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crime

Holder tried to stonewall, spin ‘Fast and Furious’ probe, panel says

WASHINGTON – Former Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department, played a crucial role in an effort to cover up the government's "Fast and Furious" Mexican gun trafficking scandal, a congressional investigative panel said Thursday. "Senior Justice Department

bias

Obama comments on Clinton email raises bias concerns

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information. But he also says he's not trying to influence his administration's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. The

Democrats

Ayotte sharpens attacks on Obama over Guantanamo detainees

WASHINGTON – New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is ramping up her criticism of President Barack Obama's decision to release radical Islamic terror suspects from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, proposing a ban on the transfer of detainees to prisons on American soil as well as

Barack Obama

Obama blocks corporate tax ‘inversions’ spawned by high rates

WASHINGTON – The question at the heart of President Barack Obama's recent directive ordering the Treasury Department to pump the brakes on U.S. companies gobbling up smaller foreign businesses to take advantage of a friendlier overseas corporate tax climate is whether America's corporate tax rate is

Barack Obama

Obama: ‘I have transformed the federal courts from a diversity standpoint’

Democrats

Run against Obama

When a Republican has been in the presidency for eight years, as George W. Bush was, Democrats run against the Republicans. When a Democrat has been in office for eight years, as Barack Obama will soon have been, Republicans run against Republicans. This is a year in which the multiple

Donald Trump

A time for real Republican leadership

After the 2012 election, when Americans re-elected Barack Obama, Republican Party leadership rightly did some soul searching. Republicans were in shock that Americans could re-elect a man they saw as clearly bad for the country, weakening us at home and fueling instability abroad.

GOP

GOP senators seek to block proposal on Iran dollar rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican senators opposed to the Iran nuclear deal are trying to block an Obama administration proposal that would ease rules on using U.S. dollars in trade transactions with Iran. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mark Kirk of Illinois introduced legislation on Wednesday that would bar the