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Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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...
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Key senators tightly control immigration debate
Updated: 3 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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...
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Obama sees terror threat reduced to pre-9/11 level
Updated: 52 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama isn't claiming final victory over extremists who still...
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Obama says nation must do more for fallen heroes
Updated: 3 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must...
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Obama's new wordsmith believes in public service
Updated: 6 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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...
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Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Updated: 6 hr ago
WASHINGTON (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...
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Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions
Updated: 6 hr ago
WASHINGTON (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...
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Obama OKs honor for Birmingham bombing victims
Updated: 16 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to award Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement....
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Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov't
Updated: 16 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field...
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Oklahoma gets far more than its share of disasters
Updated: 18 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many states get hit frequently with tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, but Oklahoma is Disaster Central. The twister that devastated Moore, Okla., was the 74th...
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