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Obama seeks quick end to NSA phone records program

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

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President Barack Obama answers reporters' questions during a joint press conference with Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, at Rome's Villa Madama, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Obama says 6 million have enrolled through his health care law

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Racial profiling prevention bill passes Ill. House

By KERRY LESTER and CHACOUR KOOP - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Meeting with pope won’t get Obama on Fortune’s ‘greatest leaders’ list

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This March 2007 photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows a male lesser prairie chicken in a mating stature in the Texas panhandle. The Obama administration is placing the lesser prairie chicken on a list of threatened species, a move that could affect oil and gas drilling, wind farms and other activities in five central and southwestern states. The decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service is a step below “endangered” status and allows for more flexibility in how the protections for the bird will be carried out under the Endangered Species Act. An announcement was expected Thursday. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the listing decision in advance. (AP Photo/Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Jon McRoberts)

Feds list lesser prairie chicken as threatened

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In this March 23, 2014 photo, Carl Bechdel, left, and his husband Dan Miller, pose for a photograph at their home in Harrisburg, Pa. It took two months of near daily phone calls and emails to an insurer for Bechdel and Miller to get family coverage under the federal health law. The couple was initially told their application was not processed because Pennsylvania doesn't recognize their marriage. Gay couples are finding that access to such family plans is not guaranteed, as the Obama administration seeks belatedly to ensure equitable coverage is available for same-sex spouses. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Gay couples find uneven access to health insurance

By ANN SANNER - Associated Press

Vatican: Obama talks included birth control

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

MANDEL: A fatal flaw in the Palestinian peace process

By Daniel Mandel

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon speaks at the Central Piedmont Community College Global Competitiveness and Transformational Thinking Summit, in Charlotte, N.C. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said Wednesday, March 26, 2014, that Cannon is facing theft and bribery charges. Tompkins says Cannon solicited and accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers who wanted to do business in Charlotte. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Jeff Willhelm) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY

Charlotte mayor resigns; accused of taking bribes

By MITCH WEISS and TOM FOREMAN JR. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

Inside the Ring: U.S. fears Russia planning to federalize Ukraine, alarming Congress

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Senate intel panel considered phone company option, officials say

By Eileen Sullivan - Associated Press

FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The Senate Intelligence Committee three years ago secretly considered, but ultimately rejected, alternate ways for the National Security Agency to collect and store massive amounts of Americans’ phone records, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Officials: Senate once nixed phone company option

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Volunteers arrive at the Oso Fire Department, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Oso, Wash. A massive mudslide struck near Arlington, Wash., on Saturday. At least 14 people were killed over the weekend and scores more missing. (AP Photo/The Herald, Mark Mulligan)

How Washington mudslide victims are getting help

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013 file photo, Maygan Rollins, 22, a field organizer with Enroll America, left, talks with Jerry Correa, 27, about his health care options while canvassing at a bus stop in Miami. Enroll America is a private, non-profit organization running a grassroots campaign to encourage people to sign up for health care offered by the Affordable Care Act. Despite Florida Republicans' efforts to fight the Affordable Care Act at every turn, more than 440,000 Florida residents had been enrolled through the federal marketplace through the end of February. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Florida overcomes GOP barriers to enroll uninsured

By KELLI KENNEDY - Associated Press

Obama’s approval rating improves slightly in Wis.

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This photo taken March 20, 2014 shows President Barack Obama speaking in Orlando, Fla. Foreign policy used to stand out as a not-so-bleak spot in the public’s waning assessment of Barack Obama. Not anymore. He’s getting low marks for handling Russia’s swoop into Ukraine, and more Americans than ever disapprove of the way Obama is doing his job, according to a new poll. Close to 9 out of 10 Americans support sanctions as a response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. They are divided over whether the U.S. sanctions so far are about right or not strong enough, the Associated Press-GfK poll found. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Poll: Ukraine crisis hurting Obama at home

By CONNIE CASS and JENNIFER AGIESTA - Associated Press

Despite chill, cooperation between US and Russia

By LARA JAKES and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press