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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday reiterated its call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, despite an Arab League announcement that Damascus had accepted its plan aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters."Our position remains that President ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday passed a minor element of President Barack Obama's jobs bill as consensus remained elusive on other efforts to boost the struggling economy.With the unemployment rate stuck at 9 percent, Republicans and Democrats ...

The GOP nomination is his to lose. The sluggish economy might make the general election his to win. Then what?The GOP nomination is his to lose. The sluggish economy might make the general election his to win. Then what?What would Mitt Romney ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House repeated on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had lost his legitimacy to rule.President Barack Obama said earlier that Muammar Gaddafi's death showed that "the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end."Asked whether ...

President Barack Obama clambers back aboard his campaign bus on Monday, to clock up more miles on his crusade to force Congress to pass his jobs plan and to ease his own perilous political plight.His sleek, armored bus will spend three days ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday hailed the disruption of an alleged Iranian bomb plot as a major achievement for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement and said President Barack Obama had ordered full cooperation with the investigation."The president was first ...

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The White House vowed to push forward with President Barack Obama's jobs package "piece by piece" if a vote fails on Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, as expected, to advance the legislation.Obama was in Pittsburgh as part of a ...

Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry tried to revive his campaign Friday but got dragged into a religious row and saw a plea to Christian voters drowned out by fast-rising longshot Herman Cain.Perry, who exploded into the White House race in August ...

Florida officials decided Friday to move up the vital battleground's presidential primary date to January 31, sowing chaos in the political calendar in the run up to the November 2012 elections.The state, which has 29 of the 270 electoral college votes needed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday that it supports actions that European leaders have taken on their debt problems and urged them to continue."We are very close allies with our European friends and work with them very closely in ...

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Topic: The White House

U.S. urges Assad to step down despite Arab League plan

House passes minor element of Obama jobs plan

President Romney?

White House repeats Syria's Assad has lost legitimacy

Back on the bus: Obama hits the jobs trail

Obama backed probe of alleged Iran plot: White House

White House vows to push job bill "piece by piece"

Cain drowns out Perry at Republican showdown

Florida primary move sows political calendar chaos

White House supports European actions on debt problems

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