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Turkey says US favorable to sale of armed drones
President Barack Obama's administration is inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey but has to convince Congress first, Turkey's president told ...
Reverberations from drug raid felt in US, Honduras
Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading ...
Cuban president's daughter gets US visa
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism ...
Study: US clears drugs faster than Europe, Canada
Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that ...
Obama, Romney trying to refocus on economy Friday
The presidential candidates tried to put aside politically risky talk of gay rights and return to Americans' top worry — the economy — in two states ...
Chile approves hate-crime law after gay bashing
Chile's congress passed a hate-crimes law Wednesday night, months after a group of alleged neo-Nazis were arrested in the brutal murder of a young gay ...
House panel OKs missile defense site on East Coast
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the ...
Bachmann becomes a citizen of Switzerland
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been granted citizenship in Switzerland. Bachmann's spokeswoman Becky Rogness says the congresswoman has ...
US panel OKs missile defense site on East Coast
The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon ...
Panel cuts foreign aid, military aid to Pakistan
A House of Representatives panel moved Wednesday to cut the foreign aid budget by some 9 percent, targeting economic aid and contributions to the ...
FBI chief: Plot shows need for surveillance power
FBI Director Robert Mueller urged Congress on Wednesday to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart terrorism plots like the latest one in ...
House votes to renew charter of Ex-Im Bank
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, culminating a struggle that has split Republicans between ...
US House votes to renew charter of Ex-Im Bank
The House has voted to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, a key source of financing for American companies, ranging from small businesses to ...
Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security
Far from politics, Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and ...
US state bans gay marriage; veteran senator ousted
America's small-government, low-tax tea party movement showed its muscle among Republican voters, denying another Senate term to Richard Lugar, one ...
Security unchanged over 'undetectable' plane bomb
Airport security procedures, with their intrusive pat downs and body scans, don't need to be toughened despite the discovery of a new al-Qaida airline ...
Obama, Romney target middle-class voters with ads
President Barack Obama pressed a deadlocked Congress on Tuesday to take action on an election year "to do" list of economic proposals to promote job ...
Democrats may benefit in tea party backfire
A challenge to a Republican stalwart in the Senate in Tuesday's Indiana primary election could, once again, backfire and play into the hands of ...
Tea party tested in challenge to moderate senator
The conservative tea party challenge to Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a key figure in securing and reducing nuclear weapons after the Soviet collapse, ...
Congress' intelligence heads: Taliban stronger
The heads of the House and Senate intelligence leaders said Sunday they believed that the Taliban had grown stronger since President Barack Obama sent ...
Congressional leaders say Taliban is stronger
The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees on Sunday declared that the Taliban had grown stronger since President Barack Obama's ...
Obama plunges into campaign, tears into Romney
President Barack Obama plunged into his campaign for a new term and tore into rival Mitt Romney as a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative ...
Obama shifts to campaign mode, tears into Romney
President Barack Obama launched a new phase of his re-election campaign on Saturday by branding Republican challenger Mitt Romney as an eager rubber ...
US senators: Lift all econ sanctions on Myanmar
A Democrat and Republican senator say the U.S. should lift all economic sanctions against Myanmar to help the military-dominated country reform.