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Valve teams with White House in digital learning program
USA Today
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY The White House today unveiled plans for a research center that aims to infuse more digital learning -- including video games -- into the nation's classrooms. The effort, dubbed Digital Promise, will aid the rapid development...
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Obama aides rally around Daley
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The White House is sticking up for chief of staff William Daley, who is under attack over some of the political troubles facing the administration. "Bill Daley is an excellent chief of staff," White House spokesman Jay...
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Interview with Representative Michael Turner
RealClearPolitics
By John King, USA KING: But up first tonight, troubling questions about why the Obama White House ignored appeals from the Pentagon and other government officials and approved a major broadband Internet license for a major campaign supporter. ...
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Obama to give another back to school speech
USA Today (blog)
28, at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, DC, the White House announced today. "The president's Back-to-School Speech is an opportunity to speak directly to students across the country," said the announcement. ...
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GOP lawmaker: Washington is 'red tape factory'
USA Today
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The Republicans devoted their Saturday radio address to a favored target: Excessive federal business regulations that they say are stifling businesses and killing jobs. "Washington has become a red tape factory, ...
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Video Game Challenge Announces Sponsors and Partners for Second Year of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Sep 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and E-Line Media announced the sponsors and partners for the 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge at the Digital Promise event at the White House ...
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Republican leaders oppose most of Obama's jobs plan
USA Today (blog)
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY House Republican leaders came out against nearly all the major proposals in President Obama's $447 billion job-creation plan Friday, including his middle-class tax cuts and his approach to federal spending on transportation ...
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Obama ignores D.C. echo chamber. Should he?
Washington Post (blog)
“In Obamaland, the belief is that the priorities for regular Americans are very different from what Beltway pundits focus on,” said Bill Burton, a former White House senior aide and now the head of Priorities USA, a Democratic aligned super PAC. ...
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Catholic Charities USA and Major Nonprofit Partners to Host Inaugural National ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The event will feature a call to action by White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes, as well as a keynote address by Mark Shriver, Senior Vice President of US Operations for Save the Children. Organizing partners include: The American ...
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Obama hopes his 'next inauguration is warmer' than first
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY But rest assured, Barack Obama is confident he's got five-and-a-half more years in the White House. "Here's one thing I know for certain," Obama told Democratic donors last night in Washington. ...
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Jon Stewart on Solynda, the 'Custom-Tailored Obama Scandal'
ABC News (blog)
Thursday, the White House Press Secretary Jay Carney addressed Kaiser's visits, telling ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper the meetings were about “charitable efforts” and not about the loan. Kaiser has also said he did not seek any ...
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ABC News (blog)
Potent forces try to tie hands of deficit panel
Reuters
The White House said President Barack Obama will not include Social Security, the federal pension program, in his recommendations for government savings. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican, said no to tax increases,...
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Reuters
Obama faces UN challenge on Palestinian statehood
USA Today (blog)
"The Palestinians will not, and cannot, achieve statehood through a declaration at the United Nations," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "It is a distraction, and, in fact, it's counterproductive." A recognition of Palestinian statehood would not ...
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money briefs
Worcester Telegram
WASHINGTON — The White House was worried about the financial health of a troubled solar energy company even as officials publicly declared the company in good shape, newly released emails show. An email from a White House budget official to a co ...
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Presidential race is on
Daily Pioneer
Once the long-winded primaries got under way, a little-known Barack Obama, propelled by youth power, kept upstaging her in State after State, eventually winning the party nomination and the White House race. Now, the run-up to the 2012 race promises to ...
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Obama to visit Dallas for fundraising, jobs message
The Republic
A White House official announced the trip on Friday, but provided few details. Dallas-area Democrats said Obama will appear at two lunchtime fundraisers: a $2500-per-couple luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel, and another event that likely will be more ...
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Hot spots of the Great Recession
Salon
Maybe if there was one person in this White House with a clue about how economy works or how jobs are created; one person that had some common sense; that prognosis would improve. I know it is a cold comfort to millions who have been ignored, ...
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Quotes of the day
Hot Air
The foundation is headed by billionaire George Kaiser, a major Obama campaign contributor and a frequent visitor to the White House.” “Solyndra officials were intensely pressuring Bush administration officials in early January 2009 to approve a ...
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University of Iowa apologizes for Bachmann tweet
USA Today
It's not the first time there's been a gender-based swipe at Bachmann, the only woman among the major GOP candidates seeking the White House. An adviser to Tim Pawlenty, who has since dropped out of the race, apologized after referring to Bachmann's ...
