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If you follow AllThingsD, and Weekend Update hopes you do, then one thing you’ve come to value is the special way the staff gets around the world to cover the important stuff and report it straight from the geek’s mouth. This week our bicoastal brigade brought the tech news as it happened, and in Boomtown’s case, from 30,000 feet.

President Obama's pledge here Saturday to re-engage the Trans Pacific Partnership trading alliance raised a few shrugs among devout free traders, but it won plaudits from one critic, Sen. Charles Grassley (R, Iowa).

The text of Obama's speech in Tokyo, provided by the White House: Remarks of President Barack Obama Suntory Hall Tokyo, Japan November 14, 2009 Good morning. It is a great honor to be in Tokyo—the first stop on my first visit to Asia as President. It’s good to be among so many of you – Japanese and Americans – who work every day to strengthen the bonds […]

After months of behind-the-scene discussions, Sens. Kent Conrad (D., S.D.) and Judd Gregg (R., N.H.), the Budget Committee’s chairman and top Republican, have agreed in principle on a bill to establish a powerful commission to try to solve the government’s serious fiscal problems.

While President Barack Obama was in Japan on a 10-day Asia tour, Vice President Joe Biden today served up the fish sticks at a D.C. homeless shelter.

Sarah Palin’s memoir is written in a voice familiar to those who followed her on the campaign trail: by turns chatty and intimate, argumentative and outraged.