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Seeking a Syria consensus despite US-Russia divide
Hunting for a glimmer of common ground, the leaders of major economic powers are declaring themselves dedicated to a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war, even as President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin stake out diametrically opposite stands on which side deserves military support. Ahead of a ...
Obama: Secret data gathering 'transparent'
President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast late Monday. "That's why we set up ...
Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told PBS' Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA ...
Report: Slowdown in health care costs to continue
There's good news for most companies that provide health benefits for their employees: America's slowdown in medical costs may be turning into a trend, rather than a mere pause. A report Tuesday from accounting and consulting giant PwC projects lower overall growth in medical costs for next year, even as ...
Obama: Iranian people want a 'different direction'
President Barack Obama said Monday that Iran's election of a relative moderate shows that the country's people want to change course. But he stressed that Tehran still needs to show the international community that it's not pursuing a nuclear weapon. Obama said in an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose airing ...
AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT
Supreme Court says Arizona cannot demand proof of citizenship for federal voter registration WASHINGTON (AP) — States can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision complicating efforts ...
Gonzales confirmed as federal judge
The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to confirm New Mexico U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales as the state's next federal judge, and New Mexico's senators immediately recommended one of his assistants be appointed to replace him. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats, sent President Barack Obama a letter recommending ...
US names prisoners slated for indefinite detention
A list released by the U.S. government Monday identifies several dozen Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been designated as too dangerous to release but who can't be prosecuted. Those on the list are prisoners who have been held without charge under the Authorized Use of Military Force act passed by ...
G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria
Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime. But there were also fissures among the three Western ...
Naval Academy moves ahead on sexual assault case
The U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent has decided to move ahead with a case in which a female midshipman accuses football players of sexually assaulting her after she was passed out from a night of drinking, the school announced Monday. Vice Adm. Michael Miller sent the case to Article 32 proceedings. ...
Transcript: Obama and Putin at G-8 summit
Remarks by President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at the summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations, as transcribed by the White House. PUTIN: (As interpreted.) I've had detailed talks with the president of the United States on almost all the matters. We ...
Putin: US-Russia positions on Syria don't coincide
Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama on Monday that their positions on Syria do not "coincide" but the two leaders said during the G-8 summit that they have a shared interest in stopping the violence that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country during a two-year-old civil war. Obama ...
EU, US agree to start free trade talks at G-8
The European Union and the United States will open negotiations next month on a long-sought deal to create free trade between the world's two mightiest economic regions, an effort designed to create millions of jobs that could take years to transform from dream to reality. EU and U.S. leaders announced ...
Yemen protesters demand Gitmo detainees release
Yemeni and American rights protesters have staged a demonstration in front of U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, demanding release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainees. Mohammed Nagi of Yemen-based National Organization For Defending Rights and Freedom known as Hood says activists are demanding that President Barak Obama enforce his pledge to close Guantanamo ...
Chicago's next US attorney faces urgent dilemma
Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city. Should he zero in on Illinois' deep pool of political corruption with the resolve of his predecessor, who sent two governors to prison? Or should he devote even more resources to the gang- and ...
Immigration splits GOP's national, House interests
The Republican Party's hope of running stronger presidential races by revamping immigration is about to hit a big hurdle: House Republicans. Many House Republicans are chilly or openly hostile to the bipartisan bill before the Senate, embraced by President Barack Obama. Even substantial changes to the bill may do little ...
Ex-Dem party chief sentenced in petition scheme
A former Democratic county chairman in northern Indiana has been sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a scheme to forge signatures onto petitions placing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state's 2008 presidential primary ballot. A judge in South Bend on Monday sentenced former St. ...
Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials
Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 15 Obama's 2nd term stumbles out of gate The Affordable Care Act could make or break President Barack Obama's second term and ultimately put a stamp on his legacy. Beset by a Congress that cannot agree on anything and a dizzying supply of scandals and controversies, ...
McCain presses Obama on secret emails
Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at work, saying that Congress cannot tell the American people what its government is doing if it creates a "secret alternate communications network." The letter from McCain, the senior Republican ...
For young immigrants, a delayed coming of age
As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami. When he was done, he'd take out the trash and help finish cleaning. Tume's parents brought him to the U.S. from Peru with his younger ...
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