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A joint investigation by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post questions the honesty and security gambling sites.

For the first time, the number of Americans using food stamps could surpass 30 million. The Agriculture Department is set to release new numbers in the coming days. The Washington Post reports Wednesday the figure could surpass the previous record, set after Hurricane Katrina.

Rising unemployment and higher food prices are key reasons for the expected increase.

Washington Post pollster Jon Cohen has a great article on this year’s polls, why there is variance, what makes a good poll and why he feels his polling is accurate.

It’s worth the read if you’re looking for a little more understanding on what the polling really means.

The Washington Post was founded in 1877, employs more than 700 in its editorial department and serves 8.4 million visitors to its Web site each month.

The Huffington Post was founded in 2005, employs 60 people all told and gets 3.6 million visitors a month.

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of a Washington, D.C., corruption scandal, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.

According to the Washington Post, he told the judge he is no longer the person who "happily and arrogantly" engaged in a lifestyle of corruption.

In fact, he's now a writer.

The Justice Department has opened a formal investigation of the advertising deal struck last month between Google and Yahoo, The Washington Post reported on its Web site Tuesday evening, citing sources close to the inquiry.

The McCain camp certainly thinks so. Since The Washington Post ran that story last week alleging that Jim Johnson may have profited off the subprime crisis, the Obama camp has called the story irrelevant and overblown.

A slick site hasn't connected with its local audience.

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It isn't exactly breaking new ground to say many newspapers are struggling.

Nor is it breaking new ground to argue that newspapers have to cover the heck out of their local communities--so-called hyperlocalism--in order to ...

This Wired-TechCrunch war is interesting for the media wonks out there, but larger question is this: Does objectivity exists? Does it even matter?

LOS ANGELES--If Jim Brady had his way, there would be no guaranteed anonymity for those who post comments to Washingtonpost.com.

Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post

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