Reuters - Pakistan is building a reactor that could produce enough plutonium for 40 to 50 nuclear weapons in what would be a major expansion of its nuclear program, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

AP - Independent analysts say Pakistan has started work on a new reactor that could signal a major expansion of the country's nuclear weapons capabilities, The Washington Post reported.

AP - Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.

AP - Baseball is accusing the District of Columbia of defaulting on the lease for a new Washington Nationals stadium, according to The Washington Post Web site.

Tensions between the United States and her allies continued to mount on Wednesday over Washington's backing of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon. The Washington Post quotes a European official, who preferred to remain unidentified, as saying that, "The one thing that is guaranteed to send the Arab...

Reuters - Former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband sued Vice President Dick Cheney, top presidential aide Karl Rove and others on Thursday for their role in the public disclosure of her classified CIA status.

AP - The Army will rebid the multibillion-dollar contract under which a Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been providing services to troops around the world after years of complaints over how the deal has worked in Iraq.

AP - The Army will rebid the multibillion-dollar contract under which a Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been providing services to troops around the world after years of complaints over how the deal has worked in Iraq.

Reuters - The U.S. Army will discontinue its multi-billion dollar contract with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Reuters - A woman apparently at the center of a rape-murder probe by the U.S. military in Iraq was only 15 and voiced fears about soldiers' advances before she and her family were killed in March, the Washington Post said on Monday.

AFP - The court's ruling "marked the end of the national security 'state of emergency' that has prevailed for nearly five years," commentator David Ignatius wrote in the Washington Post.

AFP - US administration officials chose to ignore a CIA officer's warnings that an Iraqi defector's claims of purported biological labs made by Iraq for germ warfare were unproven.

AFP - US administration officials chose to ignore a CIA officer's warnings that an Iraqi defector's claims of purported biological labs made by Iraq for germ warfare were unproven, The Washington Post has reported.

Reuters - A former CIA officer says he made repeated efforts to alert top agency officials to problems with an Iraqi defector's claims about the country's mobile biological weapons labs but he was ignored, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

AFP - US airstrikes in Afghanistan have surged in the past three months as fighting has spread, The Washington Post reports.

Reuters - The U.S. military has carried out 340 air strikes in Afghanistan over the past three months, more than double the 160 conducted in Iraq, as fighting with Taliban insurgents intensifies, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Reuters - If there was a Truth in Title law for TV, this hourlong conversation between veteran newsman Jim Lehrer and legendary Washington Post exec Ben Bradlee would be titled "Ethical Issues in Journalism." Sitting on comfy chairs at an acute angle, Lehrer poses professionally delicate and difficult problems and Bradlee tells how he would resolve them, citing examples from a long and illustrious career.

AFP - Iraq's prisons are overrun by Shiite Muslim militias who abuse and kill inmates, and Iraqi officials have asked the US to suspend the transfer of prisons and prisoners to Iraqi control, The Washington Post said, quoting a senior Iraqi official.

Reuters - A sergeant who led a squad of U.S. Marines accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha told his lawyer the unit did not intentionally target civilians, followed rules of engagement and did not try to cover up the incident, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

AFP - The United States and Europe have offered Iran the possibility of carrying out uranium enrichment activities in its territory if it meets certain stringent conditions, The Washington Post said.