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House votes to delay food safety rules

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted late Wednesday to delay sweeping food safety rules that would require farmers and food companies to be more vigilant about guarding against contamination.... More

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House votes to cut food stamps by $2 billion

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill.... More

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Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge in Baltimore says she's satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's his court-martial in the Wikileaks case.... More

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House votes to cut food stamps

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has voted to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year.... More

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Mueller: FBI uses drones for surveillance

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI uses drones for surveillance of stationary subjects, and the privacy implications of such operations are "worthy of debate," FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.... More

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Obama making plans to tackle global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more - and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in B... More

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Senate backs Froman as next trade representative

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, on Wednesday won Senate confirmation to be the next U.S. trade representative.... More

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Compromise among senators eyed on border security

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After secretive talks, key senators express optimism they are closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.... More

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Dem senator presses Pentagon on Guantanamo feeding

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she opposes the force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment.... More

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IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses.... More

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Oversight board concerned about NSA surveillance

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an interview this week with television talk show host Charlie Rose, Obama said he planned to meet with the oversight board and "set up and structure a national conversation" about the NSA's surveillance programs and also "about the general problem of these big data sets bec... More

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Biden calls for DC voting rights during tribute

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday used a tribute to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass to renew the call for equal voting rights for people who live in the nation's capital.... More

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Fed sees lower US unemployment, more growth

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve sketched a slightly brighter picture of the U.S. economy this year and next, a sign it is moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program.... More

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Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuke cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) -- By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.... More

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US calls out China, Russia over human trafficking

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. accused China and Russia of failing to meet minimum standards in fighting human trafficking, ranking them on a par with North Korea and Syria.... More

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