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  • President Barack Obama promised to work with Congress on "appropriate reforms" for the domestic surveillance programs.
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  • President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a measure restoring lower interest rates for student loans, pledging the hard-fought compromise would be just the first step in a broader, concerted fight to rein in the costs of a college education.
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  • President Barack Obama says security threats will never lead the U.S. to retreat from the world. He says Americans don't get terrorized.
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  • president obama celebrates 52nd birthday
  • President Obama turned 52 on Sunday, spending part of the day at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
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  • President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton had lunch and inquiring minds want to know who the president will endorse.
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  • The number of dead in Syria's civil war has passed 100,000, the U.N. chief said Thursday, calling for urgent talks on ending 2 1/2 years of violence even as President Bashar Assad's government blasted the United States as an unsuitable peace broker.
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  • Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the nomination reflected the importance the U.S. government attaches to its longtime ally.
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  • The father of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will be on Capitol Hill for a hearing addressing the challenges faced by African-American boys and men.
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  • Brad Lander, a Democrat, was elected to the council in 2009 and represents Brooklyn's 39th District. He'll be named a "Champion of Change" at a Tuesday ceremony at the White House.
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  • Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday.
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  • House Republicans, politically emboldened by President Barack Obama's delay of a key requirement of his health care law, are taking another run at scrapping his signature domestic policy.
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  • President Barack Obama says New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly would be "well-qualified" to run the Department of Homeland Security.
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  • President Obama welcomed President George H.W. Bush to the White House Monday in a salute to public service and to the drive for volunteerism that the 41st president inspired.
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  • Veterans of President Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns are signing up to help a Democratic group supporting a potential Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
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  • President Barack Obama's health care law, hailed as his most significant legislative achievement, seems to be losing much of its sweep.
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  • Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican predecessor President George W. Bush found common ground in Africa on Tuesday, honoring the victims of a terrorist attack in an unprecedented chance encounter a world away from home.
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  • The president's address at the University of Cape Town capped an emotionally charged day in this picturesque coastal city, including a solemn visit to the Robben Island prison where Mandela was confined for 18 of his 27 years in captivity.
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  • Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with Nelson Mandela's family as the world anxiously awaited news on the condition of the ailing 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
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  • President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
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  • Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 15, 2007, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the fired prosecutors.
  • President Barack Obama is prepared to nominate James Comey, a former Bush administration official with bipartisan credentials, as the next FBI director.
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  • Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."
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  • gun control debate
  • The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws.
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  • The Obama administration hopes its decision to give lethal aid to Syrian rebels will prompt other nations to beef up assistance.
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  • ricin attack
  • A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been arrested for allegedly sending the letters herself, law enforcement officials said Friday.
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  • President Barack Obama vigorously defended the government's newly disclosed collection of massive amounts of information from phone and internet records on Friday as a necessary defense against terrorism, and assured Americans, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
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  • The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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  • Authorities have returned to a Texas home linked to the investigation into ricin-tainted letters sent to New York City's mayor and President Barack Obama.
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  • President Barack Obama's top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.
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  • A law enforcement official says a Texas home has been searched and a resident interviewed as part of the investigation into ricin-tainted letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama.
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  • ABC News Investigative reporter Brian Ross joins Liz and David to discuss the latest
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  • President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City.
  • Anthony Johnson previews the president's visit to the Garden State
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  • President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City.
  • President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie promoted the Jersey Shore's summer tourism economy Tuesday while praising the federal government's role in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
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  • President Obama joined Gov. Chris Christie in a tour of Jersey Shore communities, seven months after Superstorm Sandy.
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  • Devin Dwyer has the latest on IRS targeting of conservative groups
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  • President Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash.
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  • president obama suffolk county snowstorm
  • President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for New York State to help Suffolk County pay for damage caused by the February snowstorm.
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  • See images regarding suspicious letters found in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC
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  • Police say officers noticed the man acting suspiciously and took him into custody by force when he pulled out the gun.
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  • president barack obama wraps up trip to israel
  • Devin Dwyer reports on the president's trip to the Middle East
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  • Devin Dwyer reports on the president's historic visit to the Middle East
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  • Devin Dwyer reports on the presidents historic trip to the Middle East
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  • Lisa Colagrossi reports on the latest budget battle in Washington
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  • Two young girls who were scared to go to school after the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings wrote President Obama.
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  • Tahman Bradley recaps the president's big address and the Republican response
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  • In his State of the Union Address, President Obama singled out a NYU nurse who saved the lives of newborns during Sandy.
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  • Lori Stokes recaps Obama's big day in her inauguration roundup
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  • Submit your questions to Lori Stokes and Dave Evans who are in DC to cover the Inauguration.
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  • A look back at presidential inaugurations in photos.
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  • Anthony Johnson reports on a group of war veterans heading to Washington
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