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Senate panel greenlights Obama’s attorney general pick

WASHINGTON (AP) — Loretta Lynch won approval from a key Senate committee Thursday to serve as the nation’s next attorney general, as divided Republicans clashed…

Loretta Lynch deftly handles Senate Judiciary Committee

Loretta Lynch (Courtesy of Justice.gov) At the beginning of her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday morning, Attorney General-designate Loretta E. Lynch delivered…

With eye on history, judges nix gay marriage bans

Robert Shelby, a former Army combat engineer, knocked over the first domino. As a U.S. district judge — appointed in 2012 by President Barack Obama…

San Antonio Mayor Obama’s choice to lead H.U.D.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shuffling his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama plans to nominate Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan to be budget director and is considering San…

Obama’s HHS nominee wins GOP praise

WASHINGTON (AP) –President Barack Obama’s nominee for health secretary is winning GOP praise as she makes her first appearance before a Senate committee. Sylvia Mathews…

55 schools face US federal sex assault probe

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-five colleges and universities — big and small, public and private — are being investigated over their handling of sexual abuse…

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