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Obama administration inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey, leader says
President Obama's administration is inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey but has to convince Congress first, Turkey's president told reporters after a meeting with the U.S. leader.
GOLDBERG: Obama's pump debacle
As gasoline prices climb, President Obama's poll numbers plummet. In February, a Washington Post/ABC poll had Mr. Obama up 6 points against Mitt Romney. Monday's poll has him down 2.
Obama clashes against states' rights, this time with Texas voter ID law
The Justice Department blocked Texas' new voter-identification law Monday, arguing that it targets the state's Hispanics — and igniting yet another clash between President Obama's administration and a GOP-run state.
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South Korea staged live-fire drills Thursday from a front-line island shelled by North Korea in 2010. It was the first such exercise since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died last month.
Obama, health care foes prepare for high court
Inching closer to a landmark Supreme Court decision, President Obama's administration and opponents of his health care law are drawing the legal battle lines for a late March hearing when the justices will consider challenges to the embattled legislation.
New briefs preview Supreme Court clash over health care
President Obama's administration and opponents of his health care law filed their first briefs on Friday, drawing the legal battle lines for a week of arguments in March in which the Supreme Court will scrutinize challenges to Mr. Obama's signature legislative achievement.
Senate defeats Democrats' latest payroll tax cut plan
Republicans on Thursday blocked Democrats' new effort to extend the payroll tax cut into next year in a vote that showed neither side is ready to give ground just yet in a stalemate that threatens to derail the tax cut entirely.
Justice official knew of 2006 gun-smuggling probe
In the latest development in the controversy over an Obama administration gun-smuggling investigation, the head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said Monday he regrets not alerting the department's leadership to problems in a similar gun-smuggling probe under the Bush administration.
Suspect in plot to kill Saudi envoy arraigned
An American citizen who holds an Iranian passport pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
Obama rejects McDonnell's invite to tour quake town
President Obama has turned down Gov. Bob McDonnell's request to visit the small town at the epicenter of August's earthquake while he's in Virginia pushing his jobs plan.
Airports try low-hassle security lines
A small group of frequent fliers began using lower-hassle security lines Tuesday in exchange for sharing more personal information with the government in a trial program at four U.S. airports.
GOP candidates Perry and Romney assail Obama on Israel
Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney waded into a tense foreign policy dispute Tuesday by criticizing the Palestinian Authority's effort to seek a formal recognition of statehood by the U.N. General Assembly.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: American men should resist sex discrimination
The "progressives" and all branches of President Obama's administration like to use the word "fair" as a justification for giving more of anything and everything to their political bases ("Men need not apply," Commentary, Wednesday). This ploy is intended to make their political bases superior to and richer than whatever is left of the general population - especially the male part of it.
LAMBRO: Game time for Democrats
Senate Democrats were expected to bring up the House Republicans' 2012 budget plan for a vote this week, but not their own plan, which remains under lock and key.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Awaking from overspending nightmare
Liberal spin doctors will attack the article titled "Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success" (Web, Water Cooler, March 31) and argue that President Obama is a warrior for the American blue-collar worker and that he saved an entire industry.