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• Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian

  21-02-2015 23:56
  
  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a prospective Republican presidential contender, said Saturday he does not know whether President Obama is a Christian.
  “I don’t know,” Walker said in an interview at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, where he was attending the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.
  
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• West Coast ports to begin tackling backlog after labor deal

  21-02-2015 22:35
  
  U.S. West Coast ports will resume full operations from Saturday evening after a tentative labor deal was reached between a dockworkers union and a group of shippers, easing months of disruptions to trans-Pacific trade that have hit businesses from automakers to meat exports. It was reached three days after U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez arrived in San Francisco to broker a deal with the help of a federal mediator who had joined the talks six weeks earlier. The White House called the deal, rea
  
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• Democrats: 'Why we got shellacked in the 2014 elections'

  21-02-2015 22:26
  
  So it was for the GOP after the last two presidential elections, and so it’s been for Democrats following last November’s mid-term shellacking in which they lost the Senate and more of the House. They may have won the White House the last two times out, but it has “suffered devastating losses at all levels of government since 2008,” the report states. “The circumstances that led to the series of devastating electoral losses did not develop overnight,” the task force found.
  
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• US Considering Slower Exit From Afghanistan

  21-02-2015 21:23
  
  The United States is considering a delay to its planned military exit from Afghanistan, newly sworn in Pentagon boss Ash Carter has said. President Barack Obama will discuss a range of options for slowing the US withdrawal when Afghan president Ashraf Ghani visits the White House next month, Mr Carter said from Kabul. "Our priority now is to make sure this progress sticks," Mr Carter said at a joint conference with Mr Ghani. He also said the US President was "rethinking" the
  
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• Gov. Haley: ‘Of course’ Obama loves America

  21-02-2015 20:13
  
  South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Saturday that she believes President Obama loves America, but the Republican offered an explanation of why former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said he believes otherwise.
  
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• Gov. Walker says he doesn't know if Obama loves his country

  21-02-2015 18:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading Republican contender for the White House in 2016, said Saturday he doesn't know whether President Barack Obama loves his country.
  
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• Tentative deal reached for U.S. West Coast ports; relief for trans-Pacific trade

  21-02-2015 18:30
  
  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of shipping companies and a powerful dockworkers union reached a tentative labor deal late on Friday after nine months of negotiations, settling a dispute that disrupted the flow of cargo through 29 U.S. West Coast ports and snarled trans-Pacific maritime trade with Asia. The agreement, confirmed in a joint statement by the two sides, was reached three days after U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez arrived in San Francisco to broker a deal with the h
  
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• The New York Daily News pulled no punches with today’s Giuliani-Obama cover

  21-02-2015 18:17
  
  God bless the New York tabloids.
  
  And, this from Giuliani in the story that the cover refers to: “I don’t (see) this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isn’t. Logically, think about his background....The ideas that are troubling me and are leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old."
  
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• 'The Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom in a Generation'

  21-02-2015 14:00
  
  Many reporters have contentious relationships with sources and with the government, but James Risen is in a class of his own. Risen refused to divulge the source and said he'd go to jail instead, setting up a long showdown with the Justice Department. Under pressure, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed, ambiguously, "As long as I’m attorney general, no reporter who is doing his job is going to go to jail." Risen testified, refusing to name his source, and the Justice Department s
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: White House Says It Feels 'Sorry' For Him

  21-02-2015 12:58
  White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said he feels ???sorry??? for Rudy Giuliani, who is under fire for recently questioning saying President Obama does not love America.
  
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• In early White House maneuvering, Paul avoids predictability

  21-02-2015 09:19
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is trying a bit of a balancing act as he moves toward a 2016 presidential bid.
  
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• US committed to work with India on diversity issue: White House

  21-02-2015 06:42
  
  Washington, Feb 21 (IANS) Amid the flak generated by President Barack Obama's recent comments about religious intolerance in India, the White House has said it's committed to working with India to reaffirm the principle of diversity around the world.
  
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• JEB BUSH TIPTOES ABOVE THE FALLS

  21-02-2015 06:01
  
  Jeb Bush has been a putative candidate for the White House for only a few weeks and already he is discovering that presidential politics requires an elegant equipoise. Bush tiptoed into the 2016 campaign as a Republican moderate, his natural opponents for establishment GOP votes being Mitt Romney and, after the former Massachusetts governor stood down, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. But this is not his father's Republican Party, nor even his brother's. Both of the earlier Bushes profited mig
  
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• India, US to sustain momentum of Obama's India trip

  21-02-2015 05:42
  
  Washington, Feb 21 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to sustain the momentum generated by the President Barack Obama's visit to India and follow up on key issues, including implementation of the nuclear deal and clean energy and climate cooperation. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice and the visiting Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar agreed to do so at a meeting Friday at the White House, according to a readout issued by the White House.
  
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• New U.S. defence chief silent on date of Mosul offensive

  21-02-2015 05:14
  
  By Phil Stewart KABUL (Reuters) - New U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday he would not telegraph the precise timing of an upcoming Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, after a U.S. military briefing caused an uproar. Two influential Republican senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, sent a scathing letter to the White House on Friday complaining about a Thursday briefing that predicted a Mosul offensive likely to start in April or May, involv
  
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• New U.S. defense chief silent on date of Mosul offensive

  21-02-2015 05:13
  
  By Phil Stewart KABUL (Reuters) - New U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday he would not telegraph the precise timing of an upcoming Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, after a U.S. military briefing caused an uproar. Two influential Republican senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, sent a scathing letter to the White House on Friday complaining about a Thursday briefing that predicted a Mosul offensive likely to start in April or May, involv
  
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• Contract negotiators for U.S. West Coast ports reach tentative deal

  21-02-2015 05:06
  
  Shipping companies and the dockworkers union reached a tentative labor deal on Friday after nine months of negotiations, settling a dispute that disrupted the flow of cargo through 29 U.S. West Coast ports and snarled trans-Pacific maritime trade with Asia. The deal, confirmed in a joint statement by the two sides, was reached after U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday to broker a deal with the help of a federal mediator who joined in the talks six weeks earlier.
  
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• White House: U.S. ports deal 'huge relief' for workers, economy

  21-02-2015 04:45
  
  The White House said on Friday a deal between West Coast ports and the dockworkers union was "a huge relief" for the economy, businesses and workers affected by the lengthy labor dispute. President Barack Obama had received an update on the talks late on Thursday from Labor Secretary Tom Perez, whom he had dispatched to help resolve the dispute, the White House said in a statement. Obama "calls on the parties to work together to clear out the backlogs and congestions in the West Coast ports as t
  
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• Team Bush weighs in on Giuliani’s Obama comments

  21-02-2015 00:54
  
  MIAMI -- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on late Friday became the latest potential GOP presidential candidate to weigh in, indirectly, on comments made this week by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani about President Obama.
  
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• New Jersey's Christie getting heat to step up his presidential plans

  21-02-2015 00:37
  By Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Chris Christie is facing pressure to step up the pace in forming a likely presidential campaign and to slow the defection of financial donors to rivals like Jeb Bush in order to keep alive his 2016 White House dream. The New Jersey governor's struggle to cope with problems at home and his slow start on the campaign trail have raised questions about his viability at a time when other potential Republican candidates are busy raising money and
  
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