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Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

8 hours, 30 minutes ago

(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 ...

NYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'

8 hours, 30 minutes ago

(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 ...

Ark. treasurer accused of taking cash from broker

8 hours, 30 minutes ago

(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 ...

Tea party vs. old guard in Senate GOP rift

8 hours, 30 minutes ago

(AP) A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers is in full view again with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of using tactics that might tempt Democrats to change Senate rules that now protect the minority party.How to deal ...

Wyden: FracFocus 'constructive' tool on drilling

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) The chairman of the Senate Energy Committee says a website partially funded by the oil and gas industry is a constructive tool that could be used by federal regulators in requiring public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing ...

Senate confirms Obama nominee to key appeals court

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court.The Senate on Thursday confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court is considered ...

Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) Another round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress.The Obama administration wants another round. But the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee passed a bill Thursday to block any base closings in the U.S.Republican Robert Wittman of Virginia is ...

Senator: Assaults let military culture continue

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) A senator says repeated sexual assaults in the military allow a culture to continue.Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) of New York addressed the latest case at West Point. An Army sergeant is charged with secretly taking pictures and video of ...

House Republicans promote 20-week abortion ban

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) House Republican who oppose abortion are promoting legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.These Republicans want to move ahead despite recent court decisions that have struck down similar state laws. And the GOP lawmakers are taking on ...

Labor board nominees advance

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

Others who took the 5th: McGwire, Abramoff, North

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions at congressional hearings over the years.A few of the well-known names:____Former St. Louis Cardinals slugger ...

Republican divisions may hinder party's momentum

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the system

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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, ...

Details of the Senate immigration bill

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

IRS official Lerner to take 5th at hearing

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

US lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

Okla. Senator says tornado aid should be paid for

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

House passes bill on lying about military medals

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

(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 ...

Education Department giving Newtown $1.3 million

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) Schools in Newtown, Conn., will receive $1.3 million in federal aid to recover after the shootings that left 26 students and educators dead last year.Education Secretary Arne Duncan planned to announce the School Emergency Response to Violence grant during a ...

IRS replaces official in tea party controversy

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told ...

Pritzker's ties to thrift, tax haven eyed

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of commerce is facing scrutiny in the Senate for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001 and as a beneficiary of family offshore trusts in the Bahamas.Billionaire business executive Penny ...

Kerry detours for Palestinian shwarma

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) Secretary of State John Kerry says he's all in for Palestinian shwarma.Kerry chomped one of the meat sandwiches after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.Asked what toppings he wanted, Kerry said, quote, "I want everything. I'm all ...

US criticized over response to Indonesia attacks

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) The U.S. is expressing concern over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accuse Washington of downplaying the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with Jakarta.Muslim-majority Indonesia has emerged as Southeast Asia's most robust ...

AG: 4 Americans killed since 2009 in drone strikes

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(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, ...

Senators warm to transportation nominee

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(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 ...

Pentagon to seek new vets record system

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(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 ...

FEMA Chief: Feds won't go 'when the cameras leave'

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(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 ...

Kerry pushes $2.1 billion Raytheon deal in Oman

8 hours, 32 minutes ago

(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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