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UC Health System Workers Strike Over Pensions, Patient Care Concerns

Feds Charge Suburban Man With Threatening Diplomat

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Myanmar President Thein Sein invited US companies to help create a "market economy" and end the isolation of his once-reclusive state, during a landmark visit to Washington. Duration: 00:47

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Demonstrators protested outside the White House on Monday in advance of Myanmar President Thein Sein's meeting with Barack Obama. They accuse the leader of Myanmar of ethnic cleasing against the Rohingya, a mostly muslim minority.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Monday saluted Myanmar President Thein Sein for his leadership in pushing through startling political reforms, but warned ethnic violence against Muslims must stop.

President Obama speaks on disaster in Oklahoma after hit with massive tornado

Legislation may reunite deported families back to the United States.

Parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., joined Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn at a news conference in Springfield, Ill., to push for statewide gun control. (WGN-TV)