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Free speech on college campuses in the Senate spotlight

WASHINGTON – Free speech on college campuses attracted congressional attention on Tuesday as a Senate panel questioned students, academics and lawyers after the abrupt cancellation of severa...

DATE: Jun 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

GOP senator to Trump: Nonsense to spurn requests

WASHINGTON – A Republican senator told President Donald Trump it’s “nonsense” that the administration believes it can ignore requests for information from individual members of Congress, inc...

DATE: Jun 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

McConnell confident Dems won’t keep Gorsuch off high court

Majority leader expects confirmation next week

DATE: Mar 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama expected to bar drilling in swaths of Atlantic, Arctic

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama is expected to order wide swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans placed permanently off-limits for oil drilling, people briefed on the administration’s pl...

DATE: Dec 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama pardons 78, shortens the sentence for 153

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by...

DATE: Dec 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation’s high school graduation rate hits record 83.2%

National rise comes as student test scores decline

DATE: Oct 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Obama creates first marine national monument in Atlantic

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Thursday established the first national marine monument in the Atlantic, a move that’s designed to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square miles of und...

DATE: Sep 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama creates world’s largest marine protected area off coast of Hawaii

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday expanded a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a safe zone for tuna, sea turtles and thousands of other species in what will be ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Obama expands safe zone off Hawaii

Protected marine area will be twice as big as Texas

DATE: Aug 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pelosi warns colleagues of harassing calls and messages

Democratic Party again targeted in hack

DATE: Aug 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama urges Americans to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric

WASHINGTON – Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with th...

DATE: Jul 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama honors Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos at White House

President says he was disappointed to see Manning retire

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports