Politics Newswire

ABC News
China's Xi Will Meet Obama Earlier Than Expected
ABC News
China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea. The June 7-8 meeting at a ...
Obama to meet with China's Xi in California June 7-8Reuters
Obama schedules China summit, Africa trip - USA TodayUSA TODAY
Obama, China's Xi to meet earlier than expected, amid issues from North Korea ...Washington Post
Whitehouse.gov (press release) -Bloomberg -Yahoo! News
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San Francisco Chronicle
CEO Cook To Defend Apple Before Senate Committee Hearing
NPR
Giant technology firm Apple is paying billions of dollars less than it should in U.S. taxes each year, according to a report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The panel will hold a hearing on the matter Tuesday in Washington, D.C ...
Senate panel says Apple avoids billions in US taxesUSA TODAY
Apple Avoided Taxes on Overseas Billions, Senate Panel FindsWall Street Journal
Apple avoids taxes with 'complex web' of offshore entities, Senate inquiry findsWashington Post
Politico -San Francisco Chronicle -Chicago Tribune
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ABC News
LA's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood could be election bellwether
Los Angeles Times
Garcetti and Greuel have paid more attention to the San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles, places where swaying key blocs of undecided voters could determine the outcome of the election. But in political terms, Mid-Wilshire is a Los Angeles version ...
Garcetti, Greuel Do Last-Minute Campaigning Before Mayoral ElectionCBS Local
LA election turnout: Few are expected at polls today; some say change is neededInland Valley Daily Bulletin

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Daily Caller
Analysis: Some Republicans see new scandal in Sebelius fundraising
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law just as ...
Obama seems to support Sebelius amid fundraising scandalDaily Caller

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Slate Magazine
The Impossibility of Being Barack Obama
The Atlantic
I half-heard the President's commencement address at Morehouse when coming back to DC this weekend. I saw a clip of it again late last night and thought: this is another sample and reminder of Barack Obama's reserves of rhetorical strength. Like his ...
Obama Discusses Race, Fatherhood, Responsibility at Morehouse College ...TIME
Obama needs to stop lecturing predominantly black audiences, some supporters ...Washington Post
Obama 'In the Morehouse'American Thinker
Slate Magazine -Advocate.com
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Politico
Obama's rating steady in face of controversies, likely buoyed by rising ...
Washington Post
A bare majority of Americans say they believe that Obama is focused on issues that are important to them personally; just 33 percent think so of congressional Republicans. Brighter assessments of the economy may be one reason that the president has ...
Poll: Obama agenda to get stuck in mud over Benghazi, IRS - USA TodayUSA TODAY
Senate set to grill IRS officials as White House seeks to clarify timelineNBCNews.com
Public Sharply Critical on IRS, Benghazi; But Economy Cuts Obama Some SlackABC News (blog)
CBS News -Chicago Sun-Times
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San Francisco Chronicle
Massachusetts GOP Hopes Lightning Strikes Again in Senate Race
New York Times
BOSTON — The major political question here is whether Representative Edward J. Markey, a longtime member of Congress whose liberal views generally reflect those of Massachusetts voters, could actually lose the special election for the Senate seat ...
McCain warns Obama-Nixon comparisons are 'overreaching'Boston Herald (blog)
Washington scandals intrude on Senate race between Democrat Edward ...MassLive.com

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Washington Post
Obama Couples Praise for Burmese Leader With Warning Against Violence
New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama encouraged the wave of reform that has transformed the onetime pariah state of Myanmar into an emerging touchstone of change in Asia, but pointedly warned the country's visiting leader on Monday that violence against ...
Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against MuslimsReuters
Obama praises, encourages change in Burma - USA TodayUSA TODAY
Obama meets with Burmese presidentWashington Post
TIME -Voice of America -Los Angeles Times
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White House Says It Didn't Loop Obama In on IRS Inquiry
New York Times
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 ...

White House counsel kept IRS probe results from Obama
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior White House aides knew weeks ago that a probe of the Internal Revenue Service had found that the U.S. tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, but did not tell President Barack Obama, a White House ...

Raw Story
AP president calls on Obama to 'rein in' DOJ probe into wire service's records
Fox News
Associated Press President Gary Pruitt says the Justice Department sent a strong – and negative -- message to future sources that the government would go after them if they spoke to the press. It's a move Pruitt called not only unconstitutional, but ...
AP president blasts "unconstitutional" phone records probeCBS News
AP president rips 'unconstitutional' Obama administration investigationDaily Caller
AP chief to Obama: Spying on reporters is 'an unconstitutional act'Raw Story
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
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Daily Beast
How Obama Handles Crisis
Daily Beast
Sometime after the infamous Denver debate last fall, which by most media accounts should have forced the President to immediately quit the race and resign in shame, a few of us who had been with him since the earliest days tried to assess where the ...

Politico
As GOP weighs how best to profit from Obama's problems, Democrats hope it ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes, legislatively or ...
Obama's newest ally: John McCainPolitico
GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woesBoston.com

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Philly.com
USCIS union says it opposes Senate immigration bill
Fox News
Earlier this month, the National ICE Council, which represents more than 7,000 agents, sent a letter to Congress sharply criticizing the legislation and says it will not support it. There are three major unions that represent the country's immigration ...
Union of immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate billNBCNews.com
Senate committee looks to wrap up work this week on immigration bill, but ...Washington Post
Senate won't vote on anti-bullying billMinnesota Public Radio
Kennebec Journal -Washington Examiner -The Hill (blog)
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Wall Street Journal
Obama's Counsel Was Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago
Wall Street Journal
Others, including veterans of previous scandals, said the counsel—whose role is to advise the president on all legal matters concerning his job and the White House—was right to avoid telling Mr. Obama about the audit's early findings. Doing so could ...
Top Obama adviser stakes out defiant defense on IRS, Benghazi, AP scandalsFox News
As President Obama tells Morehouse grads he strives to be 'a better man ...New York Daily News
White House Aide Calls Criticism of Obama 'Offensive'New York Times (blog)
Christian Science Monitor -CNN (blog) -The Hill
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New York Daily News
Philadelphia cop honored by President Obama faces rape charges
New York Daily News
News of his heroism reached all the way to the White House and Decoatsworth later received an invitation from Vice President Joe Biden to attend Obama's first congressional address to Congress in February 2009. DeCoatsworth sat between First Lady ...

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Philly.com
Republicans continue beating Benghazi drum
CBS News
After the White House released some 100 pages of emails documenting the development of talking points used to brief the public on the attack in Benghazi, Democrats brandished the disclosure as evidence that there was no attempt by the White House to ...
Republicans weigh risks, benefits of select committee on BenghaziWashington Times
Filmmaker Hillary & Obama Framed Still Rots in PrisonFrontPage Magazine

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Can Obama bridge the divide between the two Americas?
Washington Post
And the IRS officials who acted wrongly did so of their own accord and had absolutely no contact with President Obama or senior officials in his administration. ... “partisan fishing expeditions designed to distract from the real issues at hand,” in ...