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US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
Updated: 9 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government...
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
Updated: 4 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional"...
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Obama to speak on legality of drone program
Updated: 10 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House...
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
Updated: 12 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned...
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Obama to address Morehouse College commencement
Updated: 16 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its...
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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
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Bernanke forecasts gains from computer technology
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong....
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A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in...
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Myanmar leader, Obama to meet while reforms stall
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking...
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IRS probe ignored most influential groups
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea party...
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