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June 19, 2013

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  • G-8 leaders can’t agree on forcing out Syria’s Bashar Assad

    By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 11:55 AM

    President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad. As expected, Russian President...

  • White House: We aren’t demanding Taliban cut ties with al Qaeda — yet

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/18/13 11:20 AM

    White House officials announced that the United States and Afghanistan governments will use the negotiating table as the place to ask the Taliban to cut ties with al-Qaeda, a process that can begin now that the Taliban have denounced most other Afghanistan-based terrorist efforts. “[W]e’ve...

  • ‘Skinny’ Chris Christie promises not to wear a Speedo

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 11:05 AM

    On ‘Morning Joe’ this morning, the slightly thinner Gov. Chris Christie R-N.J. dodged 2016 presidential speculation by announcing that he would not wear a Speedo swimsuit on the Fourth of July. “I can announce I’m not wearing the Speedo on the Fourth of July, that’s something I’m...

  • Congressman: Labor Department expanded wage rule without public comment

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 10:40 AM

    Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing this morning that the Labor Department expanded the reach of Davis-Bacon Act without public comment earlier this year. Davis-Bacon is a law that requires contractors engaged in any federally-funded...

  • Support falling in polls, Harry Reid announces rush to pass immigration bill

    By Byron York | 06/18/13 10:35 AM

    With a new poll showing falling support for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final, up-or-down vote on passing the bill by the end of next week. "I’m just telling...

  • US, Afghan officials to talk to Taliban in Doha

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 10:25 AM

    The White House on Tuesday announced two milestones on the long path to peace in Afghanistan: negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban will begin soon in Qatar, and Afghan security forces have taken the lead role in securing the country. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will...

  • Obama dismisses Bush comparisons, defends Syria response

    By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 10:10 AM

    President Obama in a wide-ranging interview that aired late Monday gave a robust defense of his administration’s phone and Internet surveillance programs and his decision to provide light weapons to the Syrian anti-government rebels, seeking to push back against growing criticism of his...

  • Obama hints Ben Bernanke’s time is up as Fed chairman

    By Joseph Lawler | 06/18/13 10:05 AM

    President Obama hinted Monday night that Ben Bernanke will not be reappointed to a third term as Federal Reserve chairman when his current term ends in January. Bernanke has “already stayed” at the Fed “a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to,” Obama told PBS’ Charlie Rose...

  • Obamacare’s tariff on hiring American workers still plagues immigration bill

    By Philip Klein | 06/18/13 09:40 AM

    An unnamed staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio has caused the latest stir over the immigration bill by telling the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that, “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it…There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star...

  • Greenwald: Obama’s NSA oversight is ‘symbolic and empty’

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 08:45 AM

    Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald dismissed President Obama’s promises of strict oversight of surveillance programs within the National Security Agency. “It’s totally false,” he said flatly, reminding Tapper that Senate Democrats who actually want to...


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