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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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*Once criticized by Republicans, now heckled by Tiger Woods. Fresh off a weekend round of golf with his friend President Barack Obama and Tiger Woods, Kirk sounded wistful about leaving when there is hard work to do to finish talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a U.S.-led free trade pact with 10 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 19- Two key deficit experts on Tuesday offered an updated plan to reduce U.S. government deficit spending by $2.4 trillion over 10 years through a combination of spending cuts, a healthcare overhaul and tax reform.
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*Environmentalists arrested in front of White House. A small group of activists and celebrities staged a protest in front of the White House to put pressure on Obama to reject the controversial proposed crude oil pipeline.
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*Lew: Citigroup bonus was in line with others in industry. WASHINGTON, Feb 13- Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's pick to be U.S. treasury secretary, on Wednesday defused heated questions from lawmakers about his work at Citigroup and managed to find common ground with critics over the need for tax reform.
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*Lew: Citigroup bonus was in line with others in industry. Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee blasted Lew with questions about his investment in a fund linked to the Cayman Islands and his work at Citigroup, especially a $940,000 bonus he received just before the bank got a taxpayer-funded bailout.
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*Citigroup bonus, Cayman Island investments to come up. WASHINGTON, Feb 13- The top Republican lawmaker vetting Jack Lew to serve as the U.S. treasury secretary on Wednesday zeroed in on the nominee's work as an executive at Citigroup as a possible conflict of interest for a job that would make him the nation's chief financial regulator.
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*Citigroup bonus, Cayman Island investments to come up. WASHINGTON, Feb 13- Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, faces a grilling about a big bonus he received from Citigroup and his plans for the government's finances when he testifies before a Senate panel on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6- Timothy Geithner, who played a lead role battling the global financial crisis both at the U.S. Geithner, who was the longest-serving member of President Barack Obama's economic team when he stepped down as secretary of the Treasury last month, is credited with helping to calm the financial storm that swept through Wall Street in 2007-2009..
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is set to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a distinguished fellow, the New York- based policy think tank said on Wednesday. Geithner stepped down as President Barack Obama's treasury secretary on Jan. 25, handing the reins temporarily to his deputy, Neal Wolin.
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*On European trip, dangled key messages on Iran, Syria. "I think what's striking about Biden's role, particularly recently, is both the public nature of it and the significance of the portfolios," said Joel Goldstein, an expert on the vice presidency at St. Louis University.
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Further testing still has not found the cause of a battery fire aboard a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner in Boston earlier this month.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 27- Further testing still has not found the cause of a battery fire aboard a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner in Boston earlier this month, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday.
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The court found that the Senate was not truly in recess, for the purpose of a recess appointment, when Obama in January 2012 installed three nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans argued that Obama undercut the Senate's power to confirm nominees because although most of its members were out of town, the Senate had not formally adjourned.
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For a long time, the conventional wisdom among this crew has been that the deficit and the debt were the United States' chief economic problems. One of the most convincing signs of that switch came from an interview I did here with Lawrence H. Summers, a Harvard University economist.
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Jan 21- What kind of people created the basics of our modern world? Orange juice from China, nuts from India, swordfish from Japan, salmon from Alaska... The few in business were there only to assist men, no different from women fetching the water in the villages and townships of Africa and Asia and Latin America.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 19- President Barack Obama starts his second term in office facing unprecedented budget constraints that will challenge his ability to implement his economic vision.
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*Deparle, one of top women in Obama White House, leaving. WASHINGTON, Jan 17- Americans should expect a more assertive President Barack Obama in his second term as he faces tough battles with Republicans, one of his top aides said on Thursday.
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*President issues 23 actions sidestepping Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan 17- During the past two years as his frustration with a "dysfunctional" Congress has grown, President Barack Obama has resorted to bypassing the legislative branch as he did on Wednesday to implement tighter gun control laws.
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Six years later O'Brien's company Digicel is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half the population. O'Brien's ambitious plans for Digicel are part of his bullish vision for Haiti which stands in sharp contrast to the usually gloomy forecasts for a nation crippled by perpetual political turmoil and natural disasters.
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Six years later O'Brien's company Digicel is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half the population. O'Brien's ambitious plans for Digicel are part of his bullish vision for Haiti which stands in sharp contrast to the usually gloomy forecasts for a nation crippled by perpetual political turmoil and natural disasters.