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• 5 Things to Know About Bankruptcy and Student Loans

  10-03-2015 23:19
  
  The White House is considering whether to make it easier for Americans to get rid of their student loans through bankruptcy, a major change that would effectively open the door for student debt being treated on par with credit-card debt and mortgages. #1: Why is the White House considering making changes? Federal law prohibits student loans—whether made by private lenders or the federal government—from being wiped out in bankruptcy, except in rare circumstances. Other forms of consumer credi
  
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• Clinton slams Republican letter to Iran

  10-03-2015 23:18
  
  Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday lashed out at Republican senators for sending a letter to Iran over ongoing nuclear talks, accusing them of attempting to either sabotage President Barack Obama or help Tehran. Clinton, widely seen as the eventual frontrunner to lead the Democrats' challenge in the 2016 presidential election, lambasted signatories who included several possible rivals in a future battle for the White House. "One has to ask, what was the purpose of
  
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• Rail industry pushes White House to ease oil train safety rules

  10-03-2015 23:09
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. rail industry is pushing the White House to drop a requirement that oil trains adopt an advanced braking system, a cornerstone of a national safety plan that will soon govern shipments of crude across the country. Representatives of large rail operators met with White House officials last week to argue against the need for electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, or ECP brakes, saying they "would not have significant safe
  
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• Clinton says should have used government email address

  10-03-2015 22:01
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she should have used a government email account as U.S. secretary of state, though she said she violated no rules, in her first public remarks over a controversy that could cloud her expected bid for the White House. Clinton, the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has come under fire for using a private email account for official business when she was the top U.S. diplomat because of concer
  
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• Neighborhoods: A look at Columbia Heights, Washington DC

  10-03-2015 21:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — First-time visitors to Washington, D.C., have a long list of must-sees: monuments on the National Mall, Smithsonian museums, cherry blossoms in springtime, maybe a selfie in front of the White House. But repeat visitors, and even some on a first trip, want more than top attractions. A walk through the Columbia Heights neighborhood offers an interesting glimpse of African-American history in a once-devastated area that's made a comeback.
  
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• Clinton regrets not using official email account

  10-03-2015 20:35
  
  Probable White House candidate Hillary Clinton admitted Tuesday that she made a mistake in choosing for convenience not to use an official email account when she was secretary of state. "Looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts," Clinton said, amid a political uproar over her decision to operate a personal email server. "I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, becau
  
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• Iran Decries Letter By Republican 'Extremists'

  10-03-2015 20:15
  Iran says its confidence in dealing with the US has been undermined by "extremists" in Congress, a day after Republicans wrote a letter warning against a possible nuclear deal. The open letter to Iran's leaders, signed by 47 senators, said any agreement could expire as soon as President Barack Obama leaves the White House. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told senior clerics on Tuesday:  "This kind of letter is unprecedented and undiplomatic. It is rare for Congress to
  
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• LIVE: Hillary Clinton talks about her emails

  10-03-2015 19:58
  
  AP/Carolyn Kaster Hillary Clinton. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is about to give the first press conference of her still unannounced 2016 campaign for the White House.  And it’s coming in the middle of an email controversy engulfing the press. Last Monday, the New York Times revealed that Clinton exclusively used personal emails while she served as secretary of state. According to the Times, this may have violated federal guidelines and could have left crucial informat
  
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• U.S. rail industry pushes White House to ease oil train safety rules

  10-03-2015 19:25
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. rail industry is pushing the White House to drop a requirement that oil trains adopt an advanced braking system, a cornerstone of a national safety plan that will soon govern shipments of crude oil across the country. Representatives of large rail operators met with White House officials last week to argue against the need for electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, or ECP brakes, saying they "would not have significant
  
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• Secret Service testing drones, how to disrupt their flying

  10-03-2015 18:25
  
  The Secret Service is conducting middle-of-the-night drone flights near the White House in secret tests to devise a defense against the unmanned aircraft, The Associated Press has learned. The government-controlled ...
  
