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FBI access to e-mail and Web records raises fears
AP – 1 hr 40 mins ago

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WASHINGTON - Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. Full Story »
Obama to sign war spending bill
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:34 pm ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday signed legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan, even though it was stripped of money for domestic stimulus programs. Full Story »
Obama signs Tribal Law and Order Act
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:09 pm ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has signed a bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on their reservations. Full Story »
Obama not on Chelsea Clinton's wedding guest list
AP – Thu Jul 29, 12:07 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he didn't make the guest list for Chelsea Clinton's wedding. Full Story »
Obama defends education policies to critics
AP – Thu Jul 29, 11:54 am ET

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WASHINGTON - Challenging civil rights organizations and teachers' unions that have criticized his education policies, President Barack Obama said Thursday that minority students have the most to gain from overhauling the nation's schools. Full Story »
Pentagon: Leak investigaton may go beyond military
AP – Thu Jul 29, 11:19 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, and he did not rule out that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be a target. Full Story »
US military deaths in Afghan region at 1,122
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:14 pm ET

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As of Thursday, July 29, 2010, at least 1,122 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Full Story »
US Passports still vulnerable to fraud
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:33 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed a gaping hole in the country's security by deliberately using fraudulent material to obtain passports. Full Story »
Army: Rising suicide rate reflects risk-taking
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:30 pm ET

WASHINGTON - An Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend reflects a rise in risky behavior including drunken driving and drug abuse in a military stretched to the breaking point by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Full Story »
US to press China, others on Iran sanctions
AP – Thu Jul 29, 2:09 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is pushing China and other key nations to enforce tough international sanctions against Iran and to enact their own penalties. Full Story »
WikiLeaks fallout: Tighter access to US secrets?
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:03 am ET

WASHINGTON - Call it the big information chill, looming across the military and intelligence communities. After the massive Afghan war data spill by WikiLeaks, some veteran intelligence officers and experts are calling for a tightening of access to information and more monitoring in the spy community's lower levels. Full Story »
Obama talks race, pop culture on 'The View'
AP – Thu Jul 29, 11:00 am ET

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NEW YORK - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a "phony controversy" generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out. Full Story »
FBI director defends bureau over test cheating
AP – Wed Jul 28, 9:24 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. Full Story »
Obama: America needs to hear Sherrod's full story
AP – Thu Jul 29, 10:55 am ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says Shirley Sherrod "deserves better than what happened last week" when the black Agriculture Department official was ousted in a racial firestorm over selective remarks. Full Story »
Mueller says no racial targeting with guidelines
AP – Wed Jul 28, 6:12 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that the bureau's domestic surveillance guidelines are being used properly and that agents are not employing them to target people for investigation based on race. Full Story »
Biden: US doing 'significant damage' to al-Qaida
AP – Thu Jul 29, 8:13 am ET

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WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden says U.S. forces are inflicting "significant damage" on the al-Qaida terrorist network in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Full Story »
US official says nuclear treaty disputes lingered
AP – Wed Jul 28, 4:19 pm ET

WASHINGTON - U.S. complaints about Russian compliance with the 1991 START nuclear arms control treaty had not been resolved when the pact expired last year, but the disputes never amounted to allegations of cheating, a senior administration official said Wednesday. Full Story »
Obama to deliver education reform speech Thursday
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:06 am ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will deliver an education reform speech Thursday morning at the National Urban League's 100th Anniversary Convention in the nation's capital. Full Story »