Alaska delegation suspicious of NSA data collection
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska is cosponsoring a bill that would end secret interpretations of the Patriot Act, which enabled the National Security Agency to collect billions of phone records from Americans.
As public concerns grow, Congress spooked over spying
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON — The American people are growing increasingly concerned about reports of domestic spying. And Congress isn’t sure how to respond.
With student loan rates about to double, lawmakers squabble
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — Student loan rates will double to 6.8 percent on July 1 if Congress doesn’t settle on a new plan soon, but disagreements flared Thursday, not only between the two parties, but between a veteran Democrat and President Barack Obama.
Supreme Court rejects idea of patenting natural human genes
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that naturally occurring human genes may not be patented, potentially opening up commercial and scientific terrain to more freewheeling exploration.
Miami’s Leon Fresco: The immigration mover and shaker you don’t know
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — While Sen. Marco Rubio may be among the most prominent faces of the immigration battle in Washington, there is another Cuban-American from Miami who has been almost as critical to guiding the contentious proposal through the perils of Capitol Hill.
U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons, will send military support to rebels
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — The U.S. will sendmilitary support to Syrian rebels after finding the Syrian regime used chemical weapons on the opposition “multiple times,” the White House said Thursday, escalating involvement in a civil war in which President Barack Obama has resisted military involvement.
Supreme Court rejects Texas effort to gain access to Oklahoma water
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — Oklahoma beat Texas at the Supreme Court on Thursday in a cross-border contest over water for the Fort Worth area.
Notion of gene patenting raises eyebrows at Supreme Court
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices pushed back Monday against the idea of patenting human genes during oral arguments that ranged from baseball bats and chocolate chip cookies to imaginary plants in the Amazon.
Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information.
Supreme Court to consider whether firms can patent genes, the essence of life
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — The building blocks of life are now stacked up before the Supreme Court, as justices consider whether scientists can patent an isolated human gene.
