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  • irs fbi investigation
  • Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the IRS as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny given to the tea party and other conservative groups.
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  • irs fbi investigation
  • Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the IRS as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny given to the tea party and other conservative groups.
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  • irs fbi investigation
  • President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the IRS.
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  • presidential problems
  • President Barack Obama tried to defuse a trio of controversies Thursday, pledging to work with Congress to ensure the IRS doesn't abuse its power, urging legislators to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic outposts and promising to seek "a balance" between national security and a need to protect freedom of the press.
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  • presidential problems
  • President Obama released a trove of documents related to the Benghazi attack and forced out the top official at the IRS.
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  • irs fbi investigation
  • President Obama says Steven Miller resigned amid an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups.
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  • irs fbi investigation
  • Devin Dwyer has the latest on IRS targeting of conservative groups
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  • Ineffective management at the Internal Revenue Service allowed agents to improperly target tea party groups.
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  • president barack obama new york city
  • President Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash.
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  • President Barack Obama on Monday called reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups "outrageous" and said anyone responsible should be held accountable.
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  • obama honors officers
  • President Obama on Saturday praised the nation's police officers for everyday acts of courage, saying they often rush into danger to do "some really tough stuff."
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  • prince harry michelle obama
  • The British soldier-prince is spending most of his week in the U.S. honoring the wounded and the dead of war, a salute that began Thursday at a land-mine exhibition in Congress.
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  • prince harry michelle obama
  • Michelle Obama and military mothers had high tea like the British on Thursday.
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  • president barack obama at ohio state university
  • President Barack Obama returned to Ohio State University and told graduates that only through vigorous participation in their democracy can they right an ill-functioning government.
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  • President Obama, concluding a three-day visit to Mexico and Costa Rica, is cheering Mexican economic advances and pressing other Central American leaders to deal with poverty and security.
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  • Obama was to deliver a speech Friday to an audience made up primarily of students, highlighting the role they can play in deciding Mexico's future.
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  • President Barack Obama is headed to Mexico with a domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda.
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  • President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war.
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  • president meets jack hoffman
  • The 7-year-old cancer patient who became an Internet sensation for his touchdown run in Nebraska's spring football game has yet another fan - President Barack Obama.
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  • President Barack Obama is nominating Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, a rising star in Democratic politics, to run the Transportation Department, a White House official said.
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  • President Obama poked fun at himself as well as some of his political adversaries during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner attended by politicians, members of the media and Hollywood celebrities.
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  • President Barack Obama vowed Friday to fight with Planned Parenthood against what he said were efforts across the country to turn women's health back to the 1950s.
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  • President Barack Obama has a strategy to discourage his daughters from rebelling, perhaps by getting a tattoo himself.
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  • president obama suffolk county snowstorm
  • President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for New York State to help Suffolk County pay for damage caused by the February snowstorm.
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  • The White House says President Barack Obama will host female senators for dinner at the White House on Tuesday.
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  • President Barack Obama pledged to seek answers for the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions about the motives and the planning behind the deadly blasts, even as he acknowledged that the capture of a second suspect brought to a close a trying five days for his presidency and for the nation.
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  • ricin investigation
  • The stories from family and acquaintances of a Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other officials describe a caring father and enthusiastic musician who struggled with mental illness and pursued a conspiracy theory to its farthest reaches.
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  • ricin investigation
  • A team of law enforcement officers has entered the home of a Mississippi man accused of sending letters with ricin.
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  • See images regarding suspicious letters found in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC
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  • boston marathon explosions
  • President Barack Obama, responding to the explosions at the Boston Marathon, says the United States does not know "who did this or why" but vowed that whoever is responsible "will feel the full weight of justice."
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  • President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits. It would raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including as Social Security and Medicare.
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  • connecticut news
  • Police say officers noticed the man acting suspiciously and took him into custody by force when he pulled out the gun.
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  • Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity.
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  • brain mapping obama
  • President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
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  • white house easter egg roll
  • The Easter Bunny, dozens of professional athletes and thousands of children are hippity-hopping across the White House's South Lawn as President Barack Obama and his family lead the annual Easter Egg Roll.
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  • President Barack Obama pressed for swift action on a sweeping immigration bill, saying last-minute obstacles are "resolvable."
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  • President Barack Obama on Tuesday named veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director.
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  • president barack obama hosts passover seder at the white house
  • President Barack Obama was marking Monday night's start of Passover with a private Seder at the White House.
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  • obama mideast trip
  • Taking on the role of tourist, President Obama walked through the winding, narrow pathways of Jordan's fabled ancient city of Petra on Saturday.
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  • president barack obama wraps up trip to israel
  • Devin Dwyer reports on the president's trip to the Middle East
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  • president obama in the middle east
  • Devin Dwyer reports on the president's historic visit to the Middle East
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  • president barack obama touches down in israel
  • Devin Dwyer reports on the presidents historic trip to the Middle East
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  • Lisa Colagrossi reports on the latest budget battle in Washington
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  • Two young girls who were scared to go to school after the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings wrote President Obama.
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  • Tahman Bradley recaps the president's big address and the Republican response
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  • In his State of the Union Address, President Obama singled out a NYU nurse who saved the lives of newborns during Sandy.
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  • Lori Stokes recaps Obama's big day in her inauguration roundup
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  • Submit your questions to Lori Stokes and Dave Evans who are in DC to cover the Inauguration.
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  • A look back at presidential inaugurations in photos.
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