JOBLESS BILL STALLS IN SENATE
By DAVID ESPO Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., meets with reporters to urge passage of legislation to restore unemployment insurance benefits which expired Dec. 28, at the Capitol in…
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SPEAKER BOEHNER ENDS ROUGH YEAR ON A HIGH NOTE
By ALAN FRAM FILE – In this Sept. 3, 2013, file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens as President Barack Obama speaks to media in the Cabinet Room…
OBAMA SIGNS BIPARTISAN BUDGET DEAL, DEFENSE BILL
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama speaks to members of the military and their families in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, in Kaneohe Bay,…
2 PUSSY RIOT MEMBERS RELEASED FROM PRISON
ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA Maria Alekhina, center, a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot speaks to the media at the Committee against Torture after being released from…
RUSSIA AMNESTY BILL PASSES FIRST HURDLE
By LAURA MILLS Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, walks to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Nemenov, pool)…
SENATE DEMS PUSH OBAMA NOMINEES, GOP BIDES TIME
By ALAN FRAM FILE – This June 4, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama pausing as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington where…
JAPAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES CONTENTIOUS SECRETS LAW
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Anti-state secrets law protesters holding “abolish secrets bill” placards shout “shame on you” in front of the Diet building in Tokyo after learning the upper house lawmakers…
DEMS, OBAMA, HEAD INTO 2014 DISTANT, DETERMINED
By LAURIE KELLMAN FILE – In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., right, participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for…