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Massachusetts

Warren defends Obama’s gun plan, urges voters to challenge candidates

STATE HOUSE — With President Barack Obama taking heat over his executive actions on gun safety, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday blamed Congressional Republicans for impeding "even the smallest reforms" and urged voters to challenge every candidate running for office on what they plan to do to

Barack Obama

Obama gets first health-law repeal bill from Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto. The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181. The legislation already passed the Senate last year

congress

State Dept. won’t say if Kerry saw intel reports referencing communications between Israelis and members of Congress

(CNSNews.com) — State Department Spokesman John Kirby declined to comment on Monday on whether Secretary of State John Kerry had seen or been briefed on intelligence reports that referenced communications between members of the U.S. Congress and Israeli officials. "I won't talk about intelligence matters from

congress

Vote to repeal Obama’s health law marks testy start to 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is poised to send a bill to President Barack Obama's desk repealing his signature health care law, a sharply partisan start to a presidential election year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics on Capitol Hill. The legislation will be the

second amendment

Obama defends forthcoming gun-control orders

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended his administration's plans to tighten the nation's gun-control restrictions without going through Congress, insisting Monday that the steps he'll announce fall within his legal authority and uphold the constitutional right to own a gun. Flanked by his attorney

Barack Obama

Health care repeal vote to open a political year in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been like a long-delayed New Year's resolution for Republicans. But 2016 will finally be the year when they put legislation on President Barack Obama's desk repealing his health care law. The bill undoing the president's signature initiative will be

Democrats

Hundreds of old Clinton emails newly classified

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Thursday that portions of 275 emails released on New Year's Eve from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state have been newly classified, bringing 2015 to a close for the Democratic presidential front-runner. Clinton has said she didn't

congress

House panel leader seeks answers on NSA eavesdropping

WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday his committee will look into a report the U.S. spied on the Israeli prime minister and in the process swept up communications with members of Congress. Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California told the Associated Press that he&