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  • AP chief says phone probe makes news sources reluctant to talk

    19 May 2013, 1:37 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said on Sunday.
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  • Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech

    19 May 2013, 11:47 am

    ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military…
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  • Ghosts of incinerator bond deal haunt Harrisburg election

    19 May 2013, 10:30 am

    (Reuters) - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the United States: with big personalities and bare-knuckled verbal brawls.
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  • Los Angeles mayoral race narrows, latest opinion poll shows

    18 May 2013, 8:38 pm

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - City Councilman Eric Garcetti leads City Controller Wendy Greuel by 7 percentage points in a tightening race for mayor of Los Angeles, according to the latest opinion poll, but the survey's director said Greuel could still stage an…
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  • Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in immigration fight

    18 May 2013, 1:01 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill.
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  • Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent

    17 May 2013, 10:03 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country.
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  • IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal

    17 May 2013, 8:54 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra…
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  • IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal

    17 May 2013, 6:51 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra…
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  • House bill to have more stringent immigrant controls: aides

    17 May 2013, 6:22 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan plan brokered in the House of Representatives will be tougher on illegal immigrants living in the United States than a Senate counterpart, congressional aides said on Friday.
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  • After tough week, Obama tries to change the subject to jobs

    17 May 2013, 6:20 pm

    BALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday sought to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening to swamp his agenda back to his top priority - the economy - and announced he will try to cut in half the time it takes to get federal approval…
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  • House panel demands deposition from Benghazi investigator

    17 May 2013, 5:22 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight committee on Friday ordered the leader of the investigation into the September 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks to sit for a private interview next week.
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  • Treasury gears up to buy time under reimposed debt cap

    17 May 2013, 5:05 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday notified Congress it was prepared to take a series of steps to free up about $260 billion so it can keep paying the nation's bills once a temporary suspension in the government's debt ceiling lapses…
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  • Incoming IRS chief asked to conduct "thorough review" of agency

    17 May 2013, 4:43 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incoming acting Internal Revenue Service chief Daniel Werfel has been asked to spearhead a "thorough review" of the scandal-plagued agency and report back to President Barack Obama in 30 days, a Treasury Department official said on…
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  • FCC nominee Wheeler will divest holdings if confirmed

    17 May 2013, 4:11 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.
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  • Two states say 2014 Obamacare insurance costs on low side

    17 May 2013, 3:57 pm

    (Reuters) - In a boost for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, two states in the Northwest said on Friday that insurance companies submitted applications to sell policies on the states' health insurance exchanges at rates well below what some…
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  • House votes for more scrutiny of economic impact of SEC rules

    17 May 2013, 3:44 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street.
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  • Senator seeks probe into impact of alleged EU oil price manipulation

    17 May 2013, 2:06 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the Senate's energy committee asked the Justice Department on Friday to investigate whether alleged price manipulation by three oil companies in Europe has boosted fuel prices for U.S. consumers.
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  • Virginia governor's race to test Tea Party Republicans' allure

    17 May 2013, 1:48 pm

    RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - The most nail-biting U.S. governor's race this year is centering on whether a Tea Party Republican can win Virginia, the southern state that has twice backed Democratic President Barack Obama.
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  • Budget crisis, union ties weigh heavily in Los Angeles mayor race

    17 May 2013, 7:05 am

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amid the mudslinging that has marked Los Angeles' mayoral race, the two candidates vying to lead America's second-largest city agree on this: its finances are terrible, and runaway wages and pensions paid to workers need to be reined in…
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  • House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration

    17 May 2013, 2:04 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to torpedo…
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  • Lawmakers blast Air Force moves on cancelled Northrop drone

    16 May 2013, 11:18 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to ensure that the Air Force complied with a law requiring the service to buy three high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned planes built by Northrop Grumman Corp that it had tried to…
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  • Amid damage control efforts, White House listens to outside advice

    16 May 2013, 8:44 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior White House officials responsible for navigating the administration through a trio of scandals met on Thursday with outside Democratic strategists for advice on how to get past the controversies and back on track advancing the…
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  • Top U.S. general warns of sexual assault 'crisis,' meets Obama

    16 May 2013, 8:35 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top general in the U.S. Armed Forces warned of a crisis of confidence in the growing ranks of women soldiers due to a rash of sexual assault cases that has prompted lawmakers to act.
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  • U.S. House lawmakers in last-ditch bid to save immigration bill

    16 May 2013, 8:25 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to write an immigration bill met on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants.
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  • Obama picks temporary IRS head as Tea Party decries scandal

    16 May 2013, 7:48 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday chose a White House budget official to lead the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service and vowed to ensure that the tax-collection agency will not single out any more groups based on their political…
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