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(AP) Myanmar President Thein Sein says that all perpetrators of inter-communal violence in the country will be brought to justice.Thein Sein made the comments Monday in a speech at a university in Washington after meeting President Barack Obama.Myanmar has been roiled ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) early next month in California.The White House says the meeting will be Obama's first with Xi since Xi became president. The two days of high-level sessions are scheduled ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space.Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says Ride ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will visit three African nations this summer.The White House says the president and first lady Michelle Obama will leave on June 26, stopping in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Obama will meet with government figures as well ...
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(AP) A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life?There's a common thread running through ...
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(AP) The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans. But it's unclear how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes, legislatively or politically.Last November's election dynamics complicate the picture on both fronts. GOP leaders are urging a ...
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(AP) Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him.The former ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will address the legality of his administration's controversial drone program during a speech this week.A White House official says Obama will also address other counterterrorism policies, including stalled efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Obama pledged ...
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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 were a diplomatic outpost and ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf _ in the rain.The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at ...
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(AP) Myanmar President Thein Sein's (tayn sayns) historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime.But in the six months since Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, the Southeast ...
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(AP) Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst says President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade.The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that after four straight years of annual shortfalls exceeding $1 trillion, Obama's budget would ...
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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) When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS wanted a promise that it wouldn't protest outside Planned Parenthood. The agency also demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.Although the Coalition for ...
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(AP) Los Angeles County prosecutors say they want to retry five former officials in the city of Bell who were accused of corruption and overpaying themselves with public funds.Spokeswoman Jean Guccione (goo-chee-OH'-nee) said Tuesday that prosecutors want a retrial after jurors ...
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(AP) The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not ...
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(AP) Top lawmakers and officials say the federal government has plenty of money on hand to pay for recovery efforts in the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma.The government has more than $11 billion in its main disaster relief fund. Recovery costs ...
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(AP) The Peace Corps says it will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet says the change will diversify the pool of applicants who want to help improve ...
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(AP) A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.The three-judge panel of the ...
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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) 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) 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) 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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