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The American Legion on Tuesday criticized a new Homeland Security report as unfairly stereotyping veterans by suggesting that some soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could be recruited by right-wing extremists to participate in violent actions.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - President Obama hasn't said where he wants to move Guantanamo Bay's terror detainees, but a Virginia jail is making beds just in case.
As the House and Senate debated the budget earlier this month, Rahm Emanuel's spacious West Wing office took on the feel of a legislative bazaar.
WASHINGTON - African-American boxing legend Jack Johnson could get a posthumous pardon if President Obama heeds a resolution offered Wednesday by former foe John McCain and Long Island GOP Rep. Pete King.
WASHINGTON - African-American boxing legend Jack Johnson could get a posthumous pardon if President Obama heeds a resolution offered Wednesday by former foe John McCain and Long Island GOP Rep. Pete King.
WASHINGTON - The outspoken, handsome and daring boxer Jack Johnson paid a steep price for becoming the first black heavyweight world champion by knocking out a white opponent a century ago.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain and Rep. Peter King of Long Island yesterday announced they were introducing legislation calling on the nation's first black president to pardon its first black heavyweight champ.
A New York congressman says Guantanamo prisoners shouldn't be put on trial in New York near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
WASHINGTON - Sponsors of a bill to reopen the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund for thousands of ailing Ground Zero first responders and workers predicted Tuesday that the House would pass the long-sought legislation this year.
Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.