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Obama gets Ebola update from virus response team
2014-11-05 04:48:56| Biotech - Topix.net
President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden, Ebola coordinator Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and members of the president's national security and public health teams to receive an update on the Ebola response, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin, AP President Barack Obama meets with his national security and public health teams to receive an update on the Ebola response, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
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Guard fired after Obama visit: I'm not a convict
2014-11-04 03:34:19| Biotech - Topix.net
A security guard fired after President Barack Obama's trip to Atlanta said Monday that he lost his job because he snapped a picture of the presidential motorcade to send to his mother and is humiliated by news reports wrongly claiming he's a convicted felon. Kenneth Tate, 49, worked as a guard for Professional Security Corp., a security contractor at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Day with Obama costs man his job
2014-11-04 00:43:45| Apparel - Topix.net
Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job - working as a $US42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - was the best he ever had. The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Barack Obama, who was visiting the agency's headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic.
Security guard fired after elevator ride with Obama
2014-11-03 18:12:46| Biotech - Topix.net
President Obama takes part in a briefing on the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on September 16, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Former Secret Service Director Julia Pierson was compelled to resign last month after a series of mishaps at the agency -- including an incident at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in which President Obama found himself on an elevator for a security guard armed with a gun.
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The Switchboard: Pierre Omidyara s journey from Obama supporter to journalistic adversary
2014-11-03 15:45:47| Telecom - Topix.net
The Pierre Omidyar insurgency. Andrew Rice at New York Magazine chronicles the eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's shift from mild mannered Obama supporter to funding a journalistic outlet with an adversarial approach to the administration.
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