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• More Russian tanks, equipment cross Ukraine border: U.S. official

  10-03-2015 18:13
  
  Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. The comments by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland, follow accusations by Ukraine and Western governments that Russia continues to send troops and weapons to support separatists in eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire deal, a charge the Kremlin has denied. Eastern
  
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• The university where Obama is speaking today could revolutionize online education

  10-03-2015 18:08
  
  YouTube/Andy Blanton Georgia Tech student Nicholas Selby gave an epic speech at the innovative school in 2013. President Obama is giving a speech Tuesday at Georgia Tech about student debt burdens facing Americans, and the White House says the Atlanta university is the perfect place for him to make his remarks. Georgia Tech has high job placement rates, debt-free enrollment for certain qualified instate students, and an online master’s degree in computer science, Cecilia Muñoz, White House
  
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• Clinton to take press questions after UN speech

  10-03-2015 18:07
  
  Hillary Clinton will field questions Tuesday in her first media availability since she became ensnared in an email scandal last week that has threatened to rattle her likely presidential candidacy. "Secretary Clinton will do a brief press conference" following a speech at the United Nations, her spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for the 2016 White House race, did not mention the controversy Monday when she released a report on w
  
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• 'House of Cards,' "Chapter 38": White House, White Hair

  10-03-2015 18:06
  
  Legacy is their only child
  
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• White House declines to discuss Obama email account

  10-03-2015 17:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is declining to say whether President Barack Obama has a private email account like one used by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that has sparked a political furor.
  
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• Eighth Grader Jane Yarnell Already 3D Prints with Pros

  10-03-2015 16:00
  
  Jane Yarnell was 12 years old when 3D printing first caught her attention. A little more than a year later, her interest in 3D printing has taken her to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and to the first ever White House Maker Faire as her Berkeley, Calif.
  
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• Kamau Bell, Reza Aslan To Host New CNN Series

  10-03-2015 15:53
  
  Author Reza Aslan will host a new spiritual adventure series for CNN, titled Believer, and comedian W. Kamau Bell will travel across the country exploring various communities in United Shades of America, the cable news network announced this morning. These series will join the previously announced mini docu-series Race for the White House, narrated by Kevin Spacey. Religious studies scholar Aslan hosts Believer (working title), is billed by CNN as a new “spiritual…
  
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• Iran says lawmakers' letter has sapped trust in US

  10-03-2015 15:46
  
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told top clerics Tuesday a letter from Republican senators undermining a possible nuclear deal had sapped Tehran's confidence in dealings with the United States. Zarif's remarks, reported by the Isna news agency, came in Tehran at a meeting of the Assembly of Experts, Iran's top clerical body, where he gave an update on the negotiations with world powers for a comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear programme. Effectively underc
  
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• Joel McHale Thanks the Kardashians for His 'House, Cars, and Children's Education'

  10-03-2015 15:07
  
  Although comedian/writer Joel McHale has been mocking the Kardashians as host and executive producers of E's The Soup for as long as the controversial family has been famous, he also knows who pays the bills. McHale, 43, opens up about his fellow E! stars in a new interview with The Daily Beast, surprisingly acknowledging their importance in his life. "Their celebrity has reached a level that E! never dreamt of, and for The Soup, they are in the news every day -- even if they do nothin
  
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• Hillary Clinton to address email use after UN remarks - reports

  10-03-2015 15:04
  
  Hillary Clinton, a likely 2016 White House candidate, on Tuesday plans to address her use of private email during her time at the U.S. State Department in a press conference following a speech at the United Nations, according to media reports. CBS News, MSNBC and CNN, citing a Clinton aide and other unnamed sources, said Clinton would hold a news conference after her scheduled remarks in New York, slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT). A spokesman for Clinton urged reporters to attend the
  
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• Petition for Anwar’s release removed from White House website

  10-03-2015 15:00
  
  KUALA LUMPUR: A petition pushing for the release of jailed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim which appeared on the ‘We the People’ platform on the White House website has been removed by site administrators for apparently violating stipulated rules.
  
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• CEA chief Furman frets on dollar strength -Bloomberg

  10-03-2015 14:31
  
  White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jason Furman on Tuesday said the surging dollar is a headwind for U.S. growth, Bloomberg reported on Twitter. Earlier on Tuesday, the dollar had touched ...
  
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• Russia's Lavrov says EU's Tusk stoking tension over Ukraine

  10-03-2015 14:27
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine. Lavrov told reporters Tusk had "apologized" that the EU had not acted as quickly over Moscow as the United States during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday -- though no such comments appeared in White House or EU accounts of the talks.
  
