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Joe Biden Has a New Official Portrait: Deal With It

February 25, 2013 After releasing updated portraits for President Obama and the First Lady for the second term, the White House today finally got around to sprucing up Vice President Joe Biden's official image. This time around, the man so affectionately referred to as "Diamond Joe" — he is a man for all ...

Everything we now know about the Super Bowl power outage

February 6, 2013 It's been nearly two days, and still nobody's quite sure what caused the Super Black Out of 2013 as an outside investigation takes over. But new evidence reveals there may have been early warning signs ignored by stadium officials, and other theories continue to boil over, from fans of the ...

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Why the Supreme Court's DOMA decision is limiting the Pentagon's gay benefits

February 6, 2013 Do tell, and do ask the Supreme Court, the Obama administration has firmly pronounced. Later this week, the Pentagon will unveil the extension of as many benefits as it legally can to gay and lesbian military partners, the Washington Post reports. The only issue is that the Pentagon has to ...

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Obama's pick to head Interior would be fittest Cabinet member

February 6, 2013 According to multiple reports President Obama will appoint Sally Jewell, the CEO of outdoor equipment mega co-op REI, as his new Secretary of the Interior Department at 2 p.m. And from what we can tell she's going to be the fittest person hanging around the White House — easily. Forget ...

China may (or may not) be behind the Twitter hack

February 4, 2013 You may not have heard, but roughly 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised by hackers. There's a theory that -- if you read between the lines -- Twitter is implying the Chinese are to blame for compromising their security. Twitter revealed that roughly a quarter million accounts may have ...

Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran’s first astronaut

February 4, 2013 What monkey? Unfazed by questions about whether his country's space monkey mission was staged, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is pretty gung ho about being his country's first man sent to space. "I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists," Ahmadinejad said on ...

No, Anonymous doesn't have access to U.S. warheads

January 28, 2013 If you were skimming the news this morning, we could understand why you might be confused and thinking that the hacking collective Anonymous has access to real U.S. warheads. Stop worrying, they don't. They allege they do have sensitive information about the Justice Department, though. The group took over the ...

Joe Biden's Google hangout takes on assault weapons and the NRA

January 25, 2013 "I don't view it as gun control, I view it as gun safety." That was Vice President Joe Biden's key message during a Google+ hangout on Thursday afternoon as his road show pitching the Obama administration's new gun proposals took to a friendly part of the web. But that's a ...

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Democratic senator promises a budget this year

January 21, 2013 Sen. Chuck Schumer promised the Senate would pass a budget that includes tax reforms this year on NBC's Meet the Press. "First, it’s not true that we haven’t had budget control in effect the last several years. The budget control act of 2011 put in rigid spending cuts," Schumer said, ...

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Obama's inauguration might have trouble paying its bills

January 14, 2013 So, Obama's big second term inauguration is a little more than a week away, and apparently they're really behind on financing. Like, $10 million behind. You would think coming up with a measly $50 million for a second-term inauguration would be easy after raising $1 billion for his campaign. But ...