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Federal AIDS Drug Program Is Strained by Weak Economy

By KEVIN SACK 12:31 PM ET

The government program that gives life-sustaining drugs to people with H.I.V. or AIDS who cannot afford them has seen its waiting list rise sharply.

Death Sentence Is Voided for Killer of 2 N.Y.P.D. Officers

By MANNY FERNANDEZ and A. G. SULZBERGER 32 minutes ago

A panel of federal judges on Wednesday ruled that Ronell Wilson, convicted of killing two undercover police detectives in 2003, must be resentenced because of legal errors.

Republicans Press Kagan on Social Issues at Hearing

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and CHARLIE SAVAGE 6 minutes ago

Republicans on Wednesday stepped up their pressure on Elena Kagan to defend her decisions on abortion and the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Suspected Spy Cultivated Harvard Friends

By ABBY GOODNOUGH 11:19 AM ET

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F.B.I. agents in Cambridge, Mass., at a home owned by Donald Heathfield. Now accused of spying for the Russians, he blended in among a rarefied group.

Opinion >

The Conversation
Old Media v. New Media

comments David Brooks and Gail Collins on how their profession has changed.

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All Advice Leads to Cochabamba, Bolivia

fruit market When a fellow traveler, a friend-of-a-friend and a group of church girls tell you to visit a city, you visit.

Miles or Points?

It may be time to rethink which card is best.

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