Starting Wednesday, November 4th, and ending on Friday evening, November 6th, the lottery for the National Christmas Tree Lighting will be made open to the public.
Applicants can register at http://www.thenationaltree.org.
This year, the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, at 5:00 p.m. EST, on Thursday, [...]

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First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled a new haircut at a White House reception for country music singers on Tuesday night in the East Room.  Among the performers were the likes of Charley Pride, Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Michelle Obama stuck with her sideswept bands, but the new haircut is [...]

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Sarah Palin said on Friday that she will resign as Governor of Alaska at the end of July, prompting many to wonder if she will focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the unexpected announcement from her home in suburban Wasilla on Friday [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, the White House held a special “Stakeholder Meeting with Physicians” as part of the debate over healthcare policy in the U.S. What made this event especially interesting is that it was held via live Facebook chat.
The White House broadcast the whole event live via Facebook, while also allowing the use of a chat-type [...]

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Back in March, we wrote about how the White House didn’t want YouTube to “cookie” visitors that were watching the videos that appear on the official Whitehouse.gov channel and website.  YouTube usually does this automatically with all visitors.
To satisfy the White House, YouTube added an option to set cookies in a sort of “delayed mode,” [...]

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A White House official has tendered his resignation after owning up to last month’s Air Force One flyover in New York.  The flight was said to be a good “photo opp” at the time.
Louis Caldera, who had worked under Bill Clinton, apologized for the distraction that the NYC flyover caused. He wrote in a brief [...]

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It seems The White House decided it was about time to get a MySpace page. There isn’t much to it, in fact, it doesn’t even say “MySpace” anywhere on the page.
The page highlight the latest blog post from the White House, which shows a video clip of President Barack Obama playing basketball with [...]

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President Barack Obama has been in office for just over three months now.  The challenges he has faced in that time have been both incredible and unpredictable (the Swine Flu?).
President Obama will address the nation tonight at 8pm EDT on the 100-day anniversary of his inauguration.  You can watch the address live on the White [...]

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“Why oh why did Kutner commit suicide?”, you wondered yesterday.
Why did Kal Penn decide to leave the hit FOX series House?  The answer may surprise you.
Kal Penn had this to say in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly:
I understand it was your decision to leave House. True?
KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple [...]

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Google has gotten a big break as far as exposure and marketing.
The White House is now using Google Moderator, hosted on AppEngine, to help figure out what questions Barack Obama should address at an online Town Hall meeting this Thursday.
In only a few short hours, 6,932 people have sent in 7,037 questions and have also [...]

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