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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys as Scouts, but controversy likely to persist GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions ...
Obama defends drones, sees narrower terror threat
President Barack Obama sought to move the U.S. beyond the war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. Obama also offered his most vigorous public defense yet of drone strikes ...
Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. In a lengthy address at the National Defense University, Obama ...
Obama: Policy in leaks investigations under review
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government secrets. Obama acknowledged he is "troubled by the possibility that leaks investigations may chill the investigative journalism" that he says holds government accountable and ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time that four U.S. citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress on Wednesday comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama. In conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against ...
Arkansas Editorial Roundup
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 18, 2013 Some questions for the Higher Ed elite What's got into the University of Arkansas' trustees? They're starting to act like trustees, people who've been entrusted with a responsibility to oversee something that belongs to someone else-in this case to the people of Arkansas. It's a ...
Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers
Omaha World-Herald. May 19, 2013. Separation of powers It's called "separation of powers," and there's a good reason for it. The legislative branch makes laws. The executive branch carries them out. The judicial branch interprets the law and applies it to the facts of cases brought to the courts. That ...
AP CEO calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'
The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly. Gary Pruitt on Sunday called the Justice Department's actions "unconstitutional" and said the AP hasn't ...
Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the ...
Badgered: Obama acts, but Republicans unsatisfied
President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack. The efforts did little to satisfy Republicans, who see the controversies ...
Obama calls on Congress to fund embassy security
President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed ...
Obama walking a familiar path on IRS allegations
The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and social advocacy groups have searched for and exploited loopholes and fine points ...
Obama: Time to revisit enacting media shield law
President Barack Obama is defending investigations into government leaks, saying they are necessary for national security. But he also says it's important to balance such inquiries with the need for a free press. Obama says he has confidence in his attorney general, Eric Holder. Holder's Justice Department recently obtained two ...
IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting
Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the agency had improperly targeted tea party groups for scrutiny when they filed for tax-exempt status. Obama said Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew had asked ...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: May 15 Sacramento Bee on overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms: Protecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely. The Justice Department ...
Holder defends subpoenas for AP telephone records
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement. Pestered by Republicans and some Democrats, Holder testified that he has faith ...
10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. JUSTICE TO INVESTIGATE IRS FOR TARGETING TEA PARTY Attorney General Eric Holder is testifying in Congress today after launching an investigation of the agency's targeting of conservative political groups. 2. ANOTHER MILITARY ...
At least two officials out over Fast and Furious
A new report by an internal watchdog at the Department of Justice on the gun running operation known as Fast and Furious will lead to the departure of at least two senior officials, and possible discipline for as many as a dozen more. The 512 page report issued on Wednesday ...
Republicans vow contempt vote against Attorney General
With no agreement between House Republicans and the Justice Department on documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, a House committee is set to approve a resolution finding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over materials subpoenaed by the panel. "After our meeting, ...
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