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Ne ws f ee d WEST POINT, N.Y. President Barack Obama said Wednes- day he will continue to "take direct action" by ordering drone strikes and capture operations against suspected terrorists "when necessary to protect ourselves." In a speech outlining a for- eign policy framework that stresses cooperation with al- lies, Obama said there still would be times when the U.S. must go it alone. He restated a policy he disclosed last May, however, that no drone strike should occur unless there is "a near certainty" that no ci- vilians will be harmed. That policy has contrib- uted to a reduction in U.S. drone attacks and claims of civilian deaths. The CIA has acknowledged to Congress, though, that a child — the brother of a targeted mili- tant — was killed in a drone strike in Yemen last June. Obama also reiterated his desire to move the drone program from the CIA to the military, despite opposition in Congress. He said that "when we cannot explain our efforts clearly and publicly, we face terrorist propaganda and international suspicion; we erode legitimacy with our partners and our people; and we reduce accountability in our own government." FO RE IG N PO LI CY Ob am a: U S wi ll s ti ll us e dr on e st rik es DENVER Colorado Demo- cratic Senator Mark Udall is calling for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. Udall becomes the first Democratic senator to make such a demand in the ongo- ing scandal over VA medi- cal care. He made his state- ment Wednesday on Twitter after the release of an inter- nal report that found the VA systemically delayed care to wounded veterans and ma- nipulated records to cover it up. The VA's inspector gen- eral is investigating 42 VA facilities across the coun- try. It found the average wait time for care at the Phoenix VA hospital was 115 days. In his tweet Udall said, quote, "In light of IG report & systemic issues" Shinseki should step down. "We need new leadership who will demand account- ability to fix these problems," Udall said in a statement. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veter- ans Affairs Committee; Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R- Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Arizona's two Republi- can senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, also called for Shinseki to step down. VE TE RAN S AF FA IR S La wm ak er c al l fo r ag en cy h ead t o re sig n EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. Ger- man drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $650 million to settle thousands of U.S. claims questioning the marketing and safety of its popular blood thinner Pradaxa. The company said the set- tlement, filed in federal court in East St. Louis, resolves roughly 4,000 claims, paying out an average of $162,500 per case. The drug, known chemi- cally as dabigatran, was ap- proved in October 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Ad- ministration as a treatment to reduce the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats, or atrial fibril- lation. Pradaxa works by stop- ping the enzyme involved in blood clotting. But the plaintiffs had ar- gued the company didn't ad- equately warn Pradaxa us- ers of the risks, including se- vere or in many cases fatal bleeding blamed on the anti- coagulant. Unlike other blood-thin- ning medications, those be- hind the lawsuits said, there is no known reversal agent or antidote for Pradaxa, an alternative to decades-old warfarin. PH ARMA CE UT ICA LS $6 50 M se tt le me nt re ac he d ov er d ru g RICHMOND, VA. House Ma- jority Leader Eric Cantor faced criticism over immi- gration from right and left Wednesday, laying bare the rough politics of the issue even as President Barack Obama sought to increase pressure on House Republi- cans to act. Cantor's tea party oppo- nent in Virginia's June 10 GOP primary, Dave Brat, convened a news conference on the steps of the Virginia Capitol to label Cantor a top cheerleader for "amnesty" in the House, citing Cantor's support for action on certain immigration measures. A short time later, in a conference room inside the state Capitol, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a leading proponent of overhauling immigration laws, held his own news conference to ac- cuse Cantor of standing in the way of action 11 months after the Senate passed a bi- partisan bill with billions of dollars for border secu- rity and a path to citizen- ship for the 11.5 million im- migrants living in the coun- try illegally. "Allow America to have a vote," Gutierrez implored. Several immigrants who are facing deportation orders joined him. PO LITI CS Ca nt or p re ss ur ed on i mm ig ra ti on PAYSON, ARIZ. A 3-year-old Payson boy shot and killed his 1½ -year-old brother after the boys found a handgun in a neighbor's apartment and took it to another room, the eastern Arizona town's police chief said Wednesday. Police Chief Don Engler said his department's in- vestigation of the Tuesday shooting will take about a week. Results will be for- warded to the Gila County Attorney's Office for a deci- sion on whether to prosecute anybody, he said. "What we're taking a look at is the circumstances re- garding the securing of the weapon" and how the boys were able to get ahold of it, Engler told The Associ- ated Press. "We are continu- ing our investigation, and we haven't ruled out criminal charges at this point." He said it was too early to say what recommendation his department might make to prosecutors. The boys and their mother were visiting the 78-year-old neighbor in their apartment complex when the shooting occurred in a bedroom. The brothers found the semi-automatic pistol some- where in the living area where it was not in plain sight, the police chief said. ARI ZO NA Po li ce : 3- ye ar -o ld s hot , ki ll ed yo un ger b rot he r By Alanna Durkin The Associated Press AUGUSTA, MAINE Maine's ethics panel fined a na- tional anti-gay marriage group more than $50,000 on Wednesday and ordered it to reveal the donors who backed its efforts to repeal the state's gay marriage law. The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices found that the National Organization for Marriage violated cam- paign finance laws by failing to properly register as a bal- lot question committee and file financial reports in the 2009 referendum that struck down gay marriage. Same- sex unions were legalized by voters in 2012. The commission also ruled that the organization must file a campaign finance report, which would force it to disclose the names of its donors. The National Orga- nization for Marriage has fought for years to keep its donor list secret, saying do- ing so would put its contrib- utors at risk for harassment and intimidation. A lawyer for the organi- zation vowed to appeal the ethic commission's decision in state court, and members of the panel said they expect litigation to continue for at least a year. Under Maine law, groups must register if they raise or spend more than $5,000 to influence a statewide ballot question. The National Organi- zation for Marriage gave nearly $2 million to Stand for Marriage Maine for the 2009 referendum, or more than 60 percent of the polit- ical action committee's ex- penditures, ethics investiga- tors said in a report released earlier this month. Investigators found that the national group "inten- tionally set up its fundraising strategy to avoid disclosure laws" by not allowing donors to mark that the funds were to be used to defeat same-sex marriage in Maine. Investi- gators say emails soliciting donations and the group's finances clearly show that more than $5,000 was raised with the purpose of assisting the Maine campaign. Walt McKee, chairman of the ethics panel, said not fin- ing the group would amount to "accepting a mockery" of Maine's disclosure laws. It's thought to be the largest campaign finance penalty in the state's history. The organization argues that by not raising money specifically earmarked to in- fluence the Maine gay mar- riage question, it was explic- itly working to stay within the bounds of the state's law. It says that disclosing names will chill future donations. "Wedidn'tcreateascheme, we tried to follow the law," Brian Brown, president of the Washington, D.C.-based organization, told the four- memberpanelonWednesday. Brown, who served as ex- ecutive director of the Na- tional Organization for Mar- riage in 2009, was one of three members of the com- mittee that led the Stand for Marriage Maine PAC. 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