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Just six months after a heady re-election, President Obama's second-term dreams have collided with second-term reality: scandals and foreign setbacks. The NYT reports.
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In this episode of CNBC Meets, host Tania Bryer talks to the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, one of the world's most iconic political figures and gains exclusive access with him in his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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NEW YORK, March 15- It's not every day that a money manager gets tapped as the next ambassador to France, but investors in Marc Lasry's $12 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital could be facing that scenario.
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President Bill Clinton tells CNBC Meets that if the U.S. had intervened sooner in the Rwandan genocide, roughly 300,000 lives could have been saved.
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WASHINGTON, March 6- Outdoor retail executive Sally Jewell, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the U.S. Interior Department, will face her first big public test Thursday in a Senate confirmation hearing as the agency faces criticism of its management of oil and gas lands.
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WASHINGTON, March 6- Outdoor retail executive Sally Jewell, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the U.S. Interior Department, will face her first big public test Thursday in a Senate confirmation hearing as the agency faces criticism of its management of oil and gas lands.
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President Obama made three major personnel appointments Monday, nominating Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell as White House budget director, Gina McCarthy to lead the EPA and physicist Ernest Moniz to head the DOE.
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WASHINGTON, March 4- President Barack Obama will announce on Monday his intent to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy, a White House official said.
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WASHINGTON, March 3- President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans.
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WASHINGTON, March 3- President Barack Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, March 3- President Barack Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, sources said on Sunday. Burwell is a veteran of Bill Clinton's White House and has helped steer philanthropic efforts while at Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 1- Commodities giant Glencore supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran's nuclear program, intelligence and diplomatic sources told Reuters.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 1- Commodities giant Glencore supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran's nuclear program, intelligence and diplomatic sources told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary, putting the former White House chief of staff in the middle of political brawls over the government's budget.
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On paper, the spending cuts, due to kick in on Friday, promise $85 billion in budget savings. In reality, the "sequester" is likely to yield less than half that much.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 28- On paper, there's one thing to like about the ugly spending cuts due to kick in on Friday: $85 billion in budget savings at a time when Washington continues to bleed red ink. On top of that, federal agencies- especially the Pentagon- will have to pay penalties to suppliers if the sequester forced them to cancel contracts.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary, putting the former White House chief of staff in the middle of a bitter political fight over the government's budget. Some Republicans had expressed misgivings about Lew's perks from previous employers Citigroup and New York University.
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*Committee votes 19-5 to send nomination to full Senate. Treasury, Jack Lew, despite some concerns about his perks from previous employers, clearing the way for a confirmation vote in the full Senate. With the 19-5 vote, about half of the panel's 11 Republicans opposed Lew's nomination, which could be brought to the Senate floor for a final vote as early as Wednesday.
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb 25- The long-awaited trial of BP for the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill began on Monday, with governments, businesses and individuals blaming the company for the 2010 disaster that killed 11 rig workers and spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. "The primary fault for this disaster lies with BP," Assistant U.S.
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb 25- People, businesses and governments harmed in the biggest oil spill in U.S. history got their day in court on Monday, blaming BP executives for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 rig workers and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.. "The primary fault for this disaster lies with BP," Assistant U.S.
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb 25- People, businesses and governments harmed in the biggest oil spill in U.S. history got their day in court on Monday, blaming BP executives for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 rig workers and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.. "The primary fault for this disaster lies with BP," Assistant U.S.