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Byline: Rebecca Kaplan and Sophie Quinton NEW ORLEANS - The audience reception for President Obama and Paul Ryan at Friday's AARP convention couldn't have differed more: Obama won cheers for [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House on Thursday described the attack at the diplomatic facility in Libya as a 'terrorist attack.' 'It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House on Tuesday criticized statements made by GOP nominee Mitt Romney in a secret video released by Mother Jones. 'When you're president of the United [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Stephanie Cutter knows what it's like to campaign against a president with a great turnout operation. She also knows what it's like to be blamed for losing [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton As Democrats arrive in Charlotte, Convention Daily takes a look at five of the most notorious moments in the parties' national convention history. 1. Riot Police. Police [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton As the Democrats gather in Charlotte, Convention Daily takes a look back at five of the most pivotal moments in both parties' national convention history. 1. Bryan [...]

Byline: National Journal Staff Washington is a town obsessed with power--how it is acquired, how it is used, and especially who wields it. In some ways, the answers are intuitive [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton DILLON, Colo.--Dan Gibbs keeps dead beetles in the back of his beat-up Chevy Silverado. He has a wooden block with beetles impaled on it, each insect about [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Francois Hollande of France on Friday reaffirmed his campaign commitment to withdrawing French troops from Afghanistan, according to pool reports. Hollande, speaking after meeting with President [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama told House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders on Wednesday that he 'refuses to allow' a repeat of last year's fight over raising the [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss shows that Wall Street needs to be better regulated, said White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday. 'This event only reinforces [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama told female graduates on Monday that they need to fight for a better future during a commencement address at Barnard College. Women 'are now poised [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Among Republican insiders, there's a growing consensus that Rob Portman --unassuming, polite, and experienced--should be Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick. The senator from Ohio doesn't have the [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama's reelection campaign released a new ad on Monday that paints the president as a warrior fighting for the middle class. The message from the new [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton and George E. Condon Jr. Vice President Joe Biden's comment that he is 'absolutely comfortable' with same-sex marriage had the White House scrambling on Monday to align [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House Counsel over the weekend conducted an internal review of the White House advance team that helped lay the groundwork for President Obama's arrival at [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House maintained on Friday that President Obama's confidence in the Secret Service remains strong, even as the investigation into alleged misconduct in Colombia expands and [...]

Byline: Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton MUNCIE, Ind.--Johnny Whitmire shuts off his lawn mower and takes a long draw from a water bottle. He sloshes the liquid from cheek to [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton First lady Michelle Obama said on Monday that the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin should be part of larger, long-term discussions about the issues facing American [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton First lady Michelle Obama would not be drawn into criticism of Ann Romney during an interview with NPR on Monday, agreeing with her husband's comment last week [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes on Friday downplayed expectations for the next round of negotiations with Iran, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, this weekend. [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton North Korea's missile launch does not mean the Obama administration's effort to engage Pyongyang has failed, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said on Friday. 'Absolutely not,' [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton {{ BIZOBJ (video: 3552) }} The White House refused on Thursday to be drawn into the Twitter firestorm sparked by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen when she said [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House said on Wednesday it will be watching to see if the Assad regime stands by tomorrow's cease-fire deadline set by the United Nations and [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The White House on Tuesday pushed back on a report that the health reform law would add $340 billion to the deficit, arguing that an analysis by [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton White House press secretary Jay Carney weighed in on Monday on reports that North Korea is planning an underground nuclear test and a long-range rocket launch, saying [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama signed legislation on Thursday that aims to make it easier for small companies to raise money, both by easing some rules for making an initial [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama's web-savvy re-election campaign now has a Google problem: enter the domain names socialists.com or communists.com in your web browser, and you'll end up at www.barackobama.com, [...]

Byline: Amy Harder and Sophie Quinton The Obama administration denied reports on Thursday that it has struck a deal with Britain to tap into U.S. strategic oil reserves. But the [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton There'll be no sudden changes to the war plan for Afghanistan, both President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday. Appearing together at a press [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Vice President Joe Biden told Democratic donors that debt ceiling negotiations fell through last summer because 'there's nobody in charge' of congressional Republicans. Biden said he 'made [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama took his pitch for supporting American manufacturing to the swing state of Virginia on Friday, announcing that his administration will fund a $45 million pilot [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The Obama administration launched a centralized web platform for the public to view ethics data on Thursday, the latest step the administration has taken to make its [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama's political strategists used a conference call with reporters on Wednesday to play up their grassroots organizing -- but couldn't stop talking about how much they [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama emphasized the 'unbreakable' bond between Israel and the United States ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but didn't shy away from [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who called President Obama a 'snob' for promoting higher education, is out of step [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Though under attack on the Republican campaign trail, President Obama urged the nation's governors on Monday to invest more in education, including for colleges, despite tight state [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton At a groundbreaking ceremony for a new museum for African American history and culture President Obama said he hopes the new building will be source of inspiration [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama's tax reform proposals provide an opportunity for Congress to show it can achieve something during an election year, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton {{ BIZOBJ (video: 3354) }} White House press secretary Jay Carney defended the Obama administration's energy policies on Tuesday, arguing that the global price of oil can't [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton President Obama, celebrating Congress's passage of the payroll-tax-cut extension, pushed lawmakers on Tuesday to continue on to his other proposals. 'Now my message to Congress is: Don't [...]

Byline: Lori Santos and Sophie Quinton {{ BIZOBJ (video: 3311) }} President Obama on Thursday applauded the $25 billion settlement between federal and state officials and the nation's largest mortgage [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Monday that none of President Obama's White House or campaign staffers had a hand in creating Clint Eastwood's Chrysler [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Medicare Advantage enrollment rose by about 10 percent this year and premiums fell by 7 percent on average, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the emails of a set of whistle blowers within the agency, the Washington Post reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fda-staffers-sue-agency-over-surveillance-of-personal-e-mail/2012/01/23/gIQAj34DbQ_story.html)on Monday. The surveillance began [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Hundreds of pages of White House memos, analyzed by The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza in an essay published Monday (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza#ixzz1kIGBDXoP), reveal key moments in the Obama administration's [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be a guest of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Monday night, according to the show's web [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton A new definition of autism may slow the rate of diagnosis and exclude many people from government programs that help them manage the disorder, The New York [...]

Byline: Sophie Quinton Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned health reform advocates on Thursday to prepare for ramped-up attacks on the health care law as the November election [...]