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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says officials should try to make the new airport security measures, including full body scans and intimate pat-downs, less intrusive. Clinton says there’s clearly a need for the tighter security. But she says the government should explore ways to “to limit the number of people who are [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb. [...]

Washington Times: LISBON, Portugal — President Barack Obama on Saturday said for the first time he wants U.S. troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the date he and other NATO leaders set for moving Afghans into the lead role in fighting the Taliban. Allies had different interpretations of that [...]

Mediaite: Responding to a request for his opinion on the matter from NBC’s Chuck Todd, President Obama opened with a confession: “I don’t go through security checks to get on planes these days, so I haven’t personally experienced some of the procedures put in place by TSA.” He then proceeded to defend this measure which [...]

Mark Knoller is CBS News’s White House Correspondent. He was with Obama today on his European jaunt. He tweeted the following:

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) – A county employee in Arizona has been fired after mistakenly euthanizing a dog that saved soldiers in Afghanistan and lived through explosions in the war-torn country, officials announced Friday. The unidentified Pinal County animal control employee euthanized the female shepherd mix on Monday and was immediately placed on administrative leave. The [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – More than 10,000 workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed ground zero after the World Trade Center fell have ended their bruising legal fight with New York City and joined a settlement worth at least $625 million, officials said Friday. The deal will resolve an overwhelming majority of [...]

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Politico: Senate Democrats — including typically mild-mannered Bill Nelson of Florida — lit into President Barack Obama during an unusually tense air-clearing caucus session on Thursday, senators and staffers told POLITICO.

Washington Times: The Justice Department on Thursday said it was committed to a policy of taking some terrorism suspects before civilian courts, although several critics – Republicans and one high-ranking Democrat – said the verdict in the civilian trial of Ahmed Ghailani showed that military commissions were needed to try terrorism detainees. The commander of [...]

The Hill: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a Christmas gift in store for the phone and cable industry: it may move ahead on its controversial net-neutrality regulations three days before Christmas. An FCC source confirmed on Friday that the commission plans to push its December meeting back by a week, meaning it will fall [...]

UPDATE: We did it. We golfed with guns, and I don’t mean buttstocks. A full update with video will follow. Rob aka Spectre, the Marine and SAFE Citizen Patrol Member at the beginning of the first “SAFE On The Border” episode, are looking forward to a rainy and muddy training package tomorrow, a rifle and [...]