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  • Senate to begin debate on immigration bill that faces long odds in House

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/09/13 05:45 PM

    The Senate this week opens debate a long-awaited, bipartisan immigration reform bill that pairs tighter border security with a 13-year path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. But even as senators inch toward a vote on a sprawling bill that also includes...

  • Tim Carney: Even law-abiding people should oppose surveillance

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/09/13 05:25 PM

    "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2009, "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." This line was creepy enough coming from one of President Obama's confidants and fundraisers. It takes on added weight now that the Washington...

  • Rand Paul plans to haul NSA program into the Supreme Court

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/09/13 05:10 PM

    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., intends to file a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a National Security Agency (NSA) program that collects phone records and other data from internet companies, according to documents leaked to the press by a whistleblower. “I’m going to be...

  • Obama plans health care, fundraising pitches in California

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/07/13 10:25 AM

    Beset by multiple controversies in Washington, President Obama will try to turn the nation’s attention to his 2010 health care overhaul during a Friday trip to California where he will encourage all Americans who are currently uninsured, and specifically Latinos in the state, to enroll in...

  • NFL champ skips WH visit because Obama said ‘God bless’ Planned Parenthood

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/07/13 10:00 AM

    Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood. “I have great respect for the office of the presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our...

  • New York Times secretly edited critical Obama editorial ‘for clarity’s sake’

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/07/13 09:00 AM

    Dylan Byers gets a response from the New York Times explaining why it edited its editorial criticizing the Obama administration. “The administration has now lost all credibility,” the Times originally declared, sparking surprise from political figures and journalists. Later the line was...

  • Democrats’ steep uphill road to recapture House

    By Michael Barone | 06/07/13 06:55 AM

    Can Democrats gain the 17 seats they need to win control of the House in 2014? Maybe, but the numbers look forbidding. Remember that while Barack Obama was reelected with 332 electoral votes he carried only 209 of the 435 congressional districts. Mitt Romney carried 226. Only 17 Republicans were...

  • Report: NSA, FBI secretly accessing Internet servers

    By Brian Hughes | 06/06/13 11:40 PM

    The Obama administration late Thursday defended its practice of obtaining records from major Internet companies, saying they don’t use the “important and valuable” counterterrorism tool to target Americans. Officials also declassified information justifying the widespread collection of...

  • Obama administration says it didn't target Americans

    By Brian Hughes | 06/06/13 11:40 PM

    The Obama administration late Thursday defended its practice of obtaining records from major Internet companies, saying they don’t use the “important and valuable” counterterrorism tool to target Americans. Officials also declassified information justifying the widespread collection of...

  • IRS apologizes for lavish conference spending, plastic fish

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/06/13 07:00 PM

    Top Internal Revenue Service officials on Thursday struggled to explain to congressional lawmakers why the agency spent $64,000 on plastic squirting fish and other "swag bag" trinkets during an over-the-top employee conference that cost taxpayers $4.1 million. IRS managers apologized Thursday...


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