Government News
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By ERICA WERNER and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to avoid a showdown over immigration, House Republican leaders are moving to make a deal with Democrats to pass a spending bill that…
December 05, 2014 -
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Take an obscure abbreviation, add insider-speak and you end up with the latest version of Washington argot. CRomnibus. (Pronounced: KROM-ne-bus.) That’s the term Capitol Hill mavens and…
December 03, 2014 -
By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a $585 billion defense policy bill that provides funds to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq to counter Islamic…
December 02, 2014 -
By SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From the violent lyrics of rap music to the crude comments of teenagers in video-game chat rooms, the Supreme Court struggled Monday over where to draw the…
December 02, 2014 -
By SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a…
December 01, 2014 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Aereo, an online startup that tried to offer a cheaper alternative to cable TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than five months after an unfavorable ruling by the…
November 25, 2014 -
KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Dissenters within the National Security Agency, led by a senior agency executive, warned in 2009 that the program to secretly collect American phone records wasn’t providing enough…
November 23, 2014 -
CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans say two things are clear: Last year’s government shutdown hurt the party. And Republicans must not let the president’s pending immigration action bait them into a…
November 19, 2014 -
BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal regulators said a respected Internet privacy company gave its seal of approval to commercial websites and mobile apps but failed to check whether they were…
November 19, 2014 -
MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal patent workers are allowed to work from home with little supervision and face almost no discipline even if they lie about the hours they put…
November 18, 2014 -
A House oversight committee demanded answers Monday about a suspected cyber-attack that has shut down the State Department's unclassified email system.
November 18, 2014 -
JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Mobility, the nation’s second-largest cellular provider, says it’s no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users’ smartphones. The practice made it nearly…
November 18, 2014 -
The Navy secretary has spent more than a full year of his five-year tenure on overseas travel, racking up more than 930,000 miles on trips that cost taxpayers more than $4.7 million.
November 18, 2014 -
MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A…
November 17, 2014 -
ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Wary of a more muscular Russia and China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday the Pentagon will make a new push for fresh thinking…
November 16, 2014