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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Intelligence Committee voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve John Brennan as President Barack Obama’s new CIA director, after the committee resolved a dispute with the White House over access to classified legal opinions on the targeted killings of U. S. citizens overseas. The vote clears a major hurdle for Brennan, currently Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser. While he seems likely to ultimately win confirmation by the full Senate, his nomination still could face further delays from Republican lawmakers. . . .

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sixteen Democratic senators are calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to keep granting waivers so that same-sex spouses can be buried in national cemeteries.

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Austin?home to the South by Southwest tech and music festivals, the headquarters for Dell, and an indeterminate number of hipsters–is generally considered the technology hub in Texas. But just 90 minutes south on I-35, San Antonio has been quietly establishing itself as a center for tech industries. The Air Force division charged with waging cyber-warfare is located in San Antonio, and a growing number of cyber-security and biotechnology companies have set up shop in the city as well. . . .

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While she was mentoring a young girl in East Harlem, N. Y. , filmmaker Lori Silverbush received a disturbing call from a teacher who said the 12-year-old was spotted foraging through the trash at school for food.

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Early last June, I was having coffee with a longtime friend, a former Republican member of Congress widely considered one of the most astute watchers of Washington and the political process. This friend said he thought that budget sequestration was very likely to happen, that it was almost inevitable given the players and dynamics that were in place. Keep in mind that this was long before the outcome of the November 2012 election was known.

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House Republicans unveiled a stopgap measure today to fund the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year, a move intended to mollify a deeply divided Congress that has fought through three years of bruising budget battles. The continuing resolution, known around Washington as. . .

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David Kerley, Jennifer Abbey, and Betsy Klein contributed to this report: Long before cameras were invented, our founding fathers kept their images alive with painted

Tough talk from Vice President Joe Biden today, warning that the U. S. is determined to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. ?Big nations can?t bluff,? said Biden at a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a group that lobbies in favor of. . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced his nominees to lead a new U. S. push to tackle climate change on Monday, choosing an air quality expert to run the Environmental Protection Agency and a nuclear physicist to head the Department of Energy. In a widely expected move, Obama selected agency veteran Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator and scientist Ernest Moniz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take over from Steven Chu as Energy secretary. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it "kills" him not to be president and admitted mistakes were made in his losing White House campaign – particularly his failure to win over minority voters. In his first television interview since November’s loss to President Barack Obama, Romney leveled a fresh blast of criticism at Obama for failing to lead and putting politics ahead of results in the confrontation with congressional Republicans over the budget and spending cuts. . . .

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