President Barack Obama, addressing a live television audience from the White House, said the commissioner in charge of the IRS has been removed following the agency’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups. “The misconduct uncovered is inexcuseable,” Obama said in a...
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A vehicle and the surround buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012.
Charge of the Obama Brigade: IRS, Benghazi, Reporters
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President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn while departing the White House on May 13, 2013.
Obama’s U.S. Debt: $1 Million-Plus in Treasury Notes, Disclosure Shows
For all the talk about averting any default on U.S. debt, this is personal for the president. President Barack Obama holds between $1 million and $5 million in Treasury notes, according to his personal financial disclosure released by the White...
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President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, right, stand during the National Anthem as they attend the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony honoring law enforcement who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year, on May 15, 2013.
Obama Thinks First, Acts Later: Carney
Has President Barack Obama not made his objections about the Internal Revenue Service’s handling of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status clear enough — as well as what he intends to do about it? The White House is getting roundly criticized...
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, rear, is seen on a television monitor during his daily news briefing at the White House.
Carney: ‘Scandals Metastasize’ — in the Industrial-Scandal Complex
In Washington, it’s often more the cover-up than the scandal that undoes a president. “And when it’s over, we’ll be hard-pressed to remember how it began.” So wrote Jay Carney, then a correspondent for Time magazine, in 2007, in the...
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
White House: No Role in IRS Tea Party Exam, AP Saga News to Them
The White House was asked this question today about the IRS probe of conservative nonprofit groups: Can you say categorically that nobody at the White House and nobody on the president’s political team had any knowledge or was involved in...
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Technicians stand in front of a large television screen as it displays footage of cookies bearing the image of President Barack Obama prior to an election night rally in Chicago, Illinois, on Nov. 6, 2012.
Obama, Romney Vote Totals Still Changing
Six months after the 2012 presidential election, you’d think we’d know for sure how many votes President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney received. It turns out, though, that exact numbers are still elusive because of late revisions to...
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Jacob "Jack" Lew, U.S. treasury secretary, arrives to attend the Group of Seven (G-7) finance ministers and central bank governors meeting at Hartwell House in Aylesbury, U.K., on May 10, 2013.
Lew Urges G-7 to Focus on Growth
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew took his plea for stronger global economic growth to a British country house hotel where Louis XVIII, the exiled king of France, stayed for five years. Lew is urging Group of Seven finance ministers...
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Residents seeking medical care wait in line outside of Bethel Free Health Clinic in Biloxi, Mississippi, on March 19, 2013, in order to be one of the dozen or so that will be seen by the volunteer staff. The clinic opened following Hurricane Katrina and continues to provide services for those that are uninsured or underinsured.
Mississippi’s Medicaid in Doubt
Poor and elderly Mississippians on Medicaid could lose it by July, as Democrats and Republicans there play a game of chicken over expanding the insurance program under the federal health care law. The legislature recessed in April without reauthorizing or...
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., waves as she ends her speech at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 15, 2013.
Ayotte in Crossfire: ‘Can’t Bully Me’
Written with Jonathan Salant Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire says opponents “can’t bully me into changing my vote” on background checks for gun buyers. The opponents in this case, she says, are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President...
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House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, talks prior to an interview at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2013.
Boehner: Slow Growth Can’t be ‘New Normal’
“We’ve had four years of slow and anemic job growth — and frankly, it’s unacceptable,” House Speaker John Boehner said today. The Ohio Republican attempted to turn the latest unemployment rate against the White House — 7.5 percent reported for...
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