OBAMA GIVES SECRET SERVICE ITS 1ST FEMALE DIRECTOR
By JULIE PACE This undated handout photo provided by the US Secret Service shows Secret Service agent Julia Pierson. President Barack Obama will appoint the veteran Secret Service agent as…
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USDA EXPANDING PROGRAM TO FIGHT RURAL POVERTY
FILE – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks at Maine Medical Center, in this March, 14, 2013 file photo taken in Portland, Maine. Vilsack was expected in South Carolina on Tuesday…
COURT GROUNDS PACKED ON FIRST DAY OF MARRIAGE CASE
By JESSICA GRESKO Actor, director and producer Robert Reiner is interviewed outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, before the court will hear arguments on California’s voter…
NKOREA PUTS ARTILLERY FORCES AT TOP COMBAT POSTURE
ByHYUNG-JIN KIM CORRECTS DATE – South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech during the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean naval war ship “Cheonan,” at the…
SUPPORTERS OF GUATEMALAN EX-DICTATOR DENY GENOCIDE
Relatives of soldiers rally in support of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt outside the Supreme Court where he is on trial for genocide in Guatemala City, Monday, March 25, 2013.…
GOV’T SPENT NEARLY $3.7M ON EX-PRESIDENTS IN 2012
By JOSH LEDERMAN FILE – In this July 5, 2012 file photo provided by the George W. Bush Presidential Center, former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush…
AP SOURCES: SD SEN. JOHNSON WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and DAVID ESPO FILE – In this Oct. 14, 2009 file photo, Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic officials say Johnson…
MO. SEN. MCCASKILL SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
By DAVID A. LIEB FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskell, D-Mo., speaks to the media outside Bayless Elementary School, in St. Louis County,…