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  • Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, despite her celebrity, paints herself as an incrementalist

    WASHINGTON -- Nearly five months into her tenure, after one of the most closely watched elections in the country, Elizabeth Warren has begun to demonstrate her approach in the Senate: a calibrated strategy that involves keeping quiet on many issues while using her popularity with liberal activists for bursts of attention on select causes. The Democrat from Massachusetts has avoided using her megaphone on many of the hot topics in Washington -- immigration, the IRS scandal, the war on terror -- instead focusing on financial regulation, middle class debt burden, and home-state issues such as the fishing industry. She is certainly fanning her celebrity in the liberal activist community to further her agenda. But she is using her voice for pinpoint strikes, rather than declarations of war. (   05/26/2013 12:54 AM )

  • Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. (   05/25/2013 3:06 PM )

  • Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day. (   05/25/2013 2:27 PM )

  • Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. (   05/25/2013 1:56 PM )

  • Obama OKs honor for Birmingham bombing victims

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to award Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement. He called it a tragic loss that "helped to trigger triumph and a more just and equal and fair America." (   05/24/2013 5:18 PM )

  • Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. (   05/24/2013 4:16 PM )

  • What's a drone? How is US drone policy changing?

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's pledge to more narrowly restrict and monitor the country's use of drones to strike targets overseas may garner some applause from allies abroad. But he was careful not to overpromise, signaling that the CIA's covert war in Pakistan is likely to continue at least for now. (   05/24/2013 12:57 PM )

  • IRS replaces official who revealed targeting

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago. (   05/24/2013 10:39 AM )

  • Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical

    Reading, writing, arithmetic -- and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that physical education become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting at least an hour of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity every day. Another concern, the report says, is that 44 percent of school administrators report slashing big chunks of time from physical education, arts, and recess since the passage of the No Child Left Behind law in 2001 in order to boost classroom time for reading and math.(   05/24/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Senate confirms Obama nominee to key appeals court

    After five years of trying, President Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in Washington. The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday, 97 to 0, to confirm Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court is considered the most important in the country after the Supreme Court. Srinivasan is currently the principal deputy in the Office of the Solicitor General. He has worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations and served as a law clerk to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In a statement, President Obama praised the Senate's approval of Srinivasan, whom he called a ''trailblazer who personifies the best of America.'' But like Senate Democrats, he also poked Republicans for what he said was the slow approval of his judicial nominations.(   05/24/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Obama to narrow focus of the war on terrorism

    WASHINGTON -- Nearly a dozen years after the hijackings that transformed America, President Obama on Thursday said it was time to narrow the scope of the grinding battle against terrorists and begin the transition to a day when the country will no longer be on a war footing. Declaring that ''America is at a crossroads,'' the president called for redefining what has been a global war into a more targeted assault on terrorist groups threatening the United States. As part of a realignment of counterterrorism policy, he said he would curtail the use of drones, recommit to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and seek new limits on his own war power. In a much-anticipated speech at the National Defense University, Obama sought to turn the page on the era that began Sept. 11, 2001, when the imperative of preventing terrorist attacks became both the priority and the preoccupation.(   05/24/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers to Yemen

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists. (   05/23/2013 7:06 PM )

  • US criticized over response to Indonesia attacks

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. expressed concern Thursday over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accused Washington of downplaying the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with Jakarta. (   05/23/2013 6:31 PM )

  • Protester shouts at Obama during speech

    President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security. The woman was identified as Medea Benjamin from the anti-war group Code Pink. Benjamin yelled from behind a bank of cameras before security removed her from the hall at National Defense University in Washington. (   05/23/2013 5:48 PM )

  • Obama increases fed share of Sandy relief for NY

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is providing more Hurricane Sandy disaster relief to New York, increasing the share of public assistance that the government will pay from 75 percent to 90 percent of the cost. (   05/23/2013 5:36 PM )

  • IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting tea party groups

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting tea party groups. (   05/23/2013 5:31 PM )

  • Senate confirms Obama nominee to key appeals court

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in Washington. (   05/23/2013 5:06 PM )

  • Obama: Policy in leaks investigations under review

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government secrets. (   05/23/2013 5:00 PM )

  • Yemen welcomes Obama decision on Gitmo transfers

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Yemen is welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to lift his ban on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (   05/23/2013 4:17 PM )

  • Anti-war protester shouts at Obama during speech

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security. (   05/23/2013 3:34 PM )

  • Obama cites new framework for terror war

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he has established a new framework to govern U.S. force against terrorists. (   05/23/2013 2:55 PM )

  • Obama lifts ban on detainee transfer to Yemen

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is lifting his ban on the transfer of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center to Yemen. And he is calling on Congress to lift its restrictions on detainee transfers, including limits on imprisoning them within the U.S. (   05/23/2013 2:54 PM )

  • Obama: Journalists should not face legal risks for doing their jobs

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Obama: Journalists should not face legal risks for doing their jobs. (   05/23/2013 2:44 PM )

  • Obama: New guidelines in place for drone strikes

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he has signed new policy guidelines to oversee when the U.S. can use drone strikes against suspected terrorists. (   05/23/2013 2:41 PM )

  • Obama cites need to support emerging democracies

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says supporting transitions to democracy in unstable regions like the Middle East will remain a key part of his strategy for fighting terrorism. (   05/23/2013 2:40 PM )