Now here’s an energy crisis: Diesel fuel in the presidential limo, a gas-guzzler. Fortunately for the White House, however, there are many presidential limos. So when part of President Barack Obama’s fleet in Israel ended up on a flatbed truck...
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A limousine carrying President Barack Obama on March 20, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Tel Aviv Breakdown: Presidential Limo Towed — (And Replaced)
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The Washington Monument stands behind cherry trees blossoming in Washington on March 19, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Awaiting Cherries
President Barack Obama arrived in Tel Aviv this morning on his first visit to Israel as president. The three-day trip includes meetings and news conferences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who disagrees with Obama on how to handle Iran’s...
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Members of a U.S. Army carry team carry a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Specialist Omar M. Albrak of Chicago during a dignified transfer on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base on May 12, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. Albrak was killed while serving in Iraq. Today was his 21st birthday.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 4,486
4,486. That’s the number of U.S. military deaths in the war in Iraq that began 10 years ago. An additional 318 non-U.S. troops have been killed, according to figures compiled by icasualties.org, a Web-site that tracks figures from official sources and news reports....
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Showtime’s Cheney Wet Kiss: TV
In Showtime’s documentary, “The World According to Dick Cheney,” the man generally acknowledged to have been the most powerful vice president in U.S. history is asked to name his main fault. He punts. “Um, I don’t spend a lot of...
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Mike Davis clears snow from the Millennium Park skating rink on March 5, 2013 in Chicago.
Snow Targets D.C., Asteroids on Hold
A congressional hearing on asteroid threats has been postponed due to inclement weather. As Washington girds for the snow from a storm blowing out of the Midwest, with heavy fluff predicted in the dawn hours of the nation’s Capitol tomorrow,...
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Civil rights protester Julian Bond, left, and Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, second from left, gather with activists in front of the White House on Feb. 13, 2013, as prominent environmental leaders tied themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Sierra Club Director Among 48 Arrested at Keystone XL Protest
The Sierra Club abandoned 120 years of precedent and let its leaders defy police in a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House today. In the group’s first sanctioned act of civil disobedience, Sierra Club Executive Director...
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A woman waits for a bus in a flooded street in Miami Beach, Florida, from unusually high tides that some think are due to rising seas caused by climate change.
Range of Change: Obama to Signal Extent of Climate Push
President Barack Obama is sure to bring up climate change in the State of the Union address, energy consultants say, though there’s no consensus on how much emphasis he’ll give to the subject. “They’re going back and forth about how...
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Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, arrives on stage to speak during day three of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Granholm Won’t Join Obama Cabinet
Jennifer Granholm might have been one of President Barack Obama’s most vocal supporters in 2012, but the former Michigan governor has ruled out becoming part of his second-term team. The former Current TV host and two-term governor told the Detroit News she doesn’t...
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Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) CEO Sally Jewell climbs the 65-foot rock climbing pinnacle at REI's Seattle flagship store.
Obama’s Interior Sec’y Climbed in Antarctica (No Thanks, He Adds)
There’s a good basketball court at the Interior Department headquarters in Washington. And Ken Salazar, departing secretary of the interior, has “a good jump shot,” according to President Barack Obama, who has played ball on that court a few blocks...
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Steven Chu at the Department of the Interior in Washington.
Energy’s Chu: Success Requires Failure
And another thing… Perhaps brevity is elusive for a man who once held the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics chair at Stanford University and is credited with producing one of the earliest atomic physics confirmations...
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