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Wednesday, January 23, 2013  The political correspondent from The Washington Post is scheduled to deliver the Buchheit Lecture at the University of South Carolina.

Monday, March 28, 2011  An article published in the Washington Post over the weekend says Gov. Haley replaced Moore on the USC Board of Trustee because she did not show enough interest in keeping her trustee seat.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010  A newspaper report says secret talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan have begun between representatives of the Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010  Nonprofit groups that specialize in investigative reporting have had some big scoops, cracking the front page of such newspapers as The Washington Post and forcing officials out of their jobs.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010  FBI illegally collected thousands of phone records between 2002 and 2006