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Compromise among senators eyed on border security

After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to dramatically toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. Lawmakers and aides alike said the goal was ...

  • Updated: 12:07 a.m. Thursday, June 20, 2013
In this June 13, 2013 picture, U.S. Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks to the north near where the border wall ends as is separates Tijuana, Mexico, left, and San Diego, right. Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US Senate nearing agreement on immigration deal

Key U.S. senators expressed optimism that they were nearing a bipartisan agreement to toughen border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. Under the emerging compromise, the government would grant legal status to immigrants living in the United ...

  • Updated: 9:06 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses

Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it's merely following legal obligations ...

  • Updated: 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Gary Pruitt, president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press speaks at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Pruitt, addressed a luncheon at the NPC and spoke about how the Justice Department violated its own rules in subpoenaing AP phone records. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Pruitt: DOJ broke rules in phone records seizure

The Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized records for thousands of phone calls to and from journalists for The Associated Press as part of a leak investigation, the head of the company said Wednesday. AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt told a luncheon gathering of journalists ...

  • Updated: 3:59 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
From left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Vice President Joe Biden applaud during a ceremony to dedicate the statue of Frederick Douglass, seen behind them, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in the Emancipation Hall of the United States Visitor Center on Capitol Hill in Washington. The bronze statue of Douglass is by Maryland artist Steve Weitzman. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

VP Biden pays tribute to civil rights leader

Vice President Joe Biden is hailing Frederick Douglass for his work to bring about equal justice, leading a series of tributes at the unveiling of a statue of the 19th-century orator and writer. Biden, along with Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Democratic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, used the U.S. Capitol ...

  • Updated: 1:24 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The former first lady offered her most extensive description of her post-Obama administration agenda since leaving her role as the nation's top diplomat. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Hillary Clinton turning toward nonprofit world

As she considers another White House bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton intends to work in the nonprofit world on issues like improving early childhood education, promoting the rights of women and girls, and finding ways to improve the economy — a set of priorities that could inform a 2016 presidential campaign. ...

  • Updated: 11:45 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Jillian Soto, center, with siblings Carlee Soto, left and Carlos Soto, the siblings of Victoria Soto, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, on the sixth month anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. shootings. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama meets with relatives of Newtown victims

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday with relatives of the victims of the Connecticut school shooting, who were visiting Washington on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the tragedy to push anew for gun control. Legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers failed in ...

  • Updated: 6:09 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013

Court says isolated human genes cannot be patented

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously threw out attempts to patent human genes, siding with advocates who say the multibillion-dollar biotechnology industry should not have exclusive control over genetic information found inside the human body. But the high court also approved for the first time the patenting of synthetic DNA, ...

  • Updated: 4:34 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Eric Glatt, a Georgetown Law student, poses for a photograph on their campus, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 in Washington. Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent grads looking to get a foot in the door in the entertainment, publishing and other prominent industries, even if it takes a generous subsidy from Mom and Dad. But those days of working for free could be numbered after a federal judge in New York ruled this week that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on production of the 2010 movie "Black Swan." Glatt was one of the interns. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Unpaid internships in jeopardy after court ruling

Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent grads looking to get a foot in the door in the entertainment, publishing and other prominent industries, even if it takes a generous subsidy from Mom and Dad. But those days of working for free could be ...

  • Updated: 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with, from left, Neil Heslin, father of victim Jesse Lewis, Francine Wheeler, mother of victim Ben Wheeler, and Nelba Mawquez-Greene, mother of victim Ana Marquez-Greene, as Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The group joined policymakers and advocates on Capitol Building for a day-long event to remember the 26 children and educators tragically murdered last December in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bloomberg pressures donors over gun control votes

Six months after the Newtown school shooting, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is stepping up his gun control campaign by asking donors not to support Democratic senators who opposed a bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, while a mayors' group he co-founded is embarking on a national bus ...

  • Updated: 8:41 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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