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  • Breaking News from ABC30 in Fresno, California
  • The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.
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  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington
  • President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency's admitted targeting of conservative groups.
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  • The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya
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  • A gun target that some say depicts President Obama is causing a nationwide controversy.
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  • President Barack Obama, former first lady Barbara Bush, President George H.W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush, former president William J. Clinton, former first lady Hillary Clinton and former president Jimmy Carter
  • The presidents - Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter - were cheered by a crowd of world leaders
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  • This undated photo obtained from the facebook page of Paul Kevin Curtis, shows, according to neighbors, Paul Kevin Curtis, 45.
  • A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market
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  • The FBI says the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker are related and are both postmarked out of Memphis, Tenn., dated April 8.
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  • President Obama: We will find out who did this
  • President Barack Obama said Tuesday the deadly Boston Marathon bombings were an act of terrorism but investigators do not know if they were carried out by an international or domestic organization, or perhaps by a "malevolent individual."
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  • President Obama: We will find out who did this
  • President Barack Obama urged a nervous nation to avoid jumping to conclusions about Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon.
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  • President Barack Obama, accompanied by acting budget director Jeff Zients, speaks about his proposed fiscal 2014 proposed budget, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.
  • President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits.
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  • Mark Borba, the former chair was forced to resign for making a racial slur about President Barack Obama.
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  • President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk from the White House with their daughters Sasha Obama, second from left, and Malia Obama, right.
  • resident Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary each month to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts, the White House said Wednesday.
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  • President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address that 34,000 U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan within a year, two people familiar with his remarks said Tuesday.
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  • Fresno's Mayor Ashley Swearengin was one of four mayors from around the country who was invited to Nevada to attend the President's speech.
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  • President Barack Obama delivers his Inaugural address at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013.
  • Remarks of President Barack Obama -- As Prepared for Delivery
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  • Monday's presidential debate will focus exclusively on foreign policy issues including the deadly attacks in Libya and the war in Afghanistan.
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  • A Valley veteran is pleading insanity to criminal charges for robbing two banks.
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  • President Barack Obama on Monday designated the home of Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument, calling Chavez a hero who brought hope to millions of poor, disenfranchised farm workers who otherwise might have remained "invisible" to much of the nation.
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  • President Obama's Valley visit is drawing mixed reviews from voters.
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  • President Obama is coming to the Central Valley weeks before the November election.
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  • President Barack Obama
  • Declaring the end of a tyrant's reign, President Barack Obama on Thursday cast the demise of Moammar Gadhafi as a momentous opportunity for Libya and its long-suffering people. "You have won your revolution," he told them.
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  • Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
  • A USA Today-Gallup poll asked Americans to name the person they most admire living in any part of the world.
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  • An Obama administration official says the White House is proposing a 0.5 percent raise for civilian federal employees in its 2013 budget.
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  • President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. will make sure that Iranian officials are held accountable for "reckless behavior" in what he said was their direct role in an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States.
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  • One day after the federal government gave California's high speed rail project the green light, President Obama put the project on a fast track.
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  •  U.S. envoy Chris Stevens, center, accompanied by British envoy Christopher Prentice, left, speaks to Council member for Misrata Dr. Suleiman Fortia, right,
  • President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday the United States would "work with the Libyan government to bring to justice" those who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American personnel in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
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  • Thursday's ruling keeps a major provision in place: young adults can stay on their parents' insurance coverage until the age of 26.
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  • Many of you have given us a great deal of feedback this week regarding Action News anchor Warren Armstrong's interview with President Obama.
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  • Many students in the Central Valley who have talked about the fear of being deported because they are illegal are now breathing a sigh of relief.
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  • Action News Anchor Warren Armstrong is in Washington, D.C. for a one-on-one interview Monday with President Barack Obama.
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  • The White House says a $2 billion trading blunder by JPMorgan Chase shows the continued need for rules that protect the taxpayer when Wall Street makes mistakes.
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  • Barack Obama
  • President Obama Wednesday announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
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  • Much has been made about Mitt Romney, in 1983, putting his family dog Seamus in a kennel on top of his roof and driving from Boston to Canada, with said canine Seamus making his displeasure known in a rather scatological way.
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  • Susan Clark of Santa Monica, Calif., who opposes health care reform, stands with a red hand painted over her mouth to represent what she said is socialism taking away her choices and rights, in front of the Supreme Court
  • The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional.
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  • Protesters in favor of health care reform demonstrate outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, March 26, 2012, as a hearing on President Obamas health care legislation began. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
  • Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court's conservative justices cast serious doubt Tuesday on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul.
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  • State Dinner at the White House
  • The state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife dished up a potent mix of celebrity glam, corporate heft and political money.
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  • The U.S. federal deficit was slightly smaller through the first five months of the budget year than the previous year.
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  • Obamas California visit doesnt include the Central Valley
  • The president's fundraising trip through California will not include the Central Valley. Mr. Obama will visit Los Angeles and San Francisco only.
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  • Bishop Ochoa attacks Catholic Healthcare Mandate
  • The policy won't go in effect until August of this year but religious groups will have a year to implement the rule.
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  • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer points at President Barack Obama after he arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
  • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Barack Obama during an intense discussion on an airport tarmac. But the Republican governor says the Democratic president showed disrespect for her by abruptly ending their conversation.
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  • The president's address focused mainly on the economy and jobs. But he also renewed the call for immigration reform.
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  • President Barack Obama smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, while delivering his State of the Union address.
  • President Barack Obama will be delivering his annual State of the Union address at 6 p.m. PST today.
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  • President Obama speaking at the Pentagon
  • President Barack Obama has put his stamp on a Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts.
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  • The Obama administration will ask Congress to raise the nation's borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion this week, marking the third and final increase from a deal negotiated over summer.
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  • A new ABC News/Washington post poll shows his approval rate is slipping. More Americans have a negative view of the president, than positive for the first time ever.
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  • President Barack Obama has lost millions of dollars in support from former donors in Democratic strongholds and in districts that he won narrowly four years ago.
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  • The President's plan, unveiled in Las Vegas, is expected to have a big impact in Fresno.
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  • President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One
  • Air Force One with President Obama on board has arrived at Los Angeles International Airport.
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  • President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting at LinkedIn and a former Google employee asked the question of the day.
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  • An attack on a new campaign office for President Barack Obama in West Los Angeles may have been politically motivated.
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