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Obama plans major push on global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push against the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to follow promises he made at the start of his second term. "This is the global threat of our time," Obama said in a speech Wednesday in Berlin. The plan is to ...
Obama making plans to tackle global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama ...
Kentucky editorial roundup
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: June 16 The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky., on state must do more to get Internet access to residents: It's almost routine on an annual basis to read that Kentucky once again ranks lowest or near the lowest in a certain category, whether it be ...
Immigration bill could decide 2016, senator says
Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday told conservatives who are trying to block the ...
Current, former officials back secret surveillance
Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government's newly exposed secret surveillance programs have been essential to disrupting terrorist plots and have not infringed on Americans' civil liberties. The officials justify the massive trawling for phone and Internet data as new revelations add to public disclosures about ...
Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016
Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who helped write a bipartisan immigration bill under debate in the Senate, said ...
NSA claims know-how to ensure no illegal spying
The supersecret agency with the power and legal authority to gather electronic communications worldwide to hunt U.S. adversaries says it has the technical know-how to ensure it's not illegally spying on Americans. But mistakes do happen in data-sifting conducted mostly by machines, not humans. Sometimes, former intelligence officials say, that ...
IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews
A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a partial transcript ...
Senators differ on value of phone records program
Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are divided about whether there's evidence that the government's phone records collection program has kept the United States safe. It was disclosed last week that the National Security Agency has been gathering the records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. Democratic ...
FULL REMARKS: Pres. Obama's speech at Mooresville Middle School
3:03 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: (Applause.) Hello, Mooresville! (Applause.) Hello, Mooresville. It is good to be back in North Carolina. (Applause.) Now, first of all, I want to thank my staff for being smart enough to schedule a visit right before school lets out. (Laughter.) Because that means everybody is ...
Obama-Xi meeting in Calif. sets low-key tone
A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course. Four years after Leonore Annenberg's death, ...
Obama-Xi meeting in Calif sets low-key tone
A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course. Four years after Leonore Annenberg's death, ...
Legislature OKs universal background checks
A bill mandating universal background checks on all gun sales in Nevada is on its way to the governor's desk Monday after clearing the state Legislature on the last day it's in session. The Assembly voted 23-19 to give SB221 the final stamp of legislative approval. "This was the right ...
Pres. Obama to visit Mooresville school Thursday
President Barack Obama will visit Mooresville Middle School Thursday as part of his "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour," a White House source has confirmed. Obama is expected to speak about the school’s cutting-edge digital-learning curriculum. In his State of the Union address, the president touched on the importance of ...
Companies look to home-grow US IT workforce
Ken Behrendt had already had his fill of the hidden costs of offshoring, but the Eagle Creek Software Services chief executive was having trouble finding enough qualified consultants to expand the company's development and technical support business in the Dakotas. So the Minnesota-based firm turned to the University of South ...
President Obama returning to NC for economic tour
President Barack Obama is making his first visit to North Carolina's largest city since accepting his party's re-election nomination there last September at the Democratic National Convention. The White House announced Obama will be in Charlotte this coming Thursday on the latest stop of his "Middle-Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." ...
OBAMA SET TO DEFEND DRONE STRIKES AMID A DROP IN USE
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama embraced drone strikes in his first term, and the targeted killing of suspected terrorists has come to define his presidency. But lost in the contentious debate over the legality, morality and effectiveness of a novel weapon is the fact ...
Housing expert advises 'slow and steady' as market rebounds
Bill McConnell is the president of the Charlotte Regional Lenders Association. "Right now, Charlotte is experiencing one of the best spring housing markets we've seen in years," McConnell said. When he heard President Barack Obama's administration was pushing for lenders to make home loans available for people with weaker credit, ...
Obama speech on gun control legislation
President Obama used a speech in Colorado at the Denver Police Academy on Wednesday to press Congress for action on legislation that would rein in gun violence, as the White House tries to use the bully pulpit to regain some momentum on the issue. A quick review of the speech ...
NC lawmakers look to pass resolution on 'official religion'
There's a plan for North Carolina to declare an official religion. Critics said the resolution violates separation of church and state. The idea came in the wake of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit telling Rowan County to stop its Christian-only prayer before its meetings. The Rowan County Commission this ...
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