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USA Today
Americans face new recession
RT
The White House says it is possible to get it to around 8.1 percent in 2012 with that much job creation, though the month of August saw a job growth rate of zero. Even off of Wall Street, Americans are preparing for another economic episode. ...
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RT
Rick Perry's Social Security hardline Stance Worries Republicans
Gather.com
By almost 4-1, 40%-11%, they say it would make it harder for him to win the race for the White House. Charles Black, a veteran Republican strategist, told USA Today, "I do think if you criticize the Social Security program but have a solution that ...
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Big spending on lobbying
Louisville Courier-Journal (blog)
That group reported spending $97500 so far this year in fees to its lobbyists David Whitehouse and Mark Riddle. As of Friday, a few of the groups had not filed reports for the recent reporting period. But according to the numbers on the ethics ...
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Africa: Global Nato and the Recolonisation of Africa - Lessons From the Libyan ...
AllAfrica.com
South Africa and Nigeria (under heavy pressure from the Obama White House) voted for the resolution to establish a no-fly zone. South Africa later backtracked opposing the bombing of Libya claiming that the NATO forces had gone beyond the mandate of ...
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Poverty Summit Promises 'Dramatically Different Approach to Treating Poverty'
MarketWatch (press release)
White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes will open the summit, and the keynote address will be delivered by Mark Shriver, senior vice president of US operations for Save the Children. "The most recent figures from the US Census show ...
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The Post, at your doorstep by 6 am
Washington Post
And the carriers' faces and voices are multi-cultural — white, black and Hispanic, Asian, Caribbean and African. Many are women. A collection of cartoons on DC, Maryland and Virginia. At 2:45 am, two tractor-trailers pull in, carrying 50000 newspapers ...
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New book reports on divided Obama econ team
USA Today
"The book, by Ron Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, quotes White House documents that say Mr. Obama's decisions were routinely 're-litigated' by the chairman of the National Economic Council, Lawrence H. Summers," reports The New York ...
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USA Today
Bradley Whitford, Robin Givens to Lead Pasadena Playhouse's BLUES FOR AN ...
Broadway World
Whitford is best known for his roles as Deputy White house Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing" (three-time Emmy Award nominee "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 2001-2003, winning the award in 2001; ...
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National dialogue on federal websites set to launch
Federal Times (blog)
The initiative is part of a larger effort by the White House to cut waste and improve customer service. In June, agencies were instructed to inventory their websites and halt the creation of new ones. By this month, agencies should have reduced their ...
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Obama: My odds are better in 2012 than in 2008
CBS News
Stephanie Condon is a political reporter for CBSNews.com. by phil8192 September 17, 2011 2:04 AM EDT by sherrykay200 September 16, 2011 7:45 PM EDT Taxpayer paid for Personal White House Made Beer and his coke or whatever he is back using these days,as ...
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Rudy for Veep?
National Review Online
“No one is going to win the White House without having a commitment to Social Security,” Graham says. “[Perry] is right about it going broke, and I think his [USAToday] op-ed piece was good, but we need to reinforce the message that we see the value ...
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National Review Online
Buyer's Remorse?: Clinton's Popularity Waxes as Obama's Wanes
ABC News (blog)
The federal government is out of control, and has been for at least 2 decades, regardless of the party affiliation of who have been in the White House. At this point, there's nothing that can really fix the problem outside of the complete collapse of ...
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ABC News (blog)
Ono Pharma says Glactiv gets approval for additional indication of combination ...
pharmabiz.com
Sitagliptin was co-developed for the Japanese market by Ono and Banyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (presently MSD) under the licensing agreement signed by Ono and Merck & Co., Inc., WhitehouseStation, New Jersey, USA in November 2004. ...
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Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
Switch to standard CNN Video. Help. Search videos ... RACE FOR THE WHITEHOUSE 2012. Democrats lose ... Militants fire on U.S ...
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U.S. say no Iraq troop decision yet as rumors swirl | Reuters
Still, the Pentagon and the White House denied there had been a decision on the number of U.S.forces that may stay behind in Iraq, saying that would only ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-iraq-panetta-idUSTRE7860IC2011...
Carville to White House - Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN ...
Switch to standard CNN Video. Help ... RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE 2012. Who ...
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Amir Khan meets Clinton at the White House Highlights Watch Video ...
Date :15 September 2011 Amir Khan meets Clinton at the White House ... British boxer Amir Khan has been speaking about meeting the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a reception at theWhite House. ... Videos in "News" category ...
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