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(AP) A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the U.S.U.S. District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein sentenced Aurelio Cano Flores on Monday, ...
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(AP) The FBI says 47 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty as the result of criminal acts last year, 25 fewer than in 2011.According to the preliminary data, the offenders who committed the killings used firearms in ...
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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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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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(AP) The Senate has begun debate on President Barack Obama's nomination of physicist Ernest Moniz to lead the Energy Department.Moniz, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would replace Steven Chu, who served as Energy secretary in Obama's first term. ...
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(AP) The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved three of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees for a full Senate vote -- including one for the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.The committee voted 18-0 on Thursday to move forward the nomination of ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican support.The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday voted 10-8, along party lines, to advance ...
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(AP) The Senate has confirmed a former nurse to run Medicare and other government health insurance programs with a combined budget surpassing the Pentagon's.Marilyn Tavenner's confirmation Wednesday puts her in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, children's health insurance and the rollout of ...
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(AP) Sen. Lamar Alexander says President Barack Obama's plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority has already cost hundreds of millions of dollars _ even if the nation's largest public utility is never sold.The Tennessee Republican said TVA bonds lost ...
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(AP) Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair sank his political career in 2009, is returning to Congress to reclaim his old House seat as he forges a comeback.A week after beating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in ...
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(AP) A top Senate Democrat plans to revive legislation that would protect journalists and their employers from revealing their sources, days after it was revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained Associated Press phone records.A congressional official said Sen. Chuck Schumer ...
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(AP) A key House panel responsible for implementing sweeping cuts to agency budgets would exempt veterans and largely protect spending on border safety and other homeland security programs.The House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees veterans and military construction projects approved a bill ...
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(AP) Attorney General Eric Holder is defending Thomas Perez's tenure as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and says he would make a great secretary of Labor.Holder told leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Perez deserves ...
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(AP) The Senate has put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration.The smooth passage of the Water Resources Development Act ...
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(AP) The leaders of the panel that independently reviewed the attack last year in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans have agreed to testify publicly before Congress to counter what they consider unfounded criticism of their work.In a letter to the ...
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(AP) The House and Senate this week are considering legislation that would cut federal farm and food subsidies. A look at the bills:OVERALL COST: Both five-year bills would cost about $100 billion annually, with almost $80 billion of that annual total ...
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(AP) There's still a little something for everyone in massive farm bills that Congress is considering this week, even though the legislation would cut billions of dollars from federal farm and food subsidies.The Senate version of the bill being considered Tuesday ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's political support group is joining with a Republican pro-immigration organization and an effort run by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help boost support for a comprehensive immigration bill.Organizing for Action, a grassroots group run by Obama ...
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(AP) Sen. Max Baucus says the Senate Finance Committee will investigate the IRS targeting conservative political groups, joining a growing list of congressional panels looking into the matter.The Finance Committee would be the first in the Democratic-controlled Senate to announce an ...
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(AP) Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. wants to see Bangladesh move forward on improving labor standards after a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment workers.Kerry met Friday with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and expressed deep sadness over ...
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(AP) An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis ...
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