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Tom LoBianco has covered energy and environmental policy, including the climate change bill making its way through Congress. From 2007 to 2008, he covered Maryland politics from the Times's Annapolis bureau.
Tom hold's a master's degree in political science from Northeastern University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. He spent two and a half years working as a policy analyst, legislative staffer and nonprofit organizer in Boston before returning to the D.C. area to cover politics.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to Congress on Tuesday calling for a new global financial order and for wealthy nations to make a climate-change deal next month in Copenhagen.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to Congress calling for global financial order and for wealthy nations to strike a climate-change deal next month.
Obama has yet to decide whether to increase troops
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
With Afghan President Hamid Karzai now in place for a second term, Democrats and Republicans said the clock is ticking faster for President Obama to decide whether to surge the number of U.S. troops there.
White House vows to work with Karzai
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
White House officials downplayed Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah's decision to pull out of this week's scheduled runoff election and said they would work with President Hamid Karzai.
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
Czech President Vaclav Klaus as well as top U.S. politicians and scientists will debate climate change Wednesday in a daylong conference organized by The Washington Times.
Axelrod, Lieberman fire back
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
A top White House adviser and a senator fired back at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Sunday for criticizing President Obama's trip to Dover, Del., to view the cases containing the bodies of 18 U.S. troops last week.
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
A top White House adviser and a senator fired back at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Sunday for criticizing President Obama's trip to Dover Air Force Base to view the caskets of 18 fallen U.S. soldiers last week.
But GAO cites some progress
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
The U.S. military has made progress but still has work to do in coordinating efforts to fight deadly improvised explosive devices being used against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Thursday.
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
The U.S. military has made progress but still has work to do in coordinating its efforts to fight deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs) being used against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Thursday.
Cites concern over Internet's accessibility
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to move toward new rules to prevent corporate Internet providers from charging online powers such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. extra for the large amount of infrastructure and bandwidth they use in delivering their services.