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Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus
Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S....
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The IRS and its tea party tempest
Updated: 41 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck....
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Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms
Updated: 1 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein's (tayn sayns) historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. But in the six months since...
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SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash
Updated: 8 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted...
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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Updated: 10 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal...
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Benghazi probe co-chair subpoenaed by House panel
Updated: 10 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S....
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Energy Dept. backs Texas LNG export plan
Updated: 10 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department on Friday conditionally approved a Texas company's proposal to export liquefied natural gas, only the second such project allowed to move forward amid a...
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Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention
Updated: 11 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an...
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GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law
Updated: 11 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare...
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US slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria
Updated: 12 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war...
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