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The Obama administration Monday released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism.

President Barack Obama wants to overturn a Bush administration rule that strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse for moral reasons to perform abortions.

U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, a senior adviser said on Sunday.