PALM CITY, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama teed it up with Tiger Woods on Sunday. The White House confirmed that the President and the world’s most famous golfer played a round at a secluded, exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Once the sport’s dominant player before his career was sidetracked by […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying its draft proposal as merely a backup plan if lawmakers don’t come up with an immigration overhaul of their own. It won’t be necessary, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are telling the Obama administration. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that President Barack Obama […]
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Republican opponents are sending signals that Chuck Hagel’s bid to become defense secretary will probably come to an up-or-down vote soon in the Senate. That’s unless more information damaging to the nominee — and the Obama administration — surfaces in the coming week. Critics maintain the decorated Vietnam combat […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims” is among the winners of the 64th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism. David Corn, Mother Jones’ Washington bureau chief, received the political reporting prize […]
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — That was a big-time ringer in President Barack Obama’s golfing group Sunday in Florida. Tiger Woods joined the president at the Floridian, a secluded yacht and golf club on the state’s Treasure Coast. The White House says the group also included Jim Crane, the Houston businessman who owns the […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator says he sees some in his party favoring a 2016 presidential candidate with an immigration policy that would “round people up … and send them back to Mexico.” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Sunday said he would be a presidential candidate if he thought he could win. The […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s chief of staff says the White House hasn’t proposed “anything to Capitol Hill yet” on immigration even as a leading Republican criticizes a reported draft proposal regarding illegal immigrants. That draft, according to USA Today, would create a visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The new White House chief of staff says there’s “a grave concern” about delays in assembling President Barack Obama’s second-term national security team. Senate Republicans have stalled the nominations of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary and John Brennan to be CIA director. GOP lawmakers want more answers about the White House’s […]
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TEHRAN,Iran (AP) — A prominent Iranian lawmaker is saying his country will never close the Fordo nuclear site in exchange for an ease in Western sanctions. A Sunday report by the semi-official ISNA news agency quotes Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the influential parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, as saying Fordo is a […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The new White House chief of staff says President Barack Obama is concerned about the effect the automatic budget cuts scheduled for next month will have on America’s middle class. Denis McDonough tells ABC’s “This Week” that the economy has been getting stronger over the past few months. He cites improvements in […]
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