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her handling of reports that DEA agents stationed in Colombia had participated in sex parties with prostitutes paid for by drug cartels.
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Obama administration's top drug enforcement official will step down next month, Attor-
ney General Eric Holder said It also came after Leonhart Tuesday, after her agency was parted with the White House tarnished by a scandal over on marijuana policy, oppossex parties with prostitutes ing moves by states including and she broke with President Colorado and Washington to BarackObama on drug policy. legalize its use, even as the Michele Leonhart, the ad- president said they should ministrator of the Drug En- be allowed to go forward, forcement Adm i n i stration, and resisting a push to retold Holder that she intended to duce penalties for its use and retire, ending a 35-year tenure
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AttOrney general nOminee —President BarackObama's long-stalled nomineefor attorney general, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, is on herway to aconfirmation vote after senators extricated themselves Tuesdayfrom a partisan dispute over abortion that had stood in her way. Anagreement announced bySenateleaders allowed both Republicans andDemocrats to saveface on a once-uncontroversial bill to help sex-trafficking victims that had turned into a litmus test on abortion. Although that issue wasnot connected to Lynch, Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell had beenholding off her nomination vote until the trafficking issue wasresolved.
to use this as an opportunity to fill this important role with someone who u n d erstands the outdated federal approach
to marijuana isn't working," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. He added: "The Ameri-
can public has moved on. Most now feel marijuana should be legalized." Although some of Leonhart's views on drug enforce-
ment had long been in conflict with Obama's, the deciding factor in her decision to step
down appeared to be her management of the prostitution
at the agency. In a statement, Her retirement could set off scandal. he called her a " trailblaz- a battle on Capitol Hill over Seven agents who admitted er for equality" and a "good the nomination of her succes- to the accusations were given friend," but in recent years sor, with some liberal Dem- suspensions of two to 10 days, she had faced accusations of ocrats calling for Obama to and under harsh questioning mismanagement. appoint an administrator who from the House panel, LeonLeonhart's impending de- backs a change in policy on hart said that she had been parture after eight years in the marijuana, and conservative powerlessto take more agtop job follows a hearing last lawmakers opposing such a gressive action such as firing week in which lawmakers on move. them or revoking their securi"I encourage the president ty clearances. the House Oversight Commit-
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halting a nearly month-old bombing campaign against a rebel group in neighboring Yemen that has touched off a
devastating humanitarian crisis and threatened to ignite a broader regional conflict. The announcement follows what U.S. officials said was pressure applied by the Saudis and other Sunni Arab nations to end the airstrikes.
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The bombing campaign, A Saudi soldier sits on top of an armored vehicle as he guards the which has received logistical border with Yemen, at a military point in Nalran, Saudi Arabia, on and intelligence support from Tuesday. the United States, has drawn intense criticism for causing c ivilian deaths and for a p -
branch there to expand its pearing to be detached from a territory. broad military strategy. The conflict further threatA Saudi D efense Minisened to entangle the United try statement quoted by the States and Iran in a potential country's news agencies said military confrontation, just as that the campaign, called Op- they are about to continue dif-
Saudi Arabia's stated goal of
helping restore a Yemeni government that collapsed many weeks ago as Houthi rebels took over the country's capital, Sanaa. Analysts said the
announcement could possibly dear the way for a different type of military intervention. Weeks of fighting in Yemen, which was already suffering from theabsence of any cen-
cused the Houthis, whose leaders adhere to a variant of
Shiite Islam, of serving as an Iranian proxy.The Obama administration warned that
Iran might be trying to arm the Houthis in recent days and ficult and delicate negotiations on Monday movedtodeploy a that they hope will result in a strengthenedarmada of warfinal nuclear agreement by the ships off Yemen's coast as a
