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Obama administration pressed to deport illegal immigrant ex-cons

9 years 2 months ago
More than 2,000 illegal immigrants were turned loose on American streets after serving prison sentences last year - often because their home countries refused to take them back - and many subsequently committed crimes including rape and murder, a key lawmaker charged Monday.
Malia Zimmerman

Trump takes on trade deals in Pennsylvania speech

9 years 2 months ago
Republican Donald Trump took aim at U.S. free trade deals in a speech delivered in Western Pennsylvania Tuesday that painted his likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a champion of the kind of globalization that has pushed manufacturing jobs overseas.

Va. paper sorry after front page names wrong governor in corruption case

9 years 2 months ago
It’s every reporter and editor’s nightmare -- an incorrect front page headline. And the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star published one for the ages on Tuesday, when the Virginia newspaper wrongly claimed on its front page that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe just had his corruption conviction thrown out by the Supreme Court.

Huge number of successful cyberattacks at one federal agency, report reveals

9 years 2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, a single U.S. government agency was hit with a blizzard of more than 1,370 external attacks on its most vital computer systems, with three out of every eight incidents resulting in a loss of data, according to a new report by the watchdog Government Accountability Office, suggesting hackers have been far more successful at getting at sensitive government information than previously disclosed.
George Russell

Americans at Benghazi post were rescued by Qaddafi officer militia, report reveals

9 years 2 months ago
The long-awaited House committee report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks revealed a striking irony: In the end, the forces that came to evacuate State Department and CIA officers that night were not fellow Americans, but a secret unit of former military officers from the Qaddafi regime that Washington – and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – had helped overthrow.

Senate Democrats block GOP's Zika funding bill

9 years 2 months ago
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican proposal to provide $1.1 billion to fight the Zika virus, faulting the GOP for packing the measure with restrictions on Planned Parenthood money and changes to policies on pesticide spraying.

Supreme Court declines to hear religious liberty case

9 years 2 months ago
The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowly rejected an appeal over whether a private pharmacy can be forced by the state to dispense the so-called "morning after" pill, in effect refusing to expand its look into a religious liberty fight and certain reproductive health services.
Bill Mears

House Benghazi report slams administration response to attacks

9 years 2 months ago
A damning report authored by the Republican-led House committee probing the Benghazi terror attacks faulted the Obama administration for a range of missteps before, during and after the fatal 2012 attacks – saying top administration officials huddled to craft their public response while military assets waited hours to deploy to Libya.
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