CHINA DEFENDS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
By DIDI TANG U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Uzra Zeya speaks to reporters at a news briefing on the latest U.S.-China Human Rights…
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SURVEILLANCE CRITICS FACE OBAMA IN OVAL OFFICE
By JOSH LEDERMAN FILE – In this June 10, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Struggling to salvage a…
EDWARD SNOWDEN GOT ASYLUM IN RUSSIA, LAWYER SAYS
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – This Sunday, June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden has left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo…
OBAMA REASSURES DEMS ON HEALTH CARE, IMMIGRATION
By JOSH LEDERMAN and JIM ABRAMS President Barack Obama waves as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 31, 2013, to meet with the House Democratic Caucus. There’s…
SENATE READY FOR SHOWDOWN ON OBAMA PICK FOR ATF
By ALAN FRAM FILE – In this June 11, 2013 file photo, B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms…
NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL CANDIDATES WOO LATINO VOTERS
By CLAUDIA TORRENS Sandra Reyes, right, has her picture taken with mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn in New York, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Nearly a quarter of New York City residents…
MANNING VERDICT COULD TEST NOTION OF AIDING ENEMY
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after…
EGYPT ARRESTS MORE ISLAMISTS AS EU OFFICIAL VISITS
By AYA BATRAWY In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, left, meets with interim prime minister, Mohamed ElBaradei in Cairo, Egypt, Monday,…