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With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely

A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual gun, was slated to be demonstrated Tuesday at a wireless technology conference ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this week, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Officials: Senators reach deal on high-tech visas

Leading senators working to resolve a key issue on immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa program, officials said Tuesday, resolving one of two major hurdles to committee passage of the landmark bill. The deal negotiated by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Orrin Hatch, ...

AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea

Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal to give equal treatment ...

Officials: Senators reach deal on high-tech visas

Leading senators working to resolve a key issue on U.S. immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa program, officials said Tuesday, resolving one of two major hurdles to committee passage of the landmark bill. The deal negotiated by Sens. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and ...

FOR STORY SLUGGED FRANCE SHRINKING ECONOMY - FILE -  In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, French Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg delivers a speech after meeting workers and trade union representatives of ArcelorMittal, in Florange, northeast France.  The 50-year old lawyer Montebourg, is the man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest in the country, but according to some analysts he is fast gaining a reputation for doing the opposite, as public spats with international companies, and efforts to block employee layoffs are being seen as the epitome of what is wrong with the French economy. (AP Photo/Mathieu Cugnot, File)

Does France have right plan to revive its economy?

The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country's first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world's largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; exchanged angry letters with the head ...

Group: More Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'

The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's rights might be reversed with the withdrawal of most international troops next year, a rights group said Tuesday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said 600 ...

President Barack Obama listens as Myanmar's President Thein Sein speaks during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk

A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has not led to any criminal trials against members of the country's Buddhist ...

Raw: Japan's WWII Atrocities Under Fire in Seoul

Raw: Japan's WWII Atrocities Under Fire in Seoul

A small but angry group of South Korean activists gathered outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Tuesday to express their anger over Japan's wartime atrocities. (May 21)

Arkansas Editorial Roundup

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 18, 2013 Some questions for the Higher Ed elite What's got into the University of Arkansas' trustees? They're starting to act like trustees, people who've been entrusted with a responsibility to oversee something that belongs to someone else-in this case to the people of Arkansas. It's a ...

FILE - In this May 13, 2013, file photo, the screen on the phone console is seen at the reception desk at The Associated Press Washington bureau. The Justice Department’s latest effort to examine who journalists are talking to _ the secret subpoena of Associated Press phone records from April and May of last year _ demonstrates how government investigators are guided more by policy and the judgments of high-ranking officials than by specific laws or, in this case, the need to satisfy an independent federal judge.  (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Policy, discretion guide media sources probes

It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier. The extraordinary call was ...

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