the deposed president of Egypt, wassentenced to 20 years in prison by an Egyptian court Tuesday in thefirst verdict handed down in any of the criminal cases brought against him after the military ousted him in 2013. Morsi and adozen other defendants were convicted of inciting violence anddirecting illegal detentions and torture. The charges stemmed from anight of bloody of street fighting between Morsi's supporters and opponents outside the presidential palace inDecember 2012. All of the defendants weremembers of his administration or Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood, which supported him. AuSChWitZ guard On trial —Seven decadesafter the liberation of Auschwitz, a 93-year-old former SSguard at the Nazi death camp shuffled into a Germancourt Tuesday to answer charges of complicity in the murder of 300,000 mostly Hungarian Jews in summer1944. With Holocaust survivors watching in the courtroom, OskarGroening read a terrifying but startlingly clear account of his life, focusing on the autumns of1942 and1944, when heserved in the SSat Auschwitz-Birkenau. Groening said hewas responsible for collecting cash belonging to prisoners, as state prosecutors havecharged, but also witnessed atrocities. — From wire reports
end of June. deterrent. In an i n t erview 'Itresday The role that Iran has
night,
P r esident B a rack played, however, is far from clear. Although Yemeni officials and Western diplomats be settled. have said there is evidence "That's always been a frac- that Iran has given arms and t ious country with a l o t o f other support to the Houthis problems," he told Chris Mat- over the past several years, Obama said he was optimistic that the crisis in Yemen could
thews of MSNBC. "There are
a lot of people inside Yemen suffering. What we need to do is bring all the parties totral authority, have left nearly gether and find a political 1,000 people dead and provid- arrangement." ed an opening for al-Qaida's The Saudis have long ac-
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Energy dill —Congress on Tuesdaypassed abill focused on improving energy efficiency in buildings andwater heaters, a move celebrated by both parties for breaking longstanding gridlock. The bill, which President BarackObamais expected to sign this week, is amodestone.Itsauthors,Sens.RobPortman,R-Ohio,andJeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., havebeenworking together since 2011 on abroader energy efficiency measure. Thoseefforts have beenthwarted by partisan debates over issues such asclimate change andthe Keystone XLoil pipeline. This year, the senators introduced a bill that incorporated a fewelements of the broader measure.
Egypt'S fOrmer preSident SentenCed — MohammedMorsi,
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was unclearexactl y how much the airstrikes had advanced
as questions swirled around what happened toFreddie Gray,who died Sunday — aweekafter he was chased and restrained by police officers and suffered a spine injury, which later killed him, in their custody. The police saythey have noevidencethat their officers used force. A lawyer for Gray's family accuses thedepartment of a cover-up, and onTuesday, the Justice Department opened acivil rights inquiry into his death. Thepolice department released the namesof six officers who hadbeensuspended with pay.
BiShOp reSighS —PopeFrancis accepted the resignation Tuesday of a U.S. bishop whowasconvicted of failing to report a suspected child abuser, answering calls by victims to takeaction against bishops who cover up for pedophile priests. Bishop Robert Finn, who led the Diocese of KansasCity-St Joseph in Missouri for nearly10 years, resigned under canon lawthat allows bishops to resign early for illness or some "grave" reason that makesthem unfit for office. But his resignation did not provide aspecific reason. Finn, 62, is 13years shy of the normal retirement age of 75.
OBOCK, Djibouti — Saudi Arabia said Tuesdaythat it was
eration Decisive Storm, had achieved its objectives. But it
Killing dy police —Protests continued in Baltimore onTuesday
FraCkiiig and quakeS —Abandoning years of official skepticism,Oklahoma'sgovernmentTuesdayembracedaconsensusthat earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused bythe underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells. The state's energy andenvironment Cabinet introduced awebsite detailing the evidenceTuesday. It includes aninteractive map that plots not only earthquake locations, but also the sites of more than 3,000 active wastewater-injection wells. Thewebsite coincided with a statement by theOklahoma Geological Survey that it "considers it very likely" that wastewater wells are causing the majority of the state's earthquakes.
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