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• 'Stand with Us': Thousands protest police killings

  13-12-2014 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched across the country Saturday — past the White House in the nation's capital, along iconic Fifth Avenue in New York and in the middle of Nashville's honky-tonk district — to call attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and urge lawmakers to take action.
  
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• Sony Hack Apology 'Appropriate' - White House

  13-12-2014 21:21
  
  The White House has said it is right that Sony Pictures executives apologised for sending derogatory emails about the President, after they were leaked in a damaging hack of the studio.
  
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• AP Top News at 1:25 p.m. EST

  13-12-2014 19:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — First it was objections by House Democrats that stood in the way of passage of a $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill. Now it's the Senate Republicans' turn, specifically Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah. The two lawmakers demanded a vote Friday night on a proposal to cut funds from the bill that could be used to implement President Barack Obama's new immigration policy, ending any chance the measure could clear the Senate and be sent to the White House with a minimum o
  
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• The biggest loser in the CRomnibus: the rights of DC residents

  13-12-2014 17:00
  
  The White House's logic for passing the CRomnibus spending package is simple: it's not getting any better next year. The alternative to passing it was passing a clean three-month spending bill, then the newly Republican Congress passing an even worse bill in March. Sure, the CRomnibus still lets the new Congress insert more riders in September, but at least you buy a few months.
  
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• Russia threatens response if US sets new sanctions over Ukraine

  13-12-2014 12:37
  
  Russia responded angrily on Saturday to news that US senators had passed a bill calling for fresh sanctions against Moscow and the supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine. "Undoubtedly, we will not be able to leave this without a response," deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax news agency ahead of a meeting between the Russian and US foreign ministers. The Senate bill -- dubbed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act -- must still be approved by the White House, which has so f
  
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• Defense secretary nominee Carter has back surgery

  13-12-2014 02:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense secretary nominee Ash Carter had successful back surgery Friday and was recovering ahead of confirmation hearings that could begin as early as next month, the White House said Friday.
  
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• White House: Public Likely ‘Cringed’ When Reading Sony E-mails

  13-12-2014 01:59
  
  White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Friday said he thinks “a lot of people cringed a bit” when reading Amy Pascal’s hacked Sony e-mails in which she jokes about President Obama’s movie tastes with producer Scott Rudin. Pascal apologized for the racially tinged emails, which she called “insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate... Read more »
  
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• White House ‘Cringed’ When Reading Sony E-mails

  13-12-2014 01:59
  
  White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Friday said he thinks “a lot of people cringed a bit” when reading Amy Pascal’s hacked Sony e-mails in which she jokes about President Obama’s movie tastes with producer Scott Rudin. Pascal apologized for the racially tinged emails, which she called “insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate... Read more »
  
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• U.S. defense secretary nominee undergoes back surgery

  13-12-2014 01:44
  
  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama's nominee to replace Chuck Hagel as U.S. defense secretary, has undergone a long-planned surgical procedure on his back ahead of his confirmation process in the Senate, the White House said on Friday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement that the procedure was successful but did not give details about the operation. "Mr. Carter decided to go ahead with the previously scheduled procedure so tha
  
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• IMF looks to stave off looming Ukraine default

  13-12-2014 00:22
  
  The second-in-command at the International Monetary Fund heads to Ukraine this weekend to gauge whether its Western-backed leaders are committed enough to overhauling their crippled economy to justify another financial lifeline. The Fund's First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton -- a White House veteran who spearheaded the US response to the 1998 Asian financial crisis -- will arrive in a war-scarred nation that stands helpless in the face of a looming debt default. The architects of th
  
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