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Some stories say White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is too powerful; others portray a White House dominated by campaign staffers in which Emanuel's pragmatic advice on health care and the economy is ignored.
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WASHINGTON, March 7, 2010 (NPR) -Television shows have been ripping stories from the headlines for years, but lately that equation has been reversed.
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius walks to a microphone stand to speak to reporters following her meeting with health insurance company executives and related industry officials at the White House.
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2010 - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health
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Activists with the group Medicare For All and other health care expansion advocates chant slogans in favor of broader government health care.
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WASHINGTON, February 26, 2010 - More than 25 state legislators from across the country will hold their own "virtual" health care summit
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Democratic National Committee chairman TIm Kaine
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WASHINGTON, February 25, 2010 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine released the following statement:
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama attends a conference called peace Jam which held in Dharamshala, India.
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BEIJING - China Friday asked the US to immediately withdraw a decision to hold a meeting between US President Barack Obama and Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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US President Barack Obama (C) speaks about his budget for fiscal year 2011, while flanked by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) and White House budget director Peter Orszag at the White House.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.83 trillion budget on Monday that would pour more money into the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs.
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U.S. President Barack Obama whispers to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (L) as he enters House chamber on his way to deliver his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington .
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WASHINGTON - Warning that the nation had developed a "deficit of trust" in government, President Obama on Wednesday promised to put the public's top concerns...
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Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate vying for the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., talks with supporters while walking with U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., left, during a campaign stop in Melrose, Mass., Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
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US President Barack Obama is making an emergency trip to Massachusetts today in an attempt to prevent the unthinkable - the loss of the Senate seat held by Edward Kennedy that would cause panic in his Democratic Party and probably drive the final nail into the coffin of his signature issue, healthcare reform.
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President-elect Barack Obama walks with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2008, to a meeting with Congressional Republican and Democratic leaders.
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WASHINGTON - Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, apologized on Saturday for saying that he believed Barack Obama could become the country's first black president because he was "light-skinned" and had the advantage of carrying "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." The apology was prompted by the release of a new book on the 2008 presidential campaign, which reported that Mr.
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President Barack Obama gestures during his health care reform meeting at the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed frequently on Thursday at a summit on his stalled healthcare overhaul, battling over the size and cost of the proposal and moving no closer to a compromise agreement.
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President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House, Feb. 18, 2010.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has concluded over an hour of private talks with the visiting Dalai Lama at the White House, and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader declared himself "very happy." The Dalai Lama told reporters on the White House driveway that he spoke to Obama about the promotion of human value, religious harmony and the concerns of the Tibetan people.
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General William Tecumseh Sherman
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"War," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, "is Hell." He knew what he was talking about. Sherman's march through Georgia and into South Carolina at the end of the Civil War...
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, left, laugh as they deliver a joint press conference, at the Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.
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PARIS - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China risks diplomatic isolation and economic uncertainty if it doesn't join the international push to further sanction Iran for its nuclear program.
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Republican U.S. Senator-elect Scott Brown's wife Gail Huff (L) and daughter Ayla (R) react as Brown jokes about his family after defeating Democrat Martha Coakley in the U.S. Senate race to replace the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy at Brown's victory rally in Boston January 19, 2010.
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LOS ANGELES - In a stunning blow to Democrats, Republican Scott Brown on Tuesday seized the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy, handing the GOP the crucial vote that could thwart President Obama's far-reaching agenda, beginning with healthcare reform.
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Supporters of same-sex marriage huddle outside of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. A federal trial beginning on Monday in San Francisco will consider wether the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban in California is legal.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The first federal trial to determine if the US constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses.
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President Barack Obama meets with National Security Council chief of staff Denis McDonough about updates concerning the attempted terrorist attack of an airliner on Christmas Day. This briefing occurred Dec. 29, 2009, in Kailua, Hawaii.
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Obama details mistakes and actions to tackle them US President Barack Obama has ordered a strengthening of the US terrorist watch lists, saying the US system failed over the attempted Detroit plane attack.
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