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Obama presses Congress to avert fiscal cliff
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:02AM November 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Congress anew to approve legislation that ensures taxes don't go up on 98 percent of all Americans, families earning less than $250,000 a year.
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Women in Petraeus scandal had visited White House
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:32AM November 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Their close ties to the military community giving them unusual access to top generals, Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley even visited the White House on separate and apparently unrelated occasions before a sex scandal brought down former CIA Director David Petraeus.
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An apologetic Petraeus expresses regret for affair
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:52PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus, who was whisked clandestinely into private meetings with Congress on Friday to avoid reporters, expressed regret anew in an appearance that marked his first official business since he resigned in disgrace over an extramarital affair.
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Justice official: Register voters automatically
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:09PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — One of the top enforcers of the nation's civil rights laws said Friday government should be responsible for automatically registering citizens to vote by using existing databases to compile lists of all eligible residents in each jurisdiction.
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Dozen House women defend Rice over Libya comments
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:09PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators' angry criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of sexism and racism, a dozen female members of the House said Friday.
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Reid to McCain: No need for special Libya panel
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:38PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic leader in the Senate is rejecting Sen. John McCain's request for a Watergate-style congressional committee to investigate the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya.
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Chevy Volt Owners Take Flack For GM Flubs
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:46PM November 16, 2012 Comment
A spokesmodel plugs a Chevy Volt into a charging station at the 2011 New York International Auto Show.
General Motors earned considerable enmity in 2009 when it declared bankruptcy and accepted a $51 billion bailout from the U.S. government. Some GM customers have since discovered that they're in the crossfire as well.
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Obama's Health Care Law Advances in the States
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Threatened with repeal just weeks ago, President Barack Obama's health care law now appears on track in close to half the states, with others playing catch-up and the administration readying a fallback for states not wishing to participate.
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Officials: Few of Gen. Allen emails questionable
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:18PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say just a handful of the emails between the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and a Florida woman are potentially problematic, but the vast majority of the 20,000-plus pages of documents reviewed by investigators were routine.
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Obama, Congress Begin Long Road Toward Fiscal Cliff Solution
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President Barack Obama pauses as he hosts a meeting on Nov. 16, 2012, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
President Obama and congressional leaders expressed optimism Friday about finding a budget compromise but they have a long way to go to resolve their differences in time to avoid a fiscal debacle at year's end.
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Fiscal talks under way, Obama heads to SE Asia
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:06PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is darting off to Southeast Asia to showcase a foreign policy achievement and reinforce the U.S. role as a counterweight to China.
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Christie Smells Setup, Won't Answer Twinkie Question [VIDEO]
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wasn't about to take the bait: a question dealing with that quintessential junk food, Twinkies.
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House passes bill normalizing Russian trade
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:51PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The House showed some bipartisan cooperation Friday by voting overwhelmingly to end Soviet-era trade restrictions so that American companies and farmers can take advantage of Russia's expanding and more open markets.
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Obama's 4 Biggest Economic Challenges
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:40PM November 16, 2012 Comment
President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Nov. 16, 2012.
Forget the "fiscal cliff."
The year-end deadline for addressing a slew of federal budget decisions is obviously a big concern right now. Congress will torpedo economic growth if it allows more than $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts to take place all at once, as scheduled.
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J. Edgar Hoover Expert: First FBI Director Would Have Blackmailed Petraeus
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Would J. Edgar Hoover have forced David Petraeus to wear a dress, or would he have weakened the power of the CIA? The world will never know.
If J. Edgar Hoover were still director of the FBI, things might be very different for David Petraeus. The four-star general resigned as head of the CIA on Nov. 9 after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
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Petraeus Believed Terrorists Behind Libya Attack
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:17PM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers during private hearings Friday that he believed all along that the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a terrorist strike, even though that wasn't how the Obama administration initially described it publicly.
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Hill Leaders Voice Confidence in Debt Deal
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:04PM November 16, 2012 Comment
House Speaker John Boehner during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders are expressing confidence they can reach a deal with President Barack Obama to head off the "fiscal cliff" and the risk of a new recession.
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Obama Coming Into His Own After Re-Election
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:12AM November 16, 2012 Comment
Obama hugs a woman as he tours a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on Staten Island.
It looks as though a stranger has started impersonating Barack Obama. The president is breaking free from the aloof, unemotional, tightly disciplined persona that many of his critics complained about during the past four years. Now he's more of an engaged, aggressive, and tough-minded leader who seems eager to take on his critics and is showing flashes of anger now and then.
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Petraeus on Capitol Hill to discuss Libya attack
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:58AM November 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus arrived early Friday for closed hearings on Capitol Hill as lawmakers seek details from the retired general about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
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GOP Leaders Already Jockeying for 2016
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:35AM November 16, 2012 CommentLAS VEGAS (AP) — Louisiana's Bobby Jindal is urging the Republican Party to rethink its pitch to voters. Bob McDonnell of Virginia says Republicans should look to outsiders to fix partisan gridlock in Washington. Their fellow governor, Wisconsin's Scott Walker, says the next GOP leader must do a better job explaining why the party's policies will help ordinary Americans.
