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• Early midterms voters cast their ballots as races heat up down south

  22 Oct 2014: More than 3.5m votes have already been cast as debates get spicy in Florida and North Carolina. Here’s the state of the race

• CDC director warns Ebola like 'forest fire' as Congress readies for hearing

  16 Oct 2014: Thomas Frieden pointed to temporary re-emergence of the disease in Nigeria as a sign of what happens if protocols not fully followed
  

• Obama to nominate Vanita Gupta to head DoJ civil rights division

  16 Oct 2014: Praised by the left and the right, ACLU advocate for drug law reform will be thrown into thick of volatile issues such as police behaviour and voting rights

• White House denies plan to close Guantánamo Bay with executive action

  10 Oct 2014: Obama administration spokesperson vehemently contradicts report that president seeks to override law and Congress

• Isis can only be defeated in the long term by regional powers

  10 Oct 2014: Douglas Alexander: International strategy is focused on the US, but our responsibility is to learn the right lessons from history – and Labour will do that

• White House volunteer eyed in secret service prostitution scandal

  9 Oct 2014: Lawmaker leading congressional inquiry into agency raises questions about involvement in 2012 Colombia scandal

• NSA defenders think they can make surveillance reform vanish. This is how wrong they are

  4 Oct 2014: Trevor Timm: A dirty trick by politicians will come back to haunt them if a looming fight exposes the motherlode of spying power – and shuts off the data vacuum

• Failure to pass US surveillance reform bill could still curtail NSA powers

  3 Oct 2014: If the Senate doesn’t pass the USA Freedom Act after the midterm elections, a key section of the Patriot Act could expire

• Secret service agent divulged secrets 'to impress a staffer', Romney chief alleges

  2 Oct 2014: Shawn McCoy, communications chief for Mitt Romney during 2012 campaign, posts account that adds to miseries of agency

• Secret service director Julie Pierson resigns after series of security lapses

  1 Oct 2014: Julia Pierson bows to pressure to quit after House hearing revealed devastating evidence chronicling secret service failures

• Secret service allowed armed man with assault charge into elevator with Obama

  30 Sep 2014: Damaging new evidence comes hours after Director Julia Peterson faced barrage of questions at congressional hearing

• Cost of US-led war against Isis is at least $780m and growing

  30 Sep 2014: Influential thinktank tallies up cost so far as top general describes funding so far in Iraq and Syria as ‘gas money’

• Armed intruder had penetrated farther into White House than admitted

  29 Sep 2014: Revelation came ahead of a congressional hearing on Tuesday and heaped pressure on the beleaguered US secret service

• FAA orders comprehensive security review after fire grounds Chicago flights

  29 Sep 2014: Apparent suicide attempt grounded thousands of flights at Chicago’s O’Hare International and revealed ‘great vulnerability of our system’, senator says

• The audacity of air strikes and secret deals: just making Isis grow stronger?

  23 Sep 2014: Rep Raúl M Grijalva and Michael Shank: The insurgency in Iraq, Syria and beyond is a fight for natural resources as much as political control. Why are we so busy giving leverage to terrorists?

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