Analysis: US was at odds with world over Cuba policy
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama’s decision to pursue new relations with Cuba was driven in part by a stinging realization: Longstanding U.S. policies aimed at isolating…
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CIA battles Senate Democrats over torture report
By BRADLEY KLAPPER The CIA and several of its past leaders are stepping up a campaign to discredit a five-year Senate investigation into the CIA’s harrowing interrogation practices after 9/11,…
Spending bill teeters amid Democratic discontent
By ANDREW TAYLOR Growing opposition among Democrats and persistent opposition from the tea party Republicans has left a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill teetering as many lawmakers find more in…
GOP’s Issa ready for final assault on ‘Obamacare’
By CHARLES BABINGTON One of the Obama administration’s harshest congressional critics will get a final high-profile shot when the House Oversight Committee grills witnesses about the president’s health care overhaul…
Analysis: Can House GOP stay on immigration script
By DAVID ESPO After declaring President Barack Obama’s new policy on deportations “null and void,” House Republicans are ready to fund the federal government before a Thursday deadline without additional…
Obama, GOP-led Congress prepare for veto showdowns
By CHARLES BABINGTON and JIM KUHNHENN Veto brinkmanship between congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama was virtually absent in his first six years in office, but it’s about to unleash…
Democratic Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu defeated
By MELINDA DESLATTE, BILL BARROW Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu on Saturday, denying her a fourth term and extending the GOP’s domination of the 2014 midterm…
Republicans push to update education law
By KIMBERLY HEFLING The No Child Left Behind education law could be making a political comeback. Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is the incoming chairman of the Senate…