Congressional Republicans’ budget is expected to be released Tuesday, but a federal budget is not really a budget at all.
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In Intense Desert Training, Marine Women Fight For Place On Front Lines
The Marines are being tested in California’s Mojave Desert to see if they have what it takes to serve in ground combat units. Injuries in earlier training kept a dozen women from getting that far.
Kerry To Resume Talks Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
Today’s meeting in Switzerland comes a week after 47 Senate Republicans signed an open letter to Iran suggesting any deal reached would lapse the day President Obama leaves office.
An ‘Upstream’ Battle As Wikimedia Challenges NSA Surveillance
A law professor and expert on national security law sheds some light on the lawsuit by Wikipedia’s parent company against the National Security Agency.
Robert Durst, Subject Of HBO’s ‘The Jinx,’ Arrested In New Orleans
Durst, the troubled heir to a New York real estate fortune, has been questioned in the past over two deaths and a disappearance. It is unclear if his arrest is linked to those cases.
Amid Rising Concern About Addiction, Universities Focus On Recovery
The Center for Students in Recovery at the University of Texas is one of a small but growing number of programs catering to former addicts at U.S. colleges and universities.