Noticias de Hoy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary on Thursday defended his views of the military and global threats, pushing back against criticism that has focused on his past statements on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons. Chuck Hagel told senators that America "must engage ? not retreat ? in the world," and insisted that his record is consistent on that point.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, is facing GOP critics who have challenged his past comments on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sen. Robert Menendez’s office said Wednesday night that he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two of three trips Menendez took on the donor’s plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A group of a half-dozen House members, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, is nearing completion of wide-ranging immigration legislation similar to proposals by Senate negotiators and President Barack Obama, including a pathway to legal immigration status for 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U. S.

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President Barack Obama is much of the way through completing his second-term Cabinet and top White House staff. For many of those chosen so far, it’s been a game of musical chairs. Same faces, new places.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The National Rifle Association and gun-control advocates, including the husband of wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, are facing off at the year’s first Senate hearing on what lawmakers should do to curb gun violence.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Declaring "now is the time" to fix the nation’s broken immigration system, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined broad proposals for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders. He hailed a bipartisan Senate group on a similar track but left unresolved key details that could derail the complex and emotional effort.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama’s choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Ben Bernanke’s term as chairman of the Federal Reserve expires one year from Thursday. Sometime between now and then he’s likely to take his foot off the gas pedal of financial stimulus that is helping to fuel the still-weak U. S. recovery and begin tapping on the brakes.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? In the fictional world of television police dramas, a few quick clicks on a computer lead investigators to the owner of a gun recovered at a bloody crime scene. Before the first commercial, the TV detectives are on the trail of the suspect.

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