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• Obama to announce changes for student loan repayment

  10-03-2015 14:14
  
  President Barack Obama is slated to speak to students at Georgia Tech on Tuesday about how he wants to make the process of repaying student loans easier to understand and manage. Obama will sign a “student aid bill of rights” and will speak about an assortment of policy tweaks and projects to try to make it easier to help people with student loans pay back their debt. "It's our responsibility to make sure that the 40 million Americans with student loans are aware of resources to ma
  
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• Russia's Lavrov says EU's Tusk upping tension over Ukraine

  10-03-2015 14:04
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine. Lavrov told reporters Tusk had "apologized" that the EU had not acted as quickly over Moscow as the United States during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday -- though no such comments appeared in White House or EU accounts of the talks. Tusk, who did not immediately respond to Lav
  
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• Put a Woman on the $20

  10-03-2015 10:15
  
  Rosa Parks should be on the $20 bill, not Andrew Jackson—one group is taking that argument all the way to the White House.
  
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• Democrats denounce GOP letter on Iran nuke talks

  10-03-2015 07:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in the White House and Congress accused 47 GOP senators of undermining President Barack Obama in international talks to curb Iran's nuclear program, saying that trying to upend diplomatic negotiations was tantamount to rushing into war with Tehran.
  
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• Why Free Anwar petition removed, DAP MP asks White House

  10-03-2015 06:39
  
  A DAP lawmaker has urged the White House to explain why a petition to the Obama administration to free jailed opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was removed from its website today. Tanjong MP Ng Wei Aik said the removal cast suspicion that there were elements of sabotage. "The removal of the petition themed 'Make the release of...
  
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• President Obama To Hit Up Hollywood (Again), Set For First ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Sit-Down

  10-03-2015 06:08
  
  March 12 will mark the first time the commander in chief has sat down with ABC’s late-night host in person. President Barack Obama did Jimmy Kimmel Live! via satellite back in June 2008, when he was a mere senator from Illinois looking to become the leader of the free world. Michelle Obama made a taped appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show back in 2012, six months after he hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in D.C. Also set as a guest on Kimmel that night is Sean…
  
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• President Obama Set For First ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Sit-Down

  10-03-2015 06:08
  
  March 12 will mark the first time the commander in chief has sat down with ABC’s late-night host in person. President Obama did Jimmy Kimmel Live! via satellite back in June 2008, when he was a mere senator from Illinois looking to become the leader of the free world. Michelle Obama made a taped appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show back in 2012, six months after he hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in D.C. Also set as a guest on Kimmel that night is Sean Penn…
  
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• Democrats denounce Republican letter on Iran nuke talks

  10-03-2015 06:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in the White House and Congress accused 47 Republican senators of undermining President Barack Obama in international talks to curb Iran's nuclear program, saying that trying to upend diplomatic negotiations was tantamount to rushing into war with Tehran.
  
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• PKR files complaint with US embassy over Anwar petition removal

  10-03-2015 05:28
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — An official complaint has been lodged with the US embassy here over the removal of the online petition seeking the release of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from the White House...
  
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• Texas federal judge leaves block on Obama immigration plan in place

  10-03-2015 05:00
  
  (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Monday declined to lift a block of the White House's immigration plan for at least 10 more days, court records show. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, issued a preliminary injunction last month halting President Barack Obama's plans that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. On Monday, Hanen said in a one-page order that the court will not rule on any pending motio
  
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• Free Anwar petition to White House removed

  10-03-2015 03:42
  
  A petition to the Obama administration to free jailed opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been removed from the White House website for petitions, just as it neared the goal of reaching 100,000 required signatures. The website which carried the petition earlier now reads: "The petition you are trying to access has been removed from...
  
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• DAP pushes Free Anwar petition to White House as deadline nears

  10-03-2015 02:34
  
  Only 5,046 signatures are needed in the petition to the White House to free jailed opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, says DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang, referring to the 100,000 threshold for a US government response. "Can reach 100k by 5pm at this rate," he tweeted at his handle @limkitsiang minutes ago. Lim has been...
  
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• Iran dismisses US senators' warning on n-deal

  10-03-2015 00:48
  
  Tehran, March 10 (IANS) Iran has dismissed the warning by US Republican senators that an agreement on Iran's nuclear programme not approved by the US Congress would lapse, according to media reports on Monday. "In our view, this letter (by the US Republican senators) has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy," said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, adding that it seemed the signatories of the letter did not understand international law, according to a Xinhua report, which c
  
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• Kevin Spacey revels in his anti-hero president in 'House of Cards'

  10-03-2015 00:02
  
  Kevin Spacey is convinced that like the ruthless, morally corrupt politician he portrays in Netflix's Emmy Award-winning political drama "House of Cards," the anti-hero is here to stay. "The third season explores what happens to these people when they suddenly are in the hot, white spotlight of being president and first lady," Spacey told Reuters. "That's a very interesting dynamic to start to investigate." When the third season of Netflix Inc's onlin
  
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