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Fox News poll Majority thinks White House knew about IRS actions
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation. ...
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Watch Hackers Experiment With White House We The People API
. If a petition gains enough signatures, the White House will pledge an official response. Since its launch, 200,000 petitions have been created, racking up 13 million signatures. In February, the White House opened the ...
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Tim Cooks improbable victory in Washington
When Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared in front of Carl Levin today, I was hoping for an epic showdown, as presaged by Levin's highly-aggressive press release yesterday. I was sorely disappointed although I did end up with a newfound admiration for Tim Cook's ability to acquit himself with dignity and intelligence and integrity in the toughest of situations. The Apple executives at the ...
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Pine Bluff Salvation Army Headed to Oklahoma to Help Tornado Victims First Responders
PINE BLUFF, AR -- The Salvation Army in Pine Bluff is headed to Oklahoma to feed first responders and people still in the area affected by the tornado.The responders in Pine Bluff have one of the newer disaster trucks equipped to serve more than 700 meals at breakfast, lunch and dinner."It's not too big where you can't get into some tight places," says Commanding Officer ...
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Minnesota Rep. Karen Clark to be honored at White House
Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, left, and her partner, Jacquelyn Zita, wave to supporters as they leave the Minnesota House chambers in the State Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday, May 9, 2013, after the House approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to wed. (Pioneer Press: John Doman) A little more than a week after the bill she sponsored to legalize gay marriage was signed into law, state ...
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White House IRS timeline shifts again
The White House’s explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday.Just a day after telling reporters that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior White House staff learned of the situation nearly a month ago, press secretary ...
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Senators to IRS Officials Did the White House Know
Senate lawmakers jumped on the chance to grill the top IRS officials over the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Three men were on the hot seat Tuesday, including outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, and J. Russel George, the Treasury Department inspector general who submitted the report detailing the IRS scandal. Shulman was the one ...
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Mr. Cook goes to Washington Apple bruised at Senate tax hearing
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends his company's tax strategies at a U.S. Senate hearing. Apple CEO Tim Cook survived his first congressional hearing Tuesday with his company's reputation for innovation intact. Today, however, the focus wasn't on a new technological breakthrough by Apple, it was on the creative ways the multinational corporation reduces its U.S. tax liability. Here are four ...
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Home Depot Product Sparks Store Fire
Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., firefighers responded to 150 Hampton Park Blvd. for a report of smoke inside of the building. The store was evacuated and sprinklers were ...
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NBC Special on Okla. Replaces The Voice Tues.
NBC will broadcast the special, hosted by Brian Williams, from 8 to 9 p.m. It will also air on MSNBC and the Weather Channel. Williams will report from Moore, ...
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N. Va. biotech has always been weak. How that could change.
Biotech has never quite taken flight in Northern Virginia. Whether that's due to the lack of a big corporate anchor or blue-chip research university, the dearth of wet labs, the attraction of a stronger scene in Montgomery County or pure dumb happenstance is anyone's guess. But on this side of the D.C. suburbs, the life sciences are not thriving. The story of Virginia biotech right now ...
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D.C. woman pleads guilty to April crash that killed pedestrian
A District woman who had been drinking alcohol and smoking crack cocaine before she drove a car up onto a sidewalk and killed a pedestrian last month in Southwest D.C. has pleaded ...
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Obama against prosecuting reporters for doing their jobs White House
President Obama believes in the need for balance between national security concerns and the ability of reporters to work freely, White House has ...
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Mr. Cook came to Washington and escaped unscathed
an apology . John McCain (Rep., Ariz.), after a bout of tax dodging rhetoric, wanted to know why his iPhone was constantly updating its apps. Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster. ...
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Washington has all but abandoned efforts to help the economy recover faster
Washington has all but abandoned efforts to help the economy recover faster - and lawmakers don’t seem worried that voters will punish them for it. There are no serious negotiations underway between the White House and congressional leaders on legislation to spur growth, and no bipartisan "gangs" of senators are huddling to craft a compromise job-creation ...
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Man Wanted for Throwing Rocks at Montgomery Co. Home
According to John Fitzgerald with the Chevy Chase Village Police Department, the suspect entered the backyard of a home in the 5500 block of Montgomery Street at approximately 1 p.m. April 29. He then repeatedly threw several large rocks at the home, causing thousands of dollars in damage to a set of French doors and a ...
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Shot Va. Officer Wants to Return to Duty Wife Says
In a News4 exclusive, the family of Alexandria police Officer Peter Laboy speaks out publicly for the first time since he was shot. News4's Mark Segraves reveals what Officer Laboy remembers from the day he was ...
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Burmese optimistic after historic White House visit
Burmese are celebrating an end to their long international isolation with the first state visit to the US by a Myanmar president in almost 50 ...
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Employee exodus drains D.C. economic development agency of key personnel
The District's economic development agency is experiencing a bout of brain drain. In the last six months, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development has lost a raft of key employees who were charged with oversight of some of the District's most important projects, from St. Elizabeths East to Poplar Point to Walter Reed. As there may be no more than a year and a ...
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White House Reporters shouldnt be prosecuted
White House spokesman Jay Carney says he can't comment on any specific government investigation into leaks of classified information. But he says Obama believes the questions currently being asked about how to strike the balance between protecting national security and journalists' freedom are entirely ...
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Donald Trumps acquisitions stretch from South Florida to Washington D.C.
Donald Trump plans to convert the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C. into a luxury hotel. Donald Trump has cleared a regulatory hurdle in his efforts to redevelop the Old Post Office in downtown Washington, D.C. into a luxury hotel, but is still in financial negotiations with the federal government. The redevelopment is the latest for Trump, who has had a number of acquisitions in South Florida ...
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Pentagon plays down Korean Peninsula tensions after missile tests
A KN-02 missile, the kind that it is believed North Korea has launched six times in the last few days. The US has tried to downplay the missile tests, citing decreased tensions on the peninsula. (Wikipedia/Wikimedia ...
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Sinkhole Closes Parts Of 14th St F St In DC
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- DC officials confirm 14th Street is closed between New York and Pennsylvania avenues and F Street is closed between 13th and 15th streets due to a sinkhole. We are told crews from the District Department of Transportation and DC Water are investigating. According to DDOT officials, "on F Street NW northbound traffic is being diverted at Pennsylvania Avenue and ...
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Government Workers Protest Shuts Down Traffic
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Protests in Washington, D.C. aren't new but this one shut down traffic during the height of the Tuesday morning commute. Some government workers want better wages. They marched out onto Pennsylvania Avenue shutting down the intersection of busy 14th Street. There were DC and Homeland Security police officers at every corner. Men and women who work at the food court ...
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Top 20 Places To Brunch In D.C.
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- D.C. is a big brunch city, but which restaurants serve the best brunch? Check out this photo gallery, courtesy of Yelp!, of 20 of the top brunch spots in ...
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