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  • 4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

    Updated: 9 hr ago

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in...

  • President Obama's administration admits killing four Americans in drone strikes

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    The Obama administration killed four Americans in drone attacks overseas, the Justice Department acknowledged Wednesday in the first such public admission by the administration. The day before President Obama was set to make a major public address about his counterterrorism policies, including...

  • Obama will push Gitmo closure despite Pentagon plans for renovation

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    President Obama on Thursday will again call for the closure of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even as his Pentagon asks Congress for $450 million more to keep the facility open, stoking doubts about whether the president will live up to a glaringly unfulfilled campaign promise. With...

  • Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

    Yesterday

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on the administration's budget request emerged on Tuesday and underscored the contradiction of the...

  • Democrats fret President Obama's scandals will hurt them in 2014

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    President Obama isn't the only one whose fortunes are on the line in the face of a trio of explosive political scandals that are consuming Washington. The Justice Department's monitoring of reporters, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups and the White House's...

  • Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday if he had ever received classified information when writing about the inner workings of government.

  • AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal...

  • More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top...

  • White House helps fuel its own political controversies

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    The White House on Monday acknowledged that top officials there knew a month ago that the IRS was being investigated for targeting conservative groups, but offered no apology for the Justice Department's spying on a second news organization. Even as they labored to put controversy behind them,...

  • After Obama's roughest week, White House points finger at GOP

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    White House officials on Sunday dismissed Republican attacks over three simmering scandals as a partisan witch hunt, hoping to put behind them President Obama's single worst week in office and to move Washington's attention back to his second-term agenda. While Obama was delivering a...