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Immigration Bill Falling Apart in House Working Group
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FILE - This Oct. 2, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the border fence near Naco, Ariz. In the midst of a national conversation about immigration reform, where questions of border security figure heavily, the Obama administration switched from daily declarations that the border with Mexico is as secure as it's ever been to warning of the increasingly dire implications of hacking $754 million from Customs and Border Protection among nearly $3 billion from the Department of Homeland Security in the remaining half of the fiscal year. The cuts have affected the border and immigration enforcement in various ways, most visibly with the release of more than 2,000 immigrants from detention centers in states including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia and Texas.
Disagreements over unions and health care dragging House immigration negotiations South.
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Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:09AM May 25, 2013 CommentWEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is telling West Point cadets that sexual assault in the military must be stamped out.
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Obama says nation must do more for fallen heroes
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:03AM May 25, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.
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Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:33AM May 25, 2013 CommentADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.
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Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:25AM May 25, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains.
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Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10AM May 25, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
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Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:14PM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81.
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Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01PM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
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Budget cuts mean unpaid day off for many in gov't
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:49PM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS. Forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at any of the Housing and Urban Development offices nationwide.
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Obama OKs honor for Birmingham bombing victims
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:58PM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement are receiving the highest honor Congress gives to civilians.
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Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:23AM May 24, 2013 CommentTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations.
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Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:07AM May 24, 2013 CommentTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.
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Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:08AM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A day after laying out his counterterrorism vision, President Barack Obama is addressing future military leaders who could help carry it out in a speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates.
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Some unions now angry about health care overhaul
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:50AM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters.
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IRS replaces official who revealed targeting
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:44AM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.
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Obama balances threats against Americans' rights
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:36AM May 24, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, forecasting the changing nature of terrorist threats against the U.S., says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his counterterrorism policy, which has struggled to balance protecting the nation from attacks while still upholding Americans' rights.
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GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:07PM May 23, 2013 CommentWEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do — as one of their own.
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Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:06PM May 23, 2013 CommentAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen.
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Senate votes to cut crop insurance aid for wealthy
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:03PM May 23, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday voted to limit the amount of government subsidies the wealthiest farmers receive when purchasing crop insurance.
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Rep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college post
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:02PM May 23, 2013 CommentMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner says he is resigning from Congress effective in August to take a post with the University of Alabama system.
