White House News

Obama visits spy museum
AP – 1 hr 6 mins ago

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WASHINGTON - It's hard to travel incognito when you're the president — even on a mission to a spy museum. Full Story »
Obama calls Rangel charges `very troubling'
AP – Fri Jul 30, 7:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama calls the ethics charges against longtime Rep. Charlie Rangel "very troubling" and says he hopes Rangel can end his career with dignity. Full Story »
Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration
AP – Fri Jul 30, 4:09 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States, according to an agency memo. Full Story »
Michelle Obama's communications director leaving
AP – Fri Jul 30, 2:24 pm ET

WASHINGTON - First lady Michelle Obama's communications director is leaving the White House for a job in the private sector. Full Story »
FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear
AP – Fri Jul 30, 1:19 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. Full Story »
FAA downgrades Mexico's air safety rating
AP – Fri Jul 30, 6:14 pm ET

WASHINGTON - Mexico's aviation safety rating was downgraded Friday due to concerns about the country's safety oversight, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Full Story »
White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets
AP – Fri Jul 30, 5:45 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial. Full Story »
Soldier accused of leaking secrets flown to US
AP – Fri Jul 30, 8:23 am ET

WASHINGTON - The Army intelligence specialist charged with leaking U.S. military secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to a military jail in Virginia. Full Story »
US military deaths in Afghan region at 1,122
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:14 pm ET

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As of Thursday, July 29, 2010, at least 1,122 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Full Story »
US Passports still vulnerable to fraud
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:33 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed a gaping hole in the country's security by deliberately using fraudulent material to obtain passports. Full Story »
White House: Don't post more secret war papers
AP – Fri Jul 30, 11:25 am ET

WASHINGTON - The White House is imploring the website WikiLeaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying U.S. national security and Afghan lives are at risk. Full Story »
Army: Rising suicide rate reflects risk-taking
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:30 pm ET

WASHINGTON - An Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend reflects a rise in risky behavior including drunken driving and drug abuse in a military stretched to the breaking point by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Full Story »
Gibbs: `Some very serious charges' against Rangel
AP – Fri Jul 30, 8:15 am ET

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WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledges there are "some very serious charges" against powerful Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel. Full Story »
US to press China, others on Iran sanctions
AP – Thu Jul 29, 2:09 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is pushing China and other key nations to enforce tough international sanctions against Iran and to enact their own penalties. Full Story »
Obama spokesman says Dems will keep House in fall
AP – Fri Jul 30, 7:25 am ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's press secretary says he thinks the Democrats will keep control of the House after the fall elections. Full Story »
WikiLeaks fallout: Tighter access to US secrets?
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:03 am ET

WASHINGTON - Call it the big information chill, looming across the military and intelligence communities. After the massive Afghan war data spill by WikiLeaks, some veteran intelligence officers and experts are calling for a tightening of access to information and more monitoring in the spy community's lower levels. Full Story »
Obama to sign war spending bill
AP – Thu Jul 29, 6:34 pm ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday signed legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan, even though it was stripped of money for domestic stimulus programs. Full Story »
FBI director defends bureau over test cheating
AP – Wed Jul 28, 9:24 pm ET

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WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. Full Story »