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A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time. President Barack Obama's nomination of Jane Holl Lute, a retired Army major who worked on the NSC under President Bill Clinton, was announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Napolitano and Lute are the first women to hold their positions. Since it was launched in 2003, the department has had three secretaries, two men and one...

CAMBRIDGE, England -- When Ted Turner announced five years ago that he was giving $1 billion of his personal fortune to the United Nations, the idea was to disburse the money in grants at the rate of $100 million a year for 10 years. Then it would be over. The billion would be given. And the U.N. Foundation, which Turner set up to distribute the money, would presumably go out of business. Now it appears that the Atlanta businessman and CNN founder may have created something bigger. On Friday, the board of the U.N. Foundation, meeting in Cambridge, England, asked...