A House committee is accusing the Obama administration of delaying the information out of concern for the government’s investment and the president’s re-election.

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Republicans Charge Delay in Volt Fire Announcement

Alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of attempting to assassinate the president and 16 related crimes. Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Washington. After one of his lawyers entered the pleas for him, Ortega-Hernandez was escorted back to jail, where he is being held without bond pending a trial. Read full article > >

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Not guilty plea for alleged White House shooter Ortega-Hernandez

Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Charmaine Yoest is the president of Americans United for Life , the country’s oldest antiabortion organization, formed shortly before the Roe decision. The group frequently works with state legislators, writing model abortion restrictions that get adapted and passed across the country, and saw a particularly successful year in 2011. Americans United for Life was involved with 28 laws that passed last year, including ones that bar insurers from covering abortion and others that defund abortion providers. Yoest and I spoke earlier this week about today’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade, how abortion rights changed in the past year, and what she sees happening in 2012. What follows is a transcript, lightly edited for content and length. Read full article > >

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Roe v. Wade at 39: A ‘breathtaking’ year for abortion restrictions

At least 50 people are killed in eastern Nigeria in clashes over land, as the president declares a state of emergency in areas affected by Islamist attacks.

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Calls the president out of touch.

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Romney: Obama’s Like Marie Antoinette

Pundits say the darndest things on television. Take, for example, the genius who said in January that “the president has a fairly easy” reelection ahead of him. Or the guy who said in June that Newt Gingrich was “finished, whether he knows he is or not.” How about the talking head who said in July that House Speaker John Boehner had suffered a “mortal wound” at the hands of fellow Republicans? Or the one who predicted in August that Rick Perry would “hold his own” in the presidential debates? Read full article > >

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A few cracks in my crystal ball

Pundits say the darndest things on television. Take, for example, the genius who said in January that “the president has a fairly easy” reelection ahead of him. Or the guy who said in June that Newt Gingrich was “finished, whether he knows he is or not.” How about the talking head who said in July that House Speaker John Boehner had suffered a “mortal wound” at the hands of fellow Republicans? Or the one who predicted in August that Rick Perry would “hold his own” in the presidential debates? Read full article > >

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A few cracks in my crystal ball

José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain had sought “a risk to the integrity of the internal market” — a reference to the European Union trade area.

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José Manuel Barroso, European Commission Chief, Assails Britain Over Treaty Veto

Against the backdrop of a tightening Republican presidential contest, much of the hierarchy of President Obama’s campaign is decamping from Chicago to Washington on Tuesday for a high-profile debriefing on the the state of the president’s reelection effort. The message will be predictably upbeat. For Obama advisers in need of a little lift after months of bad news, there have been some encouraging signs in recent weeks. Read full article > >

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For Obama campaign, reasons for optimism

It was a proud moment, in the East Room of the White House, on a beautiful spring day in March 2009. In the room were leading scientists, Nobel laureates, the president’s science adviser and heads of organizations that had fought in support of scientific integrity in research and in government. I was excited to have been invited to watch President Obama sign a memorandum on scientific integrity . Read full article > >

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With the Plan B decision, the Obama administration broke its promise

GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry had some fighting words for President Obama in his new “Strong” ad campaign this week. In a 31-second soft-focus spot, the Texas governor questions the president’s faith and declares that Obama’s policies, including allowing gays to serve openly in the military, amount to a “war on religion.” Read full article > >

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White House to Rick Perry: We won’t respond to ‘struggling … campaigns’

After a tough day at the Oval Office — markets collapsing, supercommittees evaporating — President Obama seemed ready to do what so many Americans do when the weight feels too heavy: find solace in a country song. “Tonight we’re transforming the East Room into a bona fide country music hall,” the president declared at the White House on Monday evening. (Instead of a collective yee-haw , the audience responded with a pitter of golf clapping.) Read full article > >

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James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss and others celebrate country music at White House

Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee’s understated beauty, quiet charm and her second marriage, to future Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, placed her on an elite social plateau in the nation’s capital in the late 1950s and 1960s. She was a slender, comely blonde, and her unmistakable allure didn’t go unnoticed by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. She once told the president in the presence of the Bradlees, “Jack, you always say that Tony is your ideal woman.” Read full article > >

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Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, former wife of prominent Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, dies at 87

Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee’s understated beauty, quiet charm and her second marriage, to future Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, placed her on an elite social plateau in the nation’s capital in the late 1950s and 1960s. She was a slender, comely blonde, and her unmistakable allure didn’t go unnoticed by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. She once told the president in the presence of the Bradlees, “Jack, you always say that Tony is your ideal woman.” Read full article > >

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Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, former wife of prominent Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, dies at 87

One year out from the 2012 election, President Obama faces the most difficult reelection environment of any White House incumbent in two decades, with economic woes at the center of the public’s concerns, an electorate that is deeply pessimistic and sharply polarized, and growing questions about the president’s capacity to lead. Read full article > >

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A year from Election 2012, a dark mood awaits Obama and GOP rival