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White House Has Renewed Resolve To Close Guantanamo
Later this week President Obama is expected to give a major address on counterterrorism; the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison could figure prominently in his address. The president promised to close the facility back in 2009, but he has made little progress in doing so. For the first time in years, the administration is looking to reduce the number of detainees at the island ...
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Myanmar Leaders Visit To Washington A Historic Occasion
The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, met with President Obama in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Thein Sein's trip is the first state visit to the U.S. by a Burmese official in nearly 47 ...
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Two Pakistani Nationals Extradited to District of Columbia to Face Charges Involving Illegal Pharmaceutical Shipments
WASHINGTON-Two Pakistani nationals have been extradited to the United States to face charges alleging that they operated Internet sites that illegally shipped pharmaceuticals from Pakistan and the United Kingdom to customers in the United States. Sheikh Waseem Ul Haq, 40, and Tahir Saeed, 51, are accused of operating Internet sites that, since late 2005, illegally shipped $2 million in ...
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White House to brief Democrats on economy on Tuesday
President Barack Obama talks about the need for Congress to ensure taxes don't go up for the majority of Americans next year, while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, August 3, ...
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White House Says It Didn’t Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry
WASHINGTON -- White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury Department but never told President Obama, the White House said ...
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White House says Obama to meet with Chinas Xi in California June 7-8
U.S. President Barack Obama listens while meeting with Myanmar's President Thein Sein in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington May 20, ...
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Video Obama hosts Burmese president at the White House
In a photo op Monday afternoon with Burma's president, Thein Sein, President Obama repeatedly referred to the nation as Myanmar - new acknowledgement of a "diplomatic courtesy" allowing "limited use of the name" to describe the former pariah state, though official U.S. policy "remains that Burma is the name of the ...
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Georgetown University picks D.C. official for local government affairs job
Georgetown University has hired the District's former lead on the Poplar Point redevelopment to be its first director of local government affairs, the Washington Business Journal has learned. Michael Durso, the Poplar Point project manager in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development until his recent move to the city administrator's office, will be responsible ...
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2013 Draft Lottery Fact Sheet
On May 21st, the Wizards will be one of 14 teams participating in the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery. They will have a 3.5% chance of landing the #1 overall pick and have a 12.3% chance of ending up with a pick in the top 3. If the Wizards do not win one of the lottery selections in the top 3, they will select either 8th, 9th, 10th, or 11th, depending on which 3 teams win the lottery. See table ...
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Monumental Sports Entertainment Receives Six Emmy Nominations for Broadcast Excellence
Wizards Magazine Receives Emmy Nomination WASHINGTON, DC - Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which launched Monumental Network in January 2013, received six Emmy Award nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) National Capital Chesapeake Bay Region. All of Monumental's nominations are for broadcast excellence and include Best Sports Program/Feature ...
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Montana hoops lands Washington transfer
Montana men's basketball coach Wayne Tinkle has announced the signing of 6-foot-8 forward Martin Breunig (BROY'-nig), who is transferring from the University of ...
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Associated Press chief attacks White House over ‘unconstitutional’ investigation
USA The president of the Associated Press has lashed out at the United States government in his first interview since it was revealed that the AP was being investigated by the US Department of Justice. More than one week after the AP announced that the Justice Department subpoenaed two months of phone records in an apparent attempt to discover the source of an intelligence leak, the ...
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George Washington unveils new basketball court
George Washington’s basketball court gets a makeover. (Photo courtesy of GW athletics) When college basketball teams come to the nation’s capital to ...
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IMF says Washington cutting budget deficits too quickly
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday said the United States was getting carried away with a government austerity drive, offering some of the institution's bluntest criticism yet of Washington's rush to ...
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D.C. Council to hold hearing on public financing
Ward 5 Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, the chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations, said on Monday that his panel will stage a July 11 hearing to solicit feedback about potential models for the city to ...
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White House learned of IRS inquiry last month Issa informed in mid-2012
The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public, according to a senior White House ...
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Seelbach receives honors from White House
City Council member Chris Seelbach will receive the Harvey Milk Champion of Change Award at the White House on Wednesday. Cincinnati City Council member Chris Seelbach will be one of 10 recipients of the first-ever Harvey Milk Champion of Change Award at the White House on Wednesday. The award honors Harvey Milks legacy by recognizing outstanding openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ...
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D.C. tax office failed to collect $6.5M in penalties auditors say
The District's tax office has failed to collect $6.5 million in penalties from large D.C. businesses that do not file their returns electronically as required by law. That is one of numerous flaws including unauthorized changes, insufficient support, inadequate planning that the D.C. inspector general found in the Office of Tax and Revenue's Integrated Tax System, software the District ...
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Washington State Butcher Spikes Pig Feed With Weed
William von Schneidau, who owns the BB Ranch butcher shop at Pike Place Market in Seattle, has made prosciutto from pigs fed ...
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White House defends IRS chief-turned-ObamaCare enforcer
In the Obama Administration, deploying the Incompetence Defense is no obstacle to receiving cash rewards and promotions. Even though the former commissioner of the tax exempt organizations division of the IRS, Sarah Hall Ingram, was – at best – shockingly ignorant of widespread abuse in her department, she’s ...
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White House tries to clear up how when it knew of IG report
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reveals a timeline related to when the Obama administration became aware of an IG report about the IRS allegedly targeting political ...
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The Caucus Senate Panel Asks I.R.S. Chief to Detail Communications With White House
If the Internal Revenue Service and the Obama administration thought the Senate Finance Committee and its Democratic leaders would offer something of a respite from the battering they have been taking from Congressional Republicans, they learned otherwise on Monday. Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who is the chairman of the committee, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the ranking ...
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White House timeline of IRS scandal when they were told shifts
The timeline for when senior White House officials knew about the IRS scandal seems to be shifting. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the president's counsel was told on April 24 about the preliminary findings of an IRS audit that showed tax officials unfairly targeted Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status. Carney had previously said that White House ...
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Doug Hills First Alert Forecast
Storms will be possible early this week but what about the all-important Memorial Day Weekend forecast? Updated: Monday, May 20th, 2013 at 2:41 ...
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Pentagon requests $US79bn for Afghanistan
THE Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $US80 billion ($A82.41 billion) to cover the cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2014. The request for $79.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 is slightly lower than the war funding of $87.2 billion for the current fiscal year, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters. The proposed funding for Afghanistan operations is in addition to a $526.6 ...
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