Oregon lawmaker seeks campaign finance probe over cannabis education
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman asked the White House on Friday to investigate possible campaign finance law violations over allegations that an anti-marijuana group’s upcoming Oregon “education tour” was partly financed by federal money i…
Mississippi Senate election challenge appealed to state’s top court
Jackson Miss. (Reuters) – The Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate in Mississippi on Friday appealed a judge’s decision to dismiss an election challenge over his Republican primary loss in June.
U.S. Senate investigators split on party lines over IRS scandal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Senate investigators criticized a watchdog for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday for “inaccurately and unfairly” damaging public confidence in the tax agency’s political impartiality.
Republicans wrangle over Ex-Im Bank, funding plan to move quickly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress is expected to move quickly next week on a stop-gap funding measure to keep government agencies open into mid-December, but a plan to temporarily extend the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s charter has proven more elus…
Lawyer in gay rights case named No. 3 at U.S. Justice Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Justice Department lawyer who argued to overturn the nation’s ban on gay marriage will be promoted to the agency’s No. 3 position, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement on Friday.
In New Hampshire, Republican Brown angles for second Senate upset
MANCHESTER N.H. (Reuters) – In the final debate before next week’s New Hampshire U.S. Senate primary, Scott Brown listened politely to his two Republican challengers, even as his campaign has for months focused on defeating the Democratic incumbent, Je…
Senator seeks to strip U.S. citizenship from Islamic State recruits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. senator said Friday that Americans who join, support or fight with Islamic State should lose their U.S. citizenship, and said he would introduce legislation to bar anyone who does so from returning to the country.
Obama says he will announce immigration reform steps soon
NEWPORT Wales/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he will soon announce how he will address U.S. immigration reform, but sidestepped questions about whether he would wait until after November’s midterm elections to take ac…
Russia may need to be ‘coerced’ to stop bullying its neighbors: Clinton
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday criticized Russia for trying to intimidate its neighbors and said Moscow needed to be persuaded or even “coerced” into looking to the future rather than the past.
Oklahoma to halt execution until new protocols in place: governor
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma will put future executions on hold until new procedures are in place as recommended in a report about a troubled execution that exposed shortcomings in the death chamber, officials said on Friday.
