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Trump clutches to wiretapping claim as White House withholds Obama's apology Washington Times Let's not get ahead of ourselves, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Friday when asked if the president will apologize to Mr. Obama if his allegation is debunked. I think it's important to see where that goes, and I don't want ... TAYLOR ARMERDING: Obama's denial misses key questions about surveillanceMineral Wells Index C'mon, President ObamaTime to Start Returning FireDaily Beast Evidence of Obama administration wiretapping Trump compellingIdaho State Journal Daily Caller -The Atlantic -Fox News all 791 news articles »

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The 'Black-ish' stars college applications are officially stacked!

Having Michelle Obama to write you a college recommendationis any high school seniors dream. Just ask Yara Shahidi!

The Black-ish actress recently went through the arduous process of applying to colleges, andshe was lucky enough to land the endorsement of the former First Lady!

She is very amazing and such a supporter, which is something very surreal to say, Shahidi told W Magazine of Michelle Obama. The actress has applied to four-year colleges on the east and west coasts, including Harvard. Michelle attended Harvard Law School, and her daughter, Malia, will matriculate at the Ivy League college next year.

And like Malia, Shahidi plans on taking a gap year before she starts school.

I know when Malia Obama announced [she was deferring], she got a lot of slack, but I feel like whats interesting is I know so many people that are deferring. Its more than to just roam around or just sit down and stare at a wall, but it will also give me an opportunity to work, she told People last October. Ive been working more than half of my life and thats always been balanced with school and all of the other responsibilities, so to have a year to focus on work and to focus on specified interests will be nice before I pick a career and choose what I want to study and my life path.

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Shahidi was recently honored at the 10th Anniversary of the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards in February. She was recognized for her strength in using her voice for good and for being a role model in her generation all traits that Obama obviously recognized in the young starlet.

She plans on double-majoring in African American studies and sociology.

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Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions asked Friday for the resignations of dozens of politically appointed U.S. attorneys held over from the Obama administration, the Justice Department said.

Sessions wanted "to ensure a uniform transition" to the Trump administration, spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement.

"Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorneys offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecutingand deterring the most violent offenders," she said.

The order affects 46 U.S. attorneys; 47 others have already stepped aside. Ninety-threeU.S. attorneys are the top federal prosecutors in 94 districts. (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands share a federal prosecutor.)

It is not unusual for a new administration to seek the dismissal of political appointees, particularly those of a different party. In March 1993, then-Atty. Gen. Janet Reno sought the resignations of U.S. attorneys appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a move that sparked intense criticism from conservative commentators.

Attorneys general under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush generally tried to stagger departures over a few months.

When Obama was weighing how to handle the situation, former top prosecutors and the leader of an association that representsfront-line federal prosecutorsurged the administration to take a different approach than Reno. FiringU.S. attorneys en masse could harm continuity, they told the Washington Post in March 2009, and throw "law enforcement efforts into disarray."

Sessions' action comes the same day that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer addressed the specter of a"deep state" of bureaucrats trying to harm President Trump's agenda. Spicer told reporters that it should come as no surprise that "there are people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration and may have believed in that agenda and may continue to seek it."

In Californias Central District, which includes Los Angeles and several surrounding counties, the move by Sessions meant Eileen Decker was out of a job.

Decker was appointed U.S. attorney for the district in 2015. Before taking over the office, she served for several years as the deputy mayor for homeland security in Los Angeles, overseeing issues related to law enforcement and the citys emergency response capabilities. Earlier in her career, she worked in the U.S. attorneys office as a prosecutor.

During her short tenure as the regions top federal law enforcement official, Decker gave the go-ahead to her public corruption unit to prosecute former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca on charges he obstructed an FBI investigation into county jails. She also oversaw cases stemming from the San Bernardino terror attack.

A spokesman for Decker declined to comment.

2:28 p.m.: This story was updated with details on U.S. Atty. Eileen Decker.

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Trump Abruptly Orders 46 Obama-Era Prosecutors to Resign New York Times WASHINGTON The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately ... Justice Department abruptly orders all remaining Obama-era US attorneys to resignMarketWatch Attorney general seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys appointed by ObamaChicago Tribune Justice Department tells all remaining Obama administration US attorneys to resignWashington Post Politico -Fox News -Reuters -Hugh Hewitt all 250 news articles »

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He may not be a household name just yet, but President Barack Obama's former top speechwriter Jon Favreau was welcomed like a rock star at Elmhurst College on Thursday night.

So it was striking to hear the polished 35-year-old whose podcast "Pod Save America" is the third most downloaded in the nation on iTunes tell his overwhelmingly liberal audience that President Donald Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway was right about the election.

"I hate quoting Kellyanne Conway here," Favreau told a standing-room only audience of hundreds at the Christian college's Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel. "But one thing she said after the election, was 'At the end of the day it wasn't about what offended people it was about what affected people.'"

Favreau met Obama at the tender age of 23 when, while working on John Kerry's presidential campaign, he was tasked with telling Obama to remove the best line from his famous 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, so that Kerry could use it for himself. He went on to work for Obama until 2013, having a hand in all of his most famous speeches, was spotted out on the town with actress Rashida Jones, and became something of a heartthrob for young Democrats.

His point on Thursday about Conway and Trump, he said, was that Democrats needed to focus on policy, not Trump's tweets and "outrages," in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles. "It's not about what a politician says, it's about what policies they have and how they affect people."

Favreau mostly stayed on safe ground, feeding his audience well-received red meat lines disparaging the Trump White House, playing up Obama's accomplishments and calling for a politics of daring and "authenticity." Aside from a couple of expletives that he dropped into a question and answer session at the end of his speech (incongruous in the church setting), he looked remarkably like a man ready to run for office, a suggestion he didn't exactly squish when Chicago Inc. put it to him.

"For now, I'm better off doing what I'm doing," he said. "I don't say a hard 'no' because I always encourage people to run and I want young people to run for office, but I don't know that it's for me."

Writing for himself, he said, was hard at first. "It took me a while to get my own voice back, but now I have it, it will be hard to go back to writing for someone else."

kjanssen@chicagotribune.com

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