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Brennan at CIA fills 3rd key national security job
John Brennan took over Friday as director of the CIA, the finishing touch on President Barack Obama's national security team for his second term.
Paul energizes supporters with Senate filibuster
Call it Rand's Stand: A nearly 13-hour stall tactic on the Senate floor that thrust a tea party hero back into the national spotlight — a real-life ...
US court charges al-Qaida spokesman on 9/11 crimes
A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle was charged Thursday with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as the terror ...
After filibuster, Senate confirms Brennan for CIA
The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director Thursday after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination ...
Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act
President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks ...
White House discloses limits on drone usage
The White House says President Barack Obama does not have the authority to use a drone to kill a U.S. citizen on American soil if the citizen is not ...
Senator ends long floor speech blocking CIA pick
A tea party senator from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to ...
Holder promises more openness on national security
Attorney General Eric Holder promised the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration will share more information with ...
Wash. and Colo. 'potrepreneurs' see opportunity
Kim Ridgway and her wife, Kimberly Bliss, can well envision the shop they plan to open — where they'll put the accessories, the baked goods and the ...
Ex-DEA heads, UN panel urge US to nullify pot laws
Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing ...
Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march
The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' ...
Obama says no way to avoid gay marriage case
Citing the principle of equality that drove the nation's founding, President Barack Obama spoke out Friday against California's ban on gay marriage ...
Obama urges court to overturn gay marriage ban
In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban and ...
GOP House panel chairman will consider gun bills
The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday that he's interested in writing legislation this year improving background checks ...
US joins fraud lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion ...
USADA lobbied DOJ to join lawsuit
The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency lobbied Attorney General Eric Holder for the Justice Department to join a whistle-blower lawsuit against Lance ...
BP civil settlement remains elusive as trial nears
The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to ...
White House announces anti-theft trade strategy
The Obama administration announced new efforts Wednesday to fight the growing theft of American trade secrets, a broad but relatively restrained ...
Biden honors police, firefighters with medals
The incident started with a search for a colleague who went missing in Florida's Osceola County Jail. It ended when Reeshemah Taylor lunged at an ...
US AG meets with Caribbean leaders in Haiti
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discussed regional crime with Caribbean leaders on Monday during a summit in Haiti. Holder talked with the leaders ...
AG, FBI warn against across-the-board spending cut
The nation's two top law enforcement officers have warned that looming across-the-board spending cuts at the Justice Department and the FBI would ...
US sues S&P over pre-crisis mortgage ratings
The Obama administration on Tuesday accused Standard & Poor's of refusing to warn investors that the housing market was collapsing in 2006 because it ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: Super indeed, Baltimore's joy
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
Wash. vows to try to keep weed in state - but how?
So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders. But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways ...
Push for futuristic guns builds on embattled past
It sounds, at first, like a bold, next-generation solution: personalizing guns with technology that keeps them from firing if they ever get into the ...