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• White House wants no currency provision in trade bill

  21-04-2015 23:59
  
  US President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday came out strongly against Democratic proposals to curb currency manipulation as part of a sweeping Pacific trade pact Washington is negotiating with 11 nations. While the White House reiterated its support for a recent deal that gives President Barack Obama "fast-track" authority to sign free-trade agreements without interference from Congress, some members of his party seek to attach measures that would add enforceable currenc
  
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• Arianna Huffington: 'We need a third women's revolution'

  21-04-2015 23:43
  
  Arianna Huffington chats about work-life balance, her Thrive e-course with Oprah and what she really thinks about Hillary Clinton's shot at the White House.
  
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• White house supports House cyber threat bill, but notes concerns

  21-04-2015 23:17
  
  The White House said on Tuesday that it has some concerns about a bill to make it easier for companies to share information about cybersecurity threats with the government, but supports its passage by the U.S. House of Representatives. The White House said it has concerns about the "sweeping liability protections" in the bill, approved by the House Intelligence Committee, but said in a statement that it hoped privacy protections could be strengthened as the House and Senate work together to fina
  
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• Bet on Bernie Contribution Pledge Campaign Enters Cyberspace for Bernie Sanders Supporters

  21-04-2015 22:12
  
  NEW YORK, NY, April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Ready for Bernie Sanders 2016 announced yesterday the launch of Bet on Bernie Dot Com social media campaign for contribution pledges to support the likes of a presidential bid from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a Brooklyn native, son of Jewish migrants, who was active in the Civil Rights Movement while attending University of Chicago, is the former Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, and has sat as a member of U.S.Congress since 1991.
  
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• Former Egyptian president Mursi jailed for 20 years

  21-04-2015 21:53
  
  * Once in power, Mursi increasingly isolated * Tough crackdown on Islamists since Mursi's fall * Muslim Brotherhood has history of resilience (Adds White House reaction) By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO, April 21 (Reuters) - Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mursi was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday on charges arising from the killing of protesters, nearly three years after he became Egypt's first freely elected president. Mursi stood in a cage in court as judge Ahmed Sabry Yous
  
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• White House Won't Say If Hillary Clinton Is Right That Small Businesses Have 'Stalled Out'

  21-04-2015 21:44
  The White House declined to say if it agrees with Hillary Clinton???s assessment.
  
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• Obama threatens to veto bill over funding for U.S. consumer watchdog

  21-04-2015 20:54
  
  President Barack Obama will veto a bill requiring the U.S. consumer watchdog to establish special advisory groups if the final version of the legislation cuts the level of funding available to the agency, the White House said on Tuesday. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created outside committees to advise it on actions related to community banks and credit unions. The legislation currently in the U.S. House of Representatives would make those groups mandatory and create another
  
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• US says ship's mission off Yemen is to protect navigation

  21-04-2015 20:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the waters off Yemen is there to protect freedom of navigation and commerce.
  
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• Obama threatens to veto bill over funding for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  21-04-2015 20:06
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama would veto the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards Act if the final legislation by Congress cuts the level of funding that the director of the consumer bureau could request. The House of Representatives passed a special amendment to the bill, which is intended to create advisory groups for community banks, credit unions and small businesses, last week to "reduce the cap on the total amount of funding that could be requested by the director" for fis
  
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• Jeb Bush prepares to give traditional campaign a makeover

  21-04-2015 19:19
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The traditional presidential campaign may be getting a dramatic makeover in Jeb Bush's bid for the White House as he prepares to turn some of a campaign's central functions over to a separate political organization that can raise unlimited amounts of money.
  
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• A guide to political money: campaigns, PACs, super PACs

  21-04-2015 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential candidate's actual campaign is only one element in the contest for the White House.
  
