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• Home Sweet Home: This Year's Edible White House Boasts American Flag, Two Dogs

  23-12-2014 21:09
  
  Long before holiday obsessives and marketing teams created edible starchitecture, 23-feet-wide cookie mansions, and gingerbread houses laced with rubies and pearls, the White House produced America's most famous revision of the classic Christmas treat. During this year's Kennedy Center Honors...
  
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• President Obama Hails Sony’s Theatrical Release of ‘The Interview’

  23-12-2014 21:02
  
  The White House has issued a strong statement of support for Sony Pictures’ decision to release “The Interview” on Christmas Day. “The president applauds Sony’s decision to authorize screenings of the film,” the statement said. “As the President made clear, we’re a country that believes in free speech and the right of artistic expression. The... Read more »
  
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• House Report on IRS Targeting Finds No White House Connection

  23-12-2014 20:54
  
  There are two reasons why a Congressional committee would release a major report two days before Christmas when Washington is a virtual ghost town. The decision by the House Oversight and Government Reform to release its report on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups seems pretty clearly to have been driven by the latter. The 226-page report issued by Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the culmination of more than a year of hearings and document dumps aimed at
  
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• President Obama Applauds ‘The Interview’ Theatrical Release

  23-12-2014 20:47
  
  BREAKING: The White House just issued a statement supporting the decision to release The Interview in theaters: “The president applauds Sony's decision to authorize screenings of the film. As the president made clear, we're a country that believes in free speech and the right of artistic expression. The decision made by Sony and participating theaters allows people to make their own choices about the film and we welcome that outcome." During his annual year-end news…
  
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• Obama applauds Sony decision to show 'The Interview': White House

  23-12-2014 20:33
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is pleased Sony has decided to release "The Interview" in some theaters, after earlier bowing to pressure from a cyberattack blamed on North Korea, the White House said on Tuesday. "The president applauds Sony's decision to authorize screenings of the film," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement. "As the president made clear, we are a country that believes in free speech, and the right of artistic expres
  
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• Obama applauds Sony move to release 'The Interview'

  23-12-2014 20:19
  
  President Barack Obama is applauding Sony Pictures Entertainment's decision to screen its film "The Interview" in a limited number of theaters. White House spokesman Eric Schultz says the decision ...
  
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• House probe faults IRS officials for targeting conservatives

  23-12-2014 19:32
  
  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republican investigators fault top Internal Revenue Service officials for mistreating conservative organizations who sought tax-exempt status, but have found no connection to the White House, according to an interim report released on Tuesday. The report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee came after investigators went through 1.3 million pages of documents and interviewed 52 officials. The report came at the end of Republican Repr
  
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• Probe fails to link IRS scandal to White House

  23-12-2014 17:34
  
  A House Republican probe faults seniors IRS officials in the mistreatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, but could find no link to the White House, according to a report released ...
  
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• Issa probe fails to link White House to IRS scandal

  23-12-2014 17:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Republican probe has failed to show a White House link to a scandal surrounding the mistreatment of conservative groups by the IRS.
  
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• U.S. State Department's Guantanamo envoy resigns

  23-12-2014 06:49
  
  By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up push to close the facility. The surprise announcement of Clifford Sloan’s departure followed a flurry of detainee repatriations and resettlements, though officials at the State Department and White House had made clear their frust
  
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• North Korea Internet outage in wake of Sony attack over

  23-12-2014 05:02
  
  North Korea experienced sweeping Internet outages for hours before coming back online late Monday. One computer expert said the country's online access was "totally down." The White House and ...
  
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• North Korean websites back online after shutdown

  23-12-2014 04:35
  
  Key North Korean websites were back online Tuesday after an hours-long shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to respond to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blames on Pyongyang. The White House and the State Department declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible for the shutdown in one of the least-wired countries in the world.
  
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• Here’s North Korea’s Over-The-Top Official Statement On The Sony Hack

  23-12-2014 02:35
  
  APNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2013. North Korea’s National Defense Commission addressed the Sony hack in a 1,722 word statement littered with poor English and spelling errors that was published by the country’s official news agency, KCNA, on Sunday.  The statement, which was described as “an official stand of the army and the people” of North Korea, included dramatic threats and praise for the hackers. In it, North Korea called America an “ill-famed cesspool of injustice,” a
  
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• White House hires former Keystone lobbyist as Senate liaison

  23-12-2014 00:52
  
  By Julia Edwards HONOLULU (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new point person on White House-Senate relations previously worked as a lobbyist to promote the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Marty Paone, formerly a lobbyist with Prime Policy Group, was hired by the White House last week to be the deputy assistant for legislative affairs where he will be responsible for working with the Senate on White House legislative priori
  
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