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• Exclusive - White House not under pressure to expand US crude exports, says adviser

  07-01-2015 23:51
  
  The White House does not feel pressure to loosen restrictions on U.S. oil exports further and views debate over the issue as resolved for now, John Podesta, a top aide to President Barack Obama, told Reuters ...
  
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• Obama condemns 'cowardly, evil' attack in Paris, offers U.S. assistance

  07-01-2015 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned what he called the "cowardly, evil" attack against a satirical newspaper in Paris and offered U.S. assistance to French President Francois Hollande in the hunt for the perpetrators. "We will stand with the people of France through this very, very difficult time," Obama told reporters in the Oval Office during an appearance with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry. Obama spoke by phone to Hollande while fl
  
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• White House to release Obama's 2016 budget on Feb. 2: OMB

  07-01-2015 23:28
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will release President Barack Obama's budget for fiscal year 2016 on Feb. 2, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday, meeting a deadline set under law that the White House has often missed in the past. "We look forward to working with Congress on returning to regular order in the annual budget process," said Emily Cain, a spokeswoman for the Office of Management and Budget. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Peter Cooney)
  
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• Obama to release 2016 budget Feb. 2

  07-01-2015 23:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama plans to release his budget for the 2016 fiscal year on Feb. 2.
  
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• Obama issues 2nd veto threat in 2 days

  07-01-2015 22:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House issued its second veto threat in as many days Wednesday against top-priority legislation of the new, Republican-controlled Congress, and GOP leaders said they intend to keep challenging President Barack Obama to sign early measures that clear the House and Senate with bipartisan support.
  
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• White House says FHA to cut annual mortgage insurance premiums

  07-01-2015 21:25
  
  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Housing Administration will reduce annual mortgage insurance premiums by 0.5 percentage point to 0.85 percent from 1.35 percent, the White House said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama will discuss the move in a speech in Phoenix on Thursday. The premium cut is the latest in U.S. government efforts to widen mortgage access against a backdrop of tighter lending standards since the financial crisis. The FHA insures about one-fifth of all new
  
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• Obama spoke to Hollande about Paris attack - White House

  07-01-2015 21:07
  
  DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Wednesday to French President Francois Hollande about a deadly attack in Paris and to offer U.S. condolences and support, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. (Reporting By Jeff Mason; Editing by Bill Trott)
  
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• White House not under pressure to expand U.S. crude exports - adviser

  07-01-2015 20:53
  
  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House does not feel pressure to loosen restrictions on U.S. oil exports further and views debate over the issue as resolved for now, John Podesta, a top aide ...
  
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• Obama kicks off pre-State of Union tour with housing move

  07-01-2015 20:52
  
  Seizing on a recent burst of momentum, President Barack Obama kicked off a three-state tour to unveil what the White House is calling "spoilers" from his State of the Union address, starting ...
  
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• U.S. denies Cuba resisting release of several prisoners on list

  07-01-2015 20:34
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House official on Wednesday denied that the Cuban government was resisting freeing some of the 53 people listed for release as part of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations on the grounds they had been linked to violence. The denial followed a report on Wednesday by Reuters citing a congressional aide who said that "we've been told that the Cuban government has agreed to release all but several of the political prisoners on the list. ...
  
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• Podesta: Clinton to draw differences with Obama if she runs

  07-01-2015 20:25
  
  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will draw differences with President Barack Obama if she runs for the White House and Obama expects that, according to John Podesta, an adviser to the president and a potential campaign chairman for the former secretary of state. Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who is now counselor to Obama, said he would depart the White House next month. "I'm probably going to leave in early February," he told Reuter
  
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• White House says FHA to cut mortgage insurance premiums

  07-01-2015 20:17
  
  The Federal Housing Administration will reduce annual mortgage insurance premiums by 0.5 percentage point to 0.85 percent from 1.35 percent, the White House said on Wednesday. In a statement, the White ...
  
