Congress averts Homeland Security shutdown
Feuding lawmakers fund the agency only until March 6, forcing Congress to revisit the issue next week.Read More ...
Democrats caught between Obama, Netanyahu on speech
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Jewish House Democrats personally offered Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu a chance to lower the political temperature after he
accepted a Republican invitation to speak to Congress next week on Iran
— a less provocative, closed-door session.Read More ...
GOP leaders are struggling to show they really are in charge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in charge.
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House passes one-week funding extension for Homeland Security
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a one-week funding
extension for the Department of Homeland Security late on Friday, in
time to avert a partial shutdown for the agency at midnight. The
two-thirds majority vote, which came with support from Democrats a few
hours after the House failed to pass a three-week extension, buys time
for Congress to sort out a longer-term funding solution for the domestic
security agency. (Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Doina Chiacu)Read More ...
Eight dead in door-to-door Missouri shooting spree
A
man armed with a handgun went on a house-to-house shooting spree in a
rural Missouri town, killing seven relatives and neighbors before taking
his own life, officials said on Friday. All of those killed by the
gunman, identified as Joseph Aldridge, 36, lived within a few miles of
each other in the tiny community of Tyrone, an unincorporated area with a
population of about 50, authorities said. Authorities said the motive
was unclear and declined to comment on whether the murders had been
triggered by the death of Aldridge's mother, who was found at her home.
Authorities said she may have died from natural causes.Read More ...
U.S. appeals court says Boston bomber trial can stay in city
(Reuters)
- A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled the trial for the accused Boston
Marathon bomber can go ahead in the city, over attempts from his
attorneys to change the venue on the basis an impartial jury could not
be seated so close to the site of the 2013 attack. The split three-judge
panel of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals backed District Judge
George O'Toole, who has three times rejected pleas by Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev's lawyers to move the trial out of Boston, where the bombing
killed three people and injured 264. "We are unable to conclude that it
is clear and indisputable that the petitioner cannot receive a fair
trial by an impartial jury in the Eastern Division of Massachusetts,"
the judges wrote in the 80-page opinion.Read More ...
U.S. sets out 'bottom lines' for Iran nuclear deal
The
United States set out what it called its "bottom lines" to reach a deal
with Iran to rein in its nuclear program, ahead of new talks next week.
Washington had stuck to its guns that it wanted a "good deal" and had
agreed to several extensions of the negotiations "because we have held
firm to certain bottom lines," a senior US administration official said.
"We will only accept an agreement that cuts off the different pathways
to the fissile material that Iran needs for a nuclear weapon," the
official stressed. US Secretary of State John Kerry will leave at the
weekend for Switzerland, where he will meet once again with his Iranian
counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.Read More ...
Jeb Bush’s biggest CPAC win: No gifts for Democrats
The ex-Florida governor addresses complaints conservatives have made about him.Read More ...
Missouri murder spree shatters tiny community's comfort zone
A
rural Missouri county that had zero homicides last year spent Friday
reeling after seven people were murdered by a man who police said went
on a house-to-house shooting rampage in the middle of the night.Read More ...
Russian investigators: Nemtsov killing may be provocation
MOSCOW
(AP) — Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of
President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin,
officials said. Nemtsov was killed just a day before a protest planned
against Putin's rule.Read More ...
Despite fiery CPAC speech, is Ted Cruz changing course?
Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas used a speech at the Conservative Political
Action Conference on Thursday to rail against the party establishment,
calling himself a “disruptive app” such as Uber that would upend the
political system. Delighting the assembled conservative shock troops,
Cruz castigated the Republican leadership for selling out their
principles by separating a funding bill for the Department of Homeland
Security from a measure that would roll back President Barack Obama’s
executive action on immigrationRead More ...
Ukraine conflict at 'crossroads' as troop deaths shake truce
International
monitors said Friday the conflict in Ukraine was at a "crossroads" as
further losses among government forces rattled a two-week-old truce just
as it seemed to be gaining traction. The envoy to Ukraine for the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is
monitoring the peace deal, told the UN Security Council that while there
were encouraging signs, the country still risked all-out war. Russia
formally annexed the territory in March 2014, triggering an
international furore. The uprising in Ukraine's east, which has claimed
at least 5,800 lives, began the following month.Read More ...
Attackers in Bangladesh hack to death American blogger
DHAKA,
Bangladesh (AP) — A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for
speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he
walked through Bangladesh's capital with his wife, police said Friday.Read More ...
For Jeb Bush, the Q&A is the message
The former Florida governor's openness sets him apart from his likely 2016 opponents.Read More ...
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