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Margaret Talev covers the White House. She joined the McClatchy Washington Bureau in 2005, covering Congress and national politics. Before that, she covered California politics, including the 2003 recall election and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first year in office, for The Sacramento Bee. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team named as Pulitzer finalists in 2001 for breaking news coverage of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. She has also covered Florida politics for The Tampa Tribune. In 2008, she, along with Greg Gordon and Marisa Taylor, won a McClatchy ``Presidents Award and Scripps Howards Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administrations politicization of the Justice Department.
President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending. » read more
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