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Kerry back to region to pursue faltering Mideast peace talks
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Thursday, a week after his previous visit ended with Palestinian dissatisfaction over U.S. security ideas for an elusive land-for-peace deal with Israel. Kerry, who has quipped that his…
Reuters47 mins agoBudget deal headed to vote in U.S. House, passage predicted
By David Lawder and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday were falling in line behind a bipartisan two-year budget deal, indicating that the normally rambunctious group of lawmakers is not spoiling for a year-end fiscal fight. Despite…
ReutersLongtime Obama aide plans to leave as part of White House overhaul: report
One of President Barack Obama's longest-serving advisers plans to leave the White House at the end of the month, the New York Times confirmed late on Wednesday, part of a staff shake-up in the West Wing after a botched rollout of the administration's signature health care reforms. Obama told the…
ReutersPro-sanctions U.S. lawmakers will introduce new Iran bill soon
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators will introduce legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran as soon as this week, Senate aides said on Wednesday, despite the Obama administration's insistence that such a measure would violate terms of an interim agreement to curb Tehran's…
ReutersIn Arkansas, crucial Obamacare hub draws little notice
By Andy Sullivan ROGERS, Arkansas (Reuters) - In an unmarked building on the outskirts of this old railroad town, hundreds of workers are going about the unglamorous work of expanding the United States' social safety net. From morning until midnight, clerks here type up the names, Social Security…
ReutersYes, Virginia, there will be an Iran sanctions bill
Congress will act, whether the White House likes it or not.
Yahoo NewsRepublican establishment bites back
Republican House leaders push back against conservatives who refuse to compromise.
Yahoo NewsWhat happens when President Obama, Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush ride Air Force One together
Several photos taken by White House photographer Pete Souza aboard the flight to Johannesburg and uploaded to Twitter show the president and his predecessor in a relaxed atmosphere.
Yahoo NewsPhotographer on Michelle Obama's reaction to selfie: 'Photos can lie'
The photographer who captured President Barack Obama participating in a selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday insists Michelle Obama's stern reaction seen in the photo was not directed at her husband.
Yahoo NewsGoodbye, sequestration! (For now. Maybe.)
House and Senate budget negotiators reached a compromise on the budget Tuesday.
Yahoo NewsKerry back to Mideast to push peace talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Continuing a furious pace of shuttle diplomacy aimed at securing an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by spring, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in the Middle East on Thursday on his ninth trip of the year.
Associated PressAP Newsbreak: Western governors show wildlife maps
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Governors in 16 states are unveiling a high-tech wildlife habitat mapping project they hope will encourage economic development across the West while protecting the region's environmental treasures from Puget Sound to the Rocky Mountains.
Associated PressFederal data show health disparities among states
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The slow rollout of a new federal health insurance marketplace may be deepening differences in health coverage among Americans, with residents in some states gaining insurance at a far greater rate than others.
Associated PressAnalysis: For once, gridlock takes a seat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sit down, gridlock.
Associated PressHouse Republicans get behind budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are rallying behind a modest budget pact that promises to bring a temporary halt to budget brinkmanship in Washington and ease automatic budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies for a second straight year.
Associated PressThe Republican Civil War Is Getting Bloodier
Glen Bolger, one of the Republican party's leading pollsters, told the Washington Post today that the Republican party needs to stop being the "dysfunctional equivalent of the Washington Redskins." The ongoing Republican soap opera between the so-called establishment and the emboldened…
National JournalBlack Supremacist Finally Out at DHS
Ayo Kimathi, the Department of Homeland Security employee who had an alter ego as a militant black supremacist, has finally left the agency, months after his radical moonlighting was outed.
National JournalDid Paul Ryan Just Ruin His Chances for 2016?
Conservative groups piled on the agreement negotiated for their side by Paul Ryan, calling it "a huge Republican cave-in" and "surrender." Ryan—also a possible presidential candidate—now finds himself in the awkward position of trying to sell an agreement blessed by President Obama to a…
National JournalThe Tea Party Has Already Won
Seven tea party challengers are running against Republican incumbents in next year's Senate primaries, and it's entirely possible that every last one of them will lose. But it doesn't really matter: The tea party has already won. Though the movement's candidates are underdogs in most of the 2014…
National Journal2013: The Year We Learned Gun Reform Is Impossible
Nothing in 2013 matched the horror of Sandy Hook or Aurora, but the year proved to be a dispiriting one for gun-control crusaders hoping to capitalize on the intense outpouring of grief wrought by 2012's shooting massacres. After Newtown, President Obama gave an impassioned speech promising to do…
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