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June 19, 2013

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  • Panel OKs revisions to Eisenhower memorial designs

    By Sean Lengell | 06/19/13 07:10 PM

    A long-delayed memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed to be built just off the National Mall took a key step forward Wednesday, when a presidentially appointed panel unanimously approved revisions to the Frank Gehry-designed project. Several hurdles still must be cleared before ground...

  • An Oregon study casts doubt on whether health insurance improves health

    By Michael Barone | 06/19/13 06:25 PM

    On key measurements, people on Medicaid did not achieve better outcomes than uninsured people Does having health insurance make people healthier? It's widely assumed that it does. Obamacare advocates repeatedly said that its expansion of Medicaid would save thousands of lives a year....

  • Tea Party rally draws modest crowd on Capitol Hill

    By Gabriella Morrongiello | 06/19/13 06:15 PM

    A modest crowd of Tea Party enthusiasts descended on Washington in this afternoon’s “Audit the IRS” rally on Capitol Hill. “There’s some people who want to write the obituary for the Tea party,” Mike Needham, CEO of the Heritage Foundation’s Heritage Action for America group,...

  • FBI is using drones in America, director tells Congress

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/19/13 05:55 PM

    The Federal Bureau of Investigations employs the use of drones for surveillance on U.S. soil, the agency’s director told lawmakers on Wednesday. At an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted the agency is making use of unmanned...

  • Ben Bernanke recommits to the Federal Reserve’s stimulus plans

    By Joseph Lawler | 06/19/13 05:35 PM

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used his quarterly press conference Wednesday afternoon to try to convince the markets that the central bank is serious about pulling back from its bond-buying program if the economy continues to improve. Bernanke’s hour-long question-and-answer session...

  • Negotiations with Taliban likely to succeed only when they are defeated

    By Michael Barone | 06/19/13 05:05 PM

    The United States is now engaged in negotiations with the Taliban, as the Examiner reports. How successful are these likely to be? Useful guidance comes from the 2009 book by John Bew, Martyn Frampton and Inigo Gurruchaga, Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the...

  • Obama on verge of unveiling climate plan

    By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 05:05 PM

    President Obama is nearly set to roll out a fresh blueprint to combat climate change, which will include tighter rules for power plants, a push for more energy-efficient buildings and appliances and additional green energy development on public lands, a White House official said Wednesday....

  • U.S. condemns al Qaeda-linked attack on U.N. in Somalia

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/19/13 05:00 PM

    The United States condemned the attack by an al Qaeda-linked militia on the United Nations office in Somalia Wednesday, calling the terrorist tactics used by attackers “despicable” and “repugnant” and pledging to remain a “steadfast partner” of the Somali government. A gun battle...

  • Ted Cruz: 40 percent of Hispanic Texans voted for my border-security-first platform

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/19/13 04:40 PM

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested that Republicans can win significant percentages of the Hispanic electorate while demanding border security take place before any legalization of illegal immigrants, citing his own experience as a candidate in Texas. “In my race in Texas—Texas is a...

  • Sen. Mike Enzi: NSA is ‘not the only federal agency gathering information about you’

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/19/13 03:55 PM

    President Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Board, created by the Dodd-Frank bill and staffed by controversial so-called recess appointments, is “unreasonably searching your records and invading your privacy” to a degree comparable to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) recently...


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