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Obama's call for nuke negotiations with Russia suggests a slow road to new ...

Washington Post

WASHINGTON — By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree. Relations between ...

Rape charges filed against three Naval Academy football players

Washington Post

Three U.S. Naval Academy Wednesday football players were charged Wednesday with raping a female midshipman and making false statements in the latest sexual assault scandal to roil the elite service academy. The academy filed the charges, but did not ...

FBI tells Congress it uses drones in US

Fort Worth Star Telegram

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday that the bureau has used unmanned aerial drones for surveillance in the United States and suggested that government needs to develop guidelines as their use grows. Testifying ...

Murkowski becomes third Republican US senator to back gay marriage

Reuters

By Yereth Rosen. ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:59pm EDT. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska publicly backed gay marriage on Wednesday, becoming the third Republican senator to do so as she spoke ...

AP boss blasts Justice over records grab, says move gives cover to dictatorships

Fox News

The head of The Associated Press blasted the Justice Department on Wednesday over its seizure of journalists' phone records, saying the move effectively could give dictatorships cover to harass their own media. AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt told a ...

Frederick Douglass Statue Is Unveiled in Capitol

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Frederick Douglass, the slave turned abolitionist, believed in freedom and equality for “all of us, regardless of our race, gender, religion or sexual orientation,” his great-great-granddaughter said Wednesday at the unveiling of a statue of ...

US cites Russia, China among worst in human trafficking: report

Reuters

By Susan Heavey. WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:30pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An annual U.S. State Department report on Wednesday cited Russia and China among the world's worst offenders in fighting forced labor and sex trafficking, ...

Bipartisan Proposal on Student Loans Circulating

KSTP.com

A bipartisan compromise on student loans started to take shape in the Senate on Wednesday, preserving fixed-rate loans for all students and linking interest rates with the financial markets. Students from lower-income families, who pay substantially lower ...

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