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White House spokesman slams GOP for politically motivated attack on president

Rep. Jason Chaffetz reiterated Tuesday that the impeachment of President Barack Obama is possible as the White House faces scrutiny over its role in responding to the terror attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.


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The Pentagon is the nation's largest federal agency

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Defense Department employees are getting a little bit of a reprieve.


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Developing nations are set to consume more oil than developed countries for the first time

LONDON (CNNMoney) -- Booming North American oil production is reshaping world markets and will help satisfy the growing thirst for oil in the developing world, according to the International Energy Agency.


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'We have to make sure we are investigating those who are retaliating and abusing their positions of command or power'

(CNN) -- The way the military has prosecuted sexual assaults within its ranks is deplorable, two congresswomen who have served in the armed forces said Sunday, calling for a new system for reporting those kinds of crimes.


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The IRS admission on Friday they used the words 'tea party' and 'patriot' to screen tax-exempt applications

(CNN) -- The admitted targeting of conservative groups applying for tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service prompted more calls for tough consequences and a congressional investigation Monday.


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Monsanto had sued Indiana farmer in dispute over genetic seeds

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A small farmer from Indiana lost his patent dispute on Monday at the Supreme Court, a ruling that could have enormous impact in a variety of biotech fields.


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The buildings 1776-foot height alludes to the year of the nation's birth

Construction workers bolted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, symbolically capping New York's comeback after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.


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Edward Davis: Surveillance, fusion centers and intelligence gathering part of our future

Could the Boston Marathon bombing have been prevented? At the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, Congressmen asked a former senator, Boston's top cop and two experts on public safety about whether or not the intelligence community dropped the ball when they closed an investigation into one of the alleged Boston bombers before the marathon bombing in April.

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More than 1 million plans already downloaded possibly against international arms laws

The U.S. State Department sent a three-page cease and desist letter dated Wednesday to Cody Wilson, the organization's 25-year-old founder and self-described anarchist, demanding that the group remove instructions for printing a handgun with a 3-D printer from its website.
 


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Proposed actions will create education-manufacturing alliances and increase availability of data

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama will debut two executive actions designed to spur job growth when he visits Austin, Texas, on Thursday, fulfilling a vow he made during his State of the Union address to further bolster American manufacturing.


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