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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Justice Anthony Kennedy was furious when a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. As he read the dissenting opinion from the bench three years ago, his anger was palpable. The majority regards its opinion “as judicial modesty," he declared. "It is not. It amounts instead to a vast judicial over-reaching.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged lawmakers to give his trade agenda a second chance and support a bill that would provide training to American workers who see their jobs shipped overseas.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A raging battle over President Barack Obama's request for "fast-track" authority central to improving U.S. ties with Asia resumes in the House of Representatives next week when lawmakers are expected to try to reverse Friday's defeat of linchpin trade legislation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A raging battle over President Barack Obama's request for "fast-track" authority central to improving U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The speaker of Iraq's parliament, Saleem al-Jabouri, met with President Barack Obama and other top officials in Washington on Friday, securing an additional $9 million in U.S.

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We begin today's rondup with Eugene Robinson's take on the stalled confirmation of Loretta Lynch:

North Carolina's current congressional districts (click to enlarge)

The conservative fixation on Putin continues to get stranger

This story has everything, though the best might be how it makes Vladimir Putin look like a star-chaser with very low standards.

Suddenly, Putin proposed a bold new idea: make Steven Seagal an honorary consul of Russia in California and Arizona.

With the president's nominee for attorney general languishing in the Senate, John Cornyn (R-TX) issued this statement: