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• Panel lets Chris Christie off 'Bridgegate' hook. Is he, really?

  06-12-2014 23:18
  
  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s presidential prospects – already pretty good compared to other Republicans with White House dreams – got a boost with the latest report on the “Bridgegate” scandal.
  
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• Obama's trip to hospital reveals acid reflux

  06-12-2014 23:17
  
  President Barack Obama was taken to hospital Saturday with a sore throat which doctors diagnosed as acid reflux, the White House said, stressing it was not an urgent medical matter. Obama has been complaining of a sore throat for two weeks, prompting his physician to recommend diagnostic tests at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. An ear, nose and throat specialist from Fort Belvoir Medical Center conducted a fiber optic exam of Obama's throat in the morning.
  
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• Acid reflux causing Obama's sore throat

  06-12-2014 23:04
  
  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Acid reflux is causing the sore throat President Barack Obama has complained about for the past couple of weeks, the White House said Saturday, shortly after the president returned from undergoing diagnostic tests at a nearby military hospital.
  
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• Obama at hospital with sore throat

  06-12-2014 21:24
  
  President Barack Obama was taken to hospital Saturday to treat a sore throat, the White House said, stressing it was not an urgent medical matter. Obama has been complaining of a sore throat, prompting his physician, Captain Ronny Jackson, to recommend he obtain diagnostic tests at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, according to the White House. White House spokesman Josh Earnest cited Jackson as saying the test was a matter of convenience for Obama, and not an urgent matter.
  
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• Obama, complaining of sore throat, goes to hospital for tests

  06-12-2014 21:00
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has a sore throat and has gone to Walter Reed military hospital for testing, the White House said on Saturday. Obama's doctor, Captain Ronny Jackson, recommended he go. "Given that the president has free time in his schedule this afternoon, Dr. Jackson, the president’s physician, recommended he go to Walter Reed for some diagnostic tests," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement. "According to Dr. Jackson, the quickly scheduled
  
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• Tests for Obama after complaining of sore throat

  06-12-2014 20:54
  
  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is getting some medical tests at a military hospital just outside Washington after complaining of a sore throat.
  
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• Obama, congressional Dems show cracks in unity

  06-12-2014 15:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It used to be that Democrats would mutter under their breath about President Barack Obama and the White House.
  
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• Native American youth in 'national crisis' - White House - RT

  06-12-2014 09:00
  Native American youth in 'national crisis' - White House  RTA White House report on Native American students said they face educational, socioeconomic, and health barriers that are “nothing short of a national crisis."
  
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• White House: We Didn't Delay Secret Somers Rescue Operation

  06-12-2014 05:45
  
  The White House doubled down today to bat back the idea that dithering at the highest levels delayed an ultimately unsuccessful military operation to rescue American al Qaeda hostage Luke Somers in Yemen last week.“There are still some significant limits to what I can say about what is still a classified operation, but I would reject in the strongest possible terms that there was any delay at the White House in approving his mission,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
  
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• Obama signs order keeping U.S. government offices closed December 26

  06-12-2014 01:52
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal government offices will be closed on Friday Dec. 26, the day after Christmas, the White House said on Friday. President Barack Obama signed an executive order giving most federal workers that day off, meaning they will have a four-day weekend, with Christmas coming on a Thursday. Some departments and agencies are permitted to order employees to work on Dec. 26 "for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need," according to the order, which was
  
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• New Pentagon chief inherits friction with White House

  06-12-2014 01:04
  
  President Barack Obama's pick to be the next defense secretary, Ashton Carter, will inherit a tense relationship between the US military and the White House that is unlikely to ease even with a fresh face at the Pentagon. Carter, 60, a policy wonk with degrees in medieval history and theoretical physics, is a bona fide defense expert but also a blunt-spoken figure who could run into trouble with a White House said to be given to micro-management. With years of experience in senior Pentagon
  
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