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(AP) President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday.Obama has declared a major disaster ...
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(AP) It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained ...
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(AP) The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.The Mississippi NAACP had challenged the state's 2011 state elections because the Legislature did not immediately use the 2010 census to draw ...
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(AP) The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly-held company.The justices on Monday agreed to hear appeals from Jackie Hosang Lawson and Jonathan M. Zang. The two ...
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(AP) The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in an upstate New York town.The justices said Monday they will review an appeals court ruling ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing dozens and flattening entire neighborhoods.Obama has ordered federal aid to supplement state and ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama has called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to express his concern about a monstrous tornado that wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma City suburbs.The White House says Obama told the governor that he's directed the government and the Federal ...
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(AP) A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups.The official said Monday that Treasury told the White House in late April about a possible ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) early next month in California.The White House says the meeting will be Obama's first with Xi since Xi became president. The two days of high-level sessions are scheduled ...
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(AP) Myanmar President Thein Sein says that all perpetrators of inter-communal violence in the country will be brought to justice.Thein Sein made the comments Monday in a speech at a university in Washington after meeting President Barack Obama.Myanmar has been roiled ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space.Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says Ride ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will visit three African nations this summer.The White House says the president and first lady Michelle Obama will leave on June 26, stopping in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Obama will meet with government figures as well ...
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(AP) A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life?There's a common thread running through ...
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(AP) The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans. But it's unclear how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes, legislatively or politically.Last November's election dynamics complicate the picture on both fronts. GOP leaders are urging a ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will address the legality of his administration's controversial drone program during a speech this week.A White House official says Obama will also address other counterterrorism policies, including stalled efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Obama pledged ...
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(AP) The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.Why were a diplomatic outpost and ...
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(AP) Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him.The former ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf _ in the rain.The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at ...
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(AP) Myanmar President Thein Sein's (tayn sayns) historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime.But in the six months since Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, the Southeast ...
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(AP) Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst says President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade.The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that after four straight years of annual shortfalls exceeding $1 trillion, Obama's budget would ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is tapping former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for the board that selects recipients for Fulbright scholarships.The Arizona Democrat resigned from Congress in 2012, a year after a gunman shot her at close range while she was greeting constituents ...
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(AP) Biographical information on Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Daniel Werfel:NAME _ Daniel Werfel.AGE _ 42.EDUCATION _ Bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University; J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; master's degree in public ...
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(AP) Forget, for just a moment, about a shield law for the media.The question at the White House Thursday was who would shield President Barack Obama?A blistering sun had given way to a light but steady rain by the time the ...
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(AP) The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year ...
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(AP) It's hardly the first time a White House and the Internal Revenue Service have been targets for claims of political meddling and bias.President Franklin D. Roosevelt's frequent use of the IRS as a weapon of political retribution is well-documented. And ...
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