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President Bush reiterates threats to impose sanctions against Sudan, which the U.S. says has ignored ethnic genocide in the Darfur region. The president made the comments while touring the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

A human rights group sues Yahoo Inc. for disclosures that helped Chinese authorities jail several dissidents. Human Rights USA says it will sue under the Torture Victims Protection Act and other U.S. laws.

President Obama's high-profile lobbying for Chicago as the site of the 2016 summer games crashed early and embarrassingly Friday. Even supporters are still puzzled by his decision to squander political capital on a long-shot bid when he's juggling so much at home.

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Delayed Justice at the DOJ?

The Obama administration says Chicago winning its bid for the 2016 Olympics would be good for the city's economy. The same argument has been made by many Olympic bidders — but the proof is sketchy.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's official re-election resolves for now a damaging political stalemate, but it puts new pressure on the Obama administration to make a decision about sending additional U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.

On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.

The U.S. Supreme Court reenters the battle over affirmative action, announcing that it will decide whether public schools may use race as a factor in making students assignments in order to promote racial diversity. The court will hear cases based in Seattle and Kentucky.