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  • Protester interrupts Michelle Obama at fundraiser

    06/05/13 07:16 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama threatened to leave a nighttime fundraiser unless a protester quit interrupting her speech. Mrs. Obama was speaking Tuesday evening at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington. According to a pool report from a reporter who attended...

  • Education bill rewrite would protect gay students

    06/05/13 03:45 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Protections for gay and lesbian students are included in the proposed rewrite of the nation's massive education law. Senate Democrats on Tuesday released a 1,150-page revision of the law governing the nation's elementary and secondary schools, formally known as the...

  • Senators blast military response to sex assaults

    06/04/13 08:45 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. senators dressed down senior military leaders Tuesday, led by female lawmakers, combat veterans and former prosecutors who insisted that sexual assault in the ranks has cost the services the trust and respect of the American people as well as the nation's men and women...

  • IRS officials enjoyed luxury rooms at conference

    06/04/13 08:18 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Already heavily criticized for targeting conservative groups, the Internal Revenue Service absorbed another blow Tuesday as new details emerged about senior officials enjoying luxury hotel rooms, free drinks and free food at a $4.1 million training conference. It was one of...

  • Obama nominates 3 to appeals court, testing GOP

    06/04/13 06:34 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening a summer showdown with Congress, a combative President Barack Obama nominated three judges to a powerful appellate court Tuesday and challenged Republicans to stop the "political obstruction" holding up his nominees. "What I'm doing today is my job," Obama said in...

  • Top Obama appointees using secret email accounts

    06/04/13 04:50 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees are using secret government email accounts to conduct official business, The Associated Press found, a practice that complicates agencies' legal responsibilities to find and turn over emails under public records requests...

  • Christie to discuss NJ Senate choice process

    06/04/13 12:35 PM

    CRANBURY, N.J. (AP) — In filling a vacant Senate seat, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faces a significant choice fraught with political implications for his re-election campaign and, perhaps, a future presidential run. Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg's death Monday presents the state's...

  • Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma

    06/03/13 05:47 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that he wants to end the stigma of mental illness and enrolled the star power of actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close at a White House conference organized in response to the December shootings at a Connecticut elementary school. The event...

  • Police can collect DNA from arrestees, court says

    06/03/13 04:31 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrest for a serious crime, endorsing a practice now followed by more than half the states as well as the federal government. The justices differed strikingly on how big...

  • House GOP defense bill blocks Guantanamo closing

    06/03/13 03:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebuffing President Barack Obama's latest plea, House Republicans on Monday proposed keeping open the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by barring the administration from transferring its terror suspects to the United States or a foreign country such as Yemen. The...


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