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Obama's envoy for closing Gitmo prison reassigned

01/29/2013 10:10am
The State Department has reassigned its special envoy for closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in another step away from one of President Barack Obama's first campaign promises.

Defense nominee Hagel plans to shed some holdings

01/29/2013 12:06pm
Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel has told Pentagon officials he plans to divest some of his financial holdings and resign from several corporate boards and public interest groups to avoid potential conflicts of interest if he wins Senate confirmation.

After gun crime, weapon history takes time to find

01/29/2013 12:33pm
In the fictional world of television police dramas, a few quick clicks on a computer lead investigators to the owner of a gun recovered at a bloody crime scene. Before the first commercial, the TV detectives are on the trail of the suspect.

US hopes NKorea can be dissuaded from nuke test

01/29/2013 1:39pm
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says North Korea's young leader has acted provocatively but she still hopes he can be convinced not to conduct a nuclear test.

LaHood departure leaves another vacancy in Cabinet

01/29/2013 2:08pm
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who lifted the profile of distracted driving as a national safety concern, is stepping down, presenting President Barack Obama with another Cabinet vacancy at the start of his second term.

US eyes drone base in Africa with al-Qaida in mind

01/29/2013 3:12pm
Plans to base unarmed American surveillance drones in the African nation of Niger highlight the Obama administration's growing concern about extremist influences in the volatile region. They also raise tough questions about how to contain al-Qaida and other militant groups without committing U.S. ground forces in yet another war.

Hagel supports nuclear arms cuts, then elimination

01/29/2013 5:20pm
Chuck Hagel, the likely next secretary of defense, would be the first to enter the Pentagon having publicly advocated for sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia. He supports an international movement called Global Zero that favors eliminating all nuclear weapons.

Air Force identifies missing F-16 pilot

01/29/2013 6:24pm
The U.S. Air Force has identified the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet that went missing Monday on a training mission over the Adriatic Sea.

AP Interview: Top Justice prosecutor Breuer quits

01/29/2013 10:11pm
In a final response to his critics, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division defended his record on a pair of the defining issues of his four-year tenure _ the absence of prosecutions against Wall Street executives and his conduct in the controversy over a botched arms-trafficking investigation in Arizona.
 
   
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