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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier. Tweet This Post
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White House asks Sen. Schumer to reintroduce bill better protecting reporters and their sources
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2013
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No Comments »AP sources: Pentagon to cut civilian furlough days
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military officials say the Defense Department leaders trying to find ways to deal with mandatory budget cuts are poised to trim the number of civilian furlough days from 14 to 11 and allow the military to exempt thousands of additional workers from the unpaid day off requirements. Politics News Headlines – [...]
Obama to tap congressman Watt as housing regulator: sources
Posted by admin on May 1st, 2013
By Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to nominate Democratic congressman Mel Watt to oversee mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. If confirmed by the Senate, Watt will replace Edward DeMarco, the current career civil servant who has led the Federal Housing Finance [...]
Froman, Pritzker in line for U.S. trade and commerce posts: sources
Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is close to choosing White House deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs Mike Froman to be the next U.S. trade representative, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. After a long vetting process, Chicago businesswoman and Obama fundraiser Penny Pritzker is still in line [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Commerce, Froman, Line, posts, Pritzker, Sources, trade, U.S. No Comments »Washington Post: Sources say Max Baucus retiring in 2014
Posted by admin on April 23rd, 2013
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Former Arthur Levitt adviser eyed for possible SEC post: sources
Posted by admin on April 12th, 2013
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White is eyeing a former adviser to ex-SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt as a potential contender for a key post in the division that oversees financial markets, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Joseph Lombard, a market structure expert at law firm Murphy [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: adviser, Arthur, Eyed, Former, Levitt, Possible, Post, Sources No Comments »AP sources: SD Sen. Johnson won’t seek re-election
Posted by admin on March 26th, 2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota plans to retire at the end of his term, party officials said Monday — a departure that gives Republicans a prime opportunity to pick up a seat as they attempt to win back control of the chamber in 2014. Tweet This Post
Exclusive: Obama adviser Deese in running for deputy budget chief – sources
Posted by admin on March 5th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Brian Deese is a leading candidate to become deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to sources familiar with the matter. Deese, now deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council, would join Sylvia Mathews Burwell, currently president of the Walmart Foundation, whom Obama [...]
Death toll on Kenya coast rises to nine: police sources
Posted by admin on March 4th, 2013
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – At least five people were killed in the Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi in an attack by unidentified machete-wielding men as voting began in a tense presidential election on Monday, district police said, bringing the death toll in violence on the coast to nine so far. “Our officers were manning a [...]
