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• Trace Adams’s 2040 presidential bid signs on its first adviser: Barack Obama

  06-03-2015 23:27
  
  During his town hall meeting in South Carolina on Friday, President Obama met a 10-year-old named Trace Adams. Trace is thinking about running for president and figured he'd get advice from someone who knows.
  
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• Obama: Ferguson ‘clearly a broken and racially biased system’

  06-03-2015 23:13
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Obama said Friday that the Ferguson, Mo., police department engaged in a systemic pattern of racial discrimination and that it can change or risk a lawsuit from the Department of Justice.
  
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• Inside President Obama’s secret schedule

  06-03-2015 22:47
  Unlike dozens of presidential meetings every week — and a similar Obama-Clinton meeting in July 2013 — it was not announced in advance. Instead, reporters who cover Obama learned about the secret visit from a People magazine tweet, and ultimately managed to wring a terse sentence from an anonymous White House official grudgingly confirming that the world’s most powerful person had met with the woman who is arguably the front-runner to succeed him. This is how the White House works.
  
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• Marco Rubio has a 'big money' problem

  06-03-2015 22:37
  
  As the race heats up for the White House...
  
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• How an Obama State of the Union speech is born

  06-03-2015 22:28
  President Barack Obama fine-tunes his State of the Union address with Chief Speechwriter Cody Keenan. Director of Speechwriting Cody Keenan is known to fuel his long hours with “red eyes” — large drip coffees with a shot of espresso for extra kick. Recently, White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri made him a batch of her “energy cookies” — described by someone who has had them as “mini power bars.” He’s no Raymond Price — the long-ago speechwriter for Richard Ni
  
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• Obama, Facilitator-in-Chief

  06-03-2015 22:28
  These days, the presidential summit is more like an extended photo op with some speeches and a dinner thrown in. This week’s “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism” (a response to the run of terrorist attacks from Paris to Copenhagen) closely follows similar White House summits on community colleges, early education, cybersecurity, football head injuries, “working families,” college opportunity, national service, youth (as in young people, not the fountain) and so on. All of which is
  
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• How a presidential phone call gets made

  06-03-2015 22:26
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th U.S. President and has been serving since 2009. Obama’s tension-filled 90-minute marathon with Vladimir Putin failed to reverse Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine’s strategic Crimean Peninsula and heightened fears of a new Cold War with Moscow. It was one of four times in the past three weeks that the White House disclosed Obama had spoken with the Russian president and came amid a blizzard of telephone calls between the American president and worl
  
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• The price tag of political corruption

  06-03-2015 22:23
  
  Here's a look at five of the most notable bribery cases in politics -- and how much it took for lawmakers to sell out.
  
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• Conservatives are suggesting the White House is going after Bob Menendez because of Iran

  06-03-2015 21:33
  
  It didn't take long for conservatives to link...
  
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• White House: destruction of Nimrud 'incomprehensible'

  06-03-2015 21:33
  
  Washington (AFP) - The White House expressed outrage Friday at the bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Iraq.
  
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• The White House gets nostalgic in South Carolina

  06-03-2015 21:00
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Air Force One was a wistful place Friday.
  “You may be able to feel the nostalgia pulsing through Air Force One this morning,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on the plane.
  Why? The aircraft was cruising toward South Carolina, a state Obama hadn’t yet visited as president — but provided him a major boost in January 2008, when he won the state’s presidential primary. That was the last time he was in the state.
  
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• Joe Biden on Ben Carson comments: ‘I mean, Jesus. God. Oh, God.’

  06-03-2015 20:45
  
  Vice President Joe Biden mocked Republican Dr. Ben Carson over the GOP presidential hopeful's recent controversial assertion that homosexuality is a choice, calling the statements “ridiculous” during a speech to the Human Rights Campaign.
  
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• No Republican leaders are going to Selma this weekend. That’s a dumb move.

  06-03-2015 18:54
  
  The eyes of the political world will be on Selma, Alabama tomorrow as President Obama will be in town to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches that began there -- and drew the attention of the country to its racial divide. Know who won't be in attendance? Anyone from the House Republican leadership.
  
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• No House Republican leaders are going to Selma this weekend. That’s a dumb move.

  06-03-2015 18:54
  
  The eyes of the political world will be on Selma, Ala., tomorrow as President Obama will be in town to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches that began there -- and drew the attention of the country to its racial divide. Know who won't be in attendance? Anyone from the House Republican leadership.
  
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• South Carolina visit leaves Obama 2 states short of 50

  06-03-2015 18:32
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama is making his first trip to South Carolina as president, leaving him two states shy of visiting all 50 while in the White House.
  
