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Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks at the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit Luncheon at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, May 23, 2012. Romney told a business luncheon Wednesday one block from the White House that Barack Obama shouldn't 'attack success,' after the president hit out at his rival's corporate record.

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  • House OKs indefinite definition of terror suspects

    security and coddle terrorists.The vote came as the House pushed to finish a $642 billion defense budget for next year. The White House has threatened to veto the legislation, as Republicans made wholesale changes in President Barack Obama 's budget proposal.The   Read more »

  • Opinion: 10 gaffes Joe Biden should regret

    -- In an unusual moment in American politics, the White House put the word out this week that Vice President Joe Biden had apologized to his boss for comments he made in support of same-sex marriage on NBC's "Meet the Press." The ensuing media fracas led President   Read more »

  • JPMorgan CEO faces shareholders Tuesday

    Senate candidate from Massachusetts , called for Dimon to give up his board seat at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ., White House press secretary Jay Carney, without singling out Dimon, said that Washington can't prevent "bad decisions being made on   Read more »

  • Blind lawyer's escape to overshadow U.S.-China talks

    ordered not to say anything about it at all. That was underscored on Friday and Saturday by the absolute refusal of the White House to speak out on the matter and the State Department pretending that nothing unusual was afoot.After making several public appeals   Read more »

  • Who will Obama poke fun at during reporters' gala?

    Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump 's White House ambitions in biting remarks at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.So what's he have in store this year?The answer comes late Saturday night when Obama addresses a crowd of journalists,   Read more »

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About White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the executive residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the home in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades which were meant to conceal stables and storage.

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