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    Senate confirms first Obama nominee for appeals court in D.C.

    The Senate on Thursday finally confirmed President Obama's first judicial nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

  • **FILE** Mohamed al-Megariaf, then the Libyan interim president, flashes the victory sign to crowds during the celebration of the second anniversary of the Libyan revolution in Benghazi, Libya, on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Libyan leaders expected to step down soon

    A political crisis is brewing in Libya with the imminent resignations of the president of the legislature, dozens of lawmakers and as many as eight Cabinet ministers, following the adoption of a law that bans officials who had served under late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from holding public office.

  • Have driver, will travel: US golfer roams world

    The quotation from the proud father was a version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words, "Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  • Embassy Row: 'Preaching to the choir'

    The U.S. ambassador to India is urging business executives to press politicians to lift trade barriers and encourage foreign investment to raise the country out of the grinding poverty that infects most of its 1.2 billion people.

  • Sherry Rehman

    Embassy Row: 'Cognitive disconnect'

    Pakistani Ambassador Sherry Rehman doesn't mince words. She rolls them out like fresh dough, pounds them into heaps and injects them with a "cognitive disconnect" or a "bilateral trajectory."

  • ** FILE ** Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Thein Sein at the presidential office in the capital of Naypyitaw in 2010. (Associated Press)

    Myanmar's promises unfulfilled as leader meets with Obama

    Myanmar's president will meet Monday with President Obama amid criticism that the Southeast Asian country has done little to end its war against ethnic minority rebels, protect stateless Muslims or institutionalize democratic reforms that have been promised since its military junta was dissolved in 2011.

  • Leland Shelton is congratulated as he is acknowledged by President Obama in Sunday's Morehouse College commencement address. After a difficult childhood, Mr. Shelton graduated Phi Beta Kappa and is headed to Harvard Law School.
(Associated Press)

    Obama at Morehouse: Black men cannot use racism as a crutch

    Speaking at a historically black college, President Obama said Sunday that he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged graduates to look up to black male role models such as filmmaker Spike Lee.

  • President Obama (right) and Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. stand onstage during the  college's 129th commencement exercises on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama to black graduates: Don't use racism as an excuse

    Speaking at an historically black college, President Obama said Sunday he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged the all-male class of graduates to look up to black male role models such a filmmaker Spike Lee.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Unfinished Empire'

    A more appropriate title for this book might be "Empire Happens." No British king or minister made a conscious decision to create the greatest empire in history. The imperium was created as a patchwork over the centuries beginning with the subjugation of Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

  • ** FILE ** Jets sit on the apron at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., on Dec. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

    Feds arrest Saudi who flew with pressure cooker, altered passport

    Federal agents arrested and charged a Saudi Arabian who flew into Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport from Amsterdam with a pressure cooker and an altered passport.

  • Pakistan Muslim League party supporters celebrate their party's victory in the parliamentary election in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday. Nawaz Sharif is the likely next prime minister. (Associated Press)

    Sharif poised to lead Pakistan again

    Nawaz Sharif, a two-time former prime minister who has talked about ending Pakistan's role in the U.S.-led war against terrorism, was set to win a third term as the South Asian nation's leader on Sunday.

  • The sons of Colin Bower of Boston were taken to Egypt. His case was championed by then-Sen. John Kerry, now secretary of state.

    Parents call for sanctions on countries that refuse to aid return of children

    Parents whose spouses flee overseas with their children called Thursday for the federal government to put sanctions on countries that don't help get those children returned, saying it should be considered a human-trafficking issue, not merely a family dispute.

  • Analysts debate whether gold prices could rebound toward the record high of nearly $1,900 an ounce, as central governments and investors look to the commodity as a safe bet in an unsteady world economy. (Associated Press)

    Gold rush hits a speed bump; April's crash gives pause to glittery-eyed investors

    Gold's rise seemed unstoppable at one point, but millions of fanatics got a jolt last month when the market posted its biggest collapse in 30 years, including a 9 percent one-day drop to less than $1,400 on April 15.

  • ** FILE ** Cuban ladies smoke the country's famous cigars. (AP Photo)

    Cuba launches challenge to Australian tobacco laws at WTO

    Cuba has filed its first legal challenge with the World Trade Organization, joining the fight against Australia's tough tobacco packaging laws, the Geneva-based trade body announced Monday.

  • ** FILE ** Mohamed al-Megariaf, then the Libyan interim president, flashes the victory sign to crowds during the celebration of the second anniversary of the Libyan revolution in Benghazi, Libya, on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

    U.S., U.K. and France denounce intimidation of Libyan parliament

    The United States, Britain and France said on Wednesday that the "international community" is concerned over "armed intimidation" of Libya's elected government as it struggles to consolidate a democracy more than a year and a half after the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

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