Obama orders background checks on all gun purchasers
President Barack Obama took executive action Monday to close loopholes in background checks on gun sales as part of an effort to reduce gun violence in America.
View ArticleU.S. says Venezuelan court interfered with election results
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration accused the Venezuelan government Monday of meddling with the newly elected National Assembly after the Venezuelan Supreme Court decided to block several elected...
View ArticleToomey op-ed calls on Obama, U.S. to abandon plan to lift Iran sanctions
Iran handed over 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium last month, a key obligation under a nuclear deal struck last summer with the United States and its allies. For the first time in years, experts say,...
View ArticleObama thrusts gun control debate into forefront of 2016 race
WASHINGTON — With his emotional plea for America to embrace some gun control, President Barack Obama has thrust the contentious issue to the forefront of the 2016 presidential campaign just weeks from...
View ArticleObama closes gun-sale loophole despite Republicans’ complaints
WASHINGTON — There was Tucson and San Bernardino, Aurora and Oak Creek, Fort Hood and Navy Yard. But it’s always Newtown that gets President Barack Obama choked up.
View ArticleTop Ala. judge orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
ATLANTA — The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, on Wednesday ordered probate judges in the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, which was seen as a move that...
View ArticleCourt blocks deportations of several Central American families
WASHINGTON — The nation’s highest immigration court has delayed the deportations of four families out of hundreds of Central American migrant adults and children rounded up in raids over the New Year’s...
View ArticleObama makes gun control case live
WASHINGTON — Rebuffed repeatedly by Congress on gun control, President Barack Obama tried once again to sway a public that has been seen as somewhat skeptical and ambivalent.
View ArticleAlabama chief justice denies defying U.S. Supreme Court
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore — ousted from office a decade ago when he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from state property — on Thursday stood by his assertion that...
View ArticleWounded Pennsylvania trooper to attend Obama State of the Union speech
A state trooper who was critically wounded in a 2014 ambush outside his barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania will attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech.
View ArticleBenghazi panel Republican ‘hopeful’ of Clinton charges
WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the House Benghazi committee says he is “hopeful” the Justice Department will bring charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for having...
View ArticleHill District father among those present for Obama's gun overhaul announcement
The Rev. Glenn G. Grayson was checking his email late last weekend when he saw a cryptic invitation in his inbox.
View ArticleObama’s guests include Syrian refugee, Mexican immigrant
WASHINGTON — A Syrian refugee, a former illegal immigrant who went on to serve in the U.S. Army and the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case last year legalizing same-sex marriage will be among the...
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