Publication: Reuters: Politics

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 24 mins ago - 2 reports

United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace

WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and the Taliban raised hopes on Tuesday for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war between American-led forces and the insurgents. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Taliban, United States, Kabul

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Taliban

Afghans must talk to each other for peace, Obama says

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Afghans must talk to each other to resolve the conflict in their country even though huge mistrust exists between the government and its Taliban foes. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Mistrust, Taliban

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Obama says still wants to close Guantanamo Bay prison

BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he still wanted to close Guantanamo Bay prison but said the plan had been tougher to achieve than he had hoped due to resistance from Congress. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Guantánamo Bay, Barack Obama, prison

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Enroll America sets private outreach for Obamacare enrollment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enroll America, a nonprofit group at the center of the political fight over President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, launched a multi-state grassroots campaign on Tuesday to help sign up millions of uninsured Americans for ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Obamacare, Barack Obama

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Senate immigration bill to aid economy, budget office says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House-backed bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration system got a boost on Tuesday when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that the measure would cut federal budget deficits and boost the U.S. economy. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Immigration, Congressional Budget Office, Budget Deficit

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Mississippi

Mississippi leans on Google to crack down on illegal products

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mississippi's attorney general said on Tuesday he would subpoena documents from Google Inc as part of a probe into allegations the Web search company facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Mississippi, Illegal, Google Inc

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

US National Security Agency

NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 12 hours ago]

Entities: US National Security Agency, Surveillance, United States

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 reports

Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation severely restricting abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Abortion

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

'Conservative Republican' at IRS defends treatment of Tea Party

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A manager from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati where staff have been accused of unfairly subjecting conservative groups to extra scrutiny has said his agents were not influenced by any political agenda. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 16 hours ago]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Massachusetts Senate candidates spar on U.S. surveillance programs

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Republican underdog fighting for Massachusetts' open U.S. Senate seat in a Tuesday debate attacked his rival, a veteran Democratic congressman, over recently revealed programs in which federal agencies track Americans' use of phones ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Massachusetts Senate, Surveillance, United States

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Missouri senator joins effort urging Hillary Clinton to seek presidency

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not committed to a run for president in 2016 but on Tuesday she picked up an endorsement from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who announced she is supporting a group encouraging ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Hillary Clinton, Claire McCaskill, White House

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shift in North Carolina

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ground. ... [Published Reuters: Politics - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Protesters, Protest

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