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Sequestration 2013: White House details automatic budget cuts in Virginia, D.C., Maryland
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The White House began releasing lists for each state on Sunday of potential effects of automatic spending cuts set for Friday. Among the first to be detailed is Virginia, which would be deeply affected.
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White House details sequester impact if inaction continues
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The White House has detailed the potential fallout in each state from budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, while congressional Republicans and Democrats keep up the sniping over who's to blame.
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White House Easter Egg Roll 2013 lottery opens Thursday
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The President and First Lady announced over the weekend that this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be held on Monday, April 1st. And the online ticket lottery for the event will begin on Thursday.
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Tiger Woods joins vacationing Obama for round of golf
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The foursome also included Houston Astros owner Jim Crane, who also owns the Floridian, a secluded and exclusive yacht and golf club, and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas. The White House prohibited any media coverage.
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Obama travels to N.C. to rally support for jobs plan
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President Obama is kicking off three days of travel to rally support for the job-creation in Asheville, N.C., with a visit to Linamar Corp., a supplier of engine and transmission components.
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Obama's Commandments: How the president is wielding executive power in 2nd term
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This is what "Forward" looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and agency rule-making that touch many of the affairs of government.
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White House outlines deep cuts it may have to make
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Trying to ratchet up pressure on Congress, the White House on Friday detailed what it said would be the painful impact on the federal workforce and certain government assistance programs if "large and arbitrary" scheduled government spending cuts are allowed to take place beginning March 1.
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Congress considers putting limits on drone strikes
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The White House on Tuesday defended its lethal drone program by citing the very laws that some in Congress once believed were appropriate in the years immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks but now think may be too broad.
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U.S. and Egypt: President Obama hopes to maintain good relationship with Egypt
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President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally.
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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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NBA champion Miami Heat to visit Obama, wounded soldiers
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The basketball-fan-in-chief will personally congratulate the Heat on Monday for winning the NBA championship. Obama also will recognize the franchise's support of military members. The Heat will meet with wounded soldiers during their trip to Washington.
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Gen. John Allen's NATO nomination to go ahead, White House says
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The nomination had been put on hold while the Pentagon investigated Allen's email exchanges with a Florida woman linked to a sex scandal that led David Petraeus to resign as CIA director.
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Algeria: White House wants to know how attack unfolded
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The White House says it will work with the Algerian government to understand how events unfolded in the terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert.
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Denis McDonough likely to become new Obama chief of staff
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President Barack Obama is likely to name Denis McDonough, one of his closest national security advisers, as his next chief of staff, according to people familiar with the White House thinking.
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Vice President Biden to meet with mayors on gun violence regulations
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One day after President Obama put forth his plan to combat gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden is taking the issue to Mayors across the country.
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Ken Salazar to step down from Interior Secretary post
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It’s been non-stop personnel announcements out of the White House this week. Wednesday morning brought another one: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is stepping down from his post.
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D.C. leaders talk license plates with White House
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D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Councilmember Mary Cheh met Friday at the White House with David Agnew, Obama's director of intergovernmental relations.
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Connecticut school shooting revives gun debate at White House, nationwide
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The shooting has once again stoked the never-ending debate over gun control laws. A visibly emotional President Barack Obama seemed willing to renew debate, calling for "meaningful action" to prevent similar shootings.
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