The agreement calls for the completion of 700 miles of fence and a “border surge” that doubles the current patrol force, aides said, and it is expected to win support from several Republican senators.
Ken Mehlman, the strategist who ran President George W. Bush’s re-election bid, is trying to convince Republicans that gay marriage is consistent with conservative values.
The Supreme Court rules on a requirement that groups that receive federal money to combat AIDS abroad have “a policy explicitly opposing prostitution.”
The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.
Robert Mueller III told the Senate Judiciary Committee that investigators would be slowed in seeking to prevent terrorist attacks.
Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to confirm the president’s comments on the controversy, which has followed him on his diplomatic trip abroad.
In a country splintered by partisanship and race, President Obama’s near-complete absence from more than 25 percent of states may have consequences.
A great-great-granddaughter of the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said that her ancestor believed in freedom and equality for “all of us, regardless of our race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.”
Technology experts and former intelligence officials say the rise of data mining, both as an industry and as a crucial intelligence tool, has created a complex reality.
As part of the first lady’s agenda to improve children’s eating habits, a healthy recipe contest will culminate with the winning authors joining her for a “state dinner.”
In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, President Obama will resume a drive toward disarmament that had been largely shunted aside.
President Obama’s main counterparts on the world stage make little attempt to cloak their disagreements in diplomatic niceties.
A long-awaited analysis by the Congressional Budget Office found that the benefits of an increase in legal residents would outweigh the costs.
The House of Representatives approved a bill that would ban abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy in a largely symbolic vote.
At their core, are America's problems primarily economic or moral?
If the Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, many federal benefits enjoyed by straight couples will be extended to same-sex couples. But there are other things that will not change.
Daniel Ellsberg and Edward J. Snowden maintain that they performed a public service even as others label them traitors. Villains or saints, leakers often cast their actions as a kind of moral crusade.
The targets and types of data collected by the two government programs recently revealed.
As a senator, Barack Obama was a critic of the Bush administration, saying it cast a “false choice” between liberty and security. As he engages in his own surveillance efforts, he has spoken of finding a balance.
Explore current and past committee assignments for women in the Senate.
June 11, 2013
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The justices’ questions touched on couples who can't have children and the newness of the legal issue.
The justices’ questions touched on federalism, equal protection and the Obama administration’s legal stance.
