AP - Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out the future use of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects picked up in the United States.
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Politico - Blog: I interviewed Mitt Romney today; here’s the story: Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney blamed President George W. Bush for the
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AP - The Obama administration has lost its argument that a potential threat to national security should stop a lawsuit challenging the government’s warrantless wiretapping program.
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AP - The Obama administration said Friday that the United States will boycott an upcoming U.N. conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion.
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AP - President Barack Obama consigned the Iraq war to history Friday, declaring he will end combat operations within 18 months and open a new era of diplomacy in the Middle East.
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CQPolitics.com - As President Obama unveiled his plans for a withdrawal from Iraq, Republican lawmakers — for the time being — say he is setting the right course, and senior Democrats mostly agreed.
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Reuters - Top Republicans charged President Barack Obama with driving the United States toward socialism on Friday, opening an ideological attack on his big spending plans.
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McClatchy Newspapers - CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — President Barack Obama announced here Friday that he’ll withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, but his plans to leave as many as 50,000 U.S. troops there through 2011 made many Democrats in Congress angry, while Republicans cheered.
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AP - With ambitious plans to change health care, energy, farm payments, taxes and more, President Barack Obama’s budget gives congressional Democrats goals to reach for. And highlights political targets for Republicans to aim at. “Our work is well cut out for us,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said as she praised a “wonderful blueprint” from the administration that looks beyond reviving a weak economy and restoring order to the credit markets.
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AP - Some of the U.S. forces likely to remain in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops would still have a combat role fighting suspected terrorists, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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