The Obama administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to rescue its plans to shield from deportation millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally. Moving quickly to put the issue before the justices in time for ...

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration defended the health care law’s struggling insurance co-ops Tuesday, suggesting to Congress that cutbacks demanded by lawmakers themselves put added pressure on an altruistic alternative to mega-insurers. State regulators have ordered 11 of the 23 ...

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WASHINGTON — From gay marriage to the health care overhaul, the Obama administration’s top U.S. Supreme Court lawyer has won more often than not in some of the biggest cases in recent years. So why is the court ignoring his ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Monday it is taking a first step toward requiring that future cars and light trucks be equipped with technology that enables them to warn each other of potential danger in time to avoid ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court says President Barack Obama’s administration must publicly disclose its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas. The ruling Monday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. drug enforcement official urged Congress and others Tuesday not to abandon scientific concerns over marijuana in favor of public opinion to legalize it, even as the Obama administration takes a hands-off approach in states where ...

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WASHINGTON — Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent ...

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The Obama Administration has announced five executive actions and seven legislative proposals aimed at holding back the tsunami of litigation by patent trolls, and lawyers are weighing in on whether the recommendations will wall off the tidal waves or merely ...

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder promised the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration will share more information with Congress and the American people about national security policies, particularly the government’s use of drone strikes. Holder’s comments ...

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration maintains it is unable to say how many times one of the government’s most politically sensitive anti-terrorism surveillance programs — which is up for renewal this week on Capitol Hill — has inadvertently gathered intelligence ...

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Deborah A. Oppenheimer was named this week by President Barack Obama as an appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Oppenheimer, executive vice president of NBCUniversal International Television Production, created and produced the critically-acclaimed documentary, “Into the Arms of ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether government regulators may still police the airwaves for curse words and other coarse content at a time when so many Americans have unregulated cable television, and the Internet is awash ...

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