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Obama: No charges for harsh CIA interrogation (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing — and authorizing — such grim tactics as slamming detainees against walls, waterboarding them and keeping them naked and cold for long periods.

Obama pledges help to slow US arms flow (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - Confronting a Mexican drug war that is "sowing chaos in our communities," President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will not seek renewal of a U.S. assault weapons ban but instead will step up enforcement of laws banning the transfer of such guns across the border.

CIA interrogation a sleepless, terrifying ordeal (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - The journey into the CIA's most extreme interrogation program began in darkness.

Obama outlines vision for high-speed rail network (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday outlined plans for a high-speed rail network he said would change the way Americans travel, drawing comparisons to the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.

Obama consulted widely on memos (Politico) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT Politico - White House senior adviser David Axelrod says President Barack Obama spent about a month pondering whether to release Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques, and considered it “a weighty decision.”

Source: Captured Somali pirate to face trial in NY (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:34 PM PDT AP - The captured Somali pirate who held a merchant ship captain hostage will be brought to New York to face trial, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Awash in celebrities, US still looking for heroes (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - A nation awash in celebrities still hungers for genuine heroes, never more so than in dreary times like these.

DHS issued report on extremism despite concerns (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Peanut industry wants help too (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - The battered peanut industry has a new message: Peanuts are safe to eat, and there's a law in the works to make them even safer. So have a handful.

US crew tells of how they escaped pirates (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - "If I die I'm going to take someone else with me," one seaman vowed, grabbing a knife as alarms pierced the Maersk Alabama and pirates with assault weapons clambered aboard.

Obama pledges drug, weapons curb (Politico) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:41 PM PDT Politico - MEXICO CITY — Kicking off a four-day trip to Latin America with a stop in the capital of Mexico, President Barack Obama pledged here Thursday that the United States would move aggressively to curb its own drug demand and combat the trafficking of weapons and the streams of cash that gush over the border into Mexico every day.

IG: Foreigners allowed improper tax credits by IRS (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:38 PM PDT AP - The IRS allowed foreign workers — many of them in the U.S. illegally — to improperly claim nearly $7 billion in child tax credits from 2004 to 2007, a government investigator said Thursday.

DirecTV, Comcast fined for violating call rules (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - Satellite television provider DirecTV Inc. and cable company Comcast Corp. will pay out a combined $3.2 million to settle claims that they broke the law by placing phone calls to people who had asked the companies not to call them again. It's the second time DirecTV has been hit with such a fine.

Obama pushes for high-speed rail (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:32 PM PDT Reuters - The United States will seek to develop high-speed rail nationally, President Barack Obama said on Thursday in emphasizing a broader commitment to U.S. infrastructure investment and a transportation alternative ignored or dismissed by previous administrations but long embraced by Asia and Europe.

Obama: Remove politics from immigration overhaul (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says that when it comes to overhauling immigration, one of his goals is to eliminate the politics that doomed a previous attempt to revamp the system.

Obama looks for Cuban response to his recent steps (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT AP - Before taking further steps to improve U.S.-Cuban relations, President Barack Obama says he's looking for signs from Cuba that it's willing to change.

Obama: Reducing drug, gun flow can be done (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:17 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says cracking down on drug and gun trafficking is a realistic goal in his partnership with Mexico.

‘Cash Cow’ House Finance Panel Helps New Lawmakers (Bloomberg) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:15 PM PDT Bloomberg - April 16 (Bloomberg) -- As Democratic and Republican members of Congress take aim at financial firms, some of the ones who may face the toughest re-election races are benefiting from the industry’s generosity in political giving.

Obama waits for Cuba signals to move forward (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama opened the door on Thursday to more changes in U.S.-Cuba policy, but based them on Cuban reciprocation that analysts said may be difficult to get.

Obama: Assault weapons ban made sense (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he prefers to focus on enforcing existing laws to keep assault weapons out of Mexico, rather than trying to renew a U.S. ban on the weapons.

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