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The Virginia couple accused of crashing President Obama's first White House state dinner on Tuesday are named in at least 16 different civil suits in Fauquier County, sometimes as plaintiffs, sometimes as defendants. FULL STORY
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Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday. FULL STORY
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Tareq Salahi said Tuesday he and his wife "did not party-crash" a White House state dinner last week. FULL STORY
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A couple who allegedly crashed this week's state dinner at the White House met President Obama in a reception line at the event, a White House official told CNN on Friday. FULL STORY
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President Obama got some political cover Sunday for his upcoming announcement on sending more troops to Afghanistan. FULL STORY
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President Obama toasted a growing U.S. friendship with India at the first state dinner of his administration Tuesday, an evening of regal pageantry and symbolic politics in a tent on the White House South Lawn. FULL STORY
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President Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan but has a goal of concluding the war and withdrawing most U.S. service members within three years, senior administration officials told CNN Tuesday. FULL STORY
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CNN's Dan Lothian looks at how a couple managed to get by security and crash a state dinner at the White House. FULL VIDEO
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President Obama has informed several top diplomatic and military officials about his decision regarding new U.S. strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. FULL STORY
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The Pentagon is making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in anticipation of President Obama's decision on the future of the eight-year-old war, a defense official said Tuesday. FULL STORY
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A couple from a reality TV show crashed the White House state dinner for India's prime minister. FULL VIDEO
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While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington, D.C.'s, elite: the power lunch. FULL STORY
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The United States won't join its NATO allies and many other countries in formally banning landmines, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said during his midday briefing Tuesday. FULL STORY
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It was supposed to be an aggressive agenda -- an agenda of change, some promised -- intended to right the economy, overhaul health care and reform immigration policy. FULL STORY
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President Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday. FULL STORY
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Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky was one of President Obama's earliest and most ardent supporters. FULL STORY
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Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party in April handed President Obama a key vote in the Senate, and Specter was rewarded by quickly being endorsed by the president and Democratic leaders in his bid for re-election next year. FULL STORY
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Erica Hill and panelists discuss the latest on the White House "party crashers." FULL VIDEO
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The official in charge of closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center has resigned, the Pentagon said Wednesday. FULL STORY
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President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed Tuesday to team up and tackle a checklist of economic, nuclear, security and environmental challenges. FULL STORY
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