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By REUTERS – Norway’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday to conscript women into its armed forces, becoming the first European and first NATO country to make military service compulsory for both men and women. Women already serve in the military, but do so of their own volition. They make up a tenth of the armed forces,…

Washington Post – When the Loop wrote about the expanding womens’ restroom off the Senate chamber, we had no idea just how important a venue we were talking about. Forget stuffy conference rooms or even the Senate floor — it turns out that womens’ rooms are where plenty of important conversations happen (and they have…

By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON June 5, 2013 (AP) President Barack Obama’s top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, marking a significant shakeup to the White House foreign policy team. A White House official confirmed the personnel changes…

From The White House – Samantha Power – Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Samantha Power is Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council. Power most recently served as the Anna Lindh Professor of…

By Laura Bassett, Huffington Post – Republicans in the House Judiciary subcommittee voted on Tuesday to expand Rep. Trent Franks’ (R-Ariz.) proposed D.C. abortion bill to apply to the whole country and advanced the bill favorably to the full committee. The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the United States in…

By Ed O’Keefe and Sean Sullivan, Washington Post – Military and political history will be made Tuesday when all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testify at the same time before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the rising rate of sexual assaults among members of the military. The chiefs have told Congress in…