- President Barack Obama is waving away Republican
opposition to his proposed executive action on immigration. “They
have the ability to fix the system,”
Obama said. “What they don’t have the ability to do is expect
me to stand by with a broken system in perpetuity.”
- “The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of
mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic
cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is
snagging a
large number of innocent Americans, according to people
familiar with the operations.”
- Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
says the Pentagon is
“certainly considering” sending grounds troops to Iraq.
- In a newly released video, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
urges his supporters to
launch attacks in Saudi Arabia.
- According to a
new poll, 61 percent of Americans “strongly oppose so-called
‘net neutrality’ efforts that would allow the federal government to
regulate the Internet.”
- The House of Representatives is set to vote today on the
Keystone XL pipeline.
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