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Sat, 25 May 2013 17:38:23 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WEST_POINT_HAGEL?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By MICHAEL HILL and LOLITA C. BALDOR 2013-05-25T17:38:23Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOSTON_MARATHON_COMMUNITY_OUTREACH?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.... Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:52 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOSTON_MARATHON_COMMUNITY_OUTREACH?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By EILEEN SULLIVAN 2013-05-25T15:00:52Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMAS_SPEECHWRITER?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast.... Sat, 25 May 2013 18:18:11 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMAS_SPEECHWRITER?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 2013-05-25T18:18:11Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IMMIGRATION?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.... Sat, 25 May 2013 13:53:09 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IMMIGRATION?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By DAVID ESPO 2013-05-25T13:53:09Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_WAR_ENDGAME?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.... Sat, 25 May 2013 19:05:39 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_WAR_ENDGAME?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By ROBERT BURNS 2013-05-25T19:05:39Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RECOVERY_POLITICS?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.... Sat, 25 May 2013 20:13:36 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RECOVERY_POLITICS?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By TOM RAUM 2013-05-25T20:13:36Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_KERRY_AFRICA?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.... Sat, 25 May 2013 20:06:35 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_KERRY_AFRICA?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By BRADLEY KLAPPER 2013-05-25T20:06:35Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.... Sat, 25 May 2013 18:25:48 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 2013-05-25T18:25:48Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMAS_SPEECHWRITER?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast.... Sat, 25 May 2013 18:18:11 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMAS_SPEECHWRITER?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 2013-05-25T18:18:11Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DRONE_POLICY?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.... Sat, 25 May 2013 17:55:07 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DRONE_POLICY?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By JULIE PACE 2013-05-25T17:55:07Z