Lincoln’s Casey Stoney is picked as the new England women’s captain after Faye White’s retirement.

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Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama’s jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president. Read full article > >

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White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry

President Obama welcomed new French President Francois Hollande to the White House on Friday, an initial meeting that comes as world leaders feel a renewed sense of urgency to contain the European debt crisis. Read full article > >

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The White House’s cybersecurity coordinator said Thursday that he is stepping down at the end of this month after a 2 1 / 2 -year tenure in which the administration has increased its focus on cyber issues but struggled to reach agreement with lawmakers on the best way to protect the nation’s key computer networks from attack. Read full article > >

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White House’s cybersecurity official retiring

Hurry! The White House, amid the uproar over the General Service Administration’s excessive spending at a fun gathering in 2010 in Las Vegas, has issued new guidelines to curb costs. But don’t let that stop you from a lovely trip to the Alamo! Yes, GSA’s annual training and expo conference is starting Tuesday in historic San Antonio. Read full article > >

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GSA training expo won’t have that Vegas glitz, but it will have the Alamo

Barack Obama’s mother died on Nov. 7, 1995, a few weeks before her 53rd birthday. She was less than two years older than the president is now. Her death from uterine cancer came between two key events in her son’s life. Four months earlier “Dreams From My Father” had been published; it seemed destined to drown unnoticed in the deep ocean of books. One year later Obama won his first election, to the Illinois state Senate, the initial stop on his swift journey to the White House that, along the way, brought a mass audience to that forgotten memoir, which in its best-selling revival defined his political image and provided him with lifelong financial security. Read full article > >

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Easy to listen to. Tough to sing. Those qualities alone didn’t earn them the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, but they certainly define the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The duo were feted for their quietly complex pop songs Wednesday evening in the East Room of the White House, where President Obama honored the composer and lyricist for a lifetime of songwriting excellence. Read full article > >

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Bacharach serenaded with his songs at D.C. Gershwin Prize concert

Newt Gingrich halts his White House campaign, but falls short of a full-throated endorsement for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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Tuesday marked a noisy return to the national stage for the Occupy movement, which had been dormant for much of the winter. Activists called it “A Day Without the 99 Percent.” But as protesters across the country responded to the movement’s call for a general strike, the 99 percenters seemed to be everywhere: marching to the White House and through Midtown Manhattan; smashing windows in downtown Seattle; and forming picket lines at restaurants, banks and hospitals. Read full article > >

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Occupy movement returns for May Day protests in D.C., New York and around U.S.

On May 1, 2011, President Obama addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House to announce that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden. Now, one year later, with the presidential campaigns in full swing, the Navy SEAL operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader has found its way to the center of a quickly intensifying political battle between Obama and the GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney (R). Read full article > >

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The year 1935 marked the Washington arrival of Joseph Wright Alsop V, a hefty, amusing, arrogant, 25-year-old reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune who quickly managed to take the town by storm. It helped that the occupants of the White House were known to the young man affectionately as “Cousin Franklin” and “Cousin Eleanor,” and they weren’t above slipping juicy morsels of inside information to their blood relative. Read full article > >

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‘The Columnist’ provides insightful look at D.C. journalist Joseph Alsop

Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and passed a bill to keep interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer.

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G.O.P. Ignores Veto Threat, Passes Student Loan Bill

How did former White House gate-crasher Tareq Salahi decide to run for governor of Virginia ? In his own words: “I woke up thinking, ‘Someone should do this.’ And I thought, ‘Wait a minute. I’m someone!’ ” Read full article > >

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney vows to take the White House from President Barack Obama, as he racks up a series of primary wins.

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A Welsh TV cameraman risks being thrown out of a White House reception to take a snap of President Obama, as part of a charity campaign.

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