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• Late-night laughs: Hillary Clinton e-mail edition

  06-03-2015 17:55
  
  Hillary Clinton caused controversy after reports revealed she used a private e-mail account during her time as secretary of state. Late-night hosts Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon couldn’t resist a few jokes at her expense.
  
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• The White House just gave Benjamin Netanyahu a sick Twitter burn

  06-03-2015 17:23
  
  The relationship between the White House and Israel … Continued The post The White House just gave Benjamin Netanyahu a sick Twitter burn appeared first on Business Insider.
  
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• CBS' Plante returns to Selma 50 years later

  06-03-2015 17:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after covering the civil rights marches in Selma for CBS News, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante is returning to Alabama for this weekend's commemorations still working for the same news organization.
  
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• President Obama: Ferguson bias ‘not an isolated incident’

  06-03-2015 16:23
  
  In his first comments since the Justice Department released a report earlier this week detailing racial bias in the Ferguson, Mo. police department, President Obama called Friday for "collective action and mobilization" to resolve tensions between minority communities and law enforcement.
  
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• A Hillary Clinton Email the State Department Couldn't Find

  06-03-2015 14:16
  
  Hillary Clinton supporters have defended her use of a private email account to conduct official State Department business by arguing that she emailed colleagues at their government addresses, ensuring that a copy of the correspondence would be retained on government servers and available to archivists. As it turns out, some aides to Hillary Clinton also used private email addresses. Public records laws encompass not just correspondence with other government employees but also emails with third p
  
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• The dangerous, decade-old FREAK vulnerability also affects Windows users

  06-03-2015 11:02
  
  AP Windows users are also susceptible to a serious vulnerability affecting millions of Android and iPhone users, Ars Technica reports. It’s called “FREAK,” and puts users at risk of their confidential details stolen by hackers. FREAK stands for “factoring attacks on RSA-EXPORT keys,” and is a remnant of the debates over cryptography in the nineties. The US government at one point placed limits on the strength of encryption in software that could be exported from from America. This mean
  
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• ‘Scandal’s Powerful Police Brutality Episode Lights Up Social Media

  06-03-2015 08:37
  
  The ABC drama turned its attention on the difficult and emotional topic of police brutality and hit close to home for many viewers. The episode began with the haunting image of an unarmed black teen named Brandon Parker lying dead in a Washington, D.C. street a few miles away from the White House. When his distraught father, Clarence (Courtney B. Vance), positioned himself between the body of his son and police with a shotgun, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) was called in to manage the sensiti
  
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• PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - March 6

  06-03-2015 06:24
  
  The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. * Apple Inc's new mobile-payment system has been hit by a wave of fraudulent transactions using credit-card data stolen in recent breaches of big retailers, including Home Depot Inc and Target Corp, people familiar with the matter said. * The White House and some congressional Democrats have raised privacy concerns about a cybersecurity bill drafted by top Senate Intelligence Committee lawmakers, stalling-at least temporarily-one of C
  
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• Why these women stayed in the games industry after the worst year ever

  06-03-2015 04:44
  Matt Weinberger Game developers, designers, and critics discuss their reasons for staying in the industry at GDC 2015. At this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a panel of distinguished game developers and critics gathered for a very popular panel, the third annual #1ReasonToBe — as in, “the number one reason to be” a woman who works in games and technology. The goal of #1ReasonToBe is to focus on their accomplishments and amazing experiences.  Last year, the panel red
  
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• Yale and Harvard, this time with Ivy hoops crown at stake

  06-03-2015 01:29
  
  The rivalry between Harvard and Yale is moving indoors, where the schools will play Friday night for basketball bragging rights and a chance to all-but clinch an Ivy League championship. The winner Friday night at Harvard's sold-out Lavietes Pavillion can do no worse than share the conference title. Harvard (20-6, 10-2) is looking for its fifth straight championship and fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, while Yale (21-8, 10-2) is hoping for its first title and first NCAA bid since
  
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• No chip on Rep. Ashford’s purse-battered shoulder

  06-03-2015 01:25
  
  How’s this for timing?
  On the same day that Sheldon Adelson’s wife dropped her Hermès clutch off a ledge and whacked him on the shoulder, Rep. Brad Ashford (D-Neb.) became the newest lawmaker to sign on as a co-sponsor to an anti-online-gambling bill backed by Adelson. In fact, Ashford was the only congressman to sign on Tuesday. The other 13 co-sponsors had signed on in the weeks prior.
  
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