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Obama team urges swift passage of jobs bill
USA Today
By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – With new data showing poverty in the USA at the highest level in nearly three decades, White House officials and liberal economists say it's become critical for Congress to quickly approve a jobs-creation ...
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Congress, White House spar over Guantanamo records
Reuters
But the White House is threatening a presidential veto of any bill including the Guantanamo provisions. In a message sent to Congress last week, it said disclosing such information to Congress "would have a significant adverse impact" on foreign ...
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Reuters
Obama revives the tax issue
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The issue of taxes -- or taxes on the wealthy, as theWhite House might put it -- is back at the top of the political agenda. It is likely to stay there throughout the 2012 election. Obama and aides said yesterday his $447 ...
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Momentum builds for U.S. action on trade deals
Reuters
Many Republicans are skeptical of the merits of the nearly 50-year-old retraining and income assistance program and objected to an earlier White House plan to include TAA in the implementing legislation for the South Korean trade deal. ...
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U.S. posts $134.15 billion August budget deficit
Reuters
The White House on September 1 forecast the federal deficit at $1.316 trillion for fiscal 2011, compared to an actual fiscal 2010 deficit of $1.293 trillion. Receipts for August rose about $5 billion to $169 billion from $164 billion a year earlier. ...
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U.S. to face long-term threat from Qaeda affiliates
Reuters
... in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington September 6, 2011. By Tabassum Zakaria and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite US success in weakening al Qaeda, the United States faces a long-term threat from global affiliates that ...
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Reuters
US envoys Hale, Ross to head back to Mideast
Reuters
The mission by US Middle East peace envoy David Hale and senior White House aide Dennis Ross appears to be a last-ditch push to dissuade the Palestinians from seeking to upgrade their UN status this month, a step Israel strongly opposes. ...
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Immigration issue sets Perry apart from rivals
USA Today
By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – When Tea Party activists examine Rick Perry, many see a candidate who embodies their core values, their limited-government ideals and the best possible hope for the GOP to reclaim the White House. ...
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Miniature world rises at Legoland
Orlando Sentinel
The park's "Miniland USA," as the collection is called, will feature intricate models of locales such as Washington, DC, with a replica of the White House and First Family; New York City, with a 191/2 –foot-tall Empire State Building; and Sunshine ...
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Arkansas Economic Development director dies
Houston Chronicle
Beebe in 2007 named Haley the state's economic development director. She had worked for Clinton both as governor and when he was in the White House. From 1994-1999, she served on the board of Export Import Bank of the United States. ...
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Man accused of threatening to kill Biden
USA Today (blog)
According to the complaint, Woodward admitted to agents that he wrote the threatening messages, including one sent to the White House website June 22 that read, "Biden ... you tried to get me to kill Obama in my home town of El Dorado Kansas. ...
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Morning Briefing: Obama heads to Boehner's territory
CNN (blog)
You can bet Obama's top aides in the White House and in Chicago's campaign headquarters were watching last night's CNN Republican/Tea Party debate closely as Texas Gov. Rick Perry appears to be surging ahead of a field that has remained in flux for ...
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Video: PM snubs prayer but backs new gay rights charity
The Christian Institute
Political blogger Cranmer received a White House Press Release calling for National Days of Prayer, and pointed out that it was ironic that the President of the USA, “with its strict separation of church and state, can issue a decree for entire days ...
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The Christian Institute
Voters to decide House races where Obama is an issue
USA Today
White House spokesman Jay Carney played down Obama's impact on the race. "Obviously special elections — small turnout, circumstances involving why the special election is taking place, all have an impact on races like that," Carney said. ...
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Americans turned to public health insurance in 2010
Reuters
For Obama, much is pinned to the success of the reform as he faces mounting criticism for growing the size of the federal government through his landmark bill, especially from his Republican opponents hoping to unseat him in the White House in the 2012 ...
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A sign of things to come
RT
The plan to erect the shield to protect American interests from a perceived threat from what theWhite House deems “rogue nations,” such as Iran, has not been well received in Moscow. Russian political and military officials have flat-out stated the ...
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Poor Americans Struggle With High Health Care Costs
Voice of America
Related Articles Obama Sends Jobs Bill to Congress, Urges Passage President uses White HouseRose Garden event to push $447-billion bill aimed at lifting US economy Nevada Families Struggle with Poverty in Shadow of Casinos.
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Clinton celebrates foundation with Bono, Lady Gaga
USA Today (blog)
... group of the most influential and socially responsible artists in music, film, and television coming together for a special concert to celebrate the work and impact of President Clinton and his Foundation since he left the White House 10 years ago. ...
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New Yorkers go to polls to replace Weiner
Reuters
Asked about the election on Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney played down the importance of the New York race, noting special elections often see low turnout and are determined by circumstances specific to each district. ...
