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• Obama to visit Selma for 50th anniversary of civil rights marches

  20-01-2015 23:36
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Selma, Alabama, in March to recognize the 50th anniversary of historic marches led by activists fighting against segregation and seeking to ensure African Americans' right to vote, a White House official said on Tuesday. Obama will visit the small southern town on March 7 as part of his administration's efforts to highlight the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the official said. The law, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago this August, ba
  
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• How much Obama would raise the capital gains rate

  20-01-2015 22:40
  
  President Obama will propose raising the investment tax rate for high-income households in his State of the Union speech Tuesday evening. The White House has already offered a preview : He'll call for ...
  
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• White House issues veto threat for bill on gas pipelines

  20-01-2015 20:38
  
  The White House on Tuesday issued a veto threat to a House of Representatives bill that it said would allow automatic approval of natural gas pipeline projects if federal agencies did not issue a required permit or approval within a certain timeframe. "The bill's requirements could force agencies to make decisions based on incomplete information or information that may not be available, including potential environmental and community impacts of the proposed pipelines, within the stringent deadli
  
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• Former Chief White House Advisor Gene Sperling Joins Ripple Labs Board of Directors

  20-01-2015 18:20
  Ripple Labs today announced that it has named Gene Sperling, the first person to serve as National Economic Council Director and National Economic Advisor for two presidents, to its Board of Directors....
  
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• Six experts to join Samuel Skinner on Takata quality panel

  20-01-2015 18:03
  
  Six transportation safety and quality experts will form Takata Corp's independent quality assurance panel, said Samuel Skinner, former secretary of transportation and White House chief of staff. The new members include Marion Blakey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Authority, Nelda Connors, a former Ford Motor Co executive and Jeffrey Runge, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
  
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• #SOTU2015: How Obama is taking a century-old tradition into the Twitter age

  20-01-2015 16:58
  
  Indeed, more than 50 percent of online Americans are on two or more social media sites, according to the Pew Research Center. “To not have an aggressive social media strategy in 2015 would be the equivalent of not having an aggressive TV strategy in the 1950s,” Dan Pfeiffer, the president’s senior adviser and a vocal advocate of digital communication, said in the same New York Times report. On Facebook, the president explained his plan to make the first two years of college free in a two-m
  
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• White House chief of staff shoulders blame for Paris snub

  20-01-2015 16:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House chief of staff is taking the blame for not having a top-level official at an anti-terror solidarity rally earlier this month in Paris.
  
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• Six Automotive, Transportation and Manufacturing Experts Appointed to Independent Takata Quality Assurance Panel

  20-01-2015 16:00
  
  CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff Samuel Skinner today announced that six leading experts in transportation safety, manufacturing, quality assurance and engineering will join him as members of the Independent Takata Corporation Quality Assurance Panel (the Panel). Secretary Skinner was appointed on Dec. 18, 2014, by Takata Corporation to lead the Panel. "I look forward to leading this important effort to ensure that Takata i
  
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• Larry Wilmore Ribs Al Sharpton, Cory Booker Pretends He’s Not Eyeing White House On ‘Nightly’ Debut – Video

  20-01-2015 14:24
  
  "We talk Selma, Ferguson, and Eric Garner. It's Comedy Central's worst nightmare – brother finally gets a show in late night TV. But of course he's gotta work on Martin Luther King Day," Larry Wilmore said, tonight opening The Nightly Show, on Comedy Central, in Stephen Colbert's timeslot. The  top of the show featured Wilmore in The Daily Show Senior Black Corresponden t mode: "I am so excited to be here. This is so exciting,” Wilmore said. “There'
  
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• Woman suing White House event for $4m post tumble on wet floor

  20-01-2015 14:04
  
  Washington, Jan 20 (ANI): A Fairfax Station woman has filed a 4 million dollars lawsuit over a tumble she took at the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll, blaming her fall on wet flooring outside a group of portable toilets at the event. Monica Ellis said that she exited a porta-potty at the event and slipped on a wet set of stairs, shattering her foot when she fell, the Washington Times reported.
  
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• Indian-American boy floats firm to sell low cost Braille printer

  20-01-2015 13:00
  
  Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) Thirteen-year-old Indian-American Shubham Banerjee from Santa Clara, California, who developed a low cost Braille printer called Braigo using the Lego robotics kit last year, has opened a full-fledged company to develop the machines for the masses. Banerjee's start-up Braigo Labs has got funding from Intel Corporation, among others, said his website. The invention was featured at the first ever "White House Maker Faire" in June last year to "celebrate a nation of makers
  
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• We Know What Obama Will Say Tonight, but Not How He'll Say It

  20-01-2015 12:00
  
  In the weeks leading up to his penultimate State of the Union address, President Obama and his advisers have taken the unusual step of revealing just about all of his major proposals in advance of the speech. Obama will tout his plan to make the first two years of community college free for up to 9 million students, as well as his call for increased paid sick leave for employees. Recommended: The Secret to Smart Groups Isn't Smart People—It's Women If this all sounds like one huge sp
  
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• New privacy concerns over government's health care website

  20-01-2015 09:37
  
  A little-known side to the government's health insurance website is prompting renewed concerns about privacy, just as the White House is calling for stronger cybersecurity protections for consumers. It ...
  
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• Obama faces Republican-held Congress for State of the Union

  20-01-2015 07:49
  
  Barack Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday in a State of the Union address that comes as Washington undergoes a political seachange and the US president readies to lock horns with ascendant Republicans. The annual speech, the most important in the US political calendar, comes two years to the day of his scheduled departure from the White House in 2017, and the American president does not have an easy road ahead of him. Tuesday will mark the first time since his election in 2008 that Obama will ad
  
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• India-born Ebola fighter to watch Obama speech to Congress

  20-01-2015 06:42
  
  Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) An India-born doctor fighting Ebola in Africa will be among the guests watching President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday symbolising some of the points he would be making. In an address to a joint session of Congress Obama will lay out an agenda for his seventh year in office in the face of a hostile Republican opposition, which now controls both the House and the Senate. India-born Pranav Shetty, Global Emergency Health Coordinator for International
  
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• Obama: 'No Hacker Should Be Able to Shut Down Our Networks'

  20-01-2015 06:00
  
  President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech references cyber attacks in the wake of the Sony hack, this according to speech excerpts released by the White House.The excerpt reads, "No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids. We are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat cyber threats, just as we have done to combat terrorism."President Obama's High-Sp
  
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• Obama Lays Out Ambitious Progressive Agenda in State of the Union Address

  20-01-2015 06:00
  
  Heading into the final 24 months of his eight-year White House tenure, Obama came out as the progressive chief executive so many of his Hollywood supporters campaigned for in 2008.
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About the State of the Union 'Designated Survivor'

  20-01-2015 05:01
  
  During President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, most of our nation’s leaders in government -- members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices and almost all of the president’s cabinet -- will cram into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives to hear the commander-in-chief outline his 2015 agenda. WHO IS THE DESIGNATED SURVIVOR? Selected by the White House chief of staff, the designated survivor is a cabinet-level official who spends the evening away from the Capi
  
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• State of the Union Spoilers: What We Already Know About Obama's Speech

  20-01-2015 04:52
  
  At 9 p.m. ET Tuesday, President Obama will deliver his sixth State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. In a nod to the new political dynamic, changing media environment and a desire to fight “lame duck” status, Obama has spent the past two weeks rolling out his policy proposals on daily basis. Senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer dubbed it the "SOTU Spoilers" tour. The White House says Obama will declare a full-on economic “resurgence,” even as many Americans say
  
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