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• Next on Obama’s Bucket List—Fix Broadband

  14-01-2015 23:43
  
  By the time President Obama actually delivers his State of the Union message next Tuesday, it might as well be a rerun – because most of America will have already read the script. In another of what the White House has called State of the Union “spoilers,” President Obama on Wednesday announced a series of proposals meant to support cities and towns that develop community broadband service and to eliminate barriers to competition in the provision of connectivity. He traveled to Cedar Falls
  
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• Obama Orders Oil and Gas Industry to Slash Methane Emissions, but There's a Catch

  14-01-2015 23:38
  
  President Obama is tackling climate change again. The White House announced its latest move on Wednesday, directing the nation’s oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions as much as 45 percent by 2025.
  
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• White House uses PSN, Sony Pictures cyberattacks to resurrect ‘dangerous’ CISPA-like security measures

  14-01-2015 23:30
  
  Privacy organization the EFF warns that the government could abuse the proposed powers in the president's plan.
  
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• The Secret Service's Housecleaning

  14-01-2015 23:29
  
  The Secret Service couldn't protect the White House, and so now it's being forced to clean its own house.
  
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• Obama to renew push for paid leave

  14-01-2015 23:08
  
  President Barack Obama is renewing his push for paid leave for working parents. White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett says Obama on Thursday will again call on Congress to pass legislation to let ...
  
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• Obama to announce push for paid leave, sick time for workers

  14-01-2015 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Thursday a handful of initiatives to boost paid leave and sick time, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a statement. "President Obama will call on Congress to pass the Healthy Families Act, which would allow millions of working Americans to earn up to seven days a year of paid sick time — and call on states and cities to pass similar laws," she wrote in a post on LinkedIn. ...
  
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• Clinton recruiting Obama veterans for expected 2016 campaign

  14-01-2015 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As Hillary Rodham Clinton builds up her expected presidential campaign, she's recruiting veterans of President Barack Obama's two successful White House runs, signaling to supporters that she's taking steps to avoid a repeat of her failed 2008 bid.
  
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• Clinton recruiting Obama veterans for expected campaign

  14-01-2015 22:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is building up her expected presidential campaign, and she's recruiting veterans of President Barack Obama's two successful White House races.
  
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• House votes to undo Obama immigration actions

  14-01-2015 21:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Shunning a White House veto threat and opposition within their own party, House Republicans approved legislation Wednesday to overturn President Barack Obama's key immigration policies and expose hundreds of thousands of younger immigrants to expulsion from the U.S.
  
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• Yes, no, maybe: 2016 White House race takes shape

  14-01-2015 21:27
  
  There are no official candidates so far in the 2016 race for the White House, but one year ahead of the party primaries, the field is filling up, with new faces and some familiar names: Clinton, Bush and Romney. Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is the runaway frontrunner. Harbingers abound: a handful of likely advisors are believed to have already signed on to an expected Clinton campaign. While Clinton lurks, a major prospective rival, Senator Elizabeth Warren, appeared to withdraw from a p
  
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• White House Initiative to Screen Doc About Campus Sexual Assault

  14-01-2015 19:43
  
  The It's On Us campaign to educate students about campus sexual assault has teamed up with filmmaker Lisa Jackson to bring 'It Happened Here' to college campuses.
  
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• White House announces new methane emission controls

  14-01-2015 19:02
  
  The White House announced Wednesday a series of measures aimed at reducing emissions of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, as part of efforts to fight climate change. The goal is to reduce methane emissions linked to oil and natural gas production and distribution. The White House said it wants to get the levels to 40 to 45 percent below the 2012 level over the next decade. "Methane emissions accounted for nearly 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2012, of which nea
  
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• White House Film Festival Seeks Student Submissions

  14-01-2015 19:00
  
  President Obama wants to hear from young filmmakers. Entering its second year, the White House Film Festival, a collaboration with the American Film Institute, mixes history with filmmaking and the ideas of young Americans. This year’s topic of “The Impact of Giving Back” encourages students from grades K-12 to submit a three-minute short related to... Read more »
  
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• Obama calls Ohio State's Meyer to salute football championship

  14-01-2015 18:31
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Urban Meyer to congratulate the Ohio State head coach on his team's 42-20 upset victory over Oregon the first College Football Playoff championship. During Tuesday night's call with Meyer, Obama discussed "the underclassmen who stepped up in the game despite injury and adversity," the White House said in a statement. Obama was looking forward to having the team to the White House to celebrate the championship, the statement
  
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• NCAA: White House meeting didn't discuss presidential commission

  14-01-2015 17:37
  
  NCAA officials and athletic directors met Wednesday with the White House, although the specifics of what were discussed and where the talks may lead are not entirely clear. NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn confirmed the meeting took place and said it was exclusively to discuss the issue of sexual assault prevention on campuses and the "My Brother's Keeper" and "It's On Us" public campaigns. Osburn said the meeting did not discuss the concept of a presidential commission to review the state and dir
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: Obama's presidential veto power

