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In a city whose HIV/AIDS rates are ten times the national average, one in three of D.C.'s AIDS dollars earmarked for local groups in recent years went to organizations cited for falsified documentation, few or no clients, incomplete spending records or not running any AIDS programs whatsoever. Meanwhile, District residents living with HIV/AIDS have struggled to find care.
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Oct. 20, 2009 Clowns, shark watchers, Akapana pyramid, Nevado del Hula volcano and more news and feature photos.
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Shining the spotlight on famous faces from the worlds of film, music, TV and more, including Julia Roberts, Gerard Butler, Jack Black and others.
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In triumph or defeat, the Redskins have been the talk of the town.
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Few American cities prospered more over the last two decades than Charlotte, its growth propelled and gilded by Wachovia and its cross-town rival, Bank of America.
Now Charlotte is suffering, as the crisis that shattered several of the nation's largest banks left many of the survivors struggling to recover.
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Representatives from the White House traveled out to Eric and Gloria Sundback's farm in Shepherdstown, W.V. on Tuesday to select the White House's official Christmas Tree for the holiday season.
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"Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort" at the National Museum of the American Indian offers a unique view of Native American art.
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When Leshelle Hicks came to Joseph's House, a D.C. hospice for people with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses, her health was failing. Today, she believes the program saved her life.
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Redskins look to regain their footing against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Area AIDS agencies care for HIV/AIDS patients despite obstacles in securing funding.
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In 1997, a Supreme Court ruling forced Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male school in the country, to admit women. Though rigid initially and still dealing with legal challenges, the public school is making efforts to be more accommodating and improve retention rates and academic standards.
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller discusses his bottom line on heath care reform.
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For his 10th annual Dining Guide, Tom Sietsema looks at the best in Washington-area restaurants. Feast your eyes on photos from this year's selections.
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An experimental project in curbing climate change that began in 1997 is now being studied to see if lessons learned can contribute to shaping global climate policy.
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On Oct. 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of fighters in storming the town of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and the federal armory there. A century and a half later, Sept. 11 has altered the context in which his actions are viewed, and more scholars debate whether a cause now viewed as righteous justified Brown's tactics.
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With "Paranormal Activity" currently creating its own viral marketing sensation, we look at other contemporary films that, both successfully and unsuccessfully, explored new ways to sell themselves.
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As winter approaches, homeless advocates say they may have to close fully occupied shelters because of budget cuts. The trims could force as many as 2,100 homeless people to find new shelters.
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After battling vocal cord cancer last year, Cookie Kerxton organized an art exhibit, "Courage Unmasked," featuring the masks that she and other cancer patients wore during radiation treatments.
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Standing just over five feet tall and weighing just over 100 pounds, Juliet Lee is an unlikely champ on the competitive eating circuit.
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This week's events from around the world, including Russia, Greece, Indonesia and Ukraine, captured in photographs.
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After a week of off-the-field drama, the Redskins traveled to Carolina looking to regain their balance and lost to the Panthers.
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The Solar Decathlon this year has teams representing the U.S., Canada, Germany and Spain, providing a unique opportunity to see cutting-edge architecture and technology displayed on the Mall.
PANORAMA
Twenty teams of students worked around the clock to finish prototype solar houses on the national mall.
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Hannibal Jackson's patience and good nature was the perfect match for Kellie Williams's creativity and sense of humor.
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Some gay couples in D.C. forego getting married in other gay-friendly states to wait for legalization at home.
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A look at the melting pot culture of Zanzibar, an East African archipelago off the Tanzanian coast, as seen by travel writer Christopher Vourlias.
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There may not be 13 different ways of looking at a fashion collection, but Washington Post fashion editor Robin Givhan asserts there is certainly more than one.
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The towering trees, swift creeks and fresh air of the Catskills remain just as Jean Craighead George described them in celebrated children's book "My Side of the Mountain."
AUDIO GALLERY
President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
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Designers working in Paris are known for taking advantage of this city's grand architecture and gilded salons. Sometimes, they let the interiors stand on their own. But quite often, they are inspired to let loose their imagination as did Karl Lagerfeld, Hermes and Alexander McQueen.
-- Robin Givhan
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The Baltimore Washington Eagles find friendship -- and eventually victories -- in Australian Rules football.
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Staff Sgt. Nekl B. Allen, who enlisted following the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday after being killed by insurgents in Afghanistan.
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Irving Penn is well known for photographing the famous and the fashionable. The prolific photographer is admired for his clarity and minimalist approach to his subjects.
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The National Zoo welcomes a new member to their dama gazelle family. The calf was born on Friday, Oct. 2.
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Antiwar protesters took to the White House to decry American foreign policy, specifically the war in Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 5. Protests are planned across the country this week surrounding the eighth anniversary of American combat operations in Afghanistan on Oct. 7.
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The shifting economics of the marijuana trade suggests that new market forces, as much as law enforcement, can exact a heavy price on Mexico's drug cartels.
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With the help of museum curators, first lady Michelle Obama has chosen 45 pieces of art to grace the walls of the White House private residence and offices.
