5 hours, 13 minutes ago
(AP) A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez and Carl Levin and Republican John McCain say in a ...
5 hours, 14 minutes ago
(AP) Google is asking the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift its long-standing gag order on how often the company is asked to turn over data about its customers to the federal government.Claiming that it has a First Amendment right ...
5 hours, 16 minutes ago
(AP) As the military looks to bring women into combat jobs closer to the front lines, including commando units, senior leaders are reviewing the physical and mental requirements that troops must meet in order to qualify for certain positions.There are many ...
7 hours, 43 minutes ago
(AP) Word that the Taliban and U.S. will hold formal talks to find a political solution to end nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan comes after years of failed efforts at peace talks. A look at the evolution of U.S. ...
8 hours, 19 minutes ago
(AP) Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top officials from the European Union. But they only make promises.There's no actual change until the words are ...
10 hours, 54 minutes ago
(AP) A federal appeals court judge says it's time for the president and Congress to consider a different approach to the handling of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.Judge Harry T. Edwards made the comment Tuesday at the end of a ...
11 hours, 30 minutes ago
(AP) President Barack Obama says he and French President Francois Hollande agree they have strong evidence of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government. But he's not publicly mentioning their current differing positions over whether to arm rebels.Obama said the two ...
11 hours, 31 minutes ago
(AP) Civil rights lawyers say they plan to ask a federal judge to declare the New York Police Department's spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, and to order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police ...
11 hours, 32 minutes ago
(AP) Two officials say that Secretary of State John Kerry has chosen Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator from Wisconsin, as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa Great Lakes region.A U.S. official and a congressional aide say Kerry will announce ...
12 hours, 6 minutes ago
(AP) House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says any immigration bill passing the House ought to have support from a majority of both Republicans and Democrats. That's a high bar on a difficult, often partisan issue.Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Boehner criticized ...
12 hours, 42 minutes ago
(AP) Newark Mayor Cory Booker is the favorite to win a fast-paced race for U.S. Senate set off by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg this month.But this is not the race Booker expected to run. The charismatic leader planned to ...
13 hours, 20 minutes ago
(AP) Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill says she is supporting a super political action committee encouraging Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016.McCaskill is the first sitting member of Congress to endorse the group, called Ready for Hillary.The organization does ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court says lawyers may not obtain personal information from state driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits.The justices voted 5-4 Monday in favor of South Carolina residents who objected to solicitations from lawyers to join a lawsuit ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court says a jury should have the final say on facts that can trigger mandatory minimum sentences in criminal trials.The high court on Monday overturned the sentencing in Allen Alleyne's case in a 5-4 judgment. He was convicted ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court says prosecutor can use a person's silence against them in court if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.The 5-4 ruling comes in the case of Genovevo Salinas, who was convicted of a ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court says deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal.The justices voted 5-3 to allow the government to challenge what it ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court won't reconsider a jury's decision that an off-duty Seattle police officer who was cut off in traffic violated a man's rights by detaining him at gunpoint.The high court Monday refused to hear an appeal from officer Jonathan ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court has agreed to decide another dispute involving race, whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law.The justices said Monday they would take up a case involving the Fair ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) Because it has the final say on this country's laws, everyone has to listen to the U.S. Supreme Court. But actually hearing the court go about its business is a different story.Since 1955 the court has recorded audio of its ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court will review a $1.24 million defamation judgment against a Wisconsin airline that reported one of its pilots as mentally unstable and caused him to be arrested.The justices said Monday they will hear an appeal from Air Wisconsin ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) A council of federal judges in Washington will look into a misconduct complaint against a conservative judge who's alleged to have made racially discriminatory comments.Judge Edith Jones of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allegedly said at ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court has overturned part of the anti-smog program at the Port of Los Angeles.The port tried to restrict the types of trucks that can haul goods in and out of its terminals. But justices voted unanimously Thursday to ...
19 hours, 46 minutes ago
(AP) The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected Texas' claim that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross the border with Oklahoma for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area.The justices on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ...
19 hours, 47 minutes ago
(AP) President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other countries.Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the ...
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