Margaret Talev covers Congress and national politics. She joined the McClatchy Washington Bureau in 2005. Before that, she covered California politics, including the 2003 recall election and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first year in office, for The Sacramento Bee. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team named as Pulitzer finalists in 2001 for breaking news coverage of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. She has also covered Florida politics for The Tampa Tribune. In 2008, she, along with Greg Gordon and Marisa Taylor, won a McClatchy ``President’s Award’’ and Scripps Howard’s Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administration’s politicization of the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived early Saturday morning in Afghanistan, where he is calling for more U.S. troops, and was to visit Iraq, where he's pledged to withdraw U.S. combat forces. »
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