Senators closing in on border security compromise
White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise ...
Compromise among senators eyed on border security
After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to dramatically toughen the ...
Social issues still fire up GOP despite 2012 loss
Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national ...
Immigration splits GOP's national, House interests
The Republican Party's hope of running stronger presidential races by revamping immigration is about to hit a big hurdle: House Republicans.
Immigration bill could decide 2016, senator says
Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being ...
Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016
Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a ...
Mangled facts, secrecy brew confusion about NSA
Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck ...
NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far ...
Congress briefed on US surveillance programs
Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday ...
Bill to revamp military justice faces uphill fight
Ambitious legislation to stanch the growing number of sexual assaults in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice system faces an ...
House Dem pushes for repeal of military force law
President Barack Obama and Congress need to rethink the broad authority for the use of military force in the war on terror, a law written when many U.
Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — ...
AG: Won't prosecute reporters for doing their jobs
Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them ...
GOP senator defends phone records collection
A Republican senator is defending the practice of collecting millions of telephone records in the ongoing war on terror. South Carolina Sen.
Egypt convicts NGO workers, including 16 Americans
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced 43 non-profit workers, including the son of the U.S. secretary of transportation and 15 other Americans, to ...
IRS aside, political passions take a summer break
Four years after the summer of rage that fueled the tea party movement, the political circuit is much quieter — even in Republican bastions like this.
Schumer: Group of senators to look at media leaks
Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday a group of eight senators will look at setting rules on how leaks about government secrets are investigated. "We'll be ...
Senator: Fire commanders allowing sex assault
From Congress to the White House, pressure is mounting to hold military commanders accountable for the rising number of sexual assaults in the armed ...
GOP continues to slam new Obama war approach
Republicans keep slamming President Barack Obama's push to move the government away from a war footing and refine and recalibrate counterterrorism ...
House committee passes Iran sanctions legislation
A new push to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions by crippling the country's economy gathered momentum on Capitol Hill Wednesday with approval of ...
House panel moves to curb military sexual assaults
Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step toward tackling the problem by passing ...
Senate panel approves immigration bill
Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary ...
Policy, discretion guide media sources probes
It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York ...
Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private ...
House immigration group reaches a deal
A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of ...
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