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(AP) The Energy Department has given conditional approval to a Texas company that wants to export liquefied natural gas, the second LNG export project the Obama administration has approved as it faces a wave of export requests.The permit would allow Freeport ...
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(AP) As senior military leaders and government officials grapple with how to reduce sexual assaults in the military, a Pentagon report provides details of the problem. The numbers may not add up in all cases due to rounding or smaller categories ...
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(AP) The government has allowed terrorists into America's witness protection program and has failed to provide the names of some of them for the watch list that's used to keep dangerous people off airline flights, the Justice Department's inspector general says.As ...
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(AP) The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a U.S. terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked organization fighting President Bashar Assad's (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) regime.Thursday's actions highlight America's twin goals in Syria: It wants the ...
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(AP) The Justice Department's inspector general says the department failed to provide the names of some terrorists in the witness protection program to the government's Terrorist Screening Center.The center maintains the watch list that's used to keep dangerous people off airline ...
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(AP) Senior Pentagon officials are defending a 2001 military force law, saying the U.S. remains in armed conflict with al-Qaida and its associate forces.President Barack Obama has used the law to target terrorists with fatal drone strikes, including on Americans overseas.The ...
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(AP) Anger over President Barack Obama's policies drove businessman Tom Zawistowski to file paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service nearly three years ago to create the Ohio Liberty Coalition.His nonprofit organization largely attracted conservatives who were new to politics. It eventually ...
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(AP) A list of some recent military directives and actions related to the Defense Department's sexual assault prevention program:ONGOING/FUTURE: The Pentagon is developing policy for responding to victims that will include training and certification standards for special victim investigators.MARCH 2013: The ...
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(AP) Attorney General Eric Holder says the FBI's criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service could include potential civil rights violations, false statements and potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in some partisan political activities.Holder, ...
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(AP) The Department of Veterans Affairs says more than 10,000 workers who handle disability claims will be required to work at least 20 hours of overtime each month in an effort reduce a sizable backlog.The overtime requirement will last through September ...
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(AP) New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is prepared to detail how she will move forward on issues affecting Native Americans and Alaska Natives.Jewell is scheduled to testify Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee chaired by Washington Democratic Sen. Maria ...
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(AP) Arctic states have agreed to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic council.The decision Wednesday by the Arctic Council boosts rising superpowers China, India and Korea that seek to mine the ...
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(AP) Attorney General Eric Holder is facing what is likely to be aggressive questioning Wednesday by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on topics ranging from the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press to the government's handling of ...
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(AP) A look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before the 2012 elections, a practice that has prompted congressional inquiries and a Justice Department criminal investigation:2010:March-April: IRS ...
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(AP) The Pentagon says fragmentary remains of a Marine who perished in a failed helicopter rescue of the crew of the merchant ship Mayaguez in May 1975 will be buried Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery.The Pentagon said it accounted for Pfc. ...
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(AP) The Army says the coordinator of a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct. He has been suspended from all duties.The announcement Wednesday evening came just days after ...
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(AP) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as U.S. ambassador to Libya.The panel on a voice vote Tuesday approved Deborah Kay Jones, a career diplomat who has served in Kuwait, Argentina, Syria, Iraq and ...
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(AP) Attorney General Eric Holder says he's ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny.He said the FBI was coordinating with the Department of Justice to see if any laws were ...
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(AP) The Justice Department says Attorney General Eric Holder removed himself from a decision to subpoena phone records of The Associated Press.A Justice Department statement Tuesday says that Holder stepped aside _ a procedure known as recusal. The statement says Holder ...
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(AP) Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, are being charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges spanning eight cities.Tuesday's announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary ...
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(AP) U.S. military officials say the Defense Department leaders trying to find ways to deal with mandatory budget cuts are poised to trim the number of civilian furlough days from 14 to 11 and allow the military to exempt thousands of ...
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(AP) A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison.Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani (mad-WAH-ni) made that statement in a federal court declaration about a month before ...
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(AP) Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota. Their decisions highlighted the party's challenge of finding ...
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(AP) Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.At the GOP's statewide convention, thousands of conservatives and tea party followers who dominated the Richmond Coliseum on Saturday roared their unanimous support for Ken Cuccinelli. He ...
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(AP) Encouraging news about the U.S. economy is extending the stock market's rally.U.S. stock indexes rose for the fourth week in a row and are at record levels.A gauge of future economic activity rose more than analysts had expected, as did ...
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(AP) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists who are forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.Bernanke told a college graduating class Saturday that the long-range practical consequences of ...
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(AP) A research report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says younger baby boomers and Generation Xers face an uncertain retirement because of reduced savings, high levels of debt, and losses during the Great Recession.The study found that members of Generation X, ...
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(AP) Transocean Ltd. shareholders have voted out the oil drilling company's chairman and backed one of the nominees put forth by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.But the oil drilling said Friday that its stockholders decided against Icahn's proposal for a $4 dividend.Under ...
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(AP) The Mexican government says it has cut its economic growth forecast for 2013 from 3.5 percent to 3.1 after exports stagnated and first-quarter GDP figures came in weak.The Treasury Department says growth in the first quarter was only 0.8 percent, ...
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