the world's largest technology company by market value, was little changed ...
Google facing expanded antitrust probe over social search service - Washington Post
Federal regulators are investigating whether Google's recent changes to its main Web site are stifling competition by giving the company's services preference in search results, according to a person familiar with the matter. ...
Clinton, citing thaw, says US will send ambassador to Burma - Washington Post
A senior State Department official, who insisted on anonymity in discussing diplomatically sensitive events in Burma, said US officials had confirmed that the releases had taken place across “a whole series of prisons across the country. ...
Person familiar with the situation: Bucs get OK to talk to Panthers ... - Washington Post
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Friday on the condition of anonymity because the process is supposed to remain confidential. Chudzinski, who helped turn around Carolina's slumping offense in just one season, interviewed for openings with ...
Ex-SEC official fined for taking job with alleged Ponzi schemer - Washington Post
... agreement with Barasch was negotiated weeks ago but was kept on hold to give the SEC a chance to announce disciplinary action against Barasch at the same time, a person familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. ...
EU commits in principle to Iran oil embargo - Washington Post
In Europe, Greece, Italy and Spain would use the time during which they would be exempted from the embargo to find other oil sources or win financial compensation for their losses, said a European diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ...
Oil plunges on speculation that Europe will delay embargo of Iranian oil - Washington Post
But an official close to the talks said that the European Union probably will not embargo Iranian oil until summer. The EU is expected to make a decision on an oil embargo at a Jan. 23 meeting. “We have to see what the current contracts are” between ...
MLB owners defer vote sale of Padres to Moorad over 'technical' issues - Washington Post
Selig pulled the sale from Thursday's agenda, a move that upset Moores so much that he was the only one of the 30 owners to vote against Selig's two-year contract extension, according to a person in the room who asked not to be identified because the ...
Pakistani president travels abroad amid civil-military rift - Washington Post
In Washington, senior administration officials said they believed a coup was unlikely and did not serve the interests of any of the players, but acknowledged they had little insight into fast-moving internal events in Pakistan. Even if they did, ...
Head of global banking association in crucial meetings in Athens on debt swap ... - Washington Post
He asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the talks. Senior eurozone finance officials were also meeting Thursday in Brussels to discuss the deal. Athens was expecting progress from those talks, too, the official said. Greece hopes to finalize ...
US peace talks with Taliban to resume - Washington Post
“If Karzai were to tell [the Obama administration] to go ahead, then we'd start talking again,” said one of two officials who discussed the secret negotiations on the condition of anonymity. A tentative US-Taliban deal, including the transfer of five ...
Person familiar with the deal: South Carolina special teams coach Butler ... - Washington Post
Butler told Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier on Wednesday he was moving on, according to a person familiar with the deal who spoke to The Associated Press. The person requested anonymity since neither South Carolina nor Penn State have announced Butler's ...
Israeli military chief's comments hint at involvement in attacks on Iranian ... - Washington Post
Gantz's testimony was leaked by a meeting participant who spoke on condition of anonymity because the testimony was closed. Israeli officials in the past have spoken somewhat giddily of the “unnatural” setbacks that have plagued Iran's nuclear program. ...
People close to case tell AP that lawyers complain of bias for Contador at CAS ... - Washington Post
They spoke on condition of anonymity, concerned that disclosing events from the closed-door proceedings in November could annoy the arbitrators and perhaps sway their deliberations. The revelations come as sport's highest legal body prepares to rule ...
Geithner finds Chinese resistant to Iran oil sanctions - Washington Post
“We are in the early stages of a broad global diplomatic effort to take advantage of this new legislation to significantly intensify the pressure on Iran,” said the US official, who asked not to be identified under the ground rules for briefing ...
Barricades at NYC park that was Occupy camp are removed, protesters celebrate - Washington Post
A Brookfield employee who refused to give his name told an Associated Press reporter: “The barriers are down, but the other rules are the same.” Some Occupy protesters planned to stay overnight, DiGioia said, but it was unclear whether they planned to ...