Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military....
Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....
Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast....
Key senators tightly control immigration debate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation....
