The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said a modification offered by the White House did not go far enough in protecting religious liberty.

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Bishops Criticize Proposal on Birth Control Coverage

Another shocking story from former White House intern Mimi Alford ’s memoir about her affair with President Kennedy : He once asked her to do, well, something naughty with his brother Ted . “Mimi, why don’t you take care of my baby brother,” she recalls him asking when she met the men in a Boston hotel suite in October 1963. “He could stand a little relaxation.” Read full article > >

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JFK mistress Mimi Alford: Secret trips, Ted Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis — and why she did it

Seeking to stoke a political vulnerability for President Obama, Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to amp up pressure on the White House over a controversial new health-care rule that critics say violates religious liberty — vowing to press for legislation to repeal the provision unless the administration relents. Read full article > >

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Boehner vows action to overturn Obama administration rule on birth control

A Republican fund-raising advantage among outside groups has led the White House to change course and use surrogates to encourage donations to a “super PAC.”

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President Barack Obama tells a US network that he deserves a second term in the White House, as a poll puts his approval rating above 50%.

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Obama: ‘I deserve a second term’

At two parks near the White House.

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Occupy D.C. Vows to Flout Ban

Well, look who decided to come around! President Obama , whose White House years have been marked by his careful avoidance of so many black-tie Beltway traditions, attended the most elite of them all, the annual Alfalfa Club dinner, on Saturday. Read full article > >

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President Obama attends elite Alfalfa Club dinner

If you heard a loud “gulp” Tuesday night after President Obama’s State of the Union address , it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party’s odds of capturing the White House this fall are getting longer. Obama may be no Ronald Reagan, but he’s no Jimmy Carter, either. Read full article > >

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Greed is good? The GOP seems to be okay with that.

I n the 15 states that are likely to decide who controls the White House and the Senate in 2013, Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory. For the Republican Party, the stakes could not be greater. Just eight years after the party’s successful effort to woo Hispanic voters in 2004 , this community — the fastest-growing group in the United States, according to census data — has drifted away . Read full article > >

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Four ways Republicans can win Hispanics back

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

THURSDAY NIGHT’S Republican presidential debate produced more equivocation from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney about when he would release his tax returns and how many he would release. He was asked by moderator John King if he would follow the standard set by his own father, George, the former Michigan governor who was the first presidential candidate to release his tax returns . He put out 12 years’ worth in November 1967, as he prepared to run for the White House in 1968 — a point also being made in a Democratic National Committee video. All Mr. Romney could muster was an awkward “Maybe.” Wait until April, he said. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Republicans are falling short of the Romney standard

Smoke bomb thrown over White House fence.

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‘Occupy Congress’ Rallies in D.C.

“Find Our Missing,” a handsomely produced 10-part docu-series about unsolved cases, premieres Wednesday night on TV One, and it is not nearly outspoken enough about its cause: It’s a show about cases of black people who vanished suspiciously and who, for reasons that should probably embarrass producers at local and national news operations, never got the same amount of media attention as their white counterparts. Read full article > >

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TV One’s ‘Find Our Missing’ takes on the mysteries that didn’t get the headlines

President Obama has tapped Jeffrey D. Zients to serve as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, the White House announced Tuesday. This will be Zients’s second turn as acting director of the agency responsible for crafting the White House federal budget proposal and handling various government management concerns. Though Zients has no federal budget-writing experience, he led last year’s review of plans to reorganize federal agencies and the drafting of contingency plans ahead of last year’s threatened government shutdown . Read full article > >

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Jeffrey Zients tapped to lead Office of Management and Budget

Betty White ’s 90th birthday was celebrated in a manner befitting America’s nonagenarian sweetheart: with a TV special. “A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl,” taped in early January, aired Monday on NBC and — surprise, surprise — featured many of the network’s stars, like Amy Poehler, Joel McHale and the dude from “Chuck.” They were joined by celebrities of yore including Ed Asner, Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore for a night of jokes about age, glowing speeches and clips from White’s six plus decade long career. Read full article > >

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Betty White’s 90th birthday celebrated by Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett and other stars