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Source: Washington Post LOS ANGELES - Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizers said.

The word "thuggish" comes to mind. "I'm not a number," says the older man in a television ad funded by the seniors' lobby AARP.

Gov. Mary Fallin, R-Okla., thanks the president for his upcoming visit to Oklahoma and says her state needs "quick action" from the federal government on assisting with tornado relief efforts after a devastating and deadly storm tore through Moore, Okla.

Gov. Mary Fallin, R-Okla., thanks the president for his upcoming visit to Oklahoma and says her state needs "quick action" from the federal government on assisting with tornado relief efforts after a devastating and deadly storm tore through Moore, Okla.

Joe Heim writes for The Washington Post. WHEN President Obama travels to Oklahoma on Sunday to meet with the survivors of Monday's tornado, it will mark the third time this year that he has journeyed to a patch of America to console a community on behalf of the country.

There are no serious negotiations underway between the White House and congressional leaders on legislation to spur growth, and no bipartisan gangs of senators are huddling to craft a compromise job-creation package.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder and other senior officials vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.

Fox News boss Roger Ailes wrote a pep-rally memo to his employees in the wake of the James Rosen investigation news.

This undated photo shows journalist Haynes Johnson. Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday, May 24, 2013.

Reading the commentary on the IRS hearings, it's clear that the overriding rule in Washington opinion circles is that the moment someone says they have done nothing wrong is when the presumption of guilt hardens into an incontrovertible fact of guilt, with only the punishment left to be decided.

Olivia Ferguson wanted to stay at Jackson P. Burley High School, the school she loved, with all her friends.

Dear Carolyn: My husband and I get in a fight almost every time we try to do something fun together, either alone or with our kids, who are both under 3. I do something dumb .

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The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its ban on openly gay youths but maintained a prohibition on gay adult leaders.

A recent survey of Washington's Capital Bikeshare members found that the average annual subscriber drove 198 fewer miles per year.

Police gather at the Washington suburban home of former George W. Bush adviser Claude A. Allen, whose son allegedly used a hatchet to kill another man there.

The Washington Post has a new managing editor, replacing John Temple , who left the paper in March .

Today's headlines include details on California's new health insurance exchange rates, whether consumers will experience "rate shock" and what these numbers say about the health law's implementation.

The Daily Caller reports that White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had three unprecedented one-on-one meetings last year with the Treasury Department's chief lawyer, Chistopher Meade.

The CPI measures inflation, and lots of folks pay attention to it when the number is released each month.