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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U. S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at times emotional and fierce, insisted on Wednesday that the department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at U. S. missions worldwide after the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the consulate in Libya.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? With tacit support from President Barack Obama, House Republicans are moving to try to defuse a potential debt crisis with legislation to prevent an economy-rattling fiscal crisis for at least three months.

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HOUSTON (AP) ? A 22-year-old man has been charged in the shootings at a Houston-area community college campus that left him and two others wounded.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? U. S. defense officials say Gen. John Allen, the top U. S. commander in Afghanistan, has been cleared of allegations of sending potentially inappropriate emails to a civilian woman linked to the sex scandal that ousted David Petraeus as CIA director.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Four years ago, President Barack Obama and his staff spent the first day in the White House learning the basics. Not just the basics of governing, but also figuring out how to get cleared into their offices by the Secret Service, log on to their government computers and find keys to unlock office drawers.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama devoted one word ? "deficit" ? to the issue that brought Washington to the brink of fiscal crises time and again during his first term.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The nation’s high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of students are still failing to get their diploma in four years, the Education Department said in a study released Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama appealed for "one nation and one people" in his second inaugural address. Any notion that the country’s bitter partisanship might fade, however, seemed tempered by the president’s newly assertive push of central Democratic tenets: safety-net programs for the poor, equal rights for gays and minorities and government spending on investments like schools and highways.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says the nation must make the "hard choices" to reduce the cost of health care and the size of the deficit.

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