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Visions of spring in Paris from English designer Gareth Pugh, Balenciaga designer Nicholas Guesquiere, Balmain's Christophe Decarnin and Christian Dior's John Galliano.
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Author Mary Z. Gray discusses her memoir about growing up on East Capitol Street in Washington, D.C.
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About 200 District students skipped class on Monday, Oct. 5., to protest the firing of 229 public school teachers.
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Highlights of this week's gallery include a baby pygmy hippopotamus, sea turtles, monkeys, birds, dogs and a koala bear.
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Scientists embark on the latest chapter in a 16-year, $170 million search for chemical munitions in D.C.'s Spring Valley neighborhood.
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This week's events from around the world, including Germany, Indonesia and Guinea, captured in photographs.
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The Redskins play Tampa Bay at FedEx Field in their second home game of the season.
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Lindsay Lohan's collaboration with Ungaro was a disaster; Gaultier celebrates the past and Rei Kawakubo presents a fascinating mix.
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Sarah and Will Armstrong are like many middle-class families. They are educated, have three kids and nice house in the suburbs. But at the end of the month, their health insurance will run out. (Pierre Kattar/The Washington Post)
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Darvin Moon, one of nine finalists in the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas, is a professional logger by day and an amateur poker player by night.
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From break-ups to 'I do's': It took a few years, but Kerilyn Fox and Peter Russo finally got it right.
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Many of the designers who presented their spring 2010 collections in Milan were focused on dressing women for cocktails or galas, rather than on the more challenging task of creating clothing that can take a woman from one end of her day to the other.
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Architect David Adjaye is making his mark on Washington with the designs of two libraries and the commission of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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An early look at the longest, tallest, widest, heaviest and most expensive cruise liner in the world, before its much-anticipated maiden voyage in December.
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The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the Communist takeover of China. Preparations for a parade on Oct. 1 that is to be a display of China's growing political and military strength have consumed the country's top leadership.
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With nearly a dozen Milan shows under her belt, Karlie Kloss is this season's it girl.
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A tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean near the island of Samoa sent people fleeing to higher ground to escape rapidly rising waters. About 100 people were killed and dozens remain missing after the massive waves landed.
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A look through two-time NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin's four exhilarating seasons as a Washington Capital.
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A look at some of Capitals star Alex Ovechkin's most outlandish celebrations on the ice.
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Food pantries and other charities around the region are struggling to help the still spiraling number of formerly middle-class people knocking on their doors.
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Designers for Milan houses Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, Versace, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana reacted to unsettled economic times in varying ways. Tomas Maier showed restraint, Versace projected power, while Dolce & Gabbana offered earthy sexuality.
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Corporate-jet photographer Charles Tack noticed that around last year's financial meltdown, used corporate jets were flooding the marketplace, a harbinger of just how bad the economy was about to become. It has been greatly beneficial to his one-man business, which grosses more than $300,000 a year.
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Hundreds of people are dead after flooding in the northern Philippines set off by Tropical Storm Ketsana, and thousands of people were left without drinking water, food and power.
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The Lions snap a 19-game losing streak with a 19-14 victory over the Redskins in Detroit.
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In the homes on Linden Lane on Silver Spring, the health care debate is seen through many different lenses. One young family is about to lose its insurance; a 68-year-old man fears losing the drug that keeps him alive; a physician is frustrated by an insurer switch. Most feel the fight in Washington misses the point.
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Thunderstorms unleashed floods in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia leaving at least nine people dead.
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Representatives from countries around the world gathered at U.N. headquarters in New York for a meeting of the General Assembly in September 2009.
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The leaders of the world's 20 largest economies gather Sept. 24 and 25, in Pittsburgh to discuss whether it is time to wind down stimulus efforts and talk about what can be done to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
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These days, you're likely to find some of the best meals in Singapore's seedy red-light districts.
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After Sen. Max Baucus introduced a $856 billion health-care bill, the Senate Finance Committee debated the bill seeking to decrease the cost for middle-class families and keep it from adding to the federal deficit.
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A rundown building in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown has become a haven for artists and designers. Narrating this gallery are landlord Mike Abrams and artist Tendai Johnson, with music from a US Royalty practice session.
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Her image is of a tough-talking schools chief who's out to sack every last veteran teacher in D.C.'s failing system. The reality is not so simple.
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Milan Fashion Week kicks off with uber-designers, such as Giorgio Armani and Dolce & Gabbana, showing their creations for spring 2010.
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Highlights of this week's gallery include pigs, an albino frog, turtles, crocodiles and bugs.
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This week's events from around the world, including Germany, Afghanistan, Australia, Spain and Kenya, captured in photographs.
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Can radical food be a form of radical art? Art critic Blake Gopnik and chef Jose Andres spend an afternoon at Minibar to taste and to explore.
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Bluemont held its 40th annual county fair on Sept. 19 and 20. There was music, farm animals, a quilt display, pie-baking and pickle-making contests, an art show, a 10K run and more.
