Read more Washington stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3058/washington.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:31:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70670/us-iran-may-meet-one-on-one-on-nukes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUS diplomats will try to meet one-on-one with their Iranian counterparts during tomorrow’s multi-nation negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program. It would be the most significant direct engagement between the two countries since the Iranian revolution. An anonymous official tells the Washington Post that the one-on-one talks would "reinforce the main...http://www.newser.com/story/70670/us-iran-may-meet-one-on-one-on-nukes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 14:11:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70234/bikini-baristas-charged-with-prostitution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFive bikini baristas at a Washington coffee stand were charged with prostitution today after an undercover police investigation. Police say the women sold extra services from the stand—quick flashes of nudity, licking whipped cream off their co-workers, allowing customers to grope them, etc. That kind of for-pay touching, the...http://www.newser.com/story/70234/bikini-baristas-charged-with-prostitution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 16:32:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69869/cops-catch-insane-killer-who-fled-field-trip-in-wash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA schizophrenic killer who ducked out of a mental hospital field trip has been caught in south-central Washington, the Spokesman-Review reports. Phillip A. Paul, 47, slipped away at the Spokane County Interstate Fair on Thursday and triggered a police manhunt. A sherriff's deputy caught him today trying to hitch a...http://www.newser.com/story/69869/cops-catch-insane-killer-who-fled-field-trip-in-wash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 19:59:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter and other Obama defenders playing the race card must remember that it’s just one in a deck that’s driving the I’ve-had-it-up-to-here rhetoric of Joe Wilson and Glenn Beck, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times . “There is a national conversation we must have right now—the one...http://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 10:31:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69290/post-lehman-washington-is-the-new-wall-street.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor decades, more than just 228 miles separated Wall Street from Washington, as financiers cast a casual eye at government regulators. But a year after Lehman Brothers’ dramatic implosion, the nation’s financial and political capitals are forging a new, closer relationship that has some concerned, David Cho, Steven Mufson, and...http://www.newser.com/story/69290/post-lehman-washington-is-the-new-wall-street.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 11:38:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68563/wash-mayor-under-fire-for-glenn-beck-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe mayor of Mount Vernon, Wash., has taken a stand on the controversy over Glenn Beck calling President Obama a “racist.” He plans to give the Fox News lightning rod a key to the city and proclaim Sept. 26 “Glenn Beck Day,” the Seattle Times reports. Mayor Bud Norris says...http://www.newser.com/story/68563/wash-mayor-under-fire-for-glenn-beck-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 17:23:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67949/first-us-internet-addiction-rehab-center-opens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe first US Internet addiction clinic has opened in Fall City, Wash. The Heavensfield Retreat Center offers “reStart,” a 45-day in-patient rehab program for Internet, video game, and texting addictions, LiveScience reports. Clients undergo talk therapy and social skills training, as well as feeding goats, raising chickens, and learning home...http://www.newser.com/story/67949/first-us-internet-addiction-rehab-center-opens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66961/us-could-buy-off-the-taliban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US war in Afghanistan is costing $4 billion a month and lacks a clear end-date—so why not just pay off the Taliban's hired guns to stop fighting? Analysts say the math makes sense: Taliban gunmen earn $10 a day. There are 10,000 to 15,000 of them....http://www.newser.com/story/66961/us-could-buy-off-the-taliban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Aug 2009 18:23:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65295/obama-keeps-celeb-ties-under-wraps.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKalpen Modi has ditched the TV series House and moved into the White House—and that’s just the way the president wants it, Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes in the New York Times . Now an obscure bureaucrat in Obama's administration, Modi typifies the president's low-key relationship with Hollywood. Obama has hosted...http://www.newser.com/story/65295/obama-keeps-celeb-ties-under-wraps.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 17:04:16 CDT