Politics
Politics
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POLITICS
Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level
Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.
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POLITICS
Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes
President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.
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POLITICS
Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith
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 a speech. And fast.
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POLITICS
Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity
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 power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
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POLITICS
Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
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.
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POLITICS
Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
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 relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.
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POLITICS
Key senators tightly control immigration debate
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 to far-reaching immigration legislation.
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POLITICS
A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery
Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west.
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POLITICS
Whatever cause, Washington state bridge collapse points to bigger problems
The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country’s infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for error and were never intended to carry the number of cars and trucks they see today.
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MCCLATCHY DC
After failure on gun legislation, Obama learning limits of his power
Six months after his triumphant re-election, President Barack Obama has run into the hard reality of the modern presidency.


