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Originally published: Apr 30, 2012 - 9:42 am

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Political landscape changes with improving economy

Saturday, May 25, 1:13 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers... Read more...
Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level

Saturday, May 25, 12:05 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who... Read more...
Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes

Saturday, May 25, 11:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country... Read more...
Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith

Saturday, May 25, 11:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed... Read more...
Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity

Saturday, May 25, 10:55 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant... Read more...
Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

Saturday, May 25, 10:38 am
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A... Read more...
Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan

Saturday, May 25, 8:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such... Read more...
Key senators tightly control immigration debate

Saturday, May 25, 6:53 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change... Read more...
Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers

Friday, May 24, 6:48 pm
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's bitter debate over a signature part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has sparked an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least nine legislators... Read more...
Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee

Friday, May 24, 3:44 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a... Read more...
Md. suspect is son of Bush White House official

Friday, May 24, 2:48 pm
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) - The 20-year-old son of a former aide to President George W. Bush was charged in a Washington, D.C., suburb on Friday, accused by police of killing a man with a hatchet. Claude... Read more...
Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov't

Friday, May 24, 2:20 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices... Read more...
Obama OKs honor for Birmingham bombing victims

Friday, May 24, 2:17 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to award Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement.... Read more...
Interpol rejects Russia bid to locate UK investor

Friday, May 24, 1:42 pm
PARIS (AP) - The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime. France-based... Read more...
Top 10 items found during 2012 coastal cleanup

Friday, May 24, 12:04 pm
(AP) - The Ocean Conservancy, a Washington D.C.-based environmental organization, released its 2012 list of trash collected during its International Coastal Cleanup. More than 10 million pounds... Read more...