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Obama said he is placing new limits on the way intelligence officials access phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans.

The official insisted on anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the president's decision by name.

Senate Republicans' refusal to allow votes for nominees to the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau led Obama to make the temporary appointments in January 2012.

The first zones selected are in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, southeastern Kentucky and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Last year, gridlock in Congress forced Obama to return to Washington the day after Christmas.

While praising a new spirit of cooperation, Obama still faults Congress for not extending jobless benefits that will expire this month for 1.3 million Americans.

Obama will announce the plan later this morning.

Obama will visit Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery.

The bill would ease restrictions and allow suspected terrorist prisoners to come to the U.S. for detention, trial or medical treatment.

Obama said he has heard many complaints. He says he has heard them "loud and clear".

Epinephrine is considered the first-line treatment for severe allergic reactions and is administered by injection.

Officials in both countries are hoping to scale back tensions that escalated after the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid.

Jeh (jay) Johnson, if confirmed by the Senate, would replace Janet Napolitano, who left the DHS to become president of the University of California system.

That to-do list seems meager when compared with the ambitious, progressive agenda he envisioned at the start of his second term.

The meeting comes as House Republicans consider advancing a short-term increase in the debt limit before the government risks going into default Oct. 17.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." Obama spoke to reporters at the White House Tuesday in the midst of the eighth day of a partial government shutdown and a few hours after calling Boehner...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is vowing that al-Qaida suspect Abu Anas al-Libi will be brought to justice. But Obama sidestepped a question during a White House news conference about whether the raid that captured al-Libi complied with international law...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is assuring Israel's prime minister that the administration has its eyes wide open, as it considers a warming of relations with Iran and a re-start of nuclear negotiations with that country. Today's visit by Benjamin Netanyahu to the Oval Office came just days after Obama's historic phone conversation with Iran's new president...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's spoken by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. It's the first conversation between American and Iranian presidents in more than 30 years.   Obama says after speaking with Rouhani, he believes the U.S. a...

Congressional Republicans insist it must be repealed.