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…
Social issues
SAME-SEX MARRIAGES BEGIN IN RHODE ISLAND
By DAVID KLEPPER Gary McDowell, left, and Zachary Marcus, both of Providence, R.I., display their newly obtained marriage certificate at City Hall, in Providence, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 Gay marriage…
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…
BLACK ITALY MINISTER DEMANDS STOP TO RACIST TAUNTS
In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013 photo, Italian Senate Vice President Roberto Calderoli, left, shakes hands with Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, inside the Senate, in Rome. Prosecutor Francesco Dettori confirmed…
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,…