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  • Jay Carney doesn’t want ‘back and forth’ with Rep. Darrell Issa

    By Brian Hughes | 06/03/13 03:30 PM

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Monday shrugged off Rep. Darrell Issa’s claim that President Obama’s top spokesman is a “paid liar” for the administration. “I’m not going to get into a back and forth with Chairman Issa,” Carney said repeatedly, fending of attempts by...

  • PETA cool with lobster death -- if at the White House

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 07:25 AM

    For years, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been after President Obama to change his diet and policies promoting the eating of animals, but now they've gone soft over one of the first family's favorite luxuries, live lobster. The group that once slapped Obama's swatting death...

  • White House: Asteroid 'poses no threat' to Earth

    05/31/13 03:45 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles long poses no threat to planet Earth. The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 was making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, keeping a safe distance of 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between...

  • Administration: 'Obamacare' to offer more choices

    05/30/13 08:01 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies are showing interest in providing coverage under the new health care law, a development likely to increase market competition and give uninsured people more choices than they now have, the White House said Thursday. Many of the 14 million people who...

  • Social Security, Medicare still face big challenge

    05/30/13 05:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. recovery slowly gathers steam, federal deficits are finally coming down from their nosebleed $1-trillion-plus heights. That will postpone until fall a new budget showdown between Congress and the White House — and also will probably delay the days of reckoning,...

  • AP NewsAlert

    05/30/13 01:33 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service confirms letter addressed to White House similar to letters sent to Bloomberg.

  • Eric Holder's truthfulness at issue in damage-control effort

    By Brian Hughes | 05/29/13 06:55 PM

    Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with Washington news bureau chiefs this week to explain the Justice Department's secret surveillance of journalists, as questions mounted about whether he told the full truth about his own role in that spying. The Justice Department this week is setting...

  • White House: ‘Let’s talk about asteroids’

    By Joel Gehrke | 05/29/13 05:05 PM

    Lately, reporters have asked President Obama’s spokesman about the editing of Benghazi talking points, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, the Justice Department’s surveillance of the media — including one Fox News reporter dubbed a “co-conspirator” — and Health and Human...

  • October state visit planned for Brazil's president

    05/29/13 02:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will roll out the red carpet to welcome Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, for an official state visit this fall. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Rousseff's Oct. 23 visit will also include the first state dinner of Obama's second term....

  • NATO leader to meet with Obama on Friday

    05/28/13 08:45 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz fohg RAHS'-moo-sihn) will visit the White House on Friday. The White House said Tuesday that Rasmussen and President Barack Obama will discuss security issues, including Afghanistan, where NATO and the U.S. are...


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