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Obama administration proposes to change the Electronic Communications Privacy Act raises privacy, civil liberties concerns.
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been doing aggressive crackdowns on illegal immigration for years. And despite Wednesday’s ruling by a federal judge to temporarily block portions of Arizona’s new law, the former federal drug agent will continue to carry out sweeps in the country’s busiest human and drug trafficking corridor.
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President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration’s unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.
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A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts.
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President Barack Obama is signing legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan.
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A Charlottesville, Va., resident who stood with President Obama would likely not have been asked to participate in a Rose Garden speech on unemployment if the White House had known she was convicted of prescription drug fraud charges in April 2009, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
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The federal court decision striking down key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law could light a fire under lawmakers considering an alternative — and some say radical — approach to reining in illegal immigration.
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Supporters of Arizona’s immigration law, who were dealt a blow this week when a federal judge blocked major parts of the law before it took effect Thursday, are still heartened by what’s left of the legislation that may bolster the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
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A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, and he did not rule out that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be a target.
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The full Senate must now approve retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper to be the fourth director of national intelligence.