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• Jerry Warren, former White House press secretary, dies at 84

  21-03-2015 19:45
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jerry Warren, the editor of San Diego's largest newspaper for 20 years and a White House press secretary during the Nixon and Ford administrations, died Friday at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. He was 84.
  
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• Ex-Im Bank bill backing coal plants has strong chance of passing: U.S. senator

  21-03-2015 17:59
  
  A Democratic supporter of a Senate bill to save the U.S. Export-Import Bank and overturn limits on bank financing of coal-fired power plants overseas defended the legislation on Saturday after the White House said it wanted to keep coal plant restrictions. Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp said the bill she has co-sponsored had a strong chance of passing the Senate before the mandate for the Ex-Im Bank, which provides support for U.S. exporters and the buyers of U.S. goods, expires on June 30. "
  
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• Indian-Americans kids showcase their inventions at White House Science Fair

  21-03-2015 09:22
  
  Washington, March 21 (IANS) Several Indian-Americans are among over 100 students from across the country who would showcase their inventions, and innovative science projects at the fifth White House Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama Monday. Here are the inventions, discoveries, and science projects of five Indian-American students as outlined by the White House Trisha Prabhu, 14 Naperville, Illinois: Trisha learned about research showing that the human brain's decision-making region
  
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• LOOKING FOR A FRESH FACE

  21-03-2015 06:01
  
  There are rare moments in history when Americans have sought the comfort of experience over the excitement of novelty. But there are other times when Americans have been drawn to the fresh and the new, which is why Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama emerged as strong presidential candidates -- all doing so at times of transition or trial. The challenge for political analysts is to gauge the temper of the times -- to determine whether, as it was in 1988, an experienced
  
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• American teens' film on India trip leads to global clean-up project

  21-03-2015 05:08
  
  Washington, March 21 (IANS) "It's like the Sundance or Cannes of film festivals that are open to the public through a government website," joked President Barack Obama as he welcomed young filmmakers to the second annual White House Film Festival. Among the 15 official selections screened Friday at the premiere emceed by Indian-American actor Kal Penn and Terrence J was "Generation Change", a film made by two teenagers after two trips to India. Obama noted how the journey of two young women, All
  
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• Obama to slow Afghan pullback, though post-2016 plan intact

  21-03-2015 03:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans next week to slow down the pace of troop withdrawals between now and the end of 2016 to maintain security in Afghanistan. But the White House on Friday night tamped down expectations raised earlier by an administration official that it could reconsider its plan to remove nearly all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016.
  
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• US says no evidence of IS link to Yemen attackers

  21-03-2015 03:00
  
  Washington, March 21 (IANS) The White House said on Friday that the US cannot confirm that the extremists responsible for bombing attacks in Yemen were affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) group. Three bombing attacks rocked Yemen's capital Sanaa and Saada province during Friday prayers, killing at least 137 people and wounded some 350 others. "There is not, at this point, clear evidence of an operational link between these extremists in Yemen and ISIL fighters in Iraq and Syria," White House sp
  
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• US condemns 'unconscionable' Yemen suicide bombings

  21-03-2015 02:05
  
  The White House condemned as "unconscionable" twin suicide bombings on Yemeni mosques that killed at least 142 worshippers. The White House had earlier said there was no "clear operational" link between Yemeni extremists and the IS group in Syria and Iraq. "We have seen these kinds of claims in the past from other extremist groups," Earnest said, adding that claims of allegiance to the Islamic State are often made for propaganda purposes. "This unconscionable a
  
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• White House stands by pledge to end Ex-Im backing for coal plants

  21-03-2015 01:19
  
  By Roberta Rampton and Krista Hughes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it would press ahead to end government financing for most coal-fired power plants overseas, a day after a bipartisan bill sought to overturn limits on those projects financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Lawmakers are trying to hammer out a plan to save the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which provides support for U.S. exporters and the buyers of U.S. goods, before its mandate expires on June 30. On Thursday,
  
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• Correction: Secret Service story

  21-03-2015 00:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story March 20 about complaints by the Secret Service director over media coverage of an incident involving two senior agents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that The Washington Post had reported that a pair of senior agents drove a government vehicle into a White House security barrier after a night of drinking on March 4. The Post report actually said that officials were investigating allegations that the pair had driven the vehicle into the barrier.
  
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• White House: committed to limits on coal for Export-Import Bank

  21-03-2015 00:26
  
  The White House said on Friday it is committed to ending government financing for most coal-fired power plants overseas, a day after a bipartisan bill proposed overturning limits on coal-fired plant projects by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. "The administration is strongly committed to the long-term reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank," said White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman. "We are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except
  
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