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Political landscape changes with improving economy
7 hours 23 mins ago
Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.
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Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level
8 hours 31 mins ago
Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.
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Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes
9 hours 11 mins ago
President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.
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Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith
9 hours 18 mins ago
When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast.
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Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity
9 hours 41 mins ago
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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Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
9 hours 58 mins ago
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military.
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Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
12 hours 35 mins ago
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.
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Key senators tightly control immigration debate
13 hours 43 mins ago
For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
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Strange
Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.
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Finance
Metals and agricultural futures prices slip
Metals prices ended slightly lower Friday, as did agricultural futures.
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Science & Tech
US disasters by state for past 60 years
Since 1953, there have been 2,115 major disasters declared in the United States and U.S. territories. Disasters by state, including Monday's tornado in Oklahoma:
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