PENTAGON FORMING CYBER TEAMS TO PREVENT ATTACKS
By RICHARD LARDNER FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2010 file photo, Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreign…
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WHITE PROMISES “UNRELENTING” ENFORCEMENT AT SEC
By MARCY GORDON FILE – In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Mary Joe White speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House…
SENATE DEMOCRATS UNVEIL GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL
By ANDREW TAYLOR FILE – In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A…
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN NYC BAN ON SUPERSIZED SODAS
By JENNIFER PELTZ FILE – This May 31, 2012 file photo shows a display of various size cups and sugar cubes at a news conference at New York’s City Hall.…
MEXICO MOVES AGAINST TV, TELEPHONE TYCOONS
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Flanked by Mexican Senate Deputy Chairman Francisco Arroyo Vieira, left, and Mexican Senate President Ernesto Cordero, right, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, center, shows an agreement just…
OBAMA FRIEND OR FOE? MCCAIN CHARTS HIS COURSE
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this March 7, 2013 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican McCain is a walking contradiction,…
CHINA’S LEADERS TAKE AIM AT RAILWAYS MINISTRY
By LOUISE WATT Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and incoming-President Xi Jinping reads a report during a plenary session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the…
OBAMA CRACKS WISE AT ANNUAL GRIDIRON DINNER
President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, right, as they leave the Gridiron Dinner through a loading area at a hotel in Washington, Saturday, March 9, 2013.…