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(AP) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) is looking for stepped-up action on Syria as he meets with President Barack Obama Thursday. But the U.S. and Turkey remain far apart on how to handle Syria's bloody civil war.Erdogan ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says he's ready to take questions at a news conference Thursday about revelations that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.The president announced plans for the news conference on Wednesday as he made a brief ...
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(AP) The New York Police Department is defending itself in a federal civil rights lawsuit over its surveillance of Muslims. It says in a new court filing that nothing it has done violated surveillance guidelines imposed by a federal judge in ...
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(AP) An affidavit filed in federal court alleges that Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner repeatedly took cash payments from a broker who invested state money.The affidavit filed Monday claims that Shoffner accepted multiple payments of $6,000 cash that was sometimes rolled up ...
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(AP) The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.Why was a diplomatic outpost left ...
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(AP) There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.The tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing tea party organizations that applied for tax-exempt status. But the IRS largely maintained a hands-off policy with the much larger organizations ...
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(AP) Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Barack Obama's health care law.But no one appears to have connected ...
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(AP) Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of ...
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(AP) Medical marijuana use in Illinois is now in Gov. Pat Quinn's hands after the state Senate approved legislation.Lawmakers voted 35-21 Friday to send the measure to Quinn for final approval. Quinn hasn't signaled whether he will sign it into law.The ...
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(AP) The International Monetary Fund says serious economic risks remain for Cyprus even after a big international bailout.An IMF report Friday predicts a deep recession in Cyprus this year and next. The report also says there's a danger that the downturn ...
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(AP) The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views.In a prepared statement, former acting ...
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(AP) The Treasury Department's top investigator for tax matters is telling Congress that he is still investigating whether outside political pressure caused the Internal Revenue Service to improperly target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.The Treasury inspector general for tax administration, J. ...
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(AP) Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operate with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities.The Associated Press reviewed the public tax filings by 93 ...
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(AP) The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn't ...
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(AP) A second federal appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama exceeded his power in making a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that recess appointments can be made ...
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(AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said European countries must agree on how to generate sorely needed economic growth, and stressed it was important that France pursue reforms to become more competitive.Merkel spoke at a European policy forum in Berlin a day ...
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(AP) The Obama administration wants quick confirmation of five nominees for the National Labor Relations Board, which has been mired in a controversy over so-called recess appointments.But Senate Republicans are not expected to cooperate Thursday when the nominees appear at a ...
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(AP) The House has passed a bill making it a crime for people to falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits. Under the legislation, which passed overwhelmingly and now goes to the ...
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(AP) The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.Republicans in Congress are livid with the IRS over its systematic ...
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(AP) Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees.But here's the rub: About a dozen ...
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(AP) The growing use of unmanned "eyes in the sky" is raising many privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what to do about civilian drones.Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union tells a House subcommittee that a ...
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(AP) The organic industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states.But that isn't going over well with everyone in Congress.Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during ...
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(AP) Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal ...
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(AP) The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that would protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators _ and the White House is endorsing the idea.The proposal wouldn't provide ...
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(AP) There they go again: The House is debating another GOP bill to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law.Republicans are making their 37th attempt in a little over two years to eliminate, defund or scale back the Affordable Care Act. ...
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