Obama Administration
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Bob Ryan Retires; A Summer of Scandal?
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Benghazi attacks: Five men under surveillance in Libya, believed to be terrorists
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Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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IRS scandal: IRS feeling the heat from lawmakers
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The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.
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IRS scandal: Holder says FBI probing potential civil rights violations at IRS
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The FBI is investigating potential civil rights violations at IRS after the agency acknowledged the agency had singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
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A note to Vice President Biden: Chocolate bullets will make the world safer
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It might not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpectedly personal response.
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IRS scandal: GOP says President Obama should personally condemn IRS targeting
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A Republican senator says she's disappointed that President Barack Obama hasn't personally condemned the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election.
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Penny Pritzker to be nominated as Commerce Department head
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President Barack Obama on Thursday will nominate a longtime fundraiser to run the Commerce Department and a top economic adviser as the next U.S. Trade Representative, a White House official said.
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IRS takes steps to combat identity theft
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As tax day looms, the 2014 budget proposal released by the White House includes new steps to combat what the Internal Revenue Service says is an exponential growth in tax refund-related identity theft.
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President Obama nominates new cabinet members
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President Barack Obama filled in more pieces of his second term leadership team Monday, nominating a trio of new advisers to lead the Energy Department, Environmental Protection Agency and budget office.
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John Brennan faces Senate confirmation hearing
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Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing Thursday the United States remains at war with al-Qaida and other terrorists and is under "daily cyberattack" by foreign countries and others.
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Denis McDonough next chief of staff
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President Barack Obama announced Friday he would pick his longtime foreign policy adviser and popular West Wing staffer Denis McDonough to lead his staff.
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President Obama nominates Mary Jo White for SEC post
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President Barack Obama sent his strongest signal yet Thursday that he wants the government to get tougher with Wall Street, appointing former prosecutor Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time in the agency's 79-year history.
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Timothy Geithner's last day as Treasury Secretary Friday
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President Barack Obama has saluted the outgoing Timothy Geithner as one of the best U.S. Treasury secretaries ever. He's surely been among the most contentious.
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John Kerry Secretary of State nomination: 'Foreign policy is economic policy'
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Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state, said Thursday that the United States must get its fiscal house in order to lead worldwide, as lawmakers signaled his confirmation was a foregone conclusion.
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Jack Lew nominated for Treasury Secretary
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President Obama announced Jack Lew as his choice for Treasury secretary and hailed past work balancing US budgets .
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Obama administration considers leaving no troops in Afghanistan after 2014
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The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.
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Libya attacks: White House feels pressure to respond with attacks
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The White House, under political pressure to respond forcefully to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, is readying strike forces and drones but first has to find a target.
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Obama administration pushes increased mental health care for veterans
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U.S. President Barack Obama is putting increased resources towards aid for veterans and their families.
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