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• White House threatens veto on Republican bill to weaken Obamacare

  07-01-2015 19:12
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama would veto a Republican-backed bill that would reduce the number of people who qualify for employer-based health insurance under his signature Affordable Care Act. The bill, introduced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to require companies to offer healthcare coverage to employees who work 40 hours per week, instead of the 30-hour threshold under the reforms known as Obamacare. ...
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-White House not under pressure to expand US crude exports -adviser

  07-01-2015 18:26
  
  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The White House does not feel pressure to loosen restrictions on U.S. oil exports further and views debate over the issue as resolved for now, John Podesta, a top aide to President Barack Obama, told Reuters in an interview. The drop in oil prices and the Commerce Department's move to allow companies to ship as much as a million barrels per day of ultra-light U.S. crude to the rest of the world has taken pressure off the administration to do more. "At
  
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• Warren aims to shape Democrats' debate as 2016 race begins

  07-01-2015 18:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren insists she's not running for president but plans to take active steps to shape the policy debate inside the Democratic Party at the start of the 2016 White House campaign.
  
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• Gunmen in Charlie Hebdo Attack in Paris Likely 'Well Trained,' Experts Say

  07-01-2015 18:16
  
  The deadly attack today on a satirical French newspaper that claimed the lives of at least 12 people in Paris appeared to be a well-planned and deliberately-executed assault by trained militants, according to counter-terrorism experts.“They carried out the operation in a very calm, controlled way,” said Richard Clarke, former White House counter-terrorism advisor and current ABC News consultant. “They appear to have fire discipline, not spraying bullets everywhere. They were people who did
  
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• White House Rolls Out State of the Union ‘Spoilers’

  07-01-2015 17:58
  
  In an op-ed posted to the website Medium on Wednesday, Pfeiffer outlined the week ahead for Obama, dropping some hints about the proposals he would outline. “Six years later — as the President will note today — the American auto industry has roared back to life,” Pfeiffer wrote. In remarks he is scheduled to deliver in Phoenix on Thursday, Obama will tout what the White House describes as another victory: the recovery of the housing market. Finally, Obama will speak Friday in Kno
  
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• Obama threatens veto of increase of hours in health care law

  07-01-2015 17:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will veto legislation that would increase his health care law's definition of a full-time worker from 30 to 40 hours per week.
  
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• White House issues veto threat for House bill with Obamacare tweaks

  07-01-2015 17:30
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama would veto a bill that would reduce the number of people who qualify for employer-based health insurance under his signature Affordable Care Act. The bill, introduced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, "would shift costs to taxpayers, put workers' hours at risk, and disrupt health insurance coverage," the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Bill
  
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• Obama advisers to recommend veto of House Keystone bill

  07-01-2015 17:24
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's advisers will recommend he veto a House bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline if it reaches, his desk, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday. Republican senators started the new U.S. Congress on Tuesday with legislation to approve pipeline from Canada to the United States and White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama would not sign it. The White House's Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday issued a
  
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• Immigration stalemate: Will growing diversity make it worse?

  07-01-2015 16:09
  
  At the White House on Tuesday, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto praised US President Barack Obama's controversial executive action to temporarily defer deportation of nearly 5 million immigrants living in the United States as an "act of justice."
  
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• White House condemns Paris newspaper attack

  07-01-2015 14:11
  
  "Everybody here at the White House are with the families of those who were killed or injured in this attack," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, speaking on MSNBC. "Senior officials at the White House have been in close touch with their counterparts in France this morning," he added.
  
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• Rare glimpse of Obama daughter causes online stir

  07-01-2015 01:35
  
  After years of careful White House control over her few public appearances, a mysterious online image of first daughter Malia Obama, 16, has gone viral. The rare glimpse of a personal side of President Barack Obama's oldest daughter -- sister Sasha is now 14 -- shows her wearing a tee-shirt printed with the name of the Brooklyn rap group Pro Era. The viral dissemination of the image underscored the perils of life in the White House fishbowl -- particularly when its occupants are trying to r
  
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• The Top 10 Bestselling Cookbooks Of 2014

  07-01-2015 00:26
  
  Former White House nuclear policy advisor turned TV chef Ina Garten has topped Amazon's list of most popular cookbooks for 2014 with her bestseller, Make It Ahead .
  
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