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  • Obama eulogizes Mandela, calls him 'the last great liberator'

    10 December 2013, 6:34 am by: Dave Boyer

    President Obama eulogized his personal hero Nelson Mandela Tuesday as "the last great liberator of the 20th century" whose struggle for equality isn't finished in the United States, South Africa and around the world. "We know that like South Africa, the United…
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  • John Podesta jumps aboard Obama ship to sell second-term agenda

    10 December 2013, 6:26 am by: Cheryl K. Chumley

    President Obama is hearkening to Bill Clinton days, calling on the former president's chief of staff, John Podesta, to help sell some of his more controversial second-term agenda items and pave the way for better poll numbers. Mr. Podesta has worked in a…
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  • A year after Newtown, WH OKs $100M for mental health

    10 December 2013, 6:02 am by: Dave Boyer

    Marking the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre, the White House will announce a $100 million initiative Tuesday to increase access to mental-health services. Vice President Joseph R. Biden will meet at the White House with families who lost…
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  • Obama to headline Mandela event; stadium half empty

    10 December 2013, 5:31 am by: Julie Pace

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Barack Obama arrived in South Africa on Tuesday for a day of remembrance and celebration for his personal hero Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon who died last week at age 95. Air Force One touched down at a military base…
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  • Oregon fails to sign up single person over health website as states struggle

    9 December 2013, 10:44 pm by: Tom Howell Jr.

    Some of the states that most enthusiastically embraced President Obama's health care law are now encountering some of the biggest glitches and organizational failures as the health insurance exchanges roll out. Glitches that hindered HealthCare.gov, shorthand…
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  • Report: Old courthouses need $760M in repairs

    9 December 2013, 10:43 pm by: Phillip Swarts

    The cost to the federal government to build new courthouses could be much higher than originally thought, a new report has found, as estimates often leave off the costs of repairing and selling old structures the new construction will replace. The General…
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  • Lawmakers in hurry to fund military budget

    9 December 2013, 10:43 pm by: Jacqueline Klimas

    Lawmakers are trying to rush the 2014 defense policy bill through Congress in less than a week to keep up a decadeslong streak of passing the key piece of legislation that covers defense spending, including military pay. The leaders of the House and Senate…
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  • Inside the Beltway: Tea party brews straw poll

    9 December 2013, 10:42 pm by: Jennifer Harper

    It's never too early for a nice juicy straw poll, particularly if it's of the presidential variety. The Tea Party Patriots have already drawn 250,000 voters to a survey listing potential 2016 hopefuls of interest to liberty-minded folk. The grass-roots group…
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  • Senate approves 10-year extension of ban on plastic guns

    9 December 2013, 10:28 pm by: David Sherfinski

    The Senate voted Monday to extend a ban on undetectable plastic guns for 10 years just hours before the act was scheduled to expire, but advocates lamented that it didn't go far enough and vowed to push forward to expand it in the near future. By unanimous…
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  • White House PR blitz hits states that rejected Medicaid expansion

    9 December 2013, 10:27 pm by: Ben Wolfgang

    The Obama administration's all-out public relations push to sell its health care reform law increasingly is targeting individual governors, who will bear much of the blame, the White House says, if millions of poor Americans remain uninsured. Administration…
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  • Obama pleads for peace in strife-torn Central African Republic

    9 December 2013, 8:03 pm by: Dave Boyer

    As the U.S. military prepares to transport peacekeeping troops to the Central African Republic, President Obama Monday taped a message urging its citizens to stop the violence between Christian and Muslim forces. "This is President Barack Obama, and today I…
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  • House introduces resolution to honor Nelson Mandela

    9 December 2013, 3:35 pm by: James Morrison

    Even in death, Nelson Mandela is bringing political opponents together, as a bipartisan group of House members introduced a resolution Monday to honor his legacy. The resolution is sponsored by two Republicans and three Democrats who are far apart on many…
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  • Ted Cruz sees legal landmines ahead for Obamacare

    9 December 2013, 10:56 am by: Tom Howell Jr.

    One of Congress' staunchest critics of Obamacare released a report Monday that cheers on legal challenges to the overhaul and says the White House overstepped its authority by delaying aspects of the law. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican who helped engineer a…
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  • Obama lied about Syrian chemical attack, 'cherry-picked' intelligence: report

    9 December 2013, 9:58 am by: Guy Taylor

    The Obama administration quashed intelligence reports that suggested an al Qaeda-linked group could have been responsible for the sarin gas attack carried out in Syria last August, according to a news report published in London on Sunday. In threatening a U.S.…
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  • Congress ready to extend ban on plastic firearms

    9 December 2013, 9:05 am by: Alan Fram

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate vote to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms capable of evading metal detectors and X-ray machines is shaping up as a bittersweet moment for gun control supporters, days before the anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at…
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  • Obamas, Bushes fly together to Mandela's memorial service

    9 December 2013, 8:39 am by: Dave Boyer

    Four U.S. presidents will gather in South Africa on Tuesday to pay tribute to the late Nelson Mandela at a memorial service where they'll be joined by dozens of world leaders and tens of thousands of mourners. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama flew…
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  • NSA monitored 'World of Warcraft' players

    9 December 2013, 6:05 am by: Shaun Waterman

    Eight U.S. technology firms called for an end to online mass snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies Monday as new revelations emerged that the National Security Agency has even monitored Americans playing online computer games like "World of Warcraft." Citing…
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  • Congress creates a legislative fortress for military sex-assault policy

    8 December 2013, 9:53 pm by: Jacqueline Klimas

    It has been looming for months, but Congress' debate over how to deal with sexual assaults in the U.S. military could get lost in the end-of-year shuffle as Senate Democrats find themselves with little time to tackle the budget, presidential nominations and a…
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  • Inside the Beltway: Pricey health care doesn't guarantee a long life

    8 December 2013, 9:45 pm by: Jennifer Harper

    The lousy sign-up website cost a bundle, a fact that will not disappear no matter how much the White House pivots from one issue to the next to deflect public interest away from Obamacare. Numbers persist on the radar. Consider that HealthCare.gov has been…
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  • Israel's Netanyahu still wary of West's deal with Iran

    8 December 2013, 9:39 pm by: David Sherfinski

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that any agreement with Iran to halt the Islamic republic's nuclear program must also include a change in its "genocidal policy," and that economic sanctions on the country must continue to the extent that…
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