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• U.S. concerned about sentencing of Mursi in Egypt: White House

  21-04-2015 19:11
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is concerned about the sentencing of former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. Mursi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Tuesday on charges arising from killing of protesters, nearly three years after he became Egypt's first freely elected president. (Reporting By Julia Edwards; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
  
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• White House says has concerns about Drug Enforcement Administration

  21-04-2015 19:09
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that it still has concerns about the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration following a recent Justice Department report alleging agents had participated in sex parties. White House spokesman Josh Earnest did not comment on media reports that the agency's director, Michele Leonhart, is expected to soon resign. (Reporting By Julia Edwards)
  
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• White House says movement of U.S. ship near Yemen to ensure commerce

  21-04-2015 19:00
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier near Yemen is intended to ensure freedom of navigation and commerce in the area. White House spokesman Josh Earnest cited energy, among other important commodities, as important shipments near the coast of Yemen that need protecting. (Reporting By Julia Edwards; Editing by Lisa Lambert)
  
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• Biden visits Philadelphia to highlight energy plan

  21-04-2015 18:37
  
  The White House has released a four-year energy plan designed to fight climate change, modernize power plants and find other ways to ensure the nation a steady supply of safe energy. Vice President Joe ...
  
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• Amnesty International condemns U.S. failure to act on torture report

  21-04-2015 16:07
  
  Amnesty International on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama's administration of granting "de facto amnesty" to people involved in a CIA programme that detained and tortured militants captured after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The human rights group said that since the release in December of a Senate report on the use of what the Central Intelligence Agency called "enhanced interrogation techniques," the administration had done nothing to end impunity for those who mistreated p
  
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• White House adviser says "Grexit" carries major risks

  21-04-2015 16:06
  
  A Greek exit from the euro zone would carry significant risks for the global economy and no one should be under the impression that financial markets have fully priced in such an event, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers said. The comments by Jason Furman in an interview with Reuters in Berlin are among the strongest by a senior U.S. official and are at odds with those of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who told an audience in New York last week that contagi
  
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• US sending carrier to Yemen coast as civilian casualties mount

  21-04-2015 14:37
  
  A US aircraft carrier and guided-missile cruiser are steaming to the waters off Yemen to dissuade Iranian ships from delivering arms to Houthi rebels there, a move the White House has cast as primarily a show of force. The USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Normandy will join 10 other American warships off the coast of Yemen. The Pentagon said in a statement that the ships are to protect the region's vital shipping lanes. The deployment is also meant to reassure Saudi Arabia, an American ally th
  
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• Los Angeles Times Names Johanna Maska Vice President of Marketing and Communications

  21-04-2015 12:16
  
  Austin Beutner, Publisher and CEO of the LA Times, today announced Johanna Maska, former director of White House press advance for President Barack Obama, will join the company as Vice President of Marketing and Communications.
  
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• Bush preparing to delegate many campaign tasks to super PAC

  21-04-2015 09:11
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush is preparing to embark on an experiment in presidential politics: delegating many of the nuts-and-bolts tasks of seeking the White House to a separate political organization that can raise unlimited amounts of campaign cash.
  
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• Struggling to remember the name of Jeb Bush's super PAC? Here's why

  21-04-2015 07:34
  
  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's hard to remember whether Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's super PAC is called America Rising or Right to Rise. The independent political group will likely raise hundreds of millions of dollars to back the former Florida governor's bid for the White House, but it's not meant to attract attention.     The Bush super PAC is in fact Right to Rise. America Rising is another political action committee, unconnected to Bush, tha
  
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• Clinton Library releases photo of Hillary Clinton playing a Game Boy

  21-04-2015 02:30
  
  Next year's U.S. presidential race could see a former confessed Game Boy addict make it to the White House. Earlier today, the William J. Clinton Library published a photo of 2016 candidate and former First Lady Hillary Clinton transfixed by her Game Boy back in 1993. April 6, 1993: Hillary Rodham Clinton plays a Nintendo "Game Boy" electronic game on her flight from Austin, Texas to Washington, DC.
  