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Reuters
1940's US research misconduct report released
USA Today (blog)
Key findings of the report, "Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948," were released last month. The report came in response to a request for an investigation made by the White House last year.
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USA Today (blog)
Obama loses moderates' support
Fremont News Messenger
The results of the poll were shared with USA TODAY ahead of today's release. Third Way has close ties to the Obama administration. White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley is a former board member of the group and has long warned the administration needs ...
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Anti-terror cooperation between Pakistan and USA
PakistanToday.com.pk
The White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the arrest of a senior Al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan as an example of the longstanding partnership between the US and Pakistan in fighting terrorism. Pakistan also responded positively with a promise to ...
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GOP debate highlight: Cheers over people dying
Chicago Sun-Times
Remember the flag-waving and chanting and singing of the national anthem outside the White House? No, I don't weep for bin Laden. He was a terrorist, a coward, a mass murderer. Pure evil. He's dead? Good. I wish somebody had taken him out 15 years ago. ...
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Mourning a Calamity, Confronting a Challenge
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan speaking at two political talk-shows on September 11 said that the reported threat "is credible in terms of the source that it comes from. And what we're trying to do is to put the pieces together. ...
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Frontier Communications Corporation to Participate in Investor Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
INVESTOR: Frontier Communications Corporation David Whitehouse SVP & Treasurer (203) 614-5708 david.whitehouse@ftr.com or Gregory Lundberg Assistant Treasurer & Investor Relations (203) 614-5044 greg.lundberg@ftr.com or MEDIA: AVP Corp. ...
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A “credible, specific but unconfirmed” threat means what, exactly?
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
Does that mean the information is coming from the Pakistani intelligence service, which recently arrested a senior al Qaeda operative, Younis Al-Mauretani, as the formerWhite House counterterrorism advisor Fran Townsend suggested on Twitter Thursday?...
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Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
'Smoke was billowing:' Couple near D.C. when Pentagon hit
Rapid City Journal
11 – a beautiful day, Dena noted - they had tickets to visit the House of Representatives and the Senate and were told to stop at Sen. Chuck Hagel's office for tickets to visit the White House. “All day Monday was Gettysburg,” Jerry explained. ...
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Home is where the Heart is: An American Muslim Mourns on 9/11
MuslimMatters
Everyone warned me not to venture out of the house wearing a headscarf. After a while, needing necessities, I went to the grocery store where I met another ḥijābi and we hugged. We were joined by other women, white, black, Asian, strangers in an ...
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Louisiana's Jindal gives nod to Rick Perry
Iowa Independent
Bobby Jindal, who once considered pursuing his own White House bid, has handed his endorsement to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Louisana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke with Cedar Rapidians in the aftermath of the 2008 floods. (File Photo: Lynda Waddington/The Iowa ...
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Letters: What Do You Think?
Valley Advocate
Over 1500 peaceful protesters were arrested recently outside the White House in an effort to convince President Obama to veto legislation for Exxon Mobil's Keystone XL pipeline project. One of the reasons the protests have now turned global is not only ...
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The meaning of political rituals like 9/11 Day
Salon
Earlier this year, the Obama White House reversed the Attorney General's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for his alleged crimes in a federal court in New York, and Congress prohibited Guantanamo detainees generally from being tried on US soil, ...
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Bachmann Super PAC typifies new election ground rules
Minnesota Public Radio
For instance, Priorities USA Action is a Democratic super PAC supporting President Barack Obama. It's led by former White House officials Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney. And Make Us Great Again, a Perry PAC, was created by Perry's former chief of staff ...
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Effects of Obama, Romney Job Plans Look Very Different Across US
PBS NewsHour
How the White House plan would play out across Patchwork Nation is a little fuzzy as Congress begins to tackle the specifics, but a few key trends emerge. By halving the payroll taxes on businesses' first $5 million in payroll, the plan would work to ...
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PBS NewsHour
UPDATE 1-Rep Brady optimistic US to OK trade deals very soon
Reuters
That would set the stage for the White House to submit the trade pacts. "I'm optimistic that we can get this done and get this done very soon," Brady said in remarks to the anti-unilateral sanctions business group, USA Engage. ...
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Debating America's Internal Security Crisis
Right Side News
John Earl Haynes, who with Harvey Klehr has written two books on Moscow's ties to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), has said many of them were members of the CPUSA and that several Soviet spy rings were operating throughout the US government. ...
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Stratford is a smooth retail experience
CITY A.M.
I GREW up in a suburb of Boston, USA, where the only places to shop were malls. Despite America's reputation as a shopping paradise, these were terribly dreary places, department store complexes off highways. Sure, you could pick up a washing machine, ...
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USA Today News: Raw Video: Tx. Gov. surveys fire damage
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