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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants to strengthen moderate Syrian rebels. He's asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm those who are fighting both the Sunni extremists and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. The U.S. effort in effect would open a second front in the fight against militants spilling over Syria's border and into Iraq.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's power to fill high-level administration posts with temporary appointments will be limited. The Supreme Court has ruled his appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 without Senate confirmation were illegal. But the justices stopped short of ending a president's power to make recess appointments when the Senate takes a break.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Barack Obama has been blocked by Congress and is running out of steps he can take on his own to achieve his goals. So the White House is hoping that more intimate interactions with "real Americans," will remind members of the struggling middle class why they voted for him in the first place. He's visiting with people in Minnesota today and tomorrow.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will offer identification cards to residents regardless of their immigration statuses under a plan lawmakers passed today and Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign. It'll create the nation's largest municipal ID program. The card is intended to provide a form of government identification to help immigrants and others who may not be able to get it elsewhere.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Philip Morris International is hoping to capitalize on the growing appetite for alternatives to traditional smokes like e-cigarettes with a new Marlboro-branded product that heats tobacco rather than burning it. The tobacco company plans to release the Marlboro HeatSticks in cities in Japan and Italy later this year, with further expansion plans in 2015.
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