  14-01-2015 14:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has vetoed just two measures in his six years in the White House, the fewest by any U.S. president since the 1880s. But since the Republicans have assumed control of both houses of Congress this month for the first time in his presidency, Obama has threatened to veto five more. Here's a brief explanation of the president's constitutional power to veto legislation and how Congress can respond:
  
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• White House to curb methane emissions from oil, gas production

  14-01-2015 14:06
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama’s administration will unveil new rules Wednesday that aim to slash methane emissions from oil and gas production by up to 45 percent by 2025 in its latest move to solidify the Democratic president’s credentials on climate change. Under the proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior will issue measures to contain leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from new drilling equipment and from old and new production faci
  
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• Sen. Hatch: Obama’s ‘pitiful presidency’ will help GOP win the White House in 2016

  14-01-2015 13:51
  
  The Senate president pro tempore on 2016, creating a more functional Congress, and his love for song-writing
  
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• Kerry to meet Hollande in Paris in wake of attacks

  14-01-2015 12:09
  
  US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet French President Francois Hollande on Friday to discuss the jihadist attacks that left 17 people dead last week in France. The United States faced criticism after it failed to send a senior official to the massive rally in Paris on Sunday attended by dozens of world leaders condemning the bloodshed. The White House admitted the lack of American leaders at the march, which was attended by the US ambassador to France, was a mistake. Friday's meeting
  
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• Congress moves toward easing bank, Wall Street rules

  14-01-2015 09:36
  
  The House is moving toward softening a law that brought strict rules for banks and Wall Street firms in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Under a veto threat from the White House, the bill pushed ...
  
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• PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Jan 14

  14-01-2015 07:31
  
  The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * White House adviser John Podesta will take on a senior advisory ...
  
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• White House to Screen Doc About Campus Sexual Violence

  14-01-2015 06:00
  
  The Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault has teamed up with filmmaker Lisa Jackson to bring 'It Happened Here' to college campuses.
  
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• Wisconsin Governor Walker lays out agenda for 2015 in annual address

  14-01-2015 04:24
  
  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, touted a strong state economy in his annual state of the state speech on Tuesday and outlined his legislative agenda for 2015. Walker, fresh off a third general election victory in four years in November, triggered speculation that he is considering a run at the White House after he wrote a campaign-themed book and continues to travel to key states for presidential hopefuls
  
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• Google Wouldn’t Tell Us Why It Didn’t Sign President Obama’s Student Privacy Pledge

  14-01-2015 02:33
  
  REUTERS/Rebecca Naden Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks about the connected world, at the Hay Festival, in Hay-on-Wye, central Wales May 25, 2013. The White House announced its commitment to protecting students’ privacy online in a press release on Monday. Part of that commitment was a pledge companies could sign saying they wouldn’t misuse students’ data. The pledge has some pretty specific commitments in it. Companies must promise to “not sell student personal information�
  
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• Obama pledges to work on use of force order for Islamic State

  14-01-2015 01:28
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to work with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on a formal authorization of the use of military force against Islamic State militants after taking a go-slow approach to the topic last year. The agreement came during a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders during which Obama sought to develop a better working relationship with Congress for the year after the partisan bickering that has mar
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: President Obama's veto power

  14-01-2015 01:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has vetoed just two measures in his six years in the White House, the fewest by any U.S. president since the 1880s. But since the Republicans have assumed control of both houses of Congress this month for the first time in his presidency, Obama has threatened to veto five more. Here's a brief explanation of the president's constitutional power to veto legislation and how Congress can respond:
  
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• Obama To Tout Broadband Competition During State Of The Union

  14-01-2015 01:16
  
  President Obama continues to wade into the digital waters with the White House announcing today that he will use his annual State of the Union Address next week to promote broadband competition. The commander in chief will deliver a speech in Iowa on Wednesday in which he’ll outline his plan to bring high-speed, low-cost broadband to more communities as a tool for economic revitalization. This comes on the heels of this morning’s news that Obama likely will address the Son…
  
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• White House's Podesta joining Hillary Clinton team: report

  14-01-2015 01:01
  
  Washington (AFP) - White House advisor John Podesta will take on a senior role in Hillary Clinton's likely presidential campaign, US media reported Tuesday, in one of the clearest signs she is running in 2016.
  
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• Obama to press for more competition among broadband service providers

  14-01-2015 00:22
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call on Wednesday for an end to laws that thwart competition among broadband service providers and his administration plans to file a letter with the Federal Communications Commission about it, a White House official said. "What we're calling on the FCC to do is to ensure that all states have a playing field that allows for a vibrant and competitive market for communications services," White House economic adviser Jeff Zients told
  
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