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Point/Counterpoint: What's impact of IRS flap on Obama term?
Will the IRS scandal negatively affect President Barack Obama's second term? Washington correspondent Colby Itkowitz asks political analysts in Pennsylvania and Washington. YES Lara Brown Villanova University political science professor Q: Will...Tags: Political Corruption, Taxation, Immigration, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: NBC (tv network), Benghazi, ABC (tv network), Rand Paul, Washington, DC
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...Tags: Parties and Movements, Radio, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
ReutersBy Steve Holland ATLANTA, May 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to...Tags: Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Netherlands, Pakistan, U.S. Military
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Defense, Michael Chertoff, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama
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AP chief says phone probe makes news sources reluctant to talk
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said on Sunday....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, CBS Corp., Eric Holder, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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White House accuses Republicans of 'fishing expeditions'
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday accused Republicans of conducting political "fishing expeditions," while Republican lawmakers showed no let up in attacking President Barack Obama's...Tags: Parties and Movements, Bob Woodward, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Richard Nixon
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Top White House adviser says Obama learned of IRS scandal from news reports
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration...Tags: Washington, DC, This Week (tv program), Barack Obama, National Government, Charles B. Rangel
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Obama to honor Sally Ride, first US woman in space, with posthumous Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says...Tags: Sally Ride, Washington, DC, Pancreatic Cancer, Barack Obama, Awards and Prizes
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Reuters World News Highlights 1000 GMT, May 20
ReutersAMMAN/LONDON - The world's diplomats will make a major new push in the coming days for negotiations to end Syria's civil war, but their chances of achieving a peace deal look as remote as ever. - - - - SEOUL - North Korea fired its fifth short-range...Tags: Walmart, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, VF Corporation
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IRS follows Obama's lead
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And...Tags: Minority Groups, Max Baucus, Tea Party Movement, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Justice and Rights
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The Week Ahead: Myanmar mends, Africa ascends, cinema celebrates
Architect of exiting autocracy invited to the White House Monday, May 20 -- Myanmar President Thein Sein’s visit to Washington symbolically celebrates his nation’s embrace of democracy and the rule of law after half a century of...
Tags: Minority Groups, African Union, Aung San Suu Kyi, Heads of State, Thein Sein
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