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Obama to speak on education, present rights award...on education, present rights award WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will speak about several government initiatives to raise the level of education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. </p><p>Later Monday, the president's... In this article: Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Biden, Robert Mugabe, White House, and Washington |
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Miami Herald - Politics | 5 days ago
Biden's police advance car in NYC traffic accident
...Clinton bid fond farewells to Senate WASHINGTON a Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton gave wistful farewells to the U.S. Senate on Thursday as they prepared to become new kinds of Washington power players. Biden will be sworn in Tuesday as the...
In this article: Joe Biden, Beau Biden, Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Baltimore, Attorney General, U.S. Senate, and Washington
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Kansas City Star | 7 days ago
Clinton says she's not running for NY governor
Clinton says she's not running for NY governor WASHINGTON Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is waving off rumors that she is considering a run for governor of New York. And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he hasn't decided...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, New York, David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo, New York, and Washington
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Reuters | November 05, 2009
Clinton says will work with Abbas in any capacity
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she looked forward to working with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in "any new capacity" after Abbas said he would not run again for president in January.
In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Hillary Clinton, Thomson Reuters, All rights reserved, Small business, NYSE, Nasdaq, and Washington
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | 4 days ago
Karzai to be sworn in as US presses for reform
...in fraud. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her first visit to Kabul as Washington's top diplomat on Wednesday, saying the inauguration marked a "critical moment" for the nation following the controversial August vote. Washington...
In this article: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, United States, Taliban-led insurgency, Taliban, Afghanistan, Washington, and Suicide
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 03, 2009
Senior US diplomats visit Burma
...leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The new policy was announced in New York in September by the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, following a review of Washington's relationship with Burma's military regime. Jim Webb, a prominent Democrat...
In this article: Burma, US, Washington, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, and Aung San Suu Kyi
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Independent.ie | November 12, 2009
Release on eve of Clinton visit was no coincidence
...Fr Sinnott's freedom after 32 days held hostage. Last week, the Irish Embassy in Washington briefed Ms Clinton, who agreed to raise Fr Sinnott's plight on her visit to the Philippines. The freeing of Fr Sinnott came at the end of an epic...
In this article: Hillary Clinton, Manila, Philippines, United States, Department of Foreign Affairs, and Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Obama can learn from young mediator
...Gheit and Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian intelligence chief. She was due to meet Wednesday with President Hosni Mubarak before returning to Washington to brief President Barack Obama. Egypt and other Arab nations reacted with strong concern to...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Middle East, United States, Israel, Washington, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Benjamin Netanyahu
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Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy | November 01, 2009
Clinton Defers Role in South Asia Feud
...2009. ISLAMABAD -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, facing criticism in Pakistan for the U.S.'s expanding ties to India, ruled out Washington playing a formal mediation role between New Delhi and Islamabad on the issue of the disputed...
In this article: Hillary Clinton, Islamabad, New Delhi, Pakistan, Washington, India, U.S., Kashmir, and South Asia
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Obama 'probably won't' read Palin's book
...Rapids, Mich. Sarah Palin may be shopping a book Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has reportedly enlisted the services of Robert Barnett, the Washington lawyer who represented President Obama, would-be President Hillary Clinton and former...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Washington, Alaska, Robert Barnett, and People Magazine
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
- Name:
- District of Columbia
- Motto:
- Justitia Omnibus(Justice for All)
- Founding Date:
- July 16, 1790
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 68.3
- Total Area (km):
- 177.0
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 61.4
- Land Area (km):
- 159.0
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 6.9
- Water Area (km):
- 18.0
- Elevation (ft):
- 0–409
- Elevation (m):
- 0–125
- Time Zone:
- EST
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