By ANDREW MIGA | Associated Press
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By DONNA CASSATA | Associated Press
| May 15, 2012
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is challenging a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the United States.
By MARK S. SMITH | Associated Press
| 5:28PM
Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later - and a dozen years after the long-lost paperwork turned up in military archives - he was honored by President Obama on Wednesday with the nation's highest award for gallantry.
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Associated Press
| 4:53PM
Democrats controlling the Senate rejected for the second year in a row Wednesday a budget plan passed by House Republicans.
By JULIE PACE | Associated Press
| 4:44PM
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner dug in Wednesday on their already hardened positions on tax increases versus spending cuts as the outlines of another dire debt ceiling showdown emerged.
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Associated Press
| 4:23PM
Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Democratic territory with high unemployment, went after Republican Mitt Romney's business background Wednesday and cast him as a corporate raider more interested in profits than people.
By KASIE HUNT | Associated Press
| 4:23PM
Mitt Romney is trying harder than ever these days to stay on script - and keep his traveling national press corps at arms' length.
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Associated Press
| 4:23PM
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 153 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president.
The Associated Press
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A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.
The Associated Press
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WHO: The Group of Eight is made up of the leaders of the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Russia. The Kremlin won't be represented at the Camp David meetings Friday and Saturday by President Vladimir Putin, who is sending his predecessor, Dmitry Medvedev, the current prime minister. President Barack Obama has invited four African leaders - Presidents Yayi Boni of Benin, John Atta Mills of Ghana and Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia - to join food security talks. France and Britain have suggested adding the developing economies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.
