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Senators broker tentative deal to end immigration bill logjam
WASHINGTON -- Key senators brokered a tentative deal Wednesday to strengthen the border security provisions in the immigration bill, a...
Feds don't do enough to prepare for severe weather, report says
WASHINGTON — Federal efforts to bolster community preparedness for extreme weather events are a fraction of what the government spends...
Despite controversies, Obama's job approval holds steady in new poll
Despite several weeks of troubles, including controversy over IRS targeting of conservative groups and National Security Agency surveillance...
Led by Republicans, House passes measure to limit abortions
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives passed legislation to enact stringent restrictions on abortion Tuesday, acting on an...
NSA surveillance helped foil more than 50 attacks, officials say
WASHINGTONÂ — Recently disclosed National Security Agency surveillance programs have helped disrupt more than 50 “...
Supporters of Obama's healthcare law kick off outreach campaign
WASHINGTON — A coalition of presidential campaign veterans, healthcare companies and community...
White House pushes gun safety, but it means little without Congress
WASHINGTON -- The White House plans to announce Tuesday that it has improved gun safety in the country...
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Boehner torn between conservative issues and those with broad appealWASHINGTON — About once a week, like clockwork, House Speaker John A. Boehner insists in a Capitol news conference that jobs and the... |
Obama considers sweeping climate planWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a sweeping initiative to address climate change, including the first-ever... |
FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director saysWASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified Wednesday that the controversial National Security Agency surveillance... |
Edward Snowden vows more disclosures about U.S. surveillanceWASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed... |
Statue of Frederick Douglass dedicated at U.S. CapitolWASHINGTON — Fourteen-year-old April Greene traveled from Murfreesboro, Tenn., with her family to watch Congress dedicate a statue... |
Journalistic impartiality tested in NSA leak storyEdward Snowden may represent the archetypal leaker of the Internet age — a tech savant who justifies his civil disobedience as a... |
Federal spending on weather event preparedness laggingWASHINGTON — Federal spending on community preparedness for extreme weather events is a fraction of the amount paid to clean up damage... |
Obama, Putin differ on Syria during tense talksENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — President Obama differed sharply with Russia's leader over the Syrian civil war in an icy encounter... |
Budget report gives key push to Senate immigration billWASHINGTON — The sweeping immigration overhaul bill received a boost Tuesday as senators appeared to narrow their differences on... |
BioWatch faces congressional hearing this weekWASHINGTON — A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to... |
IRS manager says tea party groups not politically targetedWASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service manager who described himself as a "conservative Republican" told congressional investigators... |
Supreme Court considers landmark equality casesWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law. |
NSA surveillance helped foil more than 50 attacks, officials sayWASHINGTON — Recently disclosed National Security Agency surveillance programs have helped disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist... |
Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSAWASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped... |
Joe Biden touts White House progress on gun controlWASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate the White House's stalled gun safety push, touted... |
Newtown marks six-month anniversary of school shootingPeople in Newtown, Conn., and around the country paused Friday to remember the tragic shooting rampage that took place at an elementary... |
BioWatch's chief aim is off-target, U.S. security officials sayWASHINGTON — Homeland Security Department planners have privately rejected a central premise of BioWatch, the nation's decade-old... |
NSA surveillance disclosure could affect court casesWhen federal officials recently confirmed the existence of a massive National Security Agency program that has been collecting Americans'... |
Envoy appointed to shut down prison at GuantanamoWASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Monday that it had chosen a longtime Washington attorney who has worked in both... |
Senate rejects move to tie immigration overhaul to border securityWASHINGTON — In the first and only vote Thursday on the immigration bill, senators turned back a Republican measure that would have... |