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| USCIS union says it opposes Senate immigration bill |
The leader of a union representing 12,000 federal immigration officers said Monday his group is joining a growing list of similar organizations opposed to the sweeping immigration bill crafted by the Gang of Eight lawmakers and under consideration in Congress. |
| Top Obama adviser stakes out defiant defense on IRS, Benghazi, AP scandals |
A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an “irrelevant fact” where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks and saying the Obama administration wouldn’t cooperate in “partisan fishing expeditions” over IRS officials targeting Tea Party groups. |
| Georgia Gov. Deal orders Bibles returned to state-owned park |
When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented. |
| Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates |
President Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, told graduates of Morehouse College Sunday to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. |
| DOJ subpoenas are 'unconstitutional,' hurt press, AP president says |
Associated Press President Gary Pruitt said Sunday the Justice Department sent a strong – and negative- message to future sources that the government would go after them if they spoke to the press. It’s a move Pruitt called not only unconstitutional but said damaged the ideal of a free press in the country. |
| Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana |
Illinois lawmakers agreed to legalize the use of medical marijuana on Friday under a plan that's being billed as the strictest in the nation among states that have authorized the drug's medicinal use, though it was unclear whether the Democratic governor plans to sign it. |
| Pipe dream: Skip college, become a plumber, NYC Mayor Bloomberg says |
The heck with Harvard, says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Most high school grads should learn a trade . . . like plumbing. |
| Republicans owe Rice an apology on Benghazi, Obama adviser says |
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday Republicans owe Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an apology for alleging she played a part in formulating the White House’s response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya last year that killed four Americans. |
| Texas Republican Sen. Cruz eligible to be president should he decide to run |
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was born in Canada but is qualified to become president should he mount a campaign in 2016 or beyond. Cruz was born in Calgary, and his father is from Cuba. But the Republican senator’s mother is from the first state of Delaware, which appears to settles the issue. |
| President Obama learned about IRS scandal via media, senior adviser tells 'Fox News Sunday' |
Senior White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told Fox News Sunday that President Obama learned about the Internal Revenue Service targeting tea party groups applying for tax exempt status only after it had come out in the media. |
| IRS flagged small tea party groups, ignored big-budget organizations |
There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. |
| FBI searches apartment after ricin letters discovered in Washington state |
Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. |