Mexico at War
Washington Post video-journalist Travis Fox documents the growing war between Mexico's government and its violent drug cartels in transforming Mexican society and life along the embattled U.S. border
Washington Post video-journalist Travis Fox documents the growing war between Mexico's government and its violent drug cartels in transforming Mexican society and life along the embattled U.S. border
Scene In: Eastern Market
The series explores how denizens of D.C.'s distinct neighborhoods express their personalities through fashion.
The series explores how denizens of D.C.'s distinct neighborhoods express their personalities through fashion.
Half a Tank: Along Recession Road
A multimedia blog about Americans adapting to the recession.
A multimedia blog about Americans adapting to the recession.
Mexico at War
The Post's William Booth and Travis Fox drive the borderlands from Ciudad Juarez to Tijuana, telling video stories of people caught up in Mexico's drug war.
The Post's William Booth and Travis Fox drive the borderlands from Ciudad Juarez to Tijuana, telling video stories of people caught up in Mexico's drug war.
TimeSpace: Entertainment
Navigate entertainment news through a map and timeline interface displaying articles and photos from around the world.
Navigate entertainment news through a map and timeline interface displaying articles and photos from around the world.
Worth the Risk
A U.S. Army Captain's Gamble on Reconciling With the Enemy
A U.S. Army Captain's Gamble on Reconciling With the Enemy
Video: In The Moment
Witnessing Barack Obama's Historic Inauguration
Witnessing Barack Obama's Historic Inauguration
Inauguration Multimedia 2009
Multimedia leading up to and including the historic Inauguration of the 44th president.
Multimedia leading up to and including the historic Inauguration of the 44th president.
The Preparers
Setting the Stage for the Inauguration of the 44th President.
Setting the Stage for the Inauguration of the 44th President.
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Best of the Post 2008
Explore the best visual journalism produced in 2008 by washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post.
Explore the best visual journalism produced in 2008 by washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post.
TimeSpace: World
TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe.
TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe.
Panoramas: Natural, Ancient and Modern Egypt
Experience Egypt's timeless treasures and stunning landscapes through 360-degree panoramic images.
Experience Egypt's timeless treasures and stunning landscapes through 360-degree panoramic images.
The Healing Fields
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Hard Times
Travis Fox crosses the country to see how Americans are coping with the economic downturn.
Travis Fox crosses the country to see how Americans are coping with the economic downturn.
Multimedia: A Mother's Risk
In Sierra Leone, one in 8 women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
In Sierra Leone, one in 8 women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
Earthquake in China
On May 12th, a 7.9-magnitude quake killed 70,000 people in China's Sichuan province. washingtonpost.com videojournalist Travis Fox was on assigment in China at the time and was among the first Western journalists to reach the earthquake zone, where he filed daily panoramas and video dispatches.
On May 12th, a 7.9-magnitude quake killed 70,000 people in China's Sichuan province. washingtonpost.com videojournalist Travis Fox was on assigment in China at the time and was among the first Western journalists to reach the earthquake zone, where he filed daily panoramas and video dispatches.
Sacred Ground: The Building of the Pentagon Memorial
INTERACTIVE | Videos and photo galleries of the building, design, and dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
INTERACTIVE | Videos and photo galleries of the building, design, and dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
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Eye on D.C.
Live view of Washington, D.C., from the washingtonpost.com newsroom in Arlington, Va.
Fashion Week
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
Republican National Convention 2008
PHOTO GALLERIES | Daily galleries of the 2008 Republican National Convention.
PHOTO GALLERIES | Daily galleries of the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Interactive: D.C. 1791 to Today
How Washington Became Washington.
How Washington Became Washington.
Democratic National Convention 2008
PHOTO GALLERIES | Daily galleries of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
PHOTO GALLERIES | Daily galleries of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Olympic Games 2008
AUDIO SLIDESHOWS | Daily summaries of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China.
AUDIO SLIDESHOWS | Daily summaries of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China.
Seeds of Peace
Two decades into Uganda's civil war, peace seems to be within reach. But the country's displaced people must still travel a long road to recovery.
Two decades into Uganda's civil war, peace seems to be within reach. But the country's displaced people must still travel a long road to recovery.
Hardest Hit
Pervasive job losses and rising prices are eroding the financial security of low-wage workers.
Pervasive job losses and rising prices are eroding the financial security of low-wage workers.
Shelter for the Scarred
More than a year has passed since a Federal court confiscated Michael Vick's pit bulls. While fighting dogs are often euthanized, many of Vick's received a second chance.
More than a year has passed since a Federal court confiscated Michael Vick's pit bulls. While fighting dogs are often euthanized, many of Vick's received a second chance.
Unseen Iraq
Photographer Andrea Bruce documents the lives of Iraqis.
Photographer Andrea Bruce documents the lives of Iraqis.
A Guide to Nationals Park
Explore our updated interactive guide.
Explore our updated interactive guide.
Special Report: Global Food Crisis
The new world of soaring food prices.
The new world of soaring food prices.
Photos: Stepping Forward, Falling Back
There is a fierce struggle going on at Coolidge to overcome years of dysfunction and decline. But despite a new spirit of reform in the air, it remains to be seen whether D.C. schools can make improvements that will last.
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