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• Roseanne Barr Says She's Slowly Going Blind

  21-04-2015 02:22
  
  Sad news for Roseanne Barr, as the comedian and TV legend said Monday that she suffers from macular degeneration and is slowly going blind. TV: This 'Roseanne' Reunion Included a Great George Clooney Story! Barr revealed the news in an interview with The Daily Beast about her new documentary Roseanne for President! which follows her ill-fated 2012 quest for the White House. In the film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend, the actress and activist advocates and ev
  
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• U.S. business groups to urge Congress to approve fast-track trade authority

  21-04-2015 01:44
  
  Almost 300 business groups from across the United States are urging swift passage of a bipartisan bill in Congress that would "fast-track" trade deals, in a letter they plan to send to congressional leaders on Tuesday. Noting that Washington was negotiating trade deals with Pacific countries and Europe, the letter seen by Reuters, dated April 21, said: "To realize the potential of these agreements for U.S. jobs, economic growth and competitiveness, Congress must pass Trade Promotion Authority."
  
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• Obama plans reception for overhaul of Medicare payment plan

  21-04-2015 01:39
  
  President Barack Obama has invited Democratic and Republican lawmakers to the White House for a reception thanking them for their work on legislation permanently changing how Medicare pays doctors. The ...
  
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• Roseanne Barr Reveals She Is Going Blind From Eye Disease

  21-04-2015 00:47
  
  Roseanne Barr is losing her eyesight to a nasty combination of glaucoma and macular degeneration, the actress revealed on Monday. “I have macular degeneration and glaucoma, so [pot is] good for me for that because I have pressure in my eyes,” Barr told the site. The actress and environmentalist is in New York for the Tribeca Film Festival, where “Roseanne for President!” — a documentary on her failed 2012 White House run — premiered on Friday.
  
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• U.S. offers Ukraine $17.7 million in humanitarian aid - White House

  21-04-2015 00:26
  
  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday about the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine and offered an additional $17.7 million (12 million pound) in aid for essentials like food, shelter and water, the White House said. Biden and Poroshenko discussed Ukraine's reform efforts, the White House said in a statement. "The vice president welcomed the appointment of a new head of the anti-corruption bureau and encouraged the further implementation
  
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• ‘SNL’s Cecily Strong ‘Terrified’ Over White House Correspondents Gig

  21-04-2015 00:07
  
  Cecily Strong of “Saturday Night Live” will be this year’s featured entertainment at the April 25 White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, but the gig may be one of the tougher comic assignments. “For the past couple of months I was truly terrified, and then it’s like, ‘Well, now it’s public so I can’t back out,'”... Read more »
  
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• ‘SNL’s’ Cecily Strong Promises to Be Different at White House Dinner

  21-04-2015 00:07
  
  Cecily Strong of “Saturday Night Live” will be this year’s featured entertainment at the April 25 White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, but the gig may be one of the tougher comic assignments. “For the past couple of months I was truly terrified, and then it’s like, ‘Well, now it’s public so I can’t back out,'”... Read more »
  
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• ‘SNL’s’ Cecily Strong Promises New Laughs at White House Correspondents Dinner

  21-04-2015 00:07
  
  Cecily Strong of “Saturday Night Live” will be this year’s featured entertainment at the April 25 White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, but the gig may be one of the tougher comic assignments. “For the past couple of months I was truly terrified, and then it’s like, ‘Well, now it’s public so I can’t back out,'”... Read more »
  
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• ‘SNL’s’ Cecily Strong Promises Hard Laughs at White House Correspondents Dinner

  21-04-2015 00:07
  
  Cecily Strong of “Saturday Night Live” will be this year’s featured entertainment at the April 25 White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, but the gig may be one of the tougher comic assignments. “For the past couple of months I was truly terrified, and then it’s like, ‘Well, now it’s public so I can’t back out,'”... Read more »
  
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• Clinton floats tax-code changes as she campaigns in New Hampshire

  21-04-2015 00:03
  
  By Amanda Becker KEENE, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday she would consider changes to the U.S. tax code to reward companies that produce goods and services as opposed to trading, which she likened to "playing games." Campaigning in the early-voting state of New Hampshire, Clinton underscored the anti-Wall Street rhetoric she used in the launch of her 2016 White House bid last week. "I think what we have to do is look at th
  
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