Obama signs defense measure he once vowed to veto

Backing down on a threatened veto, President Obama has signed into law a $633.3 billion defense bill with an attached a statement in which he serves notice to Congress that hell interpret the law as he sees fit on issues ranging from the transfer of terrorism detainees to objections of military chaplains against the new policy on gay service members.
Mr. Obama said in a “signing statement late Wednesday that he agrees with the “vast majority of provisions in the 680-page law. But he added, “I do not agree...