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Walker trip fuels 2016 speculation
(CNN) - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker heads to Iowa Thursday, stoking speculation that he's considering a run for the White House in 2016. But the Republican governor is downplaying the visit to the state that votes first in the presidential caucus and primary process. Walker will headline the Polk County, Iowa Republican Party fundraising event, […]
Issa will recall IRS official who refused to answer questions
(CNN) – A top Internal Revenue Service official who declared Wednesday she hadn't broken the law – and then refused to answer lawmaker questions – will be called to appear again in front of a congressional oversight panel, a spokesman for the committee's chairman said Thursday. Lois Lerner, who oversees the IRS division responsible for […]
LIVE: A Twitter town hall with Jon Carson
Welcome to Day Two of the March for Innovation, a social media rally in support of comprehensive immigration reform. OFA Executive Director Jon Carson just took the virtual baton and is answering your questions in a Twitter town hall...Show More Summary
'Shame on us' if Weiner elected, NY Gov. says
(CNN) – On the day of Anthony Weiner's first official campaign stop, the governor of New York offered a scathing evaluation of the disgraced former congressman's bid for mayor. "Shame on us" if New Yorkers elect Weiner to City Hall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the editorial board of the Syracuse Post-Standard. Previously, Cuomo had been […]
Anthony Weiner courts NYC voters: ‘It’s a second chance city, man!’
Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner made his first appearance Thursday since declaring his candidacy, apologizing again for his bizarre, Internet-only infidelity scandal that forced him out of Congress nearly two years ago. "There may be people who will never vote for me, and I respect that," Weiner told the phalanx of reporters who surrounded him outside [...]
Congressional source on Pritzker nomination: 'There's a certain level of hypocrisy'
Washington (CNN) - Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican Senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a […]
Questions for Obama on drones, Guantanamo before his counter-terrorism speech
President Barack Obama will defend his counter-terrorism policies in a speech at National Defense University Thursday afternoon, looking to reassure Americans concerned about his hugely controversial targeted assassination strategy with drones and revive efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected extremists. Show More Summary
See photos of Obama at his senior prom
With a trio of scandals swirling around the White House, President Barack Obama could use some good press. Time magazine did its best to deliver just that, releasing some vintage photos of a then 17-year-old Obama on prom night. The magazine obtained the photos from Kelli Allman (née McCormack), Obama's classmate at Punahou School in [...]
Obama pictures released -- from his 1979 prom
An old prom photo of Barack Obama becomes public
College grads still face a struggle to find that first good job
The American employment picture may finally be brightening a bit, but for the tens of thousands of young people being handed diplomas in the next few weeks at colleges and universities across the land, more gloom is in the forecast.
Obama speech to focus on drones, Gitmo
Washington (CNN) - From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech on Thursday. Administration officials tell CNN that Obama will use the National Defense University […]
TIME: Obama's prom night
(TIME) - Tucked away in someone else’s shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated ‘do, your arm around a high school squeeze. The President of the United States is no different. These previously unpublished photos, obtained exclusively by TIME from Obama’s schoolmate Kelli […]
CNN Washington AM Note
NATIONAL STORIES: CNN: No more missing: Rescue switches to recovery in Oklahoma With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are beginning the recovery operations," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN's Piers Morgan late Wednesday. "There's a lot of debris removal going […]
5 things you should know about immigration reform
Washington (CNN) - Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform won their first major legislative victory this week when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to approve the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" plan. If enacted, the measure will create a 13-year path to citizenship for most of the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Holder: Drone strikes have killed 4 Americans since 2009
Washington (CNN) - Counterterrorism drone strikes have killed four Americans overseas since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Holder said the United States specifically targeted and killed one U.S. Show More Summary
CNN's GUT CHECK for May 22, 2013
CNN's GUT CHECK | for May 22, 2013 | 5 p.m. - n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle TAKING THE FIFTH: IRS official says she has ‘not done anything wrong’… The Internal Revenue Service official who headed the division involved in targeting conservative groups invoked her […]
Marching toward reform in Arizona (and beyond)
The March for Innovation that kicked off today signals the ramping up of efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform. For OFA volunteers, it's an opportunity to take the actions they've been coordinating for months and amplify them...Show More Summary
Oklahoma
We're all still stunned and saddened by the destructive tornadoes that hit Oklahoma yesterday. As the people of Moore and Newcastle grieve and begin the long path to recovery, our thoughts and prayers are with them. Thank you to allShow More Summary
What’s next for the immigration reform bill?
It's been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized immigrants was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday night, after five full days of debate and amendments that did little to significantly change the original compromise. So, what's next [...]
Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. had killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009 – radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.” Holder’s disclosure, first reported by the New York Times, came a day before President Barack Obama was to defend his counter-terrorism strategy [...]
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