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  • Panel hears more about Secret Service problems

    ALICIA A. CALDWELL, LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

    AP Photo/Charles Dharapak U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Inquiry hears of wider Secret Service misbehavior. WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawmaker leading an inquiry into the Secret Service prostitution scandal reported dozens of "troubling" episodes of past misbehavior Wednesday and appealed to insiders to come forward with what they know as investigators try to determine whether a culture of m... Full story

  • Gun laws show difficulty of stemming violent acts

    ALICIA A. CALDWELL, JULIE PACE, Associated Press

    he reloaded. But the ban and other U.S. gun laws wouldn't have prevented his mother's purchase of the pTowerful assault rifle or the especially deadly ammunition that he used to kill 26 people. A generation of U.S. gun laws — and the inherent compromises intended to balance constitutional gun rights and public safety — reflects the intricacies of applying government policy to stem acts of mass violence. Since July, there have been at least four mass shootings that killed 47 people and wounded dozens more in Connecticut, Col...

  • More Secret Service agents gone; Obama briefed

    ALICIA A. CALDWELL, KEN THOMAS,Associated Press

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office. The Secret Service announced the new resignations, bringing to six the number of agency officers who have lost their jobs so far because of events at their hotel in C...