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Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 20 : Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday that the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies "gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool."

Williamsburg (Virginia, US), Feb. 6 : President Barack Obama has appealed to Democrats to take action to get the US economy back on track.

Pushing his plan for a mix of spending and tax relief, Obama accused some of the bill''s critics of "phony arguments and petty politics."

Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 3: Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden has said that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba will be among the top ten security challenges for the agency in 2009.

Iran, North Korea and Al Qaeda are the others that he and his successor Leon Panetta will have to deal with, Hayden added.

Virginia (US), Dec. 6 : A Virginia businessman, Earl Stafford, has reserved a million dollars worth of rooms at Washington''s JW Marriott Hotel and plans to give the rooms away to the underprivileged during Inauguration week.

Stafford, who is black, said the swearing-in of America''s first black president makes the occasion that much more special, but added that he pursued his plans without knowing who would be elected.

He plans to offer the rooms, at no charge and has had hundreds of responses so far.

"Our telephones are off the hook. Our e-mails are going crazy," Fox News quoted him, as saying.

RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 1 -- Police in Richmond, Va., say employees of a KB Toys store inside a shopping mall arrived for work to find a 300-pound safe had been stolen.