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White House honors Utah man for immigration work

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 12:33am

SALT LAKE CITY — The White House is honoring a Salt Lake City nonprofit director for his work dealing with immigration-related issues.

Jason Mathis is one of 11 people nationwide to receive the award Tuesday. The honor is named for civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

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White House: Obama views Libya attack as terrorism

Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 10:45am

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House says President Barack Obama considers the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya a terrorist attack.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says it is “certainly the case that it is our view as an administration, and the president’s view, that it was a terrorist attack.” Four Americans were killed in the attack, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

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The official tree of the white house is placed on display in the Blue Room.

White House chooses Christmas tree from North Carolina

Rob Manker Chicago Tribune

Last updated Friday, August 24, 2012 - 12:01pm

CHICAGO - This year’s White House Christmas tree will come from the same state where President Barack Obama will accept the gift of his party’s nomination next month - North Carolina.

Peak Farms of Jefferson, N.C., has been named this year’s winner in a contest run by the National Christmas Tree Association. As such, it will provide the official White House Christmas tree to be displayed in the Blue Room this holiday season, carrying on a tradition that dates back nearly half a century.

“In my business, that’s the top of the line,” said Rusty Estes, the father half of the father-son Peak Farms operation. Estes was also a co-winner in 2008.

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Kaysville Mayor Steve Hiatt and his wife, Brooke, in the White House Press Room. Hiatt was given a special tour of the White House by Col. Patrick Higby, former commander of the Hill Air Force Base’s 75th Air Base Wing.

Kaysville mayor and his wife tour the White House

Byron Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 17, 2012 - 11:16pm

KAYSVILLE — Having a friend at the White House netted Kaysville Mayor Steve Hiatt and his wife, Brooke, a tour of the West Wing.

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Layton native honored for his work

Brady Bingham Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 27, 2012 - 11:15pm

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Dr. Matthew Squires, a native of Layton and a scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory space vehicles directorate, has been recognized for his work with controlling laser-cooled atoms.

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Weber State student lands White House internship

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 3:19pm

OGDEN -- A Weber State University college student who hails from Sandy has been selected as one of about 150 White House interns for spring 2012.

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Purple Heart recipient from Hill to be honored at White House

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 7:33am

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- Staff Sgt. Andy Piirainen does not know what he will be eating Wednesday night at the White House.

Nor does he really care.

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This image provided by the U.S. Park Police shows an undated image of Oscar Ortega. U.S. Park Police have an arrest warrant out for Ortega, who is believed to be connected to a bullet hitting an exterior window of the White House Friday and was stopped by ballistic glass. An additional round of ammunition was also found on the exterior of the White House. The bullets were found Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/U.S. Park Police)

Details unfold in shots fired at White House, Idaho suspect

Brett Zongker, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:49pm

WASHINGTON -- A man clad in black who was obsessed with President Barack Obama pulled his car within view of the White House at night and fired shots from an assault rifle, cracking a window of the first family's living quarters while the president was away, authorities said about their still-developing investigation.

The Secret Service found two bullets had hit the White House and agents caught up with Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez in Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a four-day search. Police arrested the 21-year-old Idaho man at a hotel after a desk clerk recognized his picture. Ortega was scheduled to make his first appearance at 2 p.m. Thursday in federal court in Pittsburgh. Many questions remained about his motive and background.

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(CHARLES DHARAPAK/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 8, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama speaks to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner listen. In Obama’s sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington. When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has struggled to unite behind the proposal. And when the president says Republicans haven’t explained what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.

Lawmakers, White House regroup on jobs

Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 7:48am

WASHINGTON — Congress and the White House face the choice of continued fighting or a shift toward bipartisan bargaining after the Senate voted to kill President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan.

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Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the economic troubles of the Postal Service, a self-funded federal agency in decline because of the Internet and advertising losses, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Postal Service may get short-term financial help

Obituaries The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:44am

WASHINGTON — The White House may pull the Postal Service back from the brink of insolvency, at least for a few months.

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New White House strategy to hit violent extremism

Eileen Sullivan The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 6:36am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Local communities around the country are best suited to take on the challenge of combatting the kind of violent extremism that inspires people to kill, the Obama administration concludes in a new national plan to fight the threat of al-Qaida and other violent radicals at home.

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White House threatens to block newspaper's access

Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 2:02pm

WASHINGTON -- The White House threatened Thursday to exclude The San Francisco Chronicle from pooled coverage of its events in the Bay Area after the paper posted a video of a protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama last week, Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee said.

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