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(AP) A Senate panel has endorsed President Barack Obama's slate of five nominees to sit on the National Labor Relations Board. Two of them advanced despite strong GOP opposition.The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to send the nominees ...
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(AP) A string of unrelated events are highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front to exploit the White House's latest political problems.Tensions between libertarian-leaning and more mainstream Republicans were on vivid display Tuesday.Sens. Rand Paul ...
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(AP) Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress: He's created a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies.California Democrat Dianne ...
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(AP) The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so.Yet despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on filibusters, ...
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(AP) A look at the 867-page immigration overhaul bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee:___BORDER SECURITY_The bill sets goals of surveillance of 100 percent of the border with Mexico, and catching or turning back 90 percent of would-be crossers._Within six ...
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(AP) Republicans controlling the House are pressing ahead with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper than the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic austerity.Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and the Pentagon ...
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(AP) A key figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy plans to invoke her constitutional right not to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.Lois Lerner is the director of the IRS division that handles applications for tax exempt status. That ...
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(AP) Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.The legislative proposal is a response to remarks last month by Secretary of State ...
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(AP) Lawmakers are asking Myanmar President Thein Sein (tane sane) to free nearly 250 political prisoners.Thein Sein met Tuesday with members of the Senate and House on Capitol Hill, a day after he became the first Myanmar leader to visit the ...
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(AP) Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.Spokesman John Hart says ...
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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) Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009.The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary is getting a friendly reception from senators of both parties laced with warnings that the nation needs to make a host of transportation improvements with no clear way to pay for them.Charlotte Mayor ...
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(AP) A U.S. official says the Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system that will allow the department to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to ...
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(AP) The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.The shooting incident early Wednesday took place in Orlando, Fla., where an FBI agent along with other law ...
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(AP) The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs.FEMA's Craig Fugate promises in an interview that officials won't desert Oklahoma, saying "We don't leave ...
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(AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is talking with officials in Oman about their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defense system from American manufacturer Raytheon.Kerry was meeting Wednesday with the Arab country's defense minister, a day after discussions ...
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(AP) The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.New details on the administration's budget request for next year and other expenses emerged on Tuesday. The cost of ...
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(AP) The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years ...
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(AP) Physicist Ernest Moniz has been sworn in as the nation's new energy secretary.The 68-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor took the oath of office Tuesday at the Energy Department. He replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President ...
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(AP) In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory _ by declaring that a ...
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(AP) It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained ...
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(AP) Three more states have received permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind education law.The Education Department on Monday said Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia schools qualified for exemptions. The decision now has given 37 states and ...
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(AP) The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on Tuesday.The unarmed Minuteman 3 missile is to ...
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(AP) The Justice Department's inspector general says the U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast ...
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