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(AP) President Barack Obama plans to give the Jersey Shore a boost with a post-Memorial Day visit to showcase recovery efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.The White House says the president will tour the coastline with New Jersey Gov. Chris ...
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(AP) A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told ...
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(AP) Schoolchildren from New Jersey shore communities battered by Superstorm Sandy will join Michelle Obama for a garden harvest next week.The White House says the first lady will also be joined Tuesday by students who helped plant the crops last month.The ...
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(AP) A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers is in full view again with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of using tactics that might tempt Democrats to change Senate rules that now protect the minority party.How to deal ...
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(AP) U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner says he is resigning from Congress effective in August to take a post with the University of Alabama system.Bonner, a six-term Alabama Republican and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced his resignation Thursday afternoon. ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is providing more Hurricane Sandy disaster relief to New York, increasing the share of public assistance that the government will pay from 75 percent to 90 percent of the cost.The change would mean a significant increase in ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama defended the United States' use of drone attacks as an important part of the U.S. counterterrorism policy on Thursday but signed new presidential policy guidelines to spell out for Congress and the public the standards that the ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen in his renewed effort to close the prison.Obama suspend transfers there in January 2010 after a would-be bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight ...
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(AP) The U.S. is expressing concern over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accuse Washington of downplaying the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with Jakarta.Muslim-majority Indonesia has emerged as Southeast Asia's most robust ...
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(AP) Yemen is welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to lift his ban on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.In a statement released Thursday shortly after Obama announced the step, the Yemeni Embassy said ...
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(AP) Out with the "global war on terror." In with more narrowly targeted counterterrorism policies that persistently zero in on violent extremists at home and abroad.President Barack Obama on Thursday laid out a counterterrorism strategy for a post 9/11, post-war world ...
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(AP) A Republican member of the Arizona House says she received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office because she supports Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid.A visibly shaken Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, of Phoenix, urged fellow members Thursday ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama said Thursday that he will engage Congress in exploring a number of options for increased oversight of lethal drone strikes outside of war zones like Afghanistan.The official U.S. figures of number of strikes and estimated deaths remain ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security.The woman was identified as Medea Benjamin from the anti-war group Code Pink. Benjamin yelled ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says he is lifting his ban on the transfer of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center to Yemen. And he is calling on Congress to lift its restrictions on detainee transfers, including limits on imprisoning ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House:___It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791_ ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says he has established a new framework to govern U.S. force against terrorists.He says it includes clear guidelines as well as oversight and accountability. Obama says in a speech Thursday he put this framework into a single ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says Attorney General Eric Holder will review Justice Department policy on leaks investigations involving the news media.Obama says in a speech on counterterrorism Thursday he is troubled by the idea that leaks investigations may chill the investigative ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is expected to reaffirm his 2008 campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, where terror suspects have been held since 2002, and begin the transfer of some prisoners to other countries. Here is a ...
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(AP) The chairman of the Senate Energy Committee says a website partially funded by the oil and gas industry is a constructive tool that could be used by federal regulators in requiring public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says supporting transitions to democracy in unstable regions like the Middle East will remain a key part of his strategy for fighting terrorism.In a speech at the National Defense University, the president said Thursday that the peaceful ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says his administration informs Congress about every drone strike America orders.In a national security speech Thursday, Obama said the administration has briefed the appropriate congressional committees about all drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, such as ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says he has signed new policy guidelines to oversee when the U.S. can use drone strikes against suspected terrorists.Obama says clear guidelines, oversight and accountability are spelled out in "policy guidance" he signed Wednesday.He says Thursday in ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says his administration is willing to consider accepting increased oversight of lethal drone strikes outside of war zones like Afghanistan.In a speech on new contours of his counterterrorism strategy, Obama took note Thursday of a number of ...
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(AP) After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court.The Senate on Thursday confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court is considered ...
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