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The Department of Homeland Security is likely to extend the deadline for states to issue a de facto national identification card by as much as a decade, a sign that the Bush administration is easing demands associated with the card, according to a report in the Washington Post. The federal Real ID Act, passed in 2005, requires states to voluntarily issue an identification card that would be required to enter federal buildings, board planes and access nuclear facilities. In a conference call with state lawmakers last